Penguins - Year 3
21/6/19 - Sports day!
21/6/19 - Making Torahs and Yads in RE
12/6/19 - Woburn Safari Park
7/6/19 Penguins Update
We have been learning this week:
- to count in tenths and add and subtract fractions with the same denominator in Maths
- our new text 'The Jungle Book'
- about World Environment Day (air pollution in particular)
- about some of the Habits of Mind in C4LS
- about what we need for a healthy diet in Science
- some of the Year 3/4 words in spellings
3/6/19
Summer 2 - Learning update
I can't believe we about to start our last half term together in Year 3! Penguins have lots of fun learning coming up including...
Maths: Fractions
English: Focusing on Disney's 'The Jungle Book' and writing their own narratives!
Science: Our new topic is 'Animals - including plants' - I know Penguins are going to love this!
Topic: Celebrating World Environment Day and learning about the Maya civilisation
RE: Continuing our learning about Judaism
C4L: Thinking about how we learn with our Habits of Mind focus afternoon, learning about our similarities and differences and we'll also be participating in 'My Money Week'
Computing: Looking at search engines and exploring how they rank items. We will also be practising our typing skills on the laptops!
This is just a snippet of all the things we have to look forward to! Don't forget our trip to Woburn Safari Park on Wednesday 12th June!
If you have any questions about any of your child's learning, please do not hesitate to come and speak to me.
Miss Reed
24/5/19 Penguins Update
We have been learning this week:
- about pictograms and bar graphs
- to edit and publish our narratives called 'The Great Kapok Tree'. Please check your child's book bag as I sent home copies of their beautiful work!
- about how water is transported in plants and also about the life cycle of plants in Science
- how to help save our rainforests in Topic
- Judaism: The Ten Commandments in RE
I hope you all have a great half term, Penguins!
Miss Reed
17/5/19 Penguins Update
We have been learning this week:
- about how many days are in a week, how many days are in the different months and how many days are in a year and leap year in Maths
- about sentences of 3 (for description), dialogue, show - don't tell, and fronted adverbial phrases in English
- some of the Year 3/4 spelling words in Spelling
- to create and debug an algorithm using the move, rotate and repeat commands on the programme 'Turtle Logo' in Computing
- about the water cycle and the climate of rainforests in Topic
14/5/19
Today we made a water cycle in a bag!
To create a water cycle in a bag we needed:
First, we decorated the bag by drawing clouds and the sun. It was important we included these as they are important elements of the water cycle.
Next, we added some water to the bag and added a little bit of blue food colouring before sealing the bag up and sticking it to the window with sellotape. Then, we waited to see what happened.
We began to see droplets of water sticking to the side of the bag. Some of these were up high (in the clouds) while other droplets were on their way back down (like rain). This happened because the water in the bag was being heated up against the sunny window. The water turned into a gas through a process called evaporation. In nature, evaporated water vapour goes into the atmosphere, but in the bag, it had nowhere to go, so it ended up sticking to the sides of the bag, turning back into a liquid as condensation. The condensed water then slid back into the pool of water below as "rain".
10/5/19 Penguins Update
We have been learning this week:
- to draft, edit and publish our persuasive writing pieces on deforestation in English
- our new WAGOLL text - 'The Great Kapok Tree' in English
- to measure time in minutes in Maths
- to write poems about plants and about how water is transported in plants in Science
- about good and bad drugs in C4LS
- about locations of rainforests, the equator and the tropics of capricorn and cancer AND about the lines of longitude and latitude in Topic
- about who founded Judaism and where in RE
9/5/19 - Our new text map for The Great Kapok tree. Can you talk the text at home Penguins?
3/5/19 Penguins Update
We have been learning this week:
- about topic sentences, AFOREST features and pattern of 3 in English, as well as planning our persuasive writing texts on why we should help save the rainforests!
- to measure time in hours
- how plants grow well in Science (we even planted our own sunflower seeds!)
