Well done Holy Souls - your Nativity performances were fantastic!

A massive WELL DONE to all of the children at  Holy Souls School - we have watched and performed a total of 5 Nativities, involving all children from Reception classes right up to Year 6!  The story of The First Christmas has been explained to us in so many different ways; through music, singing and acting.  (Check out the Holy Souls website to see the wonderful pictures!)

These performances have prepared us well in our understanding and appreciation of this most special season.

As we are in our final week at school, we are all in festive spirits.  We have many Christmas parties to celebrate this week and are looking forward to Christmas dinner too (YUM YUM)!

Year 3 Christmas Party 2013!

Years 3 and 4 will have their Christmas party tomorrow (Tuesday 17th December)!
Remember, you can wear your own clothes!  We will have lots of Christmas activities and will end the day with party games, a disco and party food!!

Year 3 can tell the time!

We made our own analogue clocks to help us to tell the time.

What does the big hand tell us?

What does the little hand tell us?

What time is it when the big hand is pointing to 12?

What time is it when the big hand is pointing to 6?
What time is it when the big hand is pointing to 3?
What time is it when the big hand is pointing to 9?

Can you tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes?

How can the 5 times tables help us?

REMEMBER TO KEEP PRACTISING TELLING THE TIME USING ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL CLOCKS AND WATCHES!

It's also useful to remember how many days there are in 1 week and how many months there are in 1 year!  What are the days and months?

CAN YOU REMEMBER OUR RHYME FOR LEARNING HOW MANY DAYS THERE ARE IN A MONTH?
(Challenge your parents: can they remember the rhyme from when they were at school?)

FINALLY - how many days are there in 1 year?
 

Even Tom and Jerry have fun at Christmas!

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 have been talking about all the titles Jesus is known as

What does Messiah mean?

Jesus is the Messiah,

i.e.

the Prophet and the Priest and the King.

The words Messiah  and Christ have the same meaning. Their original-language forms are ha-Mashiyach (Hebrew) and ho Christos (Greek), both meaning “the Anointed one”.

What other names do we call Jesus Christ?

 


We have also listened to a piece of Music called Handel's Messiah. How does it make you feel?

We will be looking at this video of the Nativity

RE work - Christmas

We have looked at this video today to help tell the shepherds story!
How did they feel when the Angel Gabriel came to them?  How did they feel when they visited the Baby Jesus in Bethlehem?

A festive video!

Don't forget your WALK WITH ME calendar and booklet!

Have a look at it EVERY day and there will be house points for those children who know what is on the Calendar each morning!

Maths - Telling the Time

we will use these links

http://www.bgfl.org/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/time/index.htm

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm

'Rock Around The Flock!'

 Well done Years 3 and 4 for you super production of 'Rock Around The Flock'.  Your singing, acting and percussion were fabulous - you should all be very proud of yourselves!

'STAY AWAKE, BE READY' - DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT DAY!

Holy Souls School has been up to something 'different' today!  It has been a very colourful, sticky and glittery day of preparation.  ADVENT is a time of preparation for the coming of Our Lord - this Sunday marks the First Sunday of Advent. 

Can you remember why we were wearing purple?

We hope you enjoy looking at some of the crafts Year 3 have been making.  You can also log onto the school website to see what the rest of the school has been up to!

Our 'buffet' - what can we do with this?

A selection of our creations,

We made Advent wreaths and candy canes.

What a pretty angel!

Look at how wonderful our creations are!

Who is this character and who will he be helping this year?

Beautiful keepsakes for our trees at home.

'CHRIST BE OUR LIGHT' - we gathered in the hall to turn our Christmas lights on - what important person pressed the switch?

Build Your Wild Self

As part of our Myths work in literacy, we have been creating a mythical creature for our villain!  We used the following web link - have a go and Create your 'Wild Self'!

  
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

We will also be using this link to create something festive to take home at the end of term!