Maths

This week in Maths we will be looking back at how to add and subtract.
We will be talking about the ways that we can do this in our heads ( mentally) and by working out problems.
We will have a look at these games.

For adding in our heads:
http://www.ictgames.com/bridging.html

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


Using number lines:
http://www.ictgames.com/emptyline.html

First Confession

This week we will be preparing for our First Confession on Saturday (21st November).
We will go over to Church to practice our service.

In our RE lessons, we will be looking at the story of the Lost Sheep. We will use this video to help us.

Anti Bullying Week

This week is anti bullying week. We shall be doing activities in class this week to think about what bullying means and how we can feel really safe in school.

Problems for our hero?

We are using this clip to help us to find a problem or dilemma for our hero.

Myth and legend setting

This is the setting we are going to use for our myth and legend. I need you to think of as many wow words as possible to help you to describe this scene.

The Lost Son

This week 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.

We will also be preparing this week for our Enrolment Mass this Sunday at 10:00am. (15th November)

Our First Confession meeting will be on Thursday evening (12th November).

Sorting Data

We will be looking at Venn and Carroll diagrams over the next few lessons.

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/venn.swf

This link will remind you about what you may already know!

Do plants need leaves?

We looked at the experiment we set up before half term.

The plant with no leaves was not as healthy as the one which had leaves.

What does this tell us?

What keeps a plant healthy?

3B Plants Song from Simple Science on Vimeo.

3B Plants