Class 3 Blog

On Tuesday we completed some work linked to the book ‘You are Awesome’. We used the idea of Awesome to create challenges for ourselves.

Please share how you are getting on with your challenges!

He has arrived!!!

On Tuesday we welcomed Timtom into our classroom!!

We have adopted him for a year and we look forward to hearing about what he is getting upto in Borneo!

This week  and last week we have been working on writing our own stories about Rang Tan. We have looked at the point in the story  when the flashback occurs. I am so impressed with some of the fantastic language choices the children have made…look at some of our super ideas…

“In a blink of an eye, my mother was gone. Suddenly, I thought to myself, I would never be the same” Emma

“The rain slashed through the sound of my echo” Matthew

“In a miserable rainy night, the sky was full of smoke.” Harrison

“A ferocious dark night , the whistling wind making a terrifying tornado. A metallic monster demolishing everything in its path.” Rufus

“I felt ever so upset, I felt devastated from my home, vanished away, men and women had to get palm oil for people to survive but it is sad for me.” Daisy

“I’m terrified of the chomping dragon of terror. The rain was pouring against me.” Cody

“There was a blue and green monster truck carrying all my lovely home.” Lucas

“A massive, yellow monster chopping trees down and that’s when I saw  a very large tree falling towards my home” Alfie H

“I was so upset that I sobbed my heart out.” Chloe

“There was a dashing sound of thunder, striking the ground” Charlie

“I saw the deforestation done by the scary, terrifying monster that nearly crushed me” Emily

“Suddenly it started to rain with lightening, I was scared because I had no family” Belle

“When the first tree wobbled that’s when I saw it.” Alasdair

“I felt unhappy and I was petrified and I was very, very scared” Oliver

“I was petrified when I saw a metallic monster, I ran for my life.” Edward

“The black splodgy monster chomping my habitat” Bertie

“I heard the rumble of the beast continued” Zak

We had great fun today building dens in our forest schools session! We had some super ideas and fantastic team work!

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We kicked off our Money Management week by talking to Mrs Cooper who used to be a bank manager. She had so many interesting stories to tell us and we found out lots about saving money and what a bank manager does.

We also found out which children would be good at saving and who would need to take out a loan!

Every day this week we hope to hear from other people who use money in their jobs and different careers that use money. Who will we find out about next?

Last week there was so much amazing discussion, thoughts and ideas around our new English unit – There’s a Rang-Tan in my bedroom. The short film explores the life of a young orangutan who has left his home in the rainforest because it is being destroyed for palm oil. The children have completed some fantastic work, made predictions and discussed feelings and emotions. I am really looking forward to continuing to work on this piece – keep it up Class 3!

If you want to watch the film, click on the link below and let us know what you think…

As part of our work for Careers Mark, we looked at jobs in the rainforest and tried out some different tasks to see what skills we would need. It was interesting to see how different people liked different jobs and felt more comfortable using different skills to others.

We had lots of budding zoologists but also people who enjoyed the maths challenges that the forest conservation workers had to carry out and others who enjoyed being Geographers using the atlases. I think we all definitely used new skills. Well done Class 3!

The five different tasks can be seen on a display in our classroom

Task overviews

In the week before half term, Class 3 were very busy writing poetry. We used our senses to write poems based in the rainforest, they even rhymed! Once our poems were drafted and improved we recorded them using the Ipads and then put them together in groups. Our final poems can be see in the classroom on our interactive display – please come and take a look – we would be happy to show you how our display can TALK to you!!

Class 3 have spent two weeks working hard on partitioning numbers and reading and writing numbers. On Thursday we had great fun helping PLACE VALUE MAN solve his problems.

Do you want to try some more problems at home? Here are some websites for you to try…

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/place-value/place-value-charts

http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/appDetails/sharkNumbersDemo_online/index.html

http://www.ictgames.com/dinoplacevalue.html

http://www.ictgames.com/LIFEGUARDS.

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Well Class 3, we have been back a week now and we have been very busy, building our new team and classroom…the class dynamics are developing and displays are filling the walls. What have been your favourite activities so far?