Friday 16th March

Because our science experiment was interrupted by snow days, we have decided that it is no longer a fair test. Therefore on Thursday we restarted our experiments by planting a seed with plenty of light/soil/water/space/air/warmth, some light/soil/water/space/air/warmth and no light/soil/water/space/air/warmth. Below you can see pictures of some group's 'unfair test seeds'.

Thursday 1st March

Seeing as today is our third snow day in a row, here are some activities you can have a go at if you want to.

Friday 9th February

In Wednesday’s English lesson we were revising how to write expanded noun phrases. 

We started off by sitting on the carpet and looking at some examples like ‘The kind 

boy with the blond hair helped his friend to carry the books.’ We talked about how the 

sentence starts with the noun phrase, is built on by the adjective and then the extra 

detail is added. We then had a go at writing some expanded noun phrases of our own 

about some African animal scenes. The pictures were laid out on the tables and we had 

to use post it notes to write our expanded noun phrases for each picture and then 

stick them down next to the relevant picture.

Below are pictures of today's English lesson. In our pairs we all had printed off copies of the ‘Lost at the Seaside’ narrative for years 1 to 6. We were told that what we were looking at were expected level pieces of writing for Years 1 to 6. However what we weren’t told was which piece of writing matched which year group. Therefore it was our job to match the writing to the year group. Once we had done this, it was then revealed to us which ones the year 3 and 4 ones were. The Year 3’s then had to look at the Year 3 piece and the Year 4’s at the Year 4 piece in our pairs. We then used highlighters to highlight and label everything about the piece of writing that made it a Year 3 or Year 4 piece of writing.

Friday 2nd February

Above you can see our display board outside of Class 3 that showcases all of the wonderful pieces of home learning that the children have been bringing in this term.

The pictures that you can see below show off some great examples of the African masks that Class 3 children made with Mrs Storer.

Friday 26th January

In today’s maths lesson we were working with multilink cubes, Numicon and Base 10 in order to help us understand area and perimeter. First of all we spoke about what the terms ‘area’ and ‘perimeter’ actually mean and how we measure them. We decided that the perimeter of a shape is the distance around the outside and a shapes area is the total amount of space the shape covers. Then we split into 3 groups, with one group sitting near and using the Numicon, another group using the Base 10 and the final group using the multilink cubes. Below are the questions we had to answer using our resources to help us:

    

Friday 19th January

The pictures you can see above show some more of the fantastic things we've had brought into class that are related to our Africa topic. The instrument and the bracelet are both pieces of home learning that were completed by members of Class 3. A number of Class 3 members have also been cooking some delicious African dishes at home and it has been brilliant to see the pictures and videos they have brought in of themselves doing this. 

The two pictures above show Class 3 children in groups planning a newspaper report. The children wrote their reports on Wednesday and the pictures above show Monday's planning lesson. On Tuesday we wrote a newspaper report together as a class. Our reports could be about whatever we wanted but they had to include the African animal we had been assigned (either a giraffe, African elephant, hyena or baboon).