Class 3 Blog

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and a great start to the New Year. We have had a great first week of the term, settled well and completed some great work. On Tuesday we revisited our Class Charter using the book ‘Be You’. It was lovely to see that many of us thought ‘Be Kind’ was the most important characteristic to have in our classroom!

We have also made a fab start to our new English unit, begun to look at the Romans in History and continued to work on multiplication in Maths.

Guided Reading

We also made a start on our new text for Guided Reading, The Griffin Gate by Vashi Hardy. I have been very impressed with the predictions and inferences we have made just from looking at the front cover!

Last term some of the children bought their own copy of the text and have talked of buying our new one. If you would like to buy this term’s, I have found them cheapest on this site.

It is not necessary to buy a copy as we have enough for one between two but I know some of the children like to have their own.

Maths – Plea for Help

Recently, both year groups have been working on multiplication in Maths, in order to fully learn their times tables by heart, the children need to have regular practice at home. Please try to build this into your routine. The children all have access to times table rockstars and purple mash which contain a range of games and www.topmarks.co.uk also includes some fun alternatives.

Updates and Reminders for the start of the new term

Reading

I hope you are enjoying the range of reading books that the children are bringing home. I am constantly changing the books on offer to the children in order to really build that love of reading. Please feel free to chat to me if you would like any advice on books your child can read at home.

Please continue to record reading daily in your child’s home school record book. We are happy for the children to write down their own reading in their logs and we welcome comments linked to the events in the books. If they are recording independently, please ensure there is an adult signature each week. As a school, we aim for at least 3 entries each week. All logs will be looked at on a Friday, but we will continue to change reading books any day of the week as long as it is recorded in the log with an adult signature.

PE

This term, Class 3 will be required to come to school in their PE kit on a Tuesday and a Friday

Here’s to a fab term!

Well Class 3, we have got there…the final week and what a final week it has been!

Christmas Performance

Well done to everyone for our Christmas performance on Tuesday. I think our Christmas poem was very well written and perfectly performed, our signed ‘it was on a starry night’ is so lovely to watch and we all did some fab singing!

Food Technology

Our week was also very busy with our Food Technology project. On Monday and Tuesday, Class 3 were given the chance to try a range of Greek food and then create their own Greek meals; cooking lamb koftas, making flatbread, slicing and chopping for a Greek salad and making a Greek dip. We also completed lots of work on food hygiene and healthy eating alongside this and of course got to try our finished meal – we thoroughly enjoyed it!! A massive thanks must go to Mrs Thomson and Miss Jessop who were fab cookery teachers!!

Christmas Cards and Calendars

This week we also fitted in time to make our Christmas Cards and Calendars. The children used their painting skills to create some fab designs which we then added our Christmas decorations to. They really look fab.

Finally, I just want to wish everyone a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope everyone has a great time with their family. See you in 2024!!

Another fab week in Class 3 – we have begun to look at multiplication in Maths, started to explore persuasive texts in English and explored atlases in Geography. We have also finished our whole class guided reading text – Beasts of Olympus. It was lovely to see all the children discussing the text and how it ended. It has also been great to see how much their fluency has progressed. I wonder what we will read next!

Reading

I am pleased to announce that last week Class 3 had 100% reading percentage – I wonder what we will get this week? As a reward we were able to choose fifteen pounds worth of books from the book fair and as the books were all half price – we spent a long time using our addition and subtraction skills to get the best deal.

Spellings

Homework

This week both year groups have begun work on multiplication. In year 3 the expectation is to know by heart the 2, 3, 4, 8 and 10 times tables and in year 4 the expectation is all times tables to 12×12.

This week the Year 4s have been working on their 6 times tables and the Year 3s consolidating the 2, 5, and 10 times tables. Next week the Year 4s will be learning their 9 times tables and 7 times tables and the Year 3s their 3, 4 and 8 times tables.

For homework this week I would like you to work on spending some time practicing your times tables. Please choose a times table to focus on and use times table rockstars/purple mash or the websites below to practise.

https://www.ictgames.com/tablesTennis/mobile/index.html

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/bunny/index.html

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/multiplication-and-division

Or, if you want to be a little more creative, you could make your own multiplication game. You will find some ideas below. Have a look around the house to see what you can find to use, choose a times table to focus on and create a game. When your game is finished grab someone to play your game with. I can’t wait to see photographs of your ideas and of you playing your game.

Next week…Don’t forget Christmas Jumper day and Christmas Dinner Day on Wednesday.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs A

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.

Thanks
Mrs A

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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zc78srd#zgjh3qt

Spellings

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.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs A

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…

3pm Wednesday 15th November

Have a great weekend.

I can’t believe we have got there – Week 8!

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!

Mrs A

This deserves its own blog post….

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!

Well done Class 3!

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!

Have a great weekend

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….

Have a lovely weekend!!