This Monday afternoon P3C will have access to the Loose Parts equipment in the woodland area of our playground. This is a great opportunity to develop exploration through imaginative play. The class really enjoyed exploring and experimenting with the loose parts last year
Loose parts are open ended resources for play, which can be put together, taken apart, moved and coordinated in various ways, and which allow the freedom of motivation to play, which is child led, imaginative and creative. Loose Parts play allows the opportunity to identify and assess risks within resources and various types of play. It allows experience of problem solving, teamwork, negotiation and co-operation, all while nurturing the development of self-confidence and physical skills like agility, balance and co-ordination.
There is a chance that children will get muddy whilst using this equipment – especially if it rains throughout the day. It would be best if your child comes to school in warm and older clothes on today which you don’t mind getting muddy.
Calling all singers, comedians, dancers, gymnasts, magicians, jugglers and anyone else who has a talent they would like to share! If your child would like to take part, please record them performing their act and then upload the video to Teams by Tuesday 4th May. There is a folder marked Buckstone’s Got Talent under Files in our class Team. We will watch all the entries from P3C in class and will vote for our favourite. The two acts with the most votes will go to the student leaders who will then choose their 6 favourite acts from the whole school. The final takes place on the week beginning the 10 May and will be judged by external judges.
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The new Scottish Child Payment (£40 every four weeks for eligible children under six) starts on 15 February and we are encouraging parents to apply now.
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It has been a fun week back in P3C after the holidays! There have been a lot of questions asked about the book talk next week and a lot of excitement about sharing books with the class. For more information see the blog entry titled “P3C Book Talks”. We will be starting the talks next week. If your child has chosen a book they have at home to do the talk it would be helpful if they brought it in on Monday as we will do some activities in class to help prepare for the talks.
We have been revising the maths and numeracy strategies we were learning before the holiday. The class are becoming more and more confident in adding numbers.
Things to do at home:
Keep on practising number bonds to 10, 20 and 100 to help your addition skills
Practise adding numbers wherever you see them!
We had fun outdoors creating Halloween art pictures using items we could find on the ground; leaves, twigs, moss, stones. They are very creative! Some examples are attached below. For creative writing we wrote Halloween stories using a haunted house picture as a context – they were very scary!!! This morning we made ghosts!
Things to do at home:
Find a picture in a book, magazine, packaging or the internet (or anywhere else!) that you like and use it to do a “free write” (like we do in class). Create a piece of writing using the picture as inspiration. It can be any piece of writing you like! Story, letter, newspaper article, description.
This week we have completed our art work for The Giraffe, Pelly and Me, with our animal drawing mounted on our Hampshire Estate drawings in the style of Paul Klee. They are excellent, eye catching and creative! Some examples are attached below:
It has been great seeing everyone again this week. The pumpkin trail was fantastic! Thank you to everyone who brought a pumpkin in!!!
It’s been a fun final week in P3. Hard to believe we are at the October break already! The highlight of this week has been creating the building from the Giraffe, Pelly and Me (Hampshire Estate) in the style of the artist Paul Klee. They are excellent! We completed reflections for this term this morning and shared favourite memories from this term:
“I really liked drawing and writing stories.”
“My favourite thing was Loose Parts because it was fun!”
“I liked Loose Parts and The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me.”
“My favourite memory was seeing my friends on the first day.”
“I liked playing Wink Murder in Circle Time.”
“My favourite was The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me.”
“I liked the singing – I love the Bog Baby song.”
Have a fantastic holiday and I’ll look forward to seeing you all when we’re back at school! Have fun, stay safe and be kind 🙂
This week we have continued learning about number bonds and using them to help us answer addition questions. If we want to work out 46 + 7, we can use number bonds to 7 and 10 to work it out: 7 = 4 + 3 / 46 + 4 = 50 (because 6 + 4 = 10) / then 50 + 3 = 53. This is quicker than counting in 1’s!
Class Comments:
“We have improved our number bonds”
“I can do number bonds to 100”
“Everyone has improved number bonds to 10 and 20”
“We enjoy playing around the world to help us learn our number bonds”
Things to do at home:
Keep on practising you skip counting for the numbers you have set as your target (you could do this walking up and down the stairs or down the street)
Find numbers and add them together (look at price tags, number plates, clocks etc. numbers are all around us)
The Windowless Ladder Cleaning Company were looking for more work, so we took a survey of the school building, counting windows, doors and down pipes. We used our tallying and creating pictograms skills to do this.