- how to recognise the strengths and positive qualities we have, how making simple choices can improve our health and well-being (like exercise), exploring different emotions AND looking at the importance of sleep as part of Healthy Me week
Enjoy the bank holiday, Penguins! See you on Tuesday!
Miss Reed
3/5/19 - To help others understand why they are amazing people, we created rainbows. We wrote different qualities/strengths of our friends under their names. We have displayed these in class. They look great!
3/5/19 - Planting our own sunflower seeds in Science
30/4/19 - To start off ‘Healthy Me’ week we participated in a clubbercise style dance class led by Miss Reed. Miss Reed helped us to understand how exercise can improve our health, how exercise can make us feel good about ourselves and how exercise can help us relax.
26/4/19 Penguins Update
We have had a busy but fun few days back at school! We have been learning:
- about deforestation in English and Topic
- about persuasive texts and learning out new WAGOLL text
- to count in seconds in Maths (using a stopwatch)
- about the different parts of a flower in Science
- about suffixes in Spelling
- about the different layers of the rainforest and rainforest animals on our WOW day
- about our bodies and how to keep them safe in our Big Talk session with Hazel and Deb
25/4/19 - Rainforests 'WOW' day
24/4/19 - Making flowers - we learnt about the names of parts of a flower
24/4/19
We are back!
Welcome back Penguins! I hope you all had a great Easter break. I am really looking forward to our learning this term and I know you will be too!
Our topic for the summer term is Rainforests, with our focus question being ‘What would happen if the rainforest vanished?’ We have a variety of exciting texts we will be focusing on in English including ‘The Great Kapok Tree’ and Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’. We will start off our English learning by looking at deforestation and writing a persuasive/information text about why people should save the rainforests!
In Maths we will be continuing our learning through the use of Maths No Problem. We will be starting off the term by continuing with our learning about time before moving on to learning about graphs.
During Science this term, we will be learning all about plants and animals (including humans).
In Summer 1 in Geography we will learning to understand the function of rainforests and their importance to our world.
In Summer 2, we will continue our learning with rainforests but also we will begin to look at the differences and similarities between British and Mayan societies around 900AD in History.
In Art we will be exploring and replicating the art of Henri Rousseau.
In RE we will be learning about Judaism.
We will continue to have our Spanish assembly once a week led by Miss Donkin on a Wednesday.
Homework will continue to be given out on a Thursday and is due back in on a Tuesday. Reading records are to be handed in on Monday mornings please.
PE will continue to be on a Monday afternoon. The children will be outside so please ensure they have their trainers. The children will not be swimming this term.
Our trip to Woburn Safari Park is on Wednesday 12th June. Keep a look out for a letter in book bags which will tell you all about it!
Our WOW day is on Thursday 25th April. The children have the opportunity to come to school dressed as an animal from the rainforest or a safari leader.
Keep checking our class page to keep up to date with all our learning experiences!
Please feel free to speak to me for any further information.
Miss Reed
5/4/19 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- to write letters - we drafted, edited and published them. We even posted them to you at home!! Look out for them in the post next week!
- to tell the time to the minute on both analogue and digital clocks.
- about hillforts in Topic
- about being a good friend in C4LS
- about what Easter eggs symbolise in RE
- to make rock cakes in Science
- to think about Jesus and why he is so special in our special 'Who is Jesus?' day
I hope you all have a great Easter holidays and rest up ready for all our exciting learning to come in the Summer term!
Miss Reed
5/4/19 - Making rice crispie Easter cakes as our class treat for this term
5/4/19 - Posting the letters to our parents that we have written in English
5/4/19 - Easter Church Service at St Matthews
4/4/19 - Making rock cakes in Science!
29/3/19 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- about conjunctions, boastful language, fronted adverbial phrases and relative clauses in English... as well as planning our letters to write next week!
- about time in Maths. Please keep testing your children at home!
- about life in the Iron Age in topic
- about the importance of rules in C4LS
- about Jesus' resurrection in RE
- about shadows in Science - we watched a fantastic shadow puppet show!
