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. 

Week beginning 25.04.16

This weeks blog is bought to you by Bethanie and Annabel

Maths

In maths this week, we have been working on compass points and coordinates. We have been using compass points to write instructions to find an object. Then we used a grid to lead the monkey to the banana but there were dangers in the way! Even though we had dangers we managed to get to the banana. by giving clear instructions using the compass points. We created our own maps and followed directions to create mystery pictures. 

Literacy    

In literacy this week, we have been writing and introduction and appearance paragraphs for our information texts about our chosen rainforest animals. We have also been using generalisers to make our writing more interesting. We have also been using connective devices  to  add details to sentences and explain why our animals have such special features. 

Science

In science this week we have been creating our very own experiments with cress seeds. For example, we put cress seeds into a plastic cup and  took something away from the seeds to see if they still grow. We are testing taking away water, soil, nutrients or sunlight but we made sure we had a fair test to measure it against. We even took away everything except sunlight and had just seeds! We predicted what would happen and we are very interested to see the results. 

Art

In art this week we have been painting with sponges to make a rainforest background. We though about how the rainforest had different layers such as the emergent layer, the canopy, the under-story and the forest floor and mixed different colours to match the amount of light the different forest layers would get. For the next few lessons we will be working on this picture as we build up different layers using different materials. Miss Palmer made a demonstration and some of our ones looked just like it!

In other news...

We have really enjoyed our first week of doing our daily mile and some of use can now even run for the whole fifteen minutes but all of us can feel ourselves getting fitter and improving every day. 

Also well done this week for Abria  for achieving her 10m swimming certificate and Hugo for being awarded wonderful work for his dedication and hard work in maths.