We have had another fab week in Class 3 this week. We have been busy finishing our addition and subtraction units in Maths, started to plan and write our myths in English and the children are loving their Science topics of Light for the Year 3s and States of Matter for the Year 4s. We really are busy, busy busy!!
We have also been continuing to enjoy our Whole Class Guided Reading Text – The Beasts of Olympus. The children have made so many great links to our History work on Ancient Greece – they really are little historians!
We enjoyed a little bit of drama linked to the book this week and it was great to see how much their expression and fluency are improving!
Spelling
This weeks spellings are linked to the common exception words for year 3 and 4. They are words that the children may use regularly and just need to be able to spell.
Homework
I am not going to set any extra homework this week as we have been working very hard in class but please remember to ensure you read at least 3 times and practice spellings and timestables.
Class 3 have had another busy week – this week we have all tackled column subtraction with exchanges in Maths, we have worked on planning our own myth based on Theseus and the Minotaur in English and in Science the year 3s have investigated reflective materials, whilst the year 4s have looked at solids, liquids and gases. It has been all go!
Our Art Unit
Thank you to the parents who came to look at our fantastic artwork and buy our amazing clay pots. We manage to raise just over £50 which will be used to purchase future resources for our art and design and technology work. We have our DT unit coming up soon and plan to look at some different Greek foods – you may even get an invite to taste some! (Further details to follow)
Maths
Well done to those who completed last week’s maths homework to teach someone else how to do column addition. I loved these two photos I received…
I am sure we now have some very clever animals in Brandesburton!
If you want to recap our work from this week where we have moved onto column subtraction, the following website might be useful.
Next weeks spelling patterns include the ‘uh’ sound spelt ‘ou’ for the year 3s and adding the suffix ‘ation’ for the year 4s.
Homework – English
To link to our work on myths and the amazing monsters in your story plans, I have set a 2do on Purple Mash to draw your own ‘Minotaur’. Who will be the monster in your myth? What will they look like? I can’t wait to see the half bull, half electric eel or the half unicorn, half beetle.
Another week has flown by in Class 3 and we have been so busy.
Author – Elizabeth Green
On Tuesday we were lucky enough to meet a real author! The children loved listening to her tales and asking questions about how she thought of her ideas and started her journey.
Some of the children were very excited to buy some of her books afterwards. I can’t wait to hear people’s opinions on them!
English – Homework Challenge 1
In English this week, we have begun to look at Greek Myths. We have looked at the story of Theseus and the Minotaur and discussed the story events. Have a watch of this lego animation of the myth.
Can you narrate a voice over to it to explain what is happening? You might want to tell a member of your family or write your story down. I just need you to know the story very well as it will help us next week when we create our own myths in a similar style.
Maths – Homework Challenge 2
This week both the year 3s and 4s have been working on column addition and exchanges. Class 3, I challenge you to teach someone else how to do column addition. Perhaps your mum needs a recap, perhaps you could teach your cat or dog. Maybe you could record your ideas in the form of a poster to explain it to the world.
Use these great photos as a bit of a reminder…
Spelling
Next week the Year 3 spelling focus will be ‘y’ making the ‘i’ sound in the middle of words – for example ‘myth’. Year 4 will be looking at the prefix ‘il’ such as illegal.
Art Showcase
As discussed before half term we have planned an Art Showcase session to show off our amazing artwork. Everyone should have received a text message inviting them into school to see how our Art topic progressed and the amazing pottery we all made. You are welcome to ‘purchase’ your child’s piece for a voluntary contribution. The children are very, very proud of their work and looking forward to sharing it with you! We hope to see you at…
Its been a long term so far but we have been so, so busy! It seems ages ago that we all started as the ‘new’ class three!
We have had an amazing last week getting very busy with ART WEEK – the children have impressed me so much with both their clay and painting skills – I don’t want to give too much away as we plan to SHOWCASE our ART WORK after half term and hopefully ‘sell’ our creations to buy resources for our next project.
Date to follow in the first week back!
