We will use this picture in our Pentecost work on Monday.

RE next week

Tomorrow is Pentecost Sunday. We will be reflecting on the Gospel on Monday.

We have already talked about what happened at Pentecost and how the Holy Spirit changed the apostles' lives.
In our lesson on Friday we will be talking about how the Holy Spirit appeared at Jesus's Baptism. What do we already know?

Science

Here are the videos as promised on the last unit of work we have just done!

3E Magnets & Springs Song from Simple Science on Vimeo.

3E Magnets and Springs Video from Simple Science on Vimeo.

Literacy this week.

This week we will be continuing our work on Little Red Riding Hood.

What techniques can we use to make the story better?

What 2A sentences can you write to describe Granny's house?

Maths this week

This week we will be looking at methods to times and divide.

Why not have a go at this game to help with division facts?

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Hit%20the%20button%20v9.swf

Here are some 'x' problems.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/multiplication/problemsolving/flash1.shtml

Our target this half term is to look at word problems. Have a go at these and ask the computer to mark them!

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/wordproblems/y3math.html

Feeding of the 5000. Sadie and Younis

We are busy preparing for our first Holy Communion and one of the miracles we look at is the feeding of the 5000. Here is an interview with an eye witness to that miracle.

Communion Sash

This blog post is for all boys making their Holy Communion on Saturday. You will receive your red sash for Communion on Thursday or Friday. Included with the sash is an explanation on how to put the sash on. We need sashes back in school NEXT Thursday. You will also find a red tie in the envelope with 2011 on it. This is yours to wear on Saturday and keep as a momento.

Any questions? Come and ask Miss Cranmer or Miss Wood

Class Council Meeting

Today year 3 held a council meeting. We talked about how we can support Harry Moseley's campaign.

Harry came in to visit school last year and explained his project to made beaded bracelets and sell them to support Brain Tumour UK

His campaign is called 'Helping Harry Help Others'.

We talked today about how we could support this cause and make the bracelets in school. Year 3 came up with some fab ideas. We voted which of our 'best four' we could do. Here are the votes:

Afterschool club = 3 votes

Send packs of beads home = 9 votes

Write instructions and make in Literacy = 3 votes

Have a 'project' week where we look at the campaign in lots of subjects = 33 votes.

Getting ready for our First Holy Communion

On Saturday is our First Holy Communion. Do not forget to practice your hymns!

We will be going over to Church next week so that we can prepare for our special day.

These are the prayers after Communion that we will share. We hope that you are learning them!

1. Lord Jesus I love and adore you
You’re a special friend to me.
Welcome, Lord Jesus, O welcome
Thank you for coming to me.

2. Thank you, Lord Jesus, O thank you
For giving yourself to me!
Make me strong to show your love
Wherever I may be

3. Be near me Lord Jesus,
I ask you to stay
Close by me for ever
And love me I pray.
Bless all of the children
In your loving care
And bring us to Heaven
To live with you there.

Our trip to Alton Castle

Our Visit to Alton Castle was fantastic. Well done Year 3! Scroll down to see where we went!

We all had chance to have a tour of the castle, share a mediation, play games using team work and make some art work. We completed our retreat day with a prayer service where we thought about the feeding of the 5000. The staff there made us feel very welcome.

We will post pictures of our other activities on the life channel.

This was our view when we had lunch on our trip.

This is a picture of Alton Castle where we went on our trip yesterday.

Writing an exciting story!

We will being working on story writing next week and thinking about using wow words and exciting sentences to make a known story more exciting.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-red-riding-hood.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/misc/stories/littleredridinghood/

We will use these links to retell the story. We will be finding out about 2A sentences in our writing.
For example.
She was a tall, pretty girl with blonde, flowing hair.
It was a tidy, comfortable cottage with a lush and leafy garden.

Alton Castle

Year 3 are going on our trip to Alton Castle on Friday.

Remember a packed lunch and a waterproof coat. Remember also that we set off from school early!! Why not have a look at the website and see where we are going?

http://www.altoncastle.co.uk/

RE - The feeding of the 5000

This week we will do some of our RE work in literacy. We will read the story of the Feeding of the 5000 and think about this meal that Jesus shared.

What links are there between this meal and the Eucharistic meal we will be receiving soon?

We will also look at these videos to help us in our lessons.

Maths for this week

Miss Cranmer's group will continue to look at word problems to meet our target.

We will also be continuing our work on division. We will work on finding remainders. Use the following links to check that you have your known division facts sorted!!

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/dividermachine.html

http://resources.oswego.org/games/SumSense/sumdiv.html