Week Beginning 13.06.16

This weeks blog is written by Mia , Ella and Lucia.

Maths 
This week in maths we have done really well! We have been solving division problems using large numbers. We can now do lots of division facts. Even the three digit ones with remainders. We like chunking using a number line.


Topic

This week in geography we have been continuing to learn about the people who live in the rain forest. The tribe I learnt about was the called Tupi tribe. Here is a few thing about the Tupi tribe: they make there body paints from plants and they make there jewelry from animal bones and teeth. The rain forest is a very strange place to live compared to ours! We looked at people who live in a less traditional way but still in the rain forest and compared their lives to ours. There are some similarities like; some still go to school, they enjoy fishing, they look after animals but there are many differences. The differences include; going to school by boat, fishing for piranhas and hunting monkeys.

Literacy

This week we have been looking at how to write persuasively when debating a point. We have been looking at the arguments for and against cutting down the rain forest. We need the rain forest because it is the habitat for lots of animals and plants and we do not want them to become extinct and also we  can use the plants to make medicines. But  people also use the trees for wood, paper and other ways to make money to feed their families. We are getting ready for a big debate next week. We did a conscience alley where we tried to persuade Mrs Shoat to agree with our opinions. 

D.T

In D.T we have been designing our Spanish omelettes. We discussed some of the extra ingredients we could add and thought about how it would effect the appearance, taste and texture.     

In other news...

Well done to Lucia for getting wonderful work for your super persuasive paragraph about saving the rain forest. Remember that it is sports day this coming Thursday. We are looking forward to a massive crowd ready to cheer on your team!

Week Beginning 6.06.16

Welcome back to the final half term of the academic year. This week has been packed with new topics and some interesting and unusual lessons...

On Wednesday, we had a visit from a talented skateboarder who popped in to give us a few tips and teach us some new skills. We donned our protective pads and helmets and were away attempting new tricks. At first it was a little scary but it wasn't long before we were jumping up onto the deck and lifting the board to do turns. We all decided it was something we would love to do again.

Literacy 

We used our new skateboarding knowledge to design our own skateboards and use our persuasive writing skills to write an advert to sell them. This was a great start to our new literacy topic where over the next few weeks we will be extending our persuasive writing  knowledge; focusing on letters of complaint and debates.

We have also been looking at using apostrophes for omission and possession. In spelling, we have been looking at words that are spelt with 'ch' but sounded with 'c' such as; chemist, character and school.

Maths

We have been tackling division in maths, scaling down recipes and measurements by multiples of four by halving and halving again. We have also been using number lines to find short cuts when dividing numbers outside the times tables.

Geography

The focus in our geography sessions has shifted slightly as we look at the human impact on the rain forest. We started these sessions by learning about some of the indigenous tribes that live in the Amazon rain forest; the Kayapo, Tupi, Panara and Korubo. We enjoyed a high energy information dash to find out about their different cultures, practices and beliefs and presented our findings to the rest of the class.

D.T

We finished off the week by starting our new D.T project; making a healthy warm snack. This half term we will be designing our own version of the traditional Spanish omelette. Of course we had to do some taste testing to investigate new some new flavours. We tried traditional Spanish omelette, chorizo, roasted peppers, sun-dried tomatoes and Spanish Manchego cheese.

The results were mixed but we all found something new that we enjoyed.

Week Beginning 23.05.16

This weeks the blog is written by Mia , Ella , Lucia

We  had a amazing week this week as we went on a class trip to the Amazona zoo in Cromer. It was fantastic to see all of the animals that we have been learning about and visit hot houses and see some of the incredible plants with giant leaves. We had a fantastic day. 

Topic

In topic this week, we have had lot's of fantastic homework come in. Isaac even won wonderful work for his amazing top trumps and his phenomenal  folder of work. We have learnt about the humidity and the weather in the rain forests in different countries, we wrote postcards and weather forecasts. We are developing a  strong affection for the rain forest. It is definitely our favourite topic.

