Friday 14th September

This week in science we have started our new topic entitled ‘Keeping Healthy’. Earlier in the week, on Monday, we were introduced to some clients that we will become personal trainers for throughout the topic. A lot of the advice we are going to need to give our clients is going to be based on their diet and so yesterday we played a game to revise what types of food humans and other animals eat. This game was called ‘Diet Riot’ and the aim of the game was to correctly group picture cards of animals into herbivores, omnivores and carnivores using our makeshift Venn diagrams made out of PE hoops.

In the first game (pictured above) the children were in groups of 5 and 6 and had to take in turns running into the middle, where the picture cards were scattered, grab a card and take it back to their Venn diagram, positioning it in the correct section. Once all of the cards had disappeared from the centre, each team then counted up how many they managed to sort and the team with the most (correctly sorted) animal picture cards were the winning team. In the second game (pictured below) each team had to first throw their coloured Frisbee into the bucket in the middle before they were allowed to collect a picture card. Each team also had one member who was just in charge of fetching the Frisbee back for their team.

Friday 9th July

10/07/18 – Today I will become a better author by creating a ‘book trailer’ to advertise the book ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’ by Kate Dicamillo.

We have now finished reading the book and to finish ‘our journey’ we watched a book trailer for ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’. After watching the trailer, we then got into groups and created our own book trailers using PowerPoint and then presented them to the rest of the class using Spotify to add the background music.

Friday 6th July

The pictures below show our French lesson from this Tuesday. We used this lesson to build on the conversations we were able to have in our previous lessons by learning how to also say 'My name is...' and 'I am seven/eight/nine'. Below are the translations of what we were able to say.

03/07/18: French – How are you (Ca va)?

-      Yes I’m well thank you (Oui, ca va bien, merci).

-      Yes I’m very well thank you (Oui, ca va tres bien, merci).

-      No I’m not too good (Non, ca va mal).

-      No I’m feeling terrible (Non, ca va tres mal).

-      OK (Comme ci, comme ca).

03/07/18: French - ‘My name is…and I am seven/eight/nine (Je m’appelle…et j'ai sept/huit/neuf ans.’

Friday 29th June

On Wednesday we played ‘Homophone Bingo’. Each child had a sheet with six sentences on it. These six sentences each had a word missing and a picture clue as to what that word was. Each missing word was also a homophone and these missing homophones were called out one at a time. The children had to recognise their missing homophones when they were called out and write them down before calling ‘Bingo!’ if they managed to find all six.

Friday 22nd June

On Thursday we discussed the lyrics to the song ‘This is me’ from the film ‘The Greatest Showman’. We talked about and sang the song before going around the circle getting each child’s personal take on what the lyrics mean to them.

“Just because people are different to you that doesn’t mean you should be mean to them.”

“When people are mean to you, you shouldn’t pay attention to them and carry on.”

“You should be proud to be unique.”

Above are just a few examples of the comments made by the children as we went around the circle.

Friday 15th June

Class 3’s World Cup

Each child got a clipboard and a pencil and a print off a copy of the group stage fixtures for the World Cup. Once they had changed into their PE kits we went outside where, taking two coins to flip at the start of each match and whoever won the coin toss got to decide the challenge. The challenges were:

1.       Power challenge (one shot at goal from their choice of one of the five distances, the further away they shoot from the more they can score, set up 5 possible distances to shoot at goal from).

2.       Football ten-pin bowling (one shot to knock down as many of the five cones as they can).

3.       Pace and accuracy challenge (one shot to try and get the ball to stop in one of the 5 hoops, the further away the hoop is the more they score).

A miss in any of these challenges meant a score of 0. Coins were flipped to decide who went first. Two were played simultaneously all children recorded the results of the 2 games before we moved onto the next 2. Once the group stages were over the children back came back inside and together we worked out who the last 16 teams were by filling in the tables for each group. We then played out our knockout fixtures before finding out who our eventual winners were. Mexico!

Friday 8th June

This week we've started to read a new book in our English lessons. The book is called 'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane' and it is a story about a luxury rabbit toy made out of china. In the book we hear the thoughts of Edward (the china rabbit) and he is very interested in himself and how fine he looks in his silk suits and leather shoes, but he is not very interested in anyone else and what they do or say. Another thing we know about Edward Tulane is that he cannot move himself because he is a toy but, mysteriously, the front cover of the book displays a picture where it looks like he is walking. Therefore Class 3 were challenged on Wednesday to perform what they thought a conversation with an Edward that had come to life would go like. Below you can see Class 3 members performing in their pairs.