What a busy week! We have worked extremely hard.
Miss Reed
29/3/19 - Thought Machine Shadow Puppet Show
28/3/19 - Look at the stained glass windows we made in RE! They look stunning.
28/3/19 - Playing 'Musical clocks' in Maths!
27/3/19 - Looking for examples of boastful language in thesaurus'
26/3/19 - Putting relative clauses in to sentences with Miss Reed
Flag Fen
On Friday 22nd March, we went to Flag Fen, a local Bronze Age site, to learn about life in prehistoric Britain. The day began with a timeline activity, where we learned about the different time periods leading up to the modern day.
For our second activity, we became field archaeologists who sorted a selection of artefacts into artefacts from the Stone Age, Bronze Age and the Iron Age. We were even challenged to find the red herring, which came from the Roman period (something we are very excited to be learning about next year in Year 4). These artefacts included:
- a beeswax tablet (an early writing instrument)
- a spear head, with an intricate pattern, from the Bronze Age
- dried flowers (woad) which were used in the Iron Age to turn them blue before battle
Following this, we transformed into experimental archaeologists and we made pots using a variety of natural materials. For example, wood, string, shells, pine cones and sticks.
We finished the day with a tour of Flag Fen, where we saw a causeway, boats which were thousands of years old and well preserved and a bridge which was in the same location as it had been during the Bronze Age. It was used as a religious site. Our tour finished at a reconstruction of a roundhouse, where we heard a story about giants and fairies and battles around a lit fire. It was magical.
What an incredible day we had!
Please find some pictures of our day below.
22/3/19 - Flag Fen trip
22/3/19 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- editing and publishing our narrative writing
- looking at letters and their features
- calculating change in maths
- about Good Friday in RE
- looking at the Iron Age
- about the Bronze Age at Flag Fen!
15/3/19 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- to add money
- about different sentence types (simple, compound and complex)
- about adverbial phrases
- to draft write our narrative texts named 'Bronze Age Boy'
- some of the year 3/4 spellings from the statutory spelling list
- about how fossils are formed in Science - ask us at home about the cool playfoam activity we did to help us understand the fossilisation process
- about how bronze is made in Topic
- about the Christian creation story at our Church afternoon
12/3/19 - Learning about animals and their habitats as part of Science Week!
8/3/19 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- about money (looking at the values of coins and notes and making amounts of money in as many different ways to make an amount of money). We also started to look at how to add amounts of money together by partitioning the pounds and the pence.
- about dialogue and -ing clauses in English before we wrote our own diary entries which included these features
- about two special women to celebrate International Women's Day: Jo Salter and Marie Curie
- about Bronze Age roundhouses in topic
- about the Last Supper with Mr Hurst in RE!
- about algorithms in Computing.
8/3/19 - As part of our computing learning today, Miss Reed performed a simple dance routine for us and asked us to create the algorithm for the dance using the dance move cards. We then had to test the algorithm to see if was the same as Miss Reed’s. If not, we had to ‘debug our program’. Some of us were given ‘repeat 2 times’ cards so that we could repeat the whole sequence. We learnt that we use repetition to make an algorithm short and easier to understand. We also had great fun creating our own sequence of dance routines with the dance cards (algorithms).
7/3/19 - World Book Day
1/3/19 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- even more about volume and capacity and even solving some word problems!
- our new narrative text in English - Stone Age Boy
- about adventurous vocabulary (uplevelling boring adjectives!)
- how soil is formed
- about the Easter Story
- about our wants and needs in C4L
- Spanish prepositions and everyday nouns!
26/2/19 - Spring 2 Update
During Spring 2, we have lots of fun learning to look forward to! In English, we will begin by focusing on the story named 'Stone Age Boy' and after a few weeks, we will be writing our own narratives. In Maths, we will continue to learn about volume before moving on to learning about money. It would be great if you could start looking at the values of coins and notes at home to give us a head start on our learning. In Science, we will continue to be learning about rocks before we move on to learning about plants. In topic, we will continue to be learning about the Stone Age through to the Iron Age and we have our trip to Flag Fen on the 22nd March to look forward to, too. In RE, we will be focusing on Easter and doing lots of work about The Easter Story. In Computing, we will be learning about algorithms whilst in C4LS we will be focusing on rules, rights and responsibilities.