Class Comments:
“It was hard doing the tally outside because it was raining”
“I liked it because it was fun”
“My paper got wet”
Literacy
We have been reading Operation Night Monster. We used our prediction skills to work out what Ali would do differently the next night; using our prior knowledge and information from the book to make sensible predictions that are likely to happen. We have been learning how to write a summary. We thought about the main events and the beginning, middle and end of the book to help us write a summary.
Class Comments:
“I thought he would do the same the next night – doing checks under the bed and his cupboard”
“We are getting better at predictions”
“We wrote what would happen the next night”
Things to do at home:
Try giving a summary of a book you have read / TV show you have just watched in 3 sentences (think: beginning / middle / end)
Ask questions about books you are reading / shows you are watching (there is a link below for questions you can ask before, during and after reading)
Our handwriting is getting neater because we are practising our cursive handwriting. This week we have added “t, n, h & m” to the letters we are practising.
Class Comments:
“we have done really well”
“we are writing words with the letters we have learned”
“we wrote words including London”
In Art we have been looking at the artist Paul Klee, discussing the quote “A line is a dot that has gone for a walk” talking about his paintings and using one of his techniques “Taking a Line for a Walk”. In music we have been making up songs using one of the songs from the Giraffe the Pelly and Me. We have also been sharing interesting facts the class have found out about giraffes, pelicans and monkeys.
Things to do at home:
Take a line for a walk and see what you can create!
Keep looking for interesting facts about giraffes, pelicans and monkeys to share with the class.
Class Comments:
“We have created animals using lines”
“We have made some pictures – some looked like the sea”
Today we got to use the loose parts equipment in the woodland area of the playground! It was a lot of fun!!!
Class Comments:
“It was lots of fun – I got my own base and sang my own songs”
“Me and my friends made up a song”
“We tobogganed down the mound”
“With loose parts you can build loads of cool stuff”
“We played Pokémon in the tunnel”
“It was lots of fun because we were playing games”
On Friday morning P3C will have access to the Loose Parts equipment in the woodland area of our playground. This is a great opportunity to develop exploration through imaginative play. The class really enjoyed exploring and experimenting with the loose parts in September.
Loose parts are open ended resources for play, which can be put together, taken apart, moved and coordinated in various ways, and which allow the freedom of motivation to play, which is child led, imaginative and creative. Loose Parts play allows the opportunity to identify and assess risks within resources and various types of play. It allows experience of problem solving, teamwork, negotiation and co-operation, all while nurturing the development of self-confidence and physical skills like agility, balance and co-ordination.
It is likely that children will get muddy whilst using this equipment – especially if it rains overnight or on Friday morning (it’s not forecast but we all know the weather can change quickly!). It may be best if your child comes to school in older clothes on Friday (9th October) which you don’t mind getting muddy.
It has been another fun week in P3C! We have been really enjoying our class novel “The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me” using it to practice making predictions. We created pictograms in Maths to show the which of the predictions for what reward the animals were going to get was the most popular. We know we are getting better at making predictions because many of our predictions are happening in the story! There was a funny song about the Duchesses diamonds that we sang in Music and in Art we have drawn monkeys and pelicans this week.
“We can now draw giraffes, pelicans and monkeys!”
“We have been making good predictions”
“I really like the class novel”
“We predict that Billy will want a sweet shop”
We have been looking at images to make predictions about what is happening and what will happen next, then using what we can see and what we already know to explain why we think our predictions will happen. In our reading groups we have been learning to read with expression. We have also been learning to find information from a text to answer questions.
Things to try at home
Try to research and find out interesting facts about giraffes, pelicans or monkeys!
When reading together at home, use some of the questions in the link below to discuss the book
As well as making pictograms about our class novel we have done tally charts for favourite colours, animals and dinosaurs. We have continued learning about number bonds and have been playing “Around the World” and “Number Bond Bingo” to help us practice with number bonds to 10, 20 and 100.
In Circle Time we have been discussing how it feels when we are kind. We said kind comments to each other and talked about how it feels when we do kind things and when other people do kind things for us.
“We’ve been talking about feelings being kind”
“We have made posters to teach people how to do number bonds”
“I think I have improved in spelling this week”
“I’m better at writing now because my writing is smaller and neater”
“I got better at number bonds to 10 this week”
Things to try at home
Practice number bonds (you could do this with playing cards like we have done in class)
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