Maths

In maths this week, we are practising our multiplication with special attention to our time tables and division facts. We have been swapping tips and tricks. We had our own sheets and had to practise them we only had five minutes to do it . We are all trying really hard to know our fives tens, twos, threes, fours and eights and the division facts. What a challenge! We all tried really hard and can see ourselves getting better all the time, we are all fantastic!

Literacy

In literacy this week, we have been practising our skills of reviewing and editing our work. We have been helping each other mark and improve our writing. We have also been using the computer to write recounts about our trip to Amazona Zoo.  We have been practising our word processing and also put borders around our writing. We liked writing on the computer as we could keep adding things in to improve our work and quickly change mistakes. We tried to include; conjunctions, adjectives, adverbs, powerful verbs, interesting sentence starts, time adverbials and fronted adverbials. Wow!

Spanish

In  Spanish this week we have been  learning how to say  where we live in Spanish and this is how we say it:

¿Dónde vives? (where do you live)
Yo vivo en una casa en Necton (I live in a house in Necton).

Art

In art we have been looking at scenery in plays and have started to create a massive backdrop for the school play. We had to really listen to each other and work as a team. It was really fun but messy!

Have a fantastic half term holiday everyone and see you on the 6th June.

Week beginning 15.05.2016

This weeks blog is brought to you by Annabel, Courtney and Abria...

Maths

In maths this week we have been doing subtraction and we think we have finally cracked it! We have been counting on to find the difference on number lines and can now do subtraction calculations involving 3-digit numbers. Hooray! 

Literacy

This week in literacy, we have been writing in the style of Joyce  Grenfell. She has a very special way off writing. You only hear what the teacher is saying, but you can guess what the children are saying. Some of our writing was very funny! You can have a look and leave some comments on Pobble, the new platform website that we are using to share our writing. Also, we had a visit from the author Paeony Lewis. 

She came to talk about writing books and showed us how to plan a story. We designed our own character; the morning bird. It was funny when we had to draw our character with our eyes closed. 

Science

In science, we have been looking at a life cycle of  a flowering plant and we learnt the steps of a plant. The stages of a plant are germination, growth and flowering,  pollination, fertilisation and seed dispersal.

P.E

In  PE we have been  doing an assault course of athletics  skills. We have been practising a standing jump, shot putt, balance beam, target throwing and bouncing over a small hurdle. 

Art

In art ,we have been making some amazing 3d rain forests  pictures. This week we finished it! We showed the different layers of the rain forest (emergent, canopy, under-story and forest floor) in our artwork. We even added the animals you would find in the right layers. 

In other news...

A big thank-you to everyone who attended our reading cafe on Tuesday. We really enjoyed creating our parrots and enjoying some refreshments with our wider school family. 

Finally, congratulations to those in Year 3 who achieved their swimming skills 2 certificate, merit badges and Hugo for achieving 'Wonderful Work' this week. All that hard work has paid off, Well done!

Week beginning 2/05/16

We've been enjoying the sunshine in Year 3 this week and it's help charge lots of fantastic learning...

Maths

We have been enjoying lots of practical work in our maths lessons this week, as we start a new unit on measurement. We have been ordering and measuring amounts of capacity and making a vessel that we estimated to hold 1 litre. Also, we have been measuring accurately using mm and creating bar charts about the different lengths of chocolate buttons. 

Science

In science, we have been checking up on our on-going experiments and recording our observations. We have altered geraniums to see how well they grow if we take away the important factors needed for a healthy plant. Some of the results have been very surprising so far. Watch this space for the full results soon! This week we have also been germinating beans and cress to observe the process of germination up close. 

Literacy

We have finished all the features of our very own information pages for our class book this week about rainforest animals. We had to think carefully about the layout of our page when putting it all together so the order made sense and was eye catching. 

Finally... 

We wish Year 6 all the best for their tests next week. We are all very proud of how hard you have all worked.