If you have any questions, please feel free to speak to me.
Miss Reed
15/2/19 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- more about volume and capacity
- to plan, draft, edit and publish our instruction texts on 'How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth'
- about the permeability of different soils in Science through an investigation
- lots about safety - see our other posts from this week for more information!
Have a great half term, Penguins!
Miss Reed
14/2/19 - We had a visit from PC Reed today as part of our Safety Week learning. He taught us about who the police are and what they do to keep us safe.
11/2/19 - Safety Week
Today we began learning basic first aid procedures. We learnt about the primary survey using an acronym called DRABC.
D – Danger – is the area safe for you and others?
R – Response – APVU – alert, voice, place, unresponsive.
A – Airways – open their airways to aid their breathing.
B – Breathing – hands on chin and forehead, gently tilt head back.
C – Circulation – check for bleeding.
8/2/19 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- to read weighing scales a little bit more - you can always check we know how to read them by baking/cooking at home with us!!
- about subordinating conjunctions and how to add extra detail to our writing
- about the suffixes -ness and -ful
- about how soil is formed
- about Hindu symbols and their meanings
- about how to compromise when we encounter disagreements with others
- about the Bronze Age
Can I also just add how proud I am of my Penguins today!! The children completed a times table test this afternoon to see if they had been working on them at home since their last test at the start of term. SO many children have moved on to their next times table and it is evident that the children are working extremely hard at home. Well done! Keep rockin' on Times Table Rockstars!
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Reed
8/2/19 - Making compost bins in Science with REAL worms!
1/2/19 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- to read weighing scales and that 1000g = 1kg
- about how to wash a woolly mammoth in English!
- about the 'sh' sound spelt 'ch' in spelling e.g. parachute
- about fossils in Science
- to make a Stone Age recipe (stewed fruit) in Topic
- about the different parts of a computer
- about Hindu festivals in RE
I handed out letters for our trip to Flag Fen on Tuesday. Some were left behind on tables, so if your child has not got one - please let me know so I can give you one directly. I have received a few reply slips already - thank you!
Miss Reed
1/2/19 - Sharing our writing with Year 2 from this week and listening to theirs!
31/1/19 - We have enjoyed investigating the mass of objects with weighing scales.
30/1/19 - We were lucky enough for Paul Geraghty to come to our classroom and show us how to draw a woolly mammoth! What an amazing experience to have a real author and illustrator teach us how to draw!!
30/1/19 - Author visit - Paul Geraghty
29/1/19 - Some of the children wanted to know the recipe so they could try and make stewed fruit again at home. I've attached it for your reference - we did not use any nuts at school, but you may wish to at home. We also used raspberries in our recipe! Enjoy - Miss Reed
29/1/19 - Making a stone age recipe - stewed fruit!
29/1/19 - Our new text map that we have learnt in English. It's our WAGOLL instruction text called 'How to shower a dog'.
25/1/19 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- to use metres and centimetres to measure objects
- to write length in centimetres only by converting metres to centimetres
- to convert kilometres to metres
- to convert length from metres to kilometres and metres
- to plan, edit and publish our poems called 'Ten Thing Found in a Caveman's Pocket'
- about contractions in spellings e.g. I am = I'm, she is = she's
- the main beliefs on Hindus
- to write an information text about the 3 different types of rocks: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic
- about what makes a good friend
- about Skara Brae
Look out for a letter in book bags next week about our school trip to Flag Fen on Friday 22nd March!
23/1/19 - Measuring our heights in m and cm and then converting this to just centimetres. Charlie for example was 1m 30cm which is the same as 130cm! Luke was 1m 23cm = 123cm. Mr Lawlor was the tallest of us all though!!
