Friday 27^th January

Home Learning

English: This week for your English I have stuck in the marked versions of your entry to the ‘BBC 500 Word Story Competition’. I have done this so that you can re-read what you have written and see where you could improve your story. There is still time to submit your story into the competition if you haven’t yet done so, via the website that was given out with last week’s home learning. To those who have already submitted (well done) I would like you to design a poster displaying all of the rules that you can remember for punctuating direct speech.

Maths: For Maths this week some of you have been given the task of converting pounds to pence and pence to pounds, carrying on from our work on money this week. I would like everyone else to have a go at solving the 3 word money problems that I have stuck in your books.

Spellings: You also have another 5 spellings this week.

What we have done this week

The first picture in this week's blog shows us playing with some 'roamers'. Playing with these allowed us to think more about our maths work we were doing last week, where we were concentrating on degrees of turn. We had three roamer bots and in groups we were challenged to program them to reach different targets. This involved us having to think about how many degrees we needed to make our roamer turn.

The rest of the pictures in this week's blog show our lesson on Friday when we wrote some book reviews about a chosen short story. The book review templates that we used are the ones that we will be bringing into our daily guided reading sessions and so Friday's English lesson was a chance for us to practice reviewing a simple book (for a start) in this way. For this practice, the book reviews were blown up to A3 size and we completed them in pairs. The end results were some lovely pieces of reading comprehension that we can now proudly display in Class 3. 

Friday 20^th January

Home Learning

English: For your English home learning this week I have stuck your entry to the ‘BBC 500 Word Story Competition’, that you wrote in class on Thursday, in your home learning book. Along with this I have stuck in some instructions telling you how you go about uploading your story onto the competition website (something you will need to do in order to enter). This is a job that you will need an adult’s help with.

Maths: For maths this week I would like you to complete the table that I have stuck in your home learning books which will test your knowledge of degrees in a turn, something we have been practicing in class this week.

 

Spellings: You also have another 5 spellings this week.

What we have done this week

The first two pictures in this week's blog show some of us reading our entries to the‘BBC 500 Word Story Competition’. On Thursday morning we went on the website and followed the online lesson 

complete with interactive activities. These activities led us nicely onto having a go at writing our short stories after break because they made us think carefully about setting, character and plot. Once each of us had written our stories we then enjoyed sharing them amongst each other throughout the rest of the day and week.

Picture 3 shows some of us doing some outside maths on Friday in pairs. We had to number ourselves 1 and 2. 1’s all stood in a line across the playground with 2’s standing behind them. 1’s closed their eyes and 2’s threw a beanbag out in front of them. 2’s then had to direct their partner to go and retrieve the bean bag without 1’s opening their eyes. The only instructions 2’s were able to give were walk forwards and turn so many degrees (90, 180, 360 or 270).

The final 2 pictures show our science lesson this week. We were learning all about forces that can act on objects without contact. We started off by talking about how gravity can pull items to the ground without anything touching them and then asked the question can any other forces do this. The pictures show us discovering that magnetism can also act in this way as we moved paperclips through card with magnets.

Friday 13^th January

Home Learning

English: This week I want you to identify the main and subordinate clause in each of the 4 sentences I have given you. The task is explained fully in your home learning books and there is also a definition of each of these clauses should you need reminding what they are.

Maths: This week some of you have been tasked with naming 5 3D shapes and their properties, while others have been given a sheet full of statements about shapes. Some of these statements are true and some of them are false and your job is to choose a colour to colour the ones you think are true and a colour to colour the ones you think are false.

Spellings: You also have another 5 spellings this week.

What we have done this week

Our new topic for this term is the the Americas. The pictures above show Class 3 working in pairs to find out the location of different US states on a map. Each pair had 3 A3 sheets each. One showed a map of the US with just the initials of the states labelled. Another showed a table with all of the initials labelled and the final sheet was another map, this time displaying the actual names of the states. Our job was to match up the initials to the state names on the maps and then correctly identify and list them on our tables. In Class 3 we have shown a great enthusiasm towards our topic so far and we are looking forward to building on our knowledge of the Americas as the weeks go on.