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!