22/1/19 - Learning about contractions!
18/1/19 Penguins Update
What a busy week it has been! It has been great to see so many parents and children at TLC'S.
This week we have been learning:
- how to use the column method to multiply and practicing it lots and lots!
- to use similes and metaphors in our poetry writing
- about intonation and expression when performing poems
- about Hindu Gods in RE
- about the properties of rocks
- about what humans needed for survival in the Stone Age
11/1/19 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- how to use the column method to multiply
- our new WAGOLL poem - ‘Ten things found in a Wizard’s Pocket’
- to study different poems in Book Talk
- about rocks and starting to look at the 3 rock types: igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary
- about Hinduism and where it was founded.
11/1/19 - Making woolly mammoths in Art! Don't they look fantastic?!
11/1/19 - We learnt a song to help us remember the 3 different types of rocks in Science.
The boys had a go, too!
8/1/19 - Our new WAGOLL that we have learnt in class. It's a poem called 'Ten things found in a Wizard's pocket.' Can you remember the words and actions, Penguins?
3/1/19 - I am proud of the outstanding efforts so many of you have put in to your homework across the Christmas holidays which was to create a Bronze Age roundhouse. You can see what creative Penguins we have by looking at the photos below!
3/1/19 - Stone Age to the Iron Age 'WOW' day! What a fantastic, fun-filled first day back!
3/1/19
Happy New Year!
Welcome back Penguins! I hope you have all had an enjoyable and restful Christmas break and are eager to dive in to lots more fun learning this term!
Our topic for the Spring term is the Stone Age to the Iron Age, with our focus question being ‘Who ruled prehistoric Britain?’ We have a variety of exciting texts we will be focusing on in English including ‘Stone Age Boy’ and ‘Wizard’s Pocket’.
In Maths we will be continuing our learning through the use of Maths No Problem. We will be focusing on further multiplication and division before moving on to length.
During Science this term, we will be learning all about Rocks.
In Geography we will be locating key prehistoric sites around Britain.
In Art we will be making woolly mammoths and creating our own cave paintings.
In RE we will be looking at Hindusim.
We will continue to have our Spanish assembly once a week led by Miss Donkin.
Homework will continue to be given out on a Thursday and is due back in on a Tuesday. Reading records are to be handed in on Monday mornings so I can check how your reading is going at home.
PE is still on a Monday afternoon – please bring a hoodie or jumper as it will be cold outside! We are not swimming this term.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank parents for all their support so far this academic year. It really does make such a difference to your child’s learning.
Please feel free to speak to me for any further information.
Miss Reed
18/12/18 - Wishing all my wonderful Penguins a very happy Christmas! I hope you all have a relaxing break and a great start to the new year. Thank you to both children and parents for making this term so enjoyable.
Miss Reed
18/12/18 - Well done to the 16 Penguins who completed the Christmas reading challenge by reading 5 times a week (or more) this half term! I am very proud of you - Miss Reed
18/12/18 - We took to the stage at the Church to read the story 'The Animals Christmas Eve.'
14/12/18 Penguins Update
This week we have been:
- revising addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- learning some of the words on the year 3/4 spelling list
- learning about The Grinch and creating our own newspaper articles about him
- learning about magnets that repel and attract
7/12/18 - Dressing up as panto characters for the day to raise money for EAPS!
7/12/18 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- how to solve word problems involving multiplication and division
- to plan, draft, edit and publish our own narratives
- to write instruction texts on how to sort magnetic and non-magnetic materials
6/12/18 - Winter Wonderland afternoon! We went on a visit on The Polar Express with hot chocolates we made with marshmallows and cream! Then we wrote instructions on how to make hot chocolate before we used our maths skills to divide, add and subtract (see flipchart picture for more details!). We're feeling very Christmassy now!
30/11/18 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- how to solve word problems involving multiplication and division
- about similes, fronted adverbial phrases and adverb starters
- about how Christians celebrate Christmas
- which materials are magnetic or non-magnetic
23/11/18 - Egyptian WOW day!
