It has been a busy and spooky week in P3 this week! Well done to all for your hard work and amazing Halloween costumes! It sure was a fun day (with more candy than we all expected!)
In Literacy, the students have been developing their editing and correcting skills using a dictionary. Everyone showed great focus and concentration to find the meaning, pronunciation and word origin of the language we have used. We also listed familiar and unfamiliar words that we could use in future writing projects. We have now moved on to the terrible and horrifying story Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit based on the events of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD and the devastation that it caused.
In Numeracy, the P3s have been working hard with their division with remainder skills, using the 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and 10x tables. We then put our learning into practice with a real life candy division game to celebrate Halloween, here the children had to share out the treats equally and determine how many remainders are left that could not be equally shared out between them all. We have also been practicing our doubling and halving of 2-digit numbers, using our partitioning and recombining skills.
Our shield project is coming on brilliantly! Everyone’s design and making skills have been in top gear, transferring their designs onto card, using care and attention to detail with their drawing on and painting of the wings, arrows and lightning! We will be putting the finishing touches on this week with the scutum which is in the centre of the shield.
Hope you are all having a great weekend and see you on Monday!
I hope you are all enjoying the much deserved break! It has been a busy and action packed half term but the P3’s have been fantastic throughout, come rain or shine (or typhoon!) I would just like to take an opportunity to congratulate each and every student for their consistent effort and hard work so far.
In Literacy, the students have impressed with their creative writing skills and consideration of the range of writing techniques we have practiced so far. The children were tasked with writing up one of our chosen myths from the perspective of a different character, whilst ensuring to include a range of sentence types, character dialogue, correct punctuation and powerful adjectives to describe. Everyone is improving their writing stamina and cursive handwriting, so let’s keep it up for the bronze certificate!
Our multiplication and division unit in Numeracy has progressed nicely to the 3x and 4x tables, including division facts and missing number problems. Everyone continues to use their counting up skills accurately but noticing how we need to be more careful as we progress through the multiples of 4. Next week, we will be moving on to more division using facts and remainders… from experience, remainders can be a tricky concept to master at first, so extra practice and support at home is advised to ensure better retention of knowledge.
In Science, we are improving our knowledge of light and how light travels, through reflection. We then used mirrors to investigate further by writing reflected messages for our friends, which appeared upside down, and we had to try and decode the message to reveal the true words.
Topic is as exciting as ever with our shield projects well underway! The students have made some fantastic designs on paper which we will be using for the painting and decorating next week! Well done to all for using excellent crafting and cutting skills to create the base of our shields, and the amazing friendship skills when we saw one of our classmates having some trouble with their scissors.
Hope you are all having a great break and see you on Monday!
In Literacy this week, the P3’s have been honing in on their research skills by using fact cards to create fact files on the almighty Roman Gods and Goddesses. The students have been great at understanding and discussing their different personalities and areas of control. We then read a different version of a myth we have read before to practice our compare and contrast skills, but taking note of the various reporting clauses after or before the inverted commas of speech. The P3’s did a great job writing up their own dialogue between the characters whilst using a range of reporting clauses.
Our multiplication and division unit in Numeracy is off to a flying start with our 5x, 2x and 10x tables, including division facts. The students have done well at understanding the inverse operations between the sums, whilst using their counting skills accurately. Next week, we will be stepping things up with the 3x and 4x tables, including their division facts, whilst solving missing number problems.
In Science, our light and shadow investigation is well underway! The P3’s were great in group work at creating their own shadow puppets for their theatre, and using torches to discover how they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light.
For Topic, please remember to provide your child with a cardboard box for our shield project on Thursday 19th October (if you have not done so already) …stay tuned for what is coming up as the P3 Roman Army prepare themselves!
Hope you are all having a great weekend.
It may have been a shorter week but the P3’s still managed to fit in a full week of work!