We also had great fun this week when Dinostar came to visit – See next blog post – it was that good it got its own post!!!! I wonder if anyone will visit the actual museum during half term.
Talking of half term – have a fab time – enjoy Halloween and Bonfire Night – try to fit some reading in and times tables practice in and stay safe!
Class 3 had a great day on Tuesday when we had a visit from Dinostar in Hull. We were treated to some amazing dinosaur bones and fossils, we found out so much about fossils, made some fossil rubbings and even our own fossils. The children askes some amazing questions and it was great to see how interested they were!
As you can see from our list, its been a very, very busy week! Here a just a few things we have been busy with…
History
On Monday we found out all about the Ancient Greek Olympic Games. The children loved finding out about the different events they took part in and found it very amusing that they competed naked! On Wednesday we completed this work by making our own olive leaf wreaths and pretending we had won an event in the games!
Science
This week we moved on from rocks to look at soils. The children enjoyed the chance to find out about different types of soils and look at and touch some different types. We had lots of great describing words to describe the texture and the feel before we worked out each soil type.
World Mental Health Day
On Tuesday as a school we explored mental health. We had some great discussions about how we can support each others and strategies to help ourselves if things are a little tricky. We all made a tool to help ourselves and each other.
Reading
This week our percentage dropped to 86% so unfortunately we didn’t get our 3 100% in a row. But we are aiming to make up for it again next week! We will get that 3 in a row!!!
Spelling
Next week our spelling will be a consolidation of some of our spelling patterns so far this year. Can your child recall the different spelling patterns that each word uses? Can they identify the homophones? Can they use the words in sentences?
Homework
We have been enjoying our Science topic so much that I thought this week we could link our homework challenge to Rocks and Soils. I challenge you to create something to show me how a rock is made, the different layers of the earth or the different layers of soil in a media of your choice. You may wish to make the different layers out of lego or playdough or perhaps you could use some art and craft materials such as drawing or painting. Maybe you could make a cake showing the different layers or maybe use materials from outside, such as sand and soil to show how the layers can be seen. I have added some ideas and a recipe below…..
You can bring in your finished creations or email a photograph. I can’t wait to see what you get busy with!
This week seems to have flown by because we have been so busy with some amazing work!
English
Firstly, I must talk about our English work. As you will know, we have been using the short film ‘There’s a rang tan in my bedroom’ and having written character descriptions a few weeks ago we then moved onto setting descriptions. We have completed our descriptions today and they are amazing.
I asked the children to share some of their individual favourite sentences and I am sure you will be blown away with their language choices!
Maths
We have now all almost finished our place value units of work. The Year 3s have worked so confidently with numbers up to 1,000 and the Year 4s have tackled up to the dizzy heights of 10,000. I am really proud of the knowledge they are developing.
Please make sure you keep practicing your times tables. We are going to start putting them on our quick starts in the coming weeks so that extra practice at home will be so important.
Reading Percentage
This week our reading percentage was 100% AGAIN!!! I am so impressed!!! We must say a massive thank you to Mrs Carey who has been in school twice this week to hear readers. She really helps with our reading percentages but remember you cannot have just reads from her and she doesn’t have time to read with everyone so please make sure you also read at home.
Homework / Computing
For the past few weeks our Computing focus has been online safety and this week we started to make information leaflets about how to stay safe online. For homework, I would like them to either complete their leaflet through the 2do on Purple Mash or make an online safety poster and bring it into school. We will be moving onto new Computing units next week so it will be the perfect end to our work.
Spelling
Well done to everyone who is practicing their weekly spellings. Here are next week’s spellings….
I can’t believe September is nearly over and we are already a month into the school year. We have had another great week – thanks to all the parents who joined us on Thursday morning – sorry for putting you on the spot to share a describing word!! I’m sure you will agree that the describing words and the language the children developed was great. Here is the brilliant short film we are using for our English work in case you wanted a look.
Reading
I am pleased to announce that this week we had 100% of children reading 3 times or more!! I am so pleased!! So pleased that as a reward we will have a homework free week!! However, you still need to read, practice your spellings on Purple Mash and your times tables. Can we get 100% again next week!?
