Hello P3 students and families!
I hope you have had a wonderful summer vacation with family and friends. The students have made a fantastic start to the academic year already and it is great to see them so comfortable and happy in their new learning environment.
This year, we have joined together to form one P3 class and our classroom will be in the building downstairs to the school office.
I will upload the A-Z of P3 in a seperate page for you to refer to at your convenience but if you have any further questions please let me know.
Welcome to P3!
Mr. Mizban
Well what a year it has been! And not a single covid interruption throughout!
I would like to take an opportunity just to say how proud I am of each and every one of the P3 students this year. Every single child has had such a positive attitude and an energetic approach all year long and that is what has made it such a great one. Thank you to all parents and guardians who have helped to make it such a happy and successful year for everybody.
We finished the final week celebrating our time together before saying goodbye. We had the P4 transition day prior to that, where the P3s all had a great day experiencing what life will be like at the Pui O Campus. We then had the grand finale of our P3 End of Year Party, our last beach trip together and an all school talent show on the final day. Please check out the photos below.
I wish you all a happy, healthy and safe summer whatever your plans may be. The very best of luck to all parents and children who are moving on after the summer, and to all who are returning to L.I.S in August, see you soon!
Happy Holidays!
It has been ‘the best STEAM week ever’ according to many! The P3’s have had a brilliant week learning and developing their skills whilst enhancing their knowledge of awareness and nature.
We kicked off the week with 3-D Model Pyramid building, using clay and toothpicks, to craft our own pyramid designs. It was great to see the students practice trial and error as the models would rise or crumble, enabling thought towards stress and fatigue of building structure.
We had some ‘sweet’ fun with Numeracy, diving into ‘Candy Division’, where the children would have to use on the spot mental division skills to choose which table of candy they would get the most from!
Next, we had the ‘Butterfly Lady’ visit, where the students could learn about migration and the importance of insects in our ecosystem. The students were able to handle larvae and actual butterflies before tagging and releasing them back into the wild.
‘Mummifying Apples’ like the Ancient Egyptians with their pharaohs was our next project. The children got firsthand experience of what it was like to preserve their apple using salt and baking soda, and to report on our findings a week later in comparison to a non preserved apple. Great fun!
We ended the week with our P3 Trip to ‘Craft Junk Garden’ in Mui Wo. It was amazing to watch the children create stepping stones, dig, rake, plant and play together in a natural environment outside of school.
Check out the photos below!
It has been all systems go since returning back from the Easter break for P3! The students have completed ‘The Hodgeheg’ by Dick King Smith and have been fantastic at writing up their own accounts from different character’s points of view, as well as writing up their own scripts and performing role plays with their peers in front of the class audience. The clay hedgehogs everyone made are awesome as well! We will be moving on to Animal Poetry after next week’s exams, focusing on description, expanded noun phrases and adverbs before writing their own endangered animal poems.
The P3’s have been great at reviewing their knowledge of Fractions since returning from Easter, especially with fractions as numbers and adding/subtracting fractions with the same denominator. After the NFER tests, we will move onto classification of 2-D Shapes and investigating their symmetrical properties.
In Topic, the P3’s love our new Ancient Egypt Topic (minus some of the more gruesome details!) We have been exploring the geography of Egypt and the importance of the River Nile, as well as learning about the Pharaohs and the timeline between them all. We have moved onto Plants in Science and discovering the different function each part plays in its lifecycle. After the tests, we will be conducting our own practical to see how plants grow in different environments.
We finished the week with a fun trip to the beach where the P3’s all worked together to recreate Egypt in the sand!
Good Luck to everyone with the exams next week, and remember, just try your best!
Thank you to everyone for helping to make Book Week a fun and successful week! The P3s had a great time every day with the activities in school and working together to achieve our 100 book target!
In Literacy, the students have moved onto their final unit of the term – Performance Poetry and exploring their features. We have been identifying conjunctions to explain Time and Cause, as well as identifying negative prefixes to understand informal language and rhyme. The students have been fantastic at performing their own poetry in front of the class! Next week, we will be writing and performing our own creations!
The P3’s have been busy with Fractions in Numeracy, including finding ½, ¼, ¾, 1/3, and 2/3’s of amounts. The students have been developing their knowledge on the concept of fractions as well as finding fractions of amounts and unit/non unit fractions using division. Next week, we will be moving onto Time, using both analogue and digital, starting with o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to the hour.
In Topic, the students are continuing their Rainforest journey learning about Save The Rainforest and human and natural causes, including Deforestation. I have been impressed with the thinking the children have shown in class, and we have had some fantastic and insightful discussions. In Science, we are having a great time investigating Magnets and Forces, next week we will explore how magnets have 2 poles and that same poles repel whilst opposite poles attract, learning that the world itself is a giant magnet!