The students have been amazing at using their own creative and individual flair when writing up image poetry and considering the visual techniques that enforce and change the language. Now that our Poetry unit has come to an end, we have moved onto Myths and Legends: Roman Myths, starting with the tale of Ganymede – Cupbearer to the Gods. The P3’s have made a great start at discussing the features of myths and different characters, as well as retelling the myth through story mapping.
We have finalised our addition and subtraction learning with mental calculations – complements to 100, as well as mental subtraction by counting up. To warm up for our multiplication and division next week, the students revised their knowledge of pairs of multiples of 5 up to 100, as well as pairs of other 2-digit numbers that total 100. Well done to all for their hard work during this unit.
In Topic, we have continued to be appalled! This time by Roman Hygiene which we all agreed was horrendous! The students did a great job at comparing and contrasting ancient to modern hygiene, as well as designing their own Roman Bath House with the various rooms that dwelled within. For Science next week, we will be moving onto Light and Shadow, starting with a group investigation into what we need to see objects in a dark place and discovering how light travels.
Hope you are all having a great weekend! Stay dry!
It has been all systems go in P3 this past week!
Well done to the P3’s for completing their varied and individual animal poems. Everyone has done a great job considering the language, beat, rhythm of each line… don’t forget to upload your videos to Seesaw so we can see you perform your poem for the class! We are moving onto more extended writing in Literacy next, where the children will explore writing and performing image poetry, through the work of Christina Rosetti and her Wind Poems.
We have consolidated our partitioning to add knowledge in Numeracy this week by adding any 2-digit number to another through partition and recombining for the answer. We have now completed the block of addition and subtraction work for the Autumn Term, and will be moving onto multiplication and division, starting with revision of the 2x, 5x and 10x tables.
In Topic, we have dived into the fascinating Colosseum and the games that took place there. The children were amazed to learn about what the Ancient Romans considered to be ‘games’. We combined this with a fun Mosaic Soldier activity, where the P3’s created their own mosaic pieces out of card and used their skills to create a pattern using Roman style colours.
Hope you are all having a great Mid-Autumn Festival weekend!
The P3’s are having a great time exploring poetic language in Literacy. We all enjoyed reading poems such as Daddy Fell Into The Pond by Alfred Noyes and Lone Dog by Irene McLoud. The students have written some hilarious and catchy snake chants of their own, as well as looking at how nouns can be turned into noun phrases by adding determiners and adjectives. The students are looking forward to writing up their own animal profiles for their final poetry creations!
In Numeracy we are focusing on using number facts to add/subtract, as well as strategies to improve mental addition and subtraction. We have looked at number facts and how they can help with larger numbers. The P3’s have been great at refreshing their ‘partitioning to add’ knowledge to tackle tricky questions!
In the world of Ancient Rome, we have written up our own job applications… stay tuned for successful applicants and which job we will all get. Well done to everyone in Science by considering the muscles they use for exercise and keeping healthy. Make sure to always keep exercising and eating healthy at home!
In Art, we explored Michael Foreman Illustrations, where the P3’s were able to create their own watercolour painting by mixing and using different shades of similar colours, in the style of Michael Foreman. Now our classroom looks like a bright and beautiful sunrise!
We finished off the hardworking week with a P1-P3 trip to the beach!
We have been unfortunate that a bug has been circulating in school in recent weeks and there have been many absences. I wish those of us who have fallen ill a swift and healthy return to school.
Well done to the P3’s for completing their versions of story writing this week. We have now started a new poetry unit in Literacy. The students really enjoyed reading The Bug Chant by Tony Mitton and we will be writing our very own snake chants next week. The P3’s have shown great promise with consideration of rhythm and rhyme in our recital practice. For extra Seesaw homework, the students have been asked to record themselves reading the poem, so you should all get chance to hear it! We will also be looking at how nouns can be turned into noun phrases by adding determiners and adjectives e.g. dog becomes the cute brown dog. We will also be exploring a new poem Daddy Fell into the Pond by Alfred Noyes, which causes great amusement in class.