23/11/18 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- how to divide by 3 and 4
- our new WAGOLL narrative text - 'Miu and the Pharaoh'
- about Advent
- about Ancient Egypt in our 'WOW day!'
22/11/18 - We created our own class Advent calendar in RE today when we were learning about Advent. We linked this to our maths learning by writing a question to do with the 3, 4 or 8 times table on the back of each bauble, so every day we will have to use our maths knowledge! We can't wait for the countdown to Christmas!
21/11/18 - Our amazing writing in Maths!
16/11/18 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- how to multiply by 3, 4 and 8
- to put all our learning about relative clauses, conjunctions and topic sentences in to our draft write information texts about Anubis. We then edited and published them.
- about friction
- about Anti-Bulling
15/11/18 -Today, we were lucky enough to watch a performance from Playright Theatre Company on Anti-Bullying. It was based on the story of Cinderella but with a twist! We really enjoyed watching it.
12/11/18 - Introducing our new Digital Leader, Luke! Luke can't wait to help us in class with our ICT. Luke even typed up his Hot Write today on Anubis on microsoft word! Well done, Luke!
9/11/18 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- how to multiply by 3
- to use relative clauses, conjunctions and topic sentences in our writing
- more about forces: push and pull
- about others who are in need at Christmas time and making shoeboxes to send them
9/11/18 - We took our learning outside today in Science as we used equipment from inside the sports shed (such as footballs and skipping ropes) to explore forces – pushes and pulls in particular. We discussed with one another what direction our forces were acting in.
8/11/18 - Some of us worked with Mrs Hobbs counting in 3's. When we got to a multiple of 3, we played our instrument. We then performed to the class. It was really fun!
6/11/18 - We got our green thinking hats on and created Christmas cards to be sent to Peterborough City Hospital’s ‘December Magic’ Christmas card appeal. The cards we have made today will be received by elderly patients staying in hospital over the festive period. This promoted our Christian Values of Compassion and Service.
2/11/18 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- how to add and subtract 3-digit numbers from 3-digit numbers
- to use the part-part whole bar model
- our new WAGOLL text about Anubis and discovering the features of an information text
- about forces: push and pull
- about Remembrance Day
2/11/18 - In RE, we have been celebrating the First World War Centenary. We made poppies and scattered them on our school field.
2/11/18 - Identifying forces in Science. Which photos show a push? Which photos show a pull?
31/10/18 - Our new WAGOLL text map. It is an information text based on the Greek God, Zeus. In a few weeks time, we will be creating our own information texts about the Egyptian God, Anubis.
29/10/18 - Welcome back Penguins!
I hope you all had a fantastic half term break. I'm really looking forward to all the exciting things we have planned this half term. We are all looking forward to our Ancient Egyptian workshop on Friday 23rd November. Please do remember to hand in your reply slips for this wonderful day!
What will we be up to in Autumn 2?
In English, we will start off the half term by looking at the Egyptian God, Anubis and writing an information text about them. In Maths, we will continue to look at addition and subtraction for a few weeks, before moving on to learning about multiplication and division. If you want to get a head start on your maths learning at home, start practising your 3, 4 and 8 times tables! In Science, our new topic will be Forces and Magnets and we have some very fun investigations planned. We will continue to learn about Ancient Egypt this half term in our topic learning. In RE, our focus question will be: 'Is Christmas a celebration of love or light?' We will be showing lots of our school Christian Values by creating shoeboxes for the shoebox appeal and creating Christmas cards to send to the elderly in hospital too.
If you have any queries about any of the above, please do not hesitate to come and speak to me.
Miss Reed
19/10/18 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- how to subtract 3-digit numbers from 3-digit numbers
- to draft, edit and publish our explanation texts on mummification
- how the size of shadows change throughout the day in a science investigation
18/9/18 - Investigating how the size of shadows change throughout the day in Science!
