Class 3 Blog

We had great fun on Tuesday working on balancing in gymnastics. We discussed using straight legs and arms to extend our balance.

This week in Science, we have been building on our knowledge of solids, liquids and gases. We used lemonade and raisins to explore the effects of gas. Have a look at our photos to see how we observed the raisins to see them ‘dancing’ in the lemonade….

Homework – This week I would like you to explore solids, liquids and gases at home. I have added an activity to seesaw for you to complete. Perhaps you may also want to try our raisin experiment at home? I wonder if it works the same with Coke or Tango? Does it work with other items similar to raisins?

You may also like to explore the website below to build up your knowledge further….

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkgg87h

Today we had great fun performing our at the Harvest Festival. It was such a shame that everyone wasn’t able to come and see us sing but as a special treat, here is our fantastic song!

I’m sure you will agree that it is fab!

We also showed some of our amazing artwork…

Over the past two weeks we have had great fun exploring place value and the children have worked so hard to develop an understanding of hundreds, tens and ones. The year 3s have worked with 3 digit numbers and the year 4s have begun to tackle 4 digit numbers!

We have accessed websites, made base 10 pictures, made place value butterflies, played bingo, dominoes and different board games and even been on a number hunt – all based around how numbers are made up. Well done to those people who also completed extra work at home on seesaw!

For homework this week, I would like you to explain place value to someone at home. Can you partition some 3 or 4 digit numbers? You could use paper and draw your numbers or can you use some apparatus to make some numbers at home. Perhaps you could use some food?! Maybe crackers for 100s, breadsticks for 10s and raisins for 1s? Maybe jelly snakes for tens and mini marshmallows for ones. Or maybe leaves, sticks and stones from outside?

Please upload some photos to your seesaw account so we can share all your fab ideas. Have fun!

We have had another fab week in Class 3.

On Wednesday we had an amazing English lesson completing some drama linked to our story ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’. I was so impressed with the children’s ideas. We filmed each piece of acting and I plan to spend some time over the weekend adding them to seesaw – make sure you check them out!

We also worked hard learning how to use an atlas and finding out the countries involved in World War Two. We enjoyed recapping the continents using the song below.

Earlier in the week, we also had some great ideas linked to Internet Safety. We enjoyed playing board games, writing rules and exploring the website below. Check out the link to show someone at home how the site works and how you can use the internet safely.

https://beinternetlegends.withgoogle.com/en_uk/interland

Spelling – This week we have focused on making sure we can spell the common exception words from year 1 and 2. We have used different spelling games and purple mash to help us learn some of the trickier spellings. Please spend some time this week (and every week) learning some of the spellings. Perhaps you could write your spellings in sand or use playdough to make the letters. Maybe you could type them on the computer or just write some with a pencil. Like we talked about in class, first we need to focus on the year 1/2 words that we still find tricky before moving onto the year 3/4 words.

Please remember, if spelling out the words verbally, we need to use letter names not sounds.

Below are both the year 1/2 and the year 3/4 words.

Please upload any work to seesaw so that I can see all your hard work!

This week we had great fun in PE completing some team games. We were challenged to cross the shark infested water, pass the hoop around the circle and order ourselves on a bench. We found them tricky but with lots of talking and working together, we did really well!

Well, the new school year is here and Class 3 have been so busy already. We had great fun on Tuesday building our new class team and thinking about the skills we were going to need for the year ahead….perseverance, respect, kindness, team work, confidence and fun were some of great values we discussed and used all day….here is a little snippet of what we got up to…..

Well Class 3, another year is over and what a year it was! I am so proud of how well every single one of you handled another strange year – and how, despite everything, we have completed lots of hard work and had lots of fun!

Last Thursday afternoon you thought of some brilliant memories, from Freckles the turtle to a ‘virtual’ Viking battle, from our trip to Lapland to our exploding volcano and from Stanley and the plastic bag in the ocean to enjoying our Caribbean beach day. All fantastic memories which I will never forget.

I know I didn’t get to say it on the final day and now that we are nearly at the end of our isolation, I want to wish everyone a lovely Summer Holiday – stay safe, have fun and I will see everyone in September!

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