Alternative Fairy Tale - MALEFICENT!

As part of our Traditional Tales and Fairy Stories unit of work in Literacy, we will be considering alternative ways of telling these traditional tales to enhance our writing.

We will be watching a modern version of the classic tale 'Sleeping Beauty', entitled 'MALEFICENT'!

Here is a taster of what to expect...!

Please be advise; although this trailer holds an official rating of PG, permission has been sought to view this within school.

Think about...

Do you know what the word 'maleficent' means?

Coming up in LITERACY - TRADITIONAL STORIES and FAIRY TALES!

Yes, even us old, decrepit teachers grew up with the Traditional Stories (sometimes known as Fairy Tales) that we all know and love today!  My personal favourite was The Three Little Pigs  - this may have had something to do with the fact that my mummy is obsessed with pigs!

What Traditional Stories do you know and love?  I bet you have sat reading some with your grown ups ... perhaps you have read one to a brother, sister or cousin?

Over the next few weeks we will be exploring what makes a good Traditional Story, and using that knowledge to rewrite and even create a 'Fairy Tale' of our own!  We will be using all of the writing techniques we have been learning throughout the year to create our own wonderful piece of writing!

This web-link will take you through to links for some tales that you may know...
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=fairy+tales

Roald Dahl - an amazing author!

We will be studying the much celebrated author, Roald Dahl.  We will look at his life and, in particular, the inspiration for his books.
Can you name any titles of books he has written?  Have you read any Roald Dahl books?

Click on some links below to find out more about him and his writing.

https://www.roalddahl.com/

http://www.roalddahl.com/museum

Did you know that Roald Dahl also wrote poems?  Take a look at the video below of one of his 'Revolting Rhymes - The Three Little Pigs'.

We will also be studying one of his books, 'The Magic Finger', as a whole class in Guided Reading - we can't wait!

Find it out!

Do you know who originally illustrated most of Roald Dahl's stories?

What can you find out about Roald Dahl?

Alliteration and Onomatopoeia!

As part of our Poetry work, we have been looking at alliteration and onomatopoeia to make our poetry more interesting.

Can you explain what these terms mean?  How would you use them?  What sense does onomatopoeia particularly describe?

We have watched the 2 YouTube links below...have some fun and get your family to learn the 'Wishy Washy Washer Woman' dance with you!

Spellings - THE RETURN!!!

We welcome the return of our weekly spelling tests, in Year 3!

We will continue to encourage the growth of our vocabulary with word families (to include root words, suffixes and prefixes) and new topic based vocabulary.  We will also revisit those High Frequency words that we may be finding tricky.
Phonics (the sounds that groups of letters make within words) will continue to be a focus.

We have provided some links below to some websites that may help you on your way to become 'Spelling Stars'!

These links contains many other interactive links for you to click on (please be aware to only use UK links, as other links may take you to sites with Americanised versions of spelling)...

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html

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

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/interactive.aspx?cat=42 Key Stage 1 skills you may want to practise

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/interactive.aspx?cat=47 Key Stage 2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar/ there may some challenges in here for you too!

Remember!  Good knowledge of spellings helps reading and writing too - don't forget what you have learnt already and put it to good use!

Literacy - Poetry - The Magic Box

Poetry - The Magic Box by Kit Wright

This week, we return to our Poetry unit of work, using the poem The Magic Box.

What do you think this poem will be about?

Click on the link below to hear version...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zkpmhyc

Why do you think this poem is called 'The Magic Box'?

What would you put in your Magic Box? Why?

Year 3 continue to Grow and Learn!

Just a reminder that the Excitement, Wonder and Awe of learning does not just involve our Sacramental Preparation...

We are still continuing our Maths and Literacy work, as well as Science and Topic work.  We have provided some links for you to look at at home so you can keep your skills in all areas in 'TIP-TOP' condition.

MATHS

http://mathszone.co.uk/
http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html





PURPLE MASH
https://www.purplemash.com/sch/ don't forget your personal log-in to this site to access all areas of the curriculum



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