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Morning Class 3, I hope you are all up and ready for a day of home learning!

Today the challenges start…..Today’s Challenges

Challenge 1 – English – I hope everyone got some lovely Christmas Presents, if we were in school today we would have been talking about them and discussing who received what. Your challenge today is to write a riddle about your present for others to guess what you received. Can you remember when we wrote riddles about animals in our science books? Remember they need to have some tricky clues and some easier clues, they need to be written in the first person (I) and end with ‘What am I?’ I can’t wait to solve yours….can you solve mine?

Please post your riddles to seesaw and I will upload them from there. They can be handwritten, typed or even recorded – however works best for you. I will post my answer and all of your riddles tomorrow for us all to solve.

Challenge 2 – Art/Reading – As we will be unable to swap your reading books, I would like you to choose a book from home to read over the next few weeks. This could be something a little longer that you read as a family, at my house, we are currently reading a book called Danger Gang. Maisie and I are enjoying sharing the reading so some nights I read some and other nights she does. Because I would like you to choose a longer book, you will need to read it over a few weeks. In order to not lose your page, a bookmark is very handy…so, your second challenge today is to create your own bookmark. Please upload a photo of your bookmark to seesaw so I can see how great they are. If you are stuck for ideas have a look below or I have uploaded a template to seesaw that you could copy or print.

Challenge 3 – Wellbeing Wednesday – As during last Lockdown, on a Wednesday, we will have a ‘Wellbeing Wednesday’ challenge. As it is a new year, I would like you to think about what you would like to achieve this year and write your own New Year’s Resolutions. I had planned to have a display of them all in the classroom using the title…

and we were going to write our resolutions on ‘right foot’ templates. Can you write your own in this way? You could draw round your own foot and write in the middle, use the template on seesaw by adding a text box or draw a foot on some big paper – maybe you could write some resolutions as a family on a giant foot. I look forward to reading your ideas.

So, there are your first 3 challenges. Remember to pop back tomorrow to see how everyone else tackled the challenges and see what else I have planned for us all.

Have fun…..Mrs A x

Hi Class 3, this certainly isn’t the way I hoped to start the term!

Firstly, I hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year, thank you for all my lovely gifts. I know everyone’s Christmas and New Year plans were a little different this year but I hope you still had some fun and that Santa came!!

Unfortunately, Christmas day now seems a bit of a distant memory and after spending the day yesterday in school completing an amazing display to start our new theme and planning some fun activities, I am so sad to not be able to share it all with you in ‘real life’. But, for the next few weeks, this will become our ‘virtual classroom’ so lets have lots of fun! Here is the display for you all to see….

Our New Theme

As you can see, our theme this term is ‘Buried Treasure’ and we will be looking firstly at Anglo Saxons and then Vikings. I wonder what you would like to find out about? Have a think as we will start to look closely at this from next week but this week we thought it would be good to complete some activities linked to Christmas like we would have done in school. This will also help to get us all used to remote learning and uploading our work to seesaw.

Our Home Learning Plan

Each day I will upload a post for you to find out about the challenges for the day. Most days their will be 3 challenges to complete, please try your best to complete as much as you can and upload your work to seesaw to show me what you have done. This can be in the form of photographs, pictures and writing using the seesaw app or a piece of work uploaded from elsewhere. I really do not mind how it is uploaded to seesaw. If anyone is having difficulty uploading, just email it through and I can add it to your child’s journal.

On the blog, I will also share any work I receive from the previous day so everyone can still see what everyone else has been busy with. Please remember to check the blog each day and post your work through seesaw so I can see it and share it. If you need to contact me please do so through the class email class3brandesburton@gmail.com

Can’t wait to see all your work tomorrow! Stay safe, Mrs A x

Obviously Christmas has been a little different in school this year and we have had to find new ways of doing things. However, we haven’t let that stop us and I am sure you will be able to see from the video below, how much fun we have all had…hope you enjoy it!!

Below is also a link to our whole school advent calendar, please copy this into a new browser to continue to watch our videos on the run up to Christmas….look out for a special message on Christmas Eve.

Have a fab Christmas x

Have a spot of festive fun this week for homework….

Today we received the amazing news that we had collectively walked 1330 miles to LAPLAND! We celebrated with a brillIant afternoon of fun…have a look at what we got up to….

This week we worked hard as a class to create our own poem using the style of the sound collector….I was sooooo impressed with how much knowledge and language the children have gained this term – top work Class 3!
Have a listen for yourself…..

This week we have been looking at the poem ‘The Sound Collector’. We have explored the rhyming pattern and the verbs used in the poem. Have a listen to the poem…what sounds would you miss?

Your homework this week is saved on seesaw. As an extra challenge, can you write your own poem about sounds in your house?

Like last year, we were asked to be involved in Beverley Minister’s Christmas Tree Festival. This year, images of the trees will be projected onto the walls of the minister. Our tree has the theme ‘kindness’ and Class 3 all made rainbow decorations. We chose rainbows because they have been very important this year as they have been used as a symbol of thanks and to show our appreciation throughout lockdown – values that are also very important during Christmas time.

To link to our work on plastic pollution, we made plastic fish sculptures. We looked at the work of Marina DeBris who uses items washed up from the ocean to create her pieces of artwork. We designed, made and evaluated our work an£ also had great fun! Our finished fishes can all be seen on seesaw.

As part of our Geography work we have been using atlases and finding out about climate zones. We were travel agents and we planned holidays for different families. We worked hard to use many different pieces of information!

For homework this week can you pretend to be a travel agent…ask some people at home, where they would like to travel to….and see if you can find the continent it is in, the climate of the country, the clothing you would need to wear if you travelled there and an interesting fact or place to visit.

As an extra challenge, can you create a holiday brochure or advert for one of the countries. I can’t wait to see where your family’s dream locations are!

Remember to upload all your findings to seesaw.

This song below may help to recap the continents…