Spellings
Our next spelling patterns will be based on the common exception words for Year 3/4 (words that we just need to be able to spell) I have set 2dos on Purple Mash.
Another fab week for Class 3, it has ranged from place value work in maths to describing Rang Tan in English. From rock investigations in Science to starting to play handball in PE. The week has really been non-stop!
Our learning attitudes are good and we are working hard on our presentation and our work ethic – keep it up Class 3!
100% attendance.
Last week we all felt very proud to be the first class in the school to achieve 100% attendance for the week. Our reward was an afternoon off timetable. We have had our ‘free’ afternoon today and it has been lovely to see the children interacting with each other, chatting, drawing and playing games – I wonder if we will get another 100% week?
Reading
This week our reading percentage has dropped to 74%. Thank you and well done to everyone who has read at least 3 times. Please remember to record reading at home in reading records. Let’s see if we can improve our percentage next week. As a way to inspire you to read, here is a link to my girls and I reading a favourite bedtime story a few years ago. We hope you enjoy. Perhaps you could read a bedtime story to someone over facetime for one of your reads this week?
Well done to all those who completed their spelling 2dos on Purple Mash. I have set next week’s spelling for anyone who wants to have a practice.
Seesaw / Homework
I have had a couple of parents asking about new seesaw codes. I would like all children to just get used to accessing purple mash and times table rockstars before I decided whether to introduce another app. The children all have a homework folder in their drawer in the classroom in which to store any paper work completed at home – just send it in, parents are welcome to email homework if necessary to altoftr@brandesburton.eriding.net or can write a note in their child’s reading log to comment on completed homework.
PE
As a one off, next week Class 3 need to come in PE Kit on Wednesday and Thursday (27th and 28th September)
Homework – Purple Mash familiarisation
This week we have all learnt how to log onto the chromebooks and then independently access Purple Mash. For homework this week, I would like your child to access their Purple Mash account and complete some of their 2dos. They will have their spelling activity but I have also added some maths games. The children may also wish to just spend some time exploring the site and the 1000s of different activities they can access. This will help the children to become more confident using Purple Mash and will consequently support their learning in school.
Class 3 have had an amazing week, we have been so busy starting all our different units of work and focusing hard on our presentation.
Firstly, I must share a highlight from last week…
Last week we focussed lots of our work on the book ‘How you do make a rainbow?’ This included reading and discussing the story, planning and writing our own poems similar to the book, completing rainbow maths activities and carrying our some AMAZING rainbow Science experiments!
Loot at our amazing results, we made rainbows and even tie-dyed our own rainbow t-shirt!!!
We plan to display some of this amazing work in the library so if you are ever in school – pop in to have a look!
This week has been equally as busy. We have all worked very hard on Place Value in Maths, begun to find out about the story Rang Tan in English and started our History work on Ancient Greece and our rocks and soils work in Science.
Reading
This week the number of children reading 3 times or more at home was 90% I am impressed with this but next week I want to try and beat it – can you read 3 times or more at home? I loved seeing all your different reading places (they are now on display in the classroom for everyone to see!) Maybe this week you could find a different place to read?
Spellings
This weeks spelling focus for both the year 3s and year 4s has been homophones. We have learnt what a homophone is and used some in sentences. Next week’s focus will also be homophones. I have set the spelling quizzes for both weeks as a 2do on Purple Mash for anyone who wants any extra practice. We will award class dojo points to those who complete it.
This week’s spellings (week com 11.9)
Next weeks spellings (week com 18.9)
Homework
This week in our SPAG sessions (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar) we have been looking at Common Nouns and Proper Nouns. The children will all bring home a Tarsia puzzle to complete together. The aim is to cut out all the triangles and then match them together correctly to create a big hexagon. Can they explain the difference between the two types of nouns?
If you are struggling, use this flow chart to help….
Hope you have a lovely week. Thanks to those who came to view our classroom. I hope you enjoyed seeing where your children spend so much time!
