Maths

Some children have already completed the abacus Maths game following on from the fraction work that the children have been completing in class.

We have been talkiing to the children about how the fraction needs to be split into equal parts.  Have a look at these websites to help the children consolidate this idea. 🙂

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=Fractionsv7

Spellings.

The children have been learning their words for this week using rainbow writing. I’m sure the children would love to share this experience with you at home.

Literacy

We are nearly ready to start writing our Playscript based on the story of the Gruffalo.  Over the next few weeks we will be changing this into a shadow puppet show for the Reception children to enjoy! We’re looking forward to this.

Topic

Don’t forget we have Intech visiting on Friday to teach us all about shadows and how they are formed!

Year 3 team

‘Top Marks Maths’ website is a great resource for playing online games with your children at home.

Try playing this game everyday for a couple of minutes to see if the children can improve their rapid recall of the times tables facts.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Year 3 and 6 had a lovely time at the church this morning.  The weather held off thankfully and we even had some sunshine as we walked. Father Kevin gave us a tour of the Church and talked about the different symbols in the Church.  Our Mass today was called ‘Prayers’. Well done to all of the readers today and to all of the children for their beautifully singing along to the hymns.

Another huge thank you to all of the parents who came along with us today. We hope you enjoyed our Mass as much as we did.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 3 Team

Thank you to all of the volunteers who have offered their services with walking to the church tomorrow morning.  If you are walking with the children in the morning, please arrive in school at 9:20am as we will be leaving the school at 9:30am.  You are welcome to wait at school after dropping off your child until this time.

If you are meeting us at the church for the service, it will be starting at 10:45am.  Please arrive at the church for this time.

We will be back to school by lunchtime and so lunch will continue as normal.

Year 3 team

Winchester Science Museum Visit for Year 3 and 4

Dear Parents/Carers,

On Friday 21^st November, the children will be lucky enough to have a visit from a specialist Science teacher from Winchester Science Museum.  She will be spending the morning with the Year 4 children who will be taking part in the ‘Sounds interesting’ workshop.  In the afternoon, she will be working with the Year 3 children on the ‘lights and shadows’ workshop.

In both workshops, the children will be able to have a hands on experience using the resources provided by Winchester Science Museum. The workshops are designed to be investigative and will support the curriculum covered this term in both Year groups.

We would be grateful for a contribution of £2.00 for your child’s workshop.  If you are able to pay online this would be greatly appreciated as this is a more secure way of paying.  If not, please send your contribution into your child’s class teacher in a named envelope.

Year 3

Welcome back to all of our Year Three’s! We hope you have all had a fun filled and relaxing half term. We are all ready to go with an exciting new topic this term, called fireflies! It is a science based topic focusing on light, we will be learning about how we see things, shadows and reflections. The new homework pyramid focusing on our new topic will be handed out this week.

This Friday, the 7th November 2014,  Year Three and Year Six will be holding  a Mass at Sacred Heart Church, Waterlooville. It will start at 10:45 and we would love for you all to be there. If there are any parents that would be able to help us walk the children down to the church we would be extremely grateful! We will be leaving school around 9:30 and aim to be back at school by 12:00, if you would like to help us walk down to the church please write a note in your childs diary so we can confirm numbers, thank you!

Exciting news: Next week starting from Wednesday 12th November to Friday the 14th November Year Three will be taking part in scooter training, we will be sending out more information on this, this week.

Hope to see you all on Friday

Miss Shaw and Miss Turner

We really enjoyed exploring outside on Friday’s Celtic day. We ‘ate’ nettle soup and found out our celtic names. We even had to save Flopsy the sheep from another Celtic tribe! Well done year 3 you all looked amazing- thank you for your participation.

Miss Shaw and Miss Turner

We had a fantastic day on Friday dressed up and experiencing life in as a Celt!

In the morning we did some cave paintings on the walls outside, in the playground.  We used chalk to do this and tried to use earthy and natural colours.  We also had a tour of a Celtic village including the remains of a roundhouse; the readily available nettles for soup; the wheat grinding equipment; and even the luxurious outside toilet facilities! Unfortunately, one of the prize sheep was stolen and we had to invade a neighbouring tribe to retrieve Flopsy! It later emerged that the person responsible for the theft was one of our own tribe members.  We dealt with the culprit accordingly.

In the afternoon, we made amulets, from clay, for the children’s new Celtic names.  We also had the chance to do some weaving using paper.  It was very tricky and took a lot of commitment and collaboration to get them finished.  Some children had time to make some bread. The rest of the children will get the opportunity to make bread on Monday afternoon with Mrs Chapman.

Thank you for all of the support from homw with the costumes.  The children all looked great and really helped to make this experience come to life for the children.

Pictures to follow!

Miss Turner and Miss Shaw

Year three have had a busy week  completing their Stonehenge information pages and refreshing their memories on their 3D shape knowledge.

In our topic work this week, we have been looking into the Bronze Age and we have created pottery similar to those from this period of time.  We were very impressed with the standard of the pots and know the children are very excited about taking these home at the and of the half term.

A highlight of the week was learning to dance to the Ice Age ‘…Do the Sid!’ The children thoroughly enjoyed joining into this dance and I’m sure would love to show you their new moves.

http://vimeo.com/75923805

We have Celtic Day coming up next week on Friday.  Dress warmly with layers.  Oversized t-shirts/jumpers, dark colours, trousers and a belt will be sufficient.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Turner and Miss Shaw

This week, the children have demonstrated commitment towards learning to tell the time.   Telling the time is a difficult concept for many children to grasp and so it is important that they are given as much experience as possible at telling the time.  We have been using the clock through the day and telling the time together.

If you are looking for ways of supporting your child this week at home, encouraging them to tell the time across the weekend using an analogue clock would be invaluable.  Some children are ready to move onto thinking about what the digital clock would look like and so this could be a next step. For example; ‘I know that 20 minutes to four is 3:40 on the digital clock.  This is tricky and takes ‘time’ to conquer fully!

In other news, a huge well done to Hippo class for winning the Golden dustpan award in assembly today as well as being the class with the highest attendance in KS2.  Keep up the good work.

Have a lovely weekend telling the time!

Miss Turner and Miss Shaw