We have moved on to a new unit in Numeracy this week. This unit focuses on using number facts to add/subtract, as well as strategies to improve mental addition and subtraction. We have looked at number facts and how they can help with larger numbers e.g. 3 + 4 = 7 therefore 83 + 4 = 87. By reinforcing number bonds to 20, the students will improve their proficiency with adding and subtracting 2 and 3-digit numbers.
In this week’s Science, we continued our Keeping Healthy theme by learning about muscles and how they work as a team with our bones in our musculoskeletal system. Everyone had fun with our outdoor exercise investigation into how muscles work and building our awareness of which muscles we use for different movements.
Our Ancient Rome Topic lessons continue to thrill and shock us all! This week we have looked at Roman society and how it was separated into three different classes of people: patricians (wealthy and powerful upper class) plebeians (regular working class citizens) and slaves. Next week, we will be looking at Roman jobs, the duties undertaken in each position and the qualities required to be successful in each job.
We are also planning to have our first beach morning on Friday 22nd September (the weather is finally being our friend!) and I will confirm this with you closer to the time.
Hope you are all having a fantastic weekend!
We’ve come to the end of another (shorter) but fun-filled week in P3! I hope everyone has stayed safe and dry in the disastrous flooding across the city!
To continue with our unit on Michael Foreman’s stories, the students are well into writing their own version of I’ll Take you to Mrs Cole, in which they followed the style and plot of the story, adding their own creative ideas. We are focusing on conjunctions, powerful verbs, as well as the structure of a beginning, middle and end to a story.
In Numeracy the P3s have extended their knowledge of Place Value to money. As we follow the British curriculum, we also use British currency. This system particularly helps with place value as there are amounts in the hundreds, tens and ones e.g. £8.79. This week students have been reacquainting themselves with British coins, counting amounts and comparing different amounts.
In Science, we have continued our unit on Keeping Healthy by investigating bones. The students completed their skeleton flap sheets with all the main bones labeled beneath. We then finished with a fun quiz to consolidate our knowledge.
For our Art lesson we took a closer look at Michael Foreman’s illustrations, taking note of how he used watercolours, and particularly how he used different shades of the same colours within his pictures. The students then created their own Michael Foreman style watercolour paintings, which will certainly brighten up the classroom!
Well done to all and see you on Monday.
It has been a great first full week in P3! All the students have settled in brilliantly to their new surroundings and I am very proud of the start everybody has made.
In our Literacy lessons we have been reading I’ll Take You to Mrs Cole by Michael Foreman. The students read the story with enjoyment and suspense whilst participating superbly in regards to how the story would evolve. We studied prediction and making inference to both text and illustration in the story, as well as using and punctuating dialogue, which is in our homework this week. We will continue to focus on more stories in the upcoming weeks, exploring different written techniques, grammar and comparisons with other Michael Foreman books.
Place value has been the main focus in Numeracy. The students have been reviewing their understanding of hundreds, tens and ones by placing 3-digit numbers on number lines and comparing different amounts. We then moved on to adding to create a 3-digit number using place value, and adding/subtracting 1, 10 or 100 to any 3-digit number. This is also in our weekly homework.
We introduced our first Science topic of Keeping Healthy, in which we started looking at how to categorise food into different food groups. Next week we will continue with how to eat a balanced diet. In Topic, we have begun our learning about Ancient Rome with a fun and exciting introduction, as well as the origin story of Romulus and Remus. The children were in awe of how the Roman Empire expanded and the means in which it was achieved.
Great job to all and I am looking forward to another hardworking and exciting week in P3. Well done to all so far for your hard work and effort!
Dear Parents,
Please find below the name and contact details for your child’s P3 class teacher in the coming academic year of 2023/2024.
We know this is a lot to take in, but we want you to have this information on hand for reference. Term 1 is always a time to settle in and get into routines so we have time to integrate together!
