Words, words and more words!

We have had a very busy week in Year 3 because it's the last week and time to find out how much we've learned this term.
We tried very hard in maths as there was a lot to remember! Some of us knew all the answers, but not everyone finds maths easy.
We also wrote about our favourite toys using as many descriptions as we could. It was fun because we could play with them when we'd finished our writing!
Everyone worked hard to become better at spelling. We played lots of word games, had quizzes in teams and tried to think of the most challenging words we could learn ourselves and then ask other teams if they knew them!!
We had to see how many 2 letter words we could list in 30 seconds, 3 letter words in 45 seconds, 4 letter words in a minute etc. We had beginnings of words to find endings for, played scrabble and lots more things. It was great fun as well as helping us learn those tricky words we sometimes forget!! Hopefully at the end of the week we'll remember some of the words we met.
We also learned more about team work in PE. This week each team devised a game to teach the
rest of the class. It was brilliant seeing everyone have a go playing the games we'd made up. Ask Year 3 how you play 'stack the bean bag' or 'spider ball'!
However, the highlight of our week was the count down for the Fountain to be used with water for the first time. It was wonderful seeing all the work of so many people come to fruition. Let's hope it will be a feature of Luckwell School for many years to come!!
Have a great holiday everyone!

Recent Activities

We have been working hard at finding out more about shape and direction in our maths work. We found out all about turning and what is a right angle turn. We enjoyed drawing 'Right Angle' Robots to remind us what a right angle looks like. We tried to include as many right angles in our pictures as we could.
We used shapes in our egg designs for our Easter cards. We used the computer to make them and wrote verses as part of our Literacy work. We thought a lot about 'The Easter Story' and what we can learn from it today.
Since Easter we have been practising our Poetry Reading. We've loved reciting 'Raps' and found different ways to use our voices, so we could include the beat for which raps are so famous.
At the end of the week we recorded ourselves reciting a poem. We intend to listen to them next week and see how good they sound. So if you want to hear them you can ask to borrow the tape!!
In PE we were practising how to play games as a team. It was lots of fun too, but we found out how important it is to 'play fair'.

We have been busy painting our clay models of Rainforest Animals.
We have also been looking at how the environment is changed by human activity. We drew landscapes and added litter, buildings and other examples of what we do to the world.
It was quite sad to see our beautiful landscapes change, but it made us understand how we can make our local area worse by things we do.

Mothers' Day

We've been thinking critically in our class this week. We thought about how information is presented to us. That made us think about the sort of words used in adverts.
We decided to think of all the qualities ours mums have. How would we write an advert for them? Lots of words came into our minds... wonderful, loving, caring, clever, beautiful ....were just a few. It was agood reminder to spend a bit of time making them a special card for Mothers' Day this Sunday.

We have been learning all about the Rainforest.

Everyone chose an animal and had found out about it. We made a picture of it. Then we created a mural with lots of trees. We decided in which part of the Rainforest each animal would live.

This is the end result. It really brightens up our classroom.