12th June Term 6

Catch up .....
We have written a letter and a postcard from Egypt - as either a tourist or an archaeologist.
We've designed our Egyptian cats and Gods.
We did a challenge - Best way to get the sand in a plastic bottle for our cat!
We have researched and made our own Egyptian booklets.
Learnt A and B on the recorder and we are now going to do G - good tone!
We are really enjoying tennis on a Wednesday - fantastic!!!
We are problem solving in Maths - missing numbers in a number sentence for Addition and subtraction.
Lots of fantastic 'Show Me.'
Superb handwriting
We all enjoyed the French play - the actors were very impressed with the class and how they responded to the characters in the story - especially Izzy who got star of the week before the holidays.
Star of the Week Ben Dunn
Have a good weekend.

Year 3

A busy week for Year 3!
Thanks for all the recycled things. We have been designing and making our musical instruments.
Some of them are taller than us!!
We have been learning about fractions of numbers.
In Literacy we are studying Legends and the story Baira and the Vultures who had fire.
We have drawn ourselves as the tribe of the Rainforest - our Rainforest is nearly complete
Our first swimming lesson was very exciting and we all enjoyed it.
The disco was a real success.
Some of Year 3 are learning a song from Sing Up and will hopefully be leading the school singing it for Comic Relief Friday!
Looking forward to composing songs and of course dressing up next Friday!

Snowman Day

Well what a surprise to find ourselves out in the snow having a snowman competition.

We have had a very busy week.

To catch up - apologies for lack of Blog - it has now been updated.

Year 3 are still making their classroom Rainforest - we are now researching the forest floor!

We have researched the emergent layer, the canopy and the understory.

Will print out the rest of the snow day photos when we are back in school.

Have a wonderful weekend and I hope everyone gets the chance to build a snowman, have a snowball fight and go sledging.

17.10.08

Last week
Kara - star of the week - fantastic art work
Singer of the week - Alex Millard
Jessica Edwards and Cheeney Sheppard got their Blue Badges and Alec Knight got his Red badge
This week
Monkey to Elena for achieving Challenge 1 Maths Badge
Well done to Jude Noon - Blue Badge and Max Tryfonos - Red Badge
This week we have been doing our writing project working from Traditional Fairy stories. First of all we drew a story map with characters and places on it. I hope the parents who came today enjoyed the games we played. Today Year 3 wrote some very potent spells for the wicked witch. Some examples were - to make you strong, wicked, naughty and to make a rainbow.
We have been partitioning and ordering numbers in maths.
Adding two digit and two digit numbers together and we are going to work on subtraction using a number line and adding on next week. We are learning some songs from Oliver. It is lovely to hear that some of the children are singing them at home!
I hope the weather holds and you have an enjoyable weekend.

3rd October 2008

Hurrah! Blog working again I hope.
Star of the week Cheeney Sheppard
fantastic artist and mathematician!
We have been researching more about the Victorians through a video about a young girl's life. Year 3 remembered all of it so do ask them about Maggie at school, working as a maid, working in the factory and working as a photographer.
We have taken a photo of the class which copies the photo we found of a Victorian class at Luckwell - hope to get it on the blog!
We have been working hard at our number bonds,
multiplying, partitioning numbers, doubling and halving - anyone wishes to learn some techniques for tables will be happy to show you after school next Thursday.
We have been drawing portraits of ourselves and learning how to draw in proportion ears, noses eyes and a mouth!
We have been looking at circuits in Science.
A very busy week as well as composing our own street seller songs!
In Literacy we have been comparing playscripts and prose and learning the wonderful story Rumplestiltskin.
Have a good weekend and I hope everyone smiles as it's smile day today!

Week 1 8th - 12th September

star of the week - Thea Barnett-Trenear
Lion - Chloe Yeo
We have had a very busy week getting used to all the new routines.
We have learnt how to play on the new agility trail and love it, we have started playing the recorder - lovely tone! We have used capital letters in our writing, we have looked at Victorian artefacts and discussed them, we have done lots of counting circle games and learnt how to partition numbers, we have written a fact file and practised our handwriting.
Spellings this week - first three must learn - second could learn and third is the challenge.We have learnt to do our brain gym and Eurthmy!
We are looking forward to next week.

We have had a wonderful start to the school new year.
They all look so smart in their uniforms.
We have written our school contract.
We have created pivtures for our morning verse poem and learnt how to do Euruthmy! Actions using vowel sounds!
We written down what we are looking forward to this year - swimming being the most popular!
We do have a class photo - will be with you as soon as Scott sorts out my blog.
Thank you to parents who supported their children's research into the Victorians - fantastic archives.
Really looking forward to next week.
P.E. is on Monday and Thursday.