The P3 Teacher
Mr. Adam Mizban adam@lis.edu.hk
A-Absence
If your child is sick and cannot attend the school, please inform the office (2980 3676 or admin@lis.edu.hk). If a child is sick during the school day, we will call to arrange for someone to collect your child. Please ensure that you don’t send your child with medicine, as the school takesno responsibility for the administering of the medicine. Also, please remember, absences are recorded on your child’s school report.
B-Beach
During the nice weather we like to take the children to the beach for their PE lessons. This is an experience unique to school life at LIS and one that the children really enjoy. If we choose to go to the beach, we usually go on a Friday so please ensure you pack a pair of beach shoes, your child’s hat, insect repellent and plenty of water.It would also be a good idea to apply sunscreen to your child before they leave for school. We will notify you beforehand if we plan to take the children to the beach for a prolonged period of time, so please look out for emails.
B-Birthdays
Birthdays are low-key affairs in school. Parents can arrange for individual cakes/snacks to be brought in to share with the class, if you wish.
B-Breakfast
Please give your child the best start by giving them breakfast before they set off for school in the morning.
B-Bus
If your child gets the school bus and requires a change of bus stop or is being collected at school for whatever reason, the school office must be informed before 12.00(noon) so that the bus lists can be updated.
C-Contact
Your child’s class teacher’s e-mail is above in case you have any questions. You can also call our school office if you need to speak to a teacher during class time, a message will be sent to your teacher and he will return your call as soon as possible.
D-Drinks
Please do not send in fizzy drinks etc. We advise that a child brings in a clearly marked water bottle. Bottles can be re-filled at school.
E-Expectations
Children will be expected to follow the L.I.S school rules and behave in an acceptable manner towards both students and teaching staff. In P3, we will also be training the students to accept responsibility for their own learning, routines and personal possessions. You can support them at home too!
F- Folders
Each student will receive an A3 zip folder for keeping all school reading books and folders. Should the folder be damaged or lost you will need to replace it. Please ensure the student handbook is in the folder at all times. Your child is responsible for bringing it to school every day. The folder will have a sticker with reminders of what should be sent to school each day.
F-Footwear
Please send your child to school with appropriate shoes. Children are not permitted to wear flip-flop or other open- style shoes at school.
F-First Aid
Parents will be informed of any serious accident as soon as possible. The class teacher will deal with cuts and grazes.
G-Good work
Children are rewarded for their hard work during Friday’s whole school assembly. A child is handed out a certificate if they have excelled in any area during the week.
H-Homework
Hard copy homework will be sent home every Friday, the children should complete the tasks in their homework file and return it to school the following Thursday. Please try to encourage your child to complete the work independently, however if theyarestruggling please take this opportunity to support them so they can then complete the homework by themselves.
H-Hats
We live by the rule: No hat, no play! Please ensure that there is a hat in your child’s bag every day as they will not be permitted to play without one. We do our best to keep our eyes on hats, but losses do happen. Please remind your child to look after their hat and ensure that their name is clearly marked inside the hat. New and secondhand hats are available at the office.
H-Handbook
Each child will be given a yellow L.I.S handbook. This is used as another method of communication with your teacher alongside e-mail. If you have a message for your child’s teacher, please keep it open to that page and make your child aware there is a message to be seen by the teacher.
H – Holidays
We understand that sometimes you must take your children out of school, but it is school policy that schoolwork is that, work at school. The management prefers the students not to have vacation during the term, but if you choose to take your child out then missed curriculum is at the parent’s cost, not the teachers’.
I-Independence
P3 is the age when they want to gain independence from their parents. It’s a difficult transition period, but please try and help your child by supporting them with giving them roles and responsibilities to develop their confidence.
I- Information
Regular class information and pictures can be found on the class blog
https://lisp3blog.edublogs.org/. Other notes regarding special events etc will be emailed to you directly. Please ensure you check your email so that they are not missed.