12/10/18 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- about time phrases and the second person
- to plan our explanation texts
- to add 3 digit numbers with renaming the ones and tens
- about being a good Samaritan (RE)
- about the Egyptian Creation story.
05/10/18 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning:
- our new WAGOLL explanation text on how to make pickled onions!
- the process of mummification and acting it out
- the column method to add (with renaming)
- to explore shadows and why/how they change size
- to think about the difference between a prayer and a wish (RE)
3/10/18 - Our new text map for our WAGOLL explanation text. Can you remember the actions we created, Penguins?
28/09/18 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning to:
- plan, draft, edit and publish our writing (narratives)
- add to 3-digit numbers (see post below for further information)
- investigate what materials are opaque, transparent or translucent.
- understand why people may pray (RE)
28/9/18 - In Science today, we have been investigating what objects are opaque, translucent or transparent.
28/9/18 - What we have been learning in Maths this week! We have been learning to add ones to 3-digit numbers alongside adding multiples of 10 and 100 to 3-digit numbers.
25/9/18 - Wrapping each other up as mummies! We had so much fun!
25/9/18 -Mummifying tomatoes!
21/09/18 Penguins Update
This week we have been learning to:
- punctuate sentences correctly using full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks and question marks
- write to describe
- use prepositional phrases and conjunctions in sentences
- empathise with a character
- use the prefixes 'dis' and 'un'
- use an apostrophe for a contraction
- recognise, describe and continue number patterns (adding/subtracting 1, 10 and 100)
- count in 4's and 8's
- explore the sun in Science and debate whether it is a hero or a villain!
12/9/18 - Our new text map for 'The Egyptian Cinderella.' Can you remember the actions we made to help us remember the story?
11/9/18 - Locating where the UK and Egypt is on a map in Geography!
07/09/18 - Year 3 Ancient Egyptian Banquet
06/09/18 - Some of our Penguins enjoying the newly re-vamped book corner! Starbooks! Ahhhh, a lovely hot chocolate whilst reading... bliss!
06/09/18
Welcome to Penguins class!
I am very excited to have 30 new Penguins in my class and I can’t wait for our learning to get started!
Our topic for the Autumn term is Ancient Egypt, with our focus question being ‘Were the Egyptians ahead of their time?’ We have a variety of exciting texts we will be focusing on in English including ‘Egyptian Cinderella’ and ‘The Scarab’s Secret’.
In Maths we will be continuing our learning through the use of Maths No Problem. We will begin by focusing on our knowledge of numbers and their value.
During Science this term, we will be learning all about Light.
In Geography we will be locating Egypt on a map and studying the River Nile.
In Art, Penguins will be studying and creating their own hieroglyphics, whilst in Design and Technology they will be building their own pyramids!
We will continue to learn Spanish in Miss Donkin’s Spanish assemblies each week.
Useful information
Mrs. Pollard is our teaching assistant.
PE is on a Monday (this could change at any time so please ensure kits are in school every day). Please ensure kits are clearly named.
We encourage children to read regularly and children will receive a reading raffle ticket for reading 5 times a week. Children should record their reading in their reading record daily. Now children are in KS2, they can do this independently, however we would ask that you sign the reading record weekly to show that you have acknowledged your child has read. Children should bring their reading record book into school every day. Thank you.
Please remember your water bottles every day as our classroom does get very warm. Please make sure the water bottle is clearly named and is only filled with water or squash only. Also, if your child requires a snack, they will need to bring this in with them, as they no longer will have this provided. Please ensure they come with a healthy snack. Alternatively, tuck shop will run daily from the first Monday of term. Thank you.
Homework will be given out on Thursdays and is due in on Tuesdays. Please encourage your child to do the challenge questions set. If they wish, they may attend the weekly homework club to complete their homework.
Children will be lining up in the morning outside Penguins door and will be going in to the classroom to complete their morning activity at 8.50am. They will be released from the same place at the end of the day.
We have a fun and busy term ahead and I’m super excited to get started.
Please feel free to speak to me for any further information.
Miss Reed