22.10.09

We got the Golden Lunch Box again last week - again!!!!

Working towards W.O.W.

We really enjoyed the Harvest Assembly

We very excited as we used the screen to sing Paint Box

from the singup website.

Thank you for all the tins for Shelter - fantastic.

We finally finished the story The Thirteenth Princes

and we all wrote a review about the story.

everyone agreed a thumbs up!

We did our big Write this week and we all wrote our own story

modelling on the Thirteen Princes.

First we did a brainstorm of ideas, then we did a flow chart of

who, what, where, why and drew a story map.

We really enjoyed writing our stories and reading them to each other.

Highlight of the week.

We had a very special surprise when Celso Pacco came to visit

and we listened to a funny story about how the pig got a squashed nose!

Well he tried to fly!!!!!

As we have all our marbles!!!!!

The first Friday back we will be having a pyjamas party!

We will be watching a movie and the children decide we would have popcorn!!

Plus of course a teddy to watch the movie with.

The class have decided to bringin favourite movie and then we will vote for

the one to watch.

Have a lovely holiday.

16.10.09

We recreated the photo of children in the hall and were Historians checking

for the differences in the photo and made a chart of changes.

We are still not sure what date this photo is yet. Any Ideas?

We had a fantastic session of Wake and Shake this week.

Year 6 are going to come and do Wake and Shake with us

every day after lunch!

We worked with Miss Gower and listened to the Hungry Caterpillar

and then chose our favourite fruit and wrote a sentence in French.

We all chose a fruit to draw and we made a display of the story

of the Hungry Caterpillar for our display in the hall.

We continued to read the story the Thirteen Princes and got to the castle.

We decided to write about what would be our favourite banquet.

In ICT we finished our Bristol pictures - display in the classroom.

We learnt Paint Box on singup - if you want to sing at home

Google singup and there are some fantastic resources for you.

Our Art Gallery

We have had an interesting and exciting week.

In Numeracy we have been doing function machines and shape.

We played SImple Simon in French, we learnt the names of different countries in French. We talked about children in France and would they have the same feelings as us.

In Literacy we have started our work on Legends and Myths. We discovered three objects in the basket in the classroom and found a lantern, a bottle and a little lump of clay. We talked about who they would belong to and what magic powers they had. We have just started reading the first part of the story - The Thirteen Princes.

We brought in our favourite books and talked about them and discussed why they were our favourite and wrote a super sentence.

We are now playing A and B on the recorder.

Highlight of the week was definitely Hip Hop dancing - we had a fantastic time doing groovy dance session with Rachel.

Have a good weekend.

2.10.09

What a busy week! Well done year 3.

We played Numeracy 'What's in the Piggy Bank!'

We enjoyed acting out Goldilocks and The Three Bears with the new Cameras.

We enjoyed drawing leaves and learning how to do cross - hatching - come and see our Art Gallery. Photos next week. They are stunning.

We have decided we want to get the Golden Boot as we have had the Golden lunch box twice already this term so W.O.W.- lets aim for 100%!

We enjoyed planting bulbs and making a chart about how to look after them.

Next week we are doing Myths and Legends in Literacy, so if you have any Myths and Legend story books would be really grateful to bring for class to talk about and display.

25.09.09

This week we have been doing number lines to find the missing number.

In Literacy we have been doing stories with familiar settings.

We sat in a circle and retold Goldilocks and the Three Bears and one person narrated the story.

We had our first spelling test.

We played ball games in PE - learning to throw and catch using one hand!

We played our recorders and we are now playing the notes A and B!

We got the Golden lunchbox! We are working toward getting WOW too!!

We talked about our homework about our homes - fantastic work!

18.09.09

We started following the new timetable this week, which took a bit of time to get used too.

In Literacy we have been studying stories with familiar settings.

In Numeracy we have been doing lots of work on partitioning.

In PE we have been practising ball skills.

We have learnt a morning verse.

We talked about caring about each other in class assembly.

11.09.09

Welcome back.

We have been looking at our community.

We have looked at our new cloakroom and decided how we will look after it.

We have written our class contract.

We have played 'detectives' to discover where everything is in the classroom.

We have learnt a new brain gym and played circle games.

We have sketched buildings in the playground.

We hace brainstormed what we want to know about Bristol and what we already know.