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!

First Confessions

Well done to Year 3 and the children of the Parish who made their First Confession this morning. You were very reverent and the prayer service was beautiful.

New Science Topic - Plants

This short video shows how amazing green plants are! We will be finding out all about them over the next few weeks in Science.

Literacy - Myths

This week in literacy we will think about myths. What is a myth? We will look at this website to plan what will happen in our stories.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/mythmachine.htm

This week in maths - Fractions

Have a go at the following links to understand what we mean by a fraction.


This link helps us understand what a fraction shows:


http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_103_g_1_t_1.html


These two links helps us to design a flag with different colours:

http://resources.oswego.org/games/fractionflags/fractionflags.htmlhttp://resources.oswego.org/games/fractionflags/ffthirds.html


This game helps us to find fractions of numbers (with some friendly handy hints!!)

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/Phase2delivery/Wales/Numeracy/Keystage2/Number/Findafractionof/Introduction/wbpopup1.htm

Year 3 Enrolment Mass - Well Done!

Well done Everyone! You all read and sang beautifully. It felt very special when you were all standing on the steps in front of the parish!

You can view some pictures of the celebration by clicking on the link below.
http://www.holysoul.bham.sch.uk/page/?title=Home&pid=1

Thank you also to the choir, instrumentalists and Mrs Aldred. You were all wonderful!

What a fantastic start the this part of our Faith Journey.  We look forward to celebrating the Sacrament of First Reconciliation next week

The Lost Sheep

Today we have learned about another parable that Jesus gave us to explain God's love and forgiveness.

We enjoyed watching the following short films and will be making posters to display in church during our Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Thank you and well done!

A big thank you to all of our Year3 grown ups today who attended our RE INSPIRE workshop - it was lovely to have the opportunity to see you working with your children.

And another thank you for coming back and attending our SACRAMENTAL MEETING in church after school.  We hope today has given you a better understanding of what your children are working towards over the coming weeks!

Welcome back! INSPIRE and Confession meeting

Welcome back to a new half term!
We hope you are well rested and ready for the exciting half term ahead.

MAY WE REMIND YOU...

Year 3 have a busy day on Thursday 7th November.

We will be holding our Year 3 INSPIRE workshop, where parents are invited to support us in our Sacramental work...

Following this, after school we remind you of our important meeting over at Sacred Heart and Holy Souls Church at 3pm - here we will discuss arrangements for The Enrolment Mass on Sunday 17th November and The First Sacrament of Confession on Saturday 23rd November.  

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT AN ADULT ATTENDS BOTH OF THESE EVENTS!

We look forward to welcoming you all on Thursday 7th November!

Team Year 3

Forgiveness - The Prodigal Son

After half term in RE we will be looking in detail at the Prodigal Son. This story is part of our preparation for First Confession in a few weeks.

Our First Confession meeting is coming up soon. Remember that it is straight after school at 3:00pm (7th November).

To help us with our prepartion for The Sacrament of First Confession, we have been learning about this important story.

Book Fair Challenge

WOOHOO! The Book Fair returns to Holy Souls School, straight after half term.  As usual, you will have the opportunity to visit the fair every evening after school with your parents, for a week.  This is a great way to increase your reading skills and a super fundraiser for the school community.

Mrs Kielstra has set us a challenge, details of which have also been sent home.

Do you have any books at home that you no longer want and would like to donate to the school?  Consider which year group it would be appropriate for and write a summary of it.

Bring the book and your written summary into school when we return and Mrs Kielstra will take a look at your entry!

Are you a bookworm?

How do we pray the Rosary? - Mrs Girling's Challenge

OCTOBER IS THE MONTH OF MARY

Mary gave us the gift of this special prayer.
What other names do we know Mary by?  Why is she so special to us?

Mrs Girling has challenged us to find out all about the Rosary.  We have sent home your challenge sheet and look forward to sharing what you have found out.

This is very useful for Year 3's Sacramental preparation, as we ask Mary Our Mother to give us the strength to make the right choices and pray for our wrong choices on our Journey of Faith

sorry it is the wrong way round - a slight technical problem!

Here are some useful websites to help you complete your challenge.

http://www.catholictradition.org/Children/rosary.htm

http://www.catholic-kids.com/rosary.htm

GOOD LUCK!


 

Christmas Card Challenge

The Father Hudson Society is one of our very important charities that we support at Holy Souls School.

All children have been set a Christmas Card Challenge to design your own unique Christmas Card.  We have sent you home with posters with the details and challange you to design a Christmas Card.  All entries need to be returned before 19th November, so that Mrs Girling can send them off to The Father Hudson Society.

GOOD LUCK AND GET CREATIVE!

Half Term Fun Challenges!

Once again, thank you for your hard work so far.

Year 3 have set some maths homework, to do with our shape work, which we would like you to complete over half term and bring back in on Tuesday 5th November.

Mrs Girling and Mrs Kielstra have also set up some whole school fun challenges for you to have a go at!

The details of each challenge can be found on the above blog posts.

WHY NOT GET YOUR PARENTS involved in helping you - the challenges are fun and creative, and remember, THEY COULD WIN YOU A REWARD!

Well done and Happy Half Term!

Well done for all of your hard work this half term.  Have a safe and restful week.

Remember to keep up with your reading, times tables and spellings.

You may want to have a look at these links for a bit of fun too!

http://kids.f9.net.uk/flash/games/makealien.html 

http://kids.f9.net.uk/flash/games/matchkids.html


DON'T FORGET

CHILDREN RETURN TO SCHOOL ON TUESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 8.40am!!!

Sorting 2D shapes

Today we sorted 2D shapes into a Carroll diagram.

We used a Year 6 piece of equipment called a 'set square' - can you remember what this helped us to find out about a shape?
Can you remember the properties of a quadrilateral?
What other new words did you learn in maths today?

Congratulations Prince George!

Congratulations to William and Kate on the Christening of their handsome Prince George!

SCHOOL WEBSITE

We thought it would be useful for you to see what else is happening in Holy Souls Primary School!

Click on the lnk below to take you straight to our school website...

 http://www.holysoul.bham.sch.uk/page/default.asp?title=Home&pid=1

What is your favourite subject? Look at the poll on the right...

Look to the right of the blog   ...   do you see it?   ...   In Year 3, LEARNING IS FUN!  We would really like to know what you love to learn about.  Please take a moment to vote on what your favourite subject is in school.

Do you know your tenses?

We're posting this link, by popular request, from our lesson on tenses today.

Help Star to launch her rocket by choosing the correct tense - BLAST OFF!


http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/games/blast_the_rocket/small_sound/standard.shtml 


Remember, this is useful for our work on non-chronological reports - which tense should it be written in, PAST or PRESENT?

Another song to help you remember 2D shapes!

What do you know about 2D shapes? What are their properties?
You'll never forget now that this song will be stuck in your head!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-2d-shape-song/3121.html

The choice is yours...

As part of our preparation for our First Confessions we have been discussing Good and Bad choices, and the consequences it has on others, as well as ourselves.

Take some time to reflect on your recent actions...Was it a Good or Bad choice? How did it make others feel?  How did it make you feel?  Could you have made a different choice?