Check out the photos below!
It has been a fun and busy time leading up to Sports Day! Everyone had a great time together and thank you to all for your support at making it a successful day! The P3s have been exploring deeper into the exciting world of Harry Potter and Hogwarts. The students have been practicing their knowledge of structure, style and tone for writing non-chronological reports, and have produced some excellent formal structured reports in the build up to their final reports next week.
The P3’s have been finalising our addition and subtraction unit by practicing the column method for any 3 digit number. We have been developing our subtraction of 3-digit numbers by finding the difference on a number line and using different methods to check. We will be finishing the unit with word problems before moving on to fractions next week.
In Topic, the P3’s are moving onto Animals of the Rainforest and learning about the animals that live in each individual layer. We will be completing a fact file of our chosen animal next week! We have moved onto Forces in Science and learning about the difference between pushing and pulling. Next week, we will be exploring the amazing world of magnets and how we use them in every day life.
It has been a fun and busy Green Week but P3’s are continuing the term brilliantly in all areas of learning this week. We have now moved onto the very exciting world of Harry Potter and Hogwarts. The students have been revisiting their knowledge of writing non-chronological reports and the key features we need to consider to construct our own next week!
The P3’s have began the new unit of addition and subtraction with adding pairs of 2-digit numbers and adding two amounts of money very well. We have also been challenging ourselves with some more advanced 3-digit sums. Next week, we will be looking at more expanded addition and using mental strategies to add and subtract.
In Topic, our Rainforest Flipbooks are complete! The P3’s will be moving onto people and tribes, as well as designing their own Rainforest Home. We all had a great time learning about recycling for Green Week, as well as an all school hike, finishing with a beach clean-up at Tong Fuk.
Check out the photos for the week below!
It has been a brilliant restart after the Lunar New Year for P3 following their impressive display of a Lion Dance for the school to celebrate! We have now completed Fantastic Mr Fox and are composing our own written versions of the story, using all of the techniques practiced so far. The students have been incorporating structure in terms of a clear beginning, middle and end, focusing on an introduction, build-up, problem, resolution and ending.
The P3’s have completed our place value unit for the term, finishing with place value in money, as well as adding and subtracting amounts. Next week, we are revisiting addition and subtraction for the Spring Term beginning with adding pairs of 2-digit numbers and adding two amounts of money.
In Science we consolidated our knowledge of Rocks with a fun quiz! Next week, we will begin our investigation into Fossils and discover the contribution to science of the great 19th century fossil hunter Mary Anning. Our exploration into the Rainforest Topic is continuing with the Understory Layer. The P3s have started to create their own Rainforest Flipbooks to show off their knowledge.
Check out the photos below!
Apologies for the delay with the blog! Here is what has been going on in P3 last week.
The P3s are diving further into the world of Mr Fox and his family in Literacy. The students have been identifying speech and using this to create their own role plays together as characters in the story! It has been great fun rehearsing… with more to come this week! The P3’s have also been practicing their comprehension skills reflecting on the chapters we have read so far and constructing full, detailed sentences to answer the questions.
The P3’s continue to do a great job with their place value and comparing and ordering numbers in Numeracy. The students have been fantastic at partitioning 3-digit numbers and placing them on a line. They have taken their knowledge of place value further by also finding any given 3-digit number and setting questions for each other!
In Science we completed a great Rock Investigation! The students worked well together at comparing and contrasting different sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks and testing their properties in different ways.
Our Rainforest Topic is now well underway, with the P3’s working their way through the four layers of the Rainforest.
Check out the photos below!
Happy New Year to all!
It was wonderful welcoming the students back on Tuesday; they were all so excited to see one another and share their news from their Christmas break.
This week we started our new Literacy topic of Classic Fiction, in which we are reading Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. We are only a few chapters into the book, but already the P3s are already fully invested in the story of Mr Fox and his family, and their battle with the three terrible farmers: Boggis, Bunce and Bean! The students have been studying the vocabulary chosen by Dahl to describe the characters, and then they wrote a letter as their chosen Farmer to the council, focusing on structure and persuasive language. They also created their own beautiful fox artwork!
We began our Numeracy this term with a recap quiz of the learning we have had in the first term. The P3’s also did a great job finishing off their Measurement Unit with understanding and investigating Perimeter of different shapes.
Next week, we will be focusing on place value and comparing and ordering numbers in relation to their value. The students will be placing 3-digit numbers on number lines and experimenting with 3-digit numbers, changing the position of the digits (hundreds, tens, and ones) to see how the value is affected. They will also be working out the best strategies for ordering numbers using their knowledge of place value.
In Science we are looking at Rocks. The students have learnt how to classify rocks as natural or man-made and have also been learning about the three main types of rock: sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic.
Well done for a great week back P3!
