Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year. May 2012 be a year of happiness and health. We look forward to seeing you all on Thursday 5th January!

Literacy - instructions

This is a useful link for our RE lesson

We will use this video clip in RE as a useful talking point. How to we listen? How are we a good listener? What might it be like not to be able to hear?

Maths links for our new target

Miss Cranmer's group will find these links useful for the first week back!!

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/Phase2delivery/Wales/Numeracy/Keystage2/Number/Findafractionof/Introduction/default.htm

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/ngfl-flash/fractions/fractions.html

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/fractions/level5.htm

http://www.echalk.co.uk/Maths/fractionWall/fractionWall.html

Welcome back Year 3

Here are the targets that we will be working on this half term.

Writing:
MUST I can plan ideas in sections and begin to write in paragraphs.
SHOULD I can group related material into simple paragraphs.
COULD I can organise my writing into paragraphs for information, events or processes.

Reading
MUST I can explain, for example, alpha betical order, layout, diagrams, captions, different types of punctuation, hyerlinkes and bullet points.
SHOULD I can identify the basic features of organisation in different text types.
COULD I can use my knowledge of different organisational features of a text to help me find information.

Maths:
Must-
To begin to understand and use the words part or fraction.
Shade half or quarter of a shape.

Should -
To begin to recognise ,read and write a half.
To recognise and use quarters of shapes. To recognise that 2 quarters is equal to one half.
To find half of an even 2 digit number

Could -
To recognise unit fractions half,quarter,tenth third.
To recognise that 5/10 = ½ and that 2/4 = ½ and be able to explain why.
To find a half, quarter of a 2 digit even number

Well done Year 3!

Well done everyone for all your hard work this term. Have a very merry Christmas and a good rest this holiday!!

Merry Christmas!

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Follow this festive link!!!

You can follow Father Christmas on Christmas Eve!

Follow this link on Christmas Eve to watch Father Christmas as he makes his huge journey all over the world.

If you look at the website over the next week and a half, it will give you Father Christmas updates!


http://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html

Some Father Christmas puzzles!

Here are some links to a couple of fun Father Christmas Puzzles - see how you get on!!

Put Santa back together again jigsaw.

http://www.btinternet.com/~tony.poulter/xmas/xjig/santajig.htm

Christmas sliding puzzle

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/40903026a/xmas/slide/xslide.htm

A Christmassy cartoon!!

A little bit of festive fun - I used to watch this cartoon before Christmas when I was little! What have Tom and Jerry learnt by the end of the cartoon? (Remember not to click on any other links on youtube without checking with a grown up!)

We will use these in our RE lesson

Maths link - how to tell the time!

This is a fun way of checking your understanding of time - you need to get the answers right to feed the mouse with cheese. Watch out! - if you get the answers wrong, the mouse will go hungry!

http://www.ictgames.com/hickory4.html

Coming up in our last week of term!

We have a very busy and festive week in Year 3. Remember that we light the third pink candle tomorrow which means we can start to get excited!


On Monday, we will be watching Year 5 and 6 production of 'The Late Wise Man' on Monday afternoon.


On Tuesday it is Year 3 and 4 party day.


On Thursday morning we have KS2 awards assembly.


On Friday we have whole school Mass over at Church.


Not to mention those children in the choir who have three performances with Mrs Aldred this week!


Remember to keep reading and that your last homeworks for this term are due in on Tuesday. There will be no spellings set over the holiday!

Well done Year 3 and 4

Well done to all the actors in year 4 and all the choir in year 3. You put on a fabulous production of 'Are we nearly there yet?' What a great way to start the Christmas season at school!

A very festive song!

In RE we will be talking about the Messiah and the Jesse Tree.
Jesse Trees date back to the middle ages. Even some ancient cathedrals have Jesse Tree designs in their stained glass windows.
The idea for a Jesse Tree is inspired from Isaiah 11:1, "A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a branch will bear fruit." (Jesse was the father of King David.)
In Matthew chapter one, the Messiah, Jesus, is traced from the line of King David, and back to Abraham.
We are turning the school Christmas tree into a Jesse tree. Can you make a suitable decoration for it at home too?