Class Blog for Class 3

 

A week for the artistic.

We started our week creating Mother day cards.  We used some water colour skills to create pictures of flowers painting wet on dry.  We then used more water to spread the paint and create the petal shapes.  World book day saw the whole of Class 3 in fancy dress or PJs!  we had a number of famous character came to class 3 including Matilda, Little red Riding Hood and Veruca Salt.  We are looking forwards to seeing more red costumes this Friday for Red Nose day. 

Home work is on Ed Shed and everyone has had the chance to log in at school.  Fingers crossed, and you'll be able to smoothly access it at home.

Looking forward to a great week including outside learning on Tuesday.

Mr Knight.

 


 

Best ever homework challenge.

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A wide range of homework options were available to Class 3 which led to a great number of children rising to the challenge.  Most impressive were the volcanos.  Models of Mt. Vesuvius.  They varied in size, detail and many were working models.  Alongside this, we had home work entries that we're based on reading, researching the Roman Empire and TTRS sound checks.  There really was a homework challenge for everyone and it was pleasing to so many take part.  Keep up the good work Class 3.

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Class 3 experience Problem Aliens.






This week saw Class 3 focus on maths.  We investigated a tricky maths problem all abut how many legs a groups a of aliens have.  Sum of started with a 'blunt force' approach of trial and error to find the answer.  eventually we realised that the problem actually involved multiples of 3 & 7 and once we had listed all the multiples, we soon spotted a pattern and found an answer.

Class 4 created a Treasure Hunt of Maths shapes around the school and we also helped create a school display of Kadinsky style circle in the school colours.

 


 

Class 3 stamp out spelling homework.

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We took advantage of the frost this week and used it to practice our spellings.  We got physical and stamped out our spellings on the grass.  Our ideas we'll explore as the weather allows will be water writing and stick spelling.

 


 

Class 3 go wild.

Our BIG question is, 'Are rainforests the lungs of the planet?'  Linking our English to this topic, we have been studying the Vanishing Rainforest by Richard Platt and The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry.  We are creating our own story based on the Great Kapok Tree, working on including useful speech and using co-ordinating conjunctions in a 'boys' sentence.

Area

has been a theme for some of us.  We have been looking at ways of measuring and comparing rectilinear shapes of differing sizes.

Class 3 Half Term challenge.

The half term challenge brought in lots of entries including reading, arts, crafts and model making.  Well done to all who entered and we'll have another 'fun' challenge at Christmas.

 


 

Class 3 Clean-Up!

EDNA COMES home to Class 3.

For the second time in two weeks, Class three have won the EDNA (Every Day Never Away) award for attendance.

This makes a huge difference in eliminating gaps in knowledge.  Not only did we win EDNA for the following week, but we almost had 100% attendance - amazing.  Next we are looking at winning OTIS - On Time In School.  The first precious quarter of a hour when so much work is done on tables, spellings, reading etc.

Stonehenge, recreated.




As part of our Stone Age to Iron Age project, we have been looking at significant monuments and tombs from pre-history.  We recreated Stonehenge using a wide range classroom equipment.  We created, Blockhenge, Jengahenge, Dominohenge, Peghenge and even Tractorhenge!

Imperative verbs.

We have been using our washing up skills as we tried to spot and develop imperative verbs, those 'bossy' verbs that we have to follow to get the job done.  A wide range of objects, (cars, toys, blocks and models) we're cleaned, polished, dabbed, scrubbed and dried.  

A great week Class 3 - Thank you.

Next week includes milk bottle modeling and making rocks!

Enjoy the sun.

 


 

Class Tree learn outside.

A real highlight of the week was our first full day of learning outside the class room and our focus was British trees.  

Blessed as we are with our school field and forest school, our first task was to identify our trees.  We then went on to measure their height using  45 degree inclinometer.  Having collated our findings, we have calculated that our tallest tree, the Ash at the top of the field is 23.3m tall.  As our most common estimate was 24m, we have taken some accurate reading with our homemade inclinometers.  We then worked in the forest school where we used clay to take pressings of seeds and leaves and then we created book marks using some the smaller things that we could identify.  

We've been practicing Roman numerals and rounding, but managed to find proof that not all clocks show the number 4 in the correct Roman numeral style of IV and not IIII.

 


 






Learning, inside and out.

Another busy week where we took some of our learning outside.    Maths we have been making good use of our growing tables knowledge.  Where we know that 3 x 5 is 15,  we also know that 30 x 5 is 150.  We created place value grids out side and could show a 3 and 4 digit numbers that we created getting bigger as we multiplied them by 10.  We've been collaborating in English, using our friends to help check, edit and improve our work.  In particular, vocabulary choices and sentence structure.  Mrs Dan helped us create sunflowers for a new while school display.  We've create our flowers one petal at a time, to be built up into a flower around seed heads and greenery that we have also painted.

Prehistoric learning.

We discovered just what pre historic means.  Before written history.  But it's still possible to recreate prehistoric tools in modern time as the proved by BS who made these at home and brought them in to share with the class.

Next Tuesday, we will have a whole day outside following with work based around trees.

 


 

Class 3 get creative.

We have been out and about during lessons again.  As part of our 'Stig of the Dump' writing focus, we have been in the Forrest School.  We have been imagining just what it would be like to discover someone living in the woods and we considered what we would see, hear, smell and think.  One of the best phrases we created was, ' a beautiful blue light, crept through the trees'.  This and other phrase will then make an appearance in our writing this week.

We've also been artistic this week.  With the help of Mrs Dan, we've been creating sunflowers our contribution to a whole school display, creating our flowers petal by petal.

Our tables focus has been the 2 x table and this week we'll moving on to the 4  table.

 


 

Welcome Class 3

Already we are up and running although not too much. It's just been too hot. PE gave us a brief respite with a cool yoga session in the hall.  We've introduced our new topic and devised our own questions based on our Big Question -  'Was it better to live in the Stone Age, Bronze Age or iron Age?'   We've been practicing our times tables knowledge, made jam sandwiches and have started reading our class book, 'Stig of the Dump'.  
It has been a pleasant start to our school year, but there are definitely some busy weeks ahead.
Good luck Class 3,
Mr Knight.

 


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