Class 3
Week ending 13.1.23
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We have had a busy week this week learning so many new things!
In Maths this week, we were finding out about different fractions including tenths, fifths, quarters, thirds and halves. We learnt that you needed ten tenths to make a whole one and five tenths is the same as a half. We learnt that different sized fractions can make the same amount or size. We have ordered these and we have added them too.
In Science, we looked at bones and skeletons. There are three types - hydrostatic skeleton (this is like a ball of liquid and its floppy), exoskeleton (the bones are outside like a hard shell) and endoskeleton (the bones are inside the body).
We are reading our class book The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop and are very much enjoying finding out about the characters in the story. There is a cat that belongs to a family that have recently moved to the Chocolate shop. The girl in the book thinks that it might be a ghost!
In RE we have completed drawings of our favourite book covers. These have been fun to draw and also lovely to see each other’s book choices. Miss Watkins favourite book is The Magic Faraway Tree!
In PE we have a rugby coach who is teaching us all about different skills in rugby. We practiced pass the ball, playing rugby tig and learning how to get a try. We have also played hockey.
In Literacy this week, we have combined our Geography topic and have chosen our own different countries to investigate. Spain, Canada, Portugal, Greece, Brazil is just some of the selection! We are finding out about populations, currency, rivers, capital cities, food and culture. We will complete this research and present these findings in the form of a double page spread.
Our favourite dinner this week was roast of the day.
Written by Florence and a little help from some of her friends.
Have a wonderful weekend
Miss Watkins
Week ending 6.1.23
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Happy New Year everyone.
What an amazing start the the new year! You have really impressed me with all of your hard work, passion for learning and attitude towards your school work. I am sure that you will keep it up all year!
The Blog for this week is very exciting because it’s the start of the new term!
In English we have started our new book to read and a fact book called the Atlas of Adventure. It is amazing and very well illustrated. We looked at lots of different pictures. These included the London and the London Eye, the Highland Games, the Amazon Rainforest and the Holi festival in India. The illustrations were really beautiful and very colourful, we could see places, people, food, animals and adventure. They were extremely detailed. We are looking forward to finding out even more about the world.
In Maths we have been recapping Fractions, in particular halves, quarters and eights and sixths.
In our Geography lessons we have looked at the different continents. We briefly studied all of them, and the looked more closely and found out how many countries each continent had. Africa has 54 countries, Asia has 48, Europe has 44, North America has 23, followed by Australasia with 14 and lastly South America with just 12 countries.
We have been thinking about being healthy and fit as part of our Science and PSHCE topics. Nutrients are very important when eating healthily. Carbohydrates are important because they give you lots of energy – bread, rice, potatoes and pasta. Protein helps our muscles and helps us to grow strong and improves our energy levels. Water is very healthy for us to drink. It also helps us keep clean. Vitamins and minerals can be found in fruit and vegetables.
Rugby – We played lots of different games to help practice throwing and catching. We played a rugby tig game, where we had to tig each other with a rugby ball. We threw the balls at cones to knock them off, and learnt to pass the balls to each other.
New Book vote – We learnt about fair voting and democracy to choose a new book for our class to read. The three choices were The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop, The Secret Viking Adventure and Fintan Fedora the World's Worst Explorer. Wizz Pop won, so we are hoping that it will be a good one.
It has been a short week but absolutely crammed with new learning and new things for the start of the new year!
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Well done you lot!
Week ending 16.12.22
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What an amazing week!
You have been wonderful. You performance definitely left Miss Watkins in a puddle of tears. I was so very proud of each and everyone.
I also must say that I had a wonderful time at our Christmas party this morning. Everyone has been amazing.
Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
Take care and see you all in 2023!
Miss Watkins
xxx
Week ending 9.12.22
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What a week! You have all worked so hard to learn your lines for our Christmas play. Thank you for that. You have really impressed me. The songs are sounding wonderful and your costumes will look amazing.
We had a special treat this week – The Panto!
Oh no we didn’t!
Miss Watkins, Mrs. Kewley and Mrs. Moran are now looking for a new career in dancing!
We are all looking forward to next week and our adventures on the stage. I can certainly hear jingle bells!
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Watkins and team.
He's behind you!!!
Week ending 25.11.22
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Look at who is visiting Class 3!
We have had a lovely week learning some poetry. We learnt to say two poems aloud. The first one was called I think mice are rather nice and the second was called Cats sleep anywhere.
We really enjoyed learning these. We also read lots of other poems by different poets, such as Clive Watkins, T S Elliot, Charles Causley and Ted Hughes.
We have been learning how to complete division using repeated subtraction in maths. We drew number lines to help us.
In PE, we were using the equipment to jump and balance on, with Mr Barton. We have also played netball with Mrs Kendal.
In geography, we looked at the tectonic plates and the fault lines. The plates move and can cause earthquakes and other natural disasters to occur.
We have had a wonderful and interesting week.
Miss Watkins and Class 3