Friday 5th October

This week Class 3 children have continued to produce some wonderful home learning. This is exemplified by our excellent model below showing off his home-made Roman soldier helmet.

In class, our art work has also taken on a Roman theme. Below you can see that some of us have now started to paint our Roman mosaics using the square printing style that we saw when researching examples of Roman mosaics.

Friday 28th September

All week the children have been completing the task that you can see pictured below. For this task all of the children had to learn the Roman myth ‘Romulus and Remus’ which is the untrue story of how Rome was created. The reason they had to learn the myth is because their challenge was to retell the whole story out loud and they weren’t allowed to simply read it off of the page. All that they were allowed in order to help them remember the story was a story map which they had to make themselves. Their story maps had to contain mostly pictures and they were only allowed to write key words like character and place names on their story maps.

Friday 21st September

On Monday of this week, we continued learning about 'keeping healthy' in our science. In this week's science lesson we revisited our information folders about our clients who we will be advising as we pretend to be personal trainers. Each client has a certain profession and therefore certain dietary needs. Some want to know what they should eat to grow stronger, some want more energy, while others just want to avoid catching every cough and cold going around. Whichever advice our clients want we need to advise them well and so today we attempted to design some possible meals for our clients in order to give them the nutrition they are looking for. In preparation for this we explored the five food groups (carbohydrates, fats and sugars, dairy foods, protein and fruit and vegetables), pausing on each one in order to look at the potential benefits of eating a food from that food group.

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.