L-Lunch
Lunchtime is 1 hour long. We encourage children to finish eating within 20 minutes, so they can play for the remaining time. Packed lunches are stored in school bags, which hang on hooks outside the classroom. There is no refrigeration or heating available, please be aware of this, when making your child’s lunch. You may want to add an ice pack to your child’s lunch box to stop food from spoiling during hot days!
L- Library
Every Wednesday we have our library time. You may consider the book too hard or too easy, but we are trying to foster a sense of enjoyment from books. If you see that it is too hard, you may want to read the book with them. Books should be returned and exchanged every Wednesday.
M-Marks
Children are continually assessed throughout the year. These assessments can be discussed with the class teacher during Parent-Teacher consultation days. Please do not ask where your child is in the class as we look at each child’s progress independently.
P – P.E
P.E. will take place every Tuesday and Friday PM in P3. Please ensure your child comes to school on these days in full P.E. uniform, with appropriate footwear for sport and exercise. It is also advised to apply or provide your child with insect repellent on these days as we will be spending time outdoors.
P – Personal, Social and Emotional Development
It is great if your child can share their stories from school, but sometimes a story can raise concerns.A tip given by Dr. Michael Thompson to help parents is to ask,“Do you want mummy and daddy to do anything or are you just sharing with us?” This prompt will help you and your child navigate the world of friendships, boundaries and social norms.
Q-Questions
If you have any questions regarding administrative issues please contact our school office on 2980 3676. If you have any questions regarding your child’s progress, please contact your class teacher by email or using the handbook.
R-Rain
Children should always bring a hat and lightweight raincoat to school. On rainy days, a change of socks is also recommended! For Black and Red rainstorms please consult the yellow handbook for details.
R- Read Every Day (R. E. D.) Folder
Students take home their R.E.D. folder on a daily basis. Please remember to READ EVERY DAY with your child at home. Time will be allocated in class for them to change their readers, if they have finished reading them at home.Please supervise your child’s reading as it is important for you to be part of this learning process with them. Check their comprehension by asking questions about the text. It is also useful for you to read passages to your child so that they can hear the correct rhythm, pace and intonation. As they progress in their reading, they may be reading sections of the same book over several days.
S- Snacks
Snacks should be light and healthy, for example vegetables or fruit. Please note, chips, candy or chocolate are not acceptable snacks.
S- Spelling
Spelling words are sent home on a Friday and tested the following Thursday. The more the students practice, the more confident they become in their ability. As we follow the British Curriculum, spellings will be in British English.
T-Travel sickness
The journey to school can be difficult especially for a child who gets travelsick. Please help your child by giving them breakfast early in the morning and not leaving so late for the bus that you have to run! If you are worried about the possibility of sickness please inform the teacher on duty and help us by packing a change of clothing in a plastic bag in your child’s schoolbag.
U-Uniform
Full uniform must be worn. P.E uniform must be worn on P.E days (Tuesdays and Fridays) along with the appropriate footwear. If there is a problem regarding uniform please write and inform the class teacher in the handbook. Long hair should be tied back and no jewellery should be worn.
V- Valuables
Kindly note that no valuables e.g.: phone, expensive toys, games (of any kind) or money are permitted at school.
W – Website
P3 has its own class blog: https://lisp3blog.edublogs.org/. Please refer to it regularly as it will give an insight into the P3 classrooms.
W-Wildlife
Our school is set in a rural area. Please be aware that your child may come across lots of bugs, lizards and other interesting wildlife! Our policy is that we care for our local environment and we share it with the local wildlife. The golden rule is to look, but don’t touch. By sticking to this we won’t hurt the animals and hopefully they won’t hurt us!
Z-zzzzzz
Please remember that your child will probably be very tired in the first few weeks. For a child aged 6-13 years old the recommended sleep is 9 -11 hours per night. A good night’s sleep before they start school really helps them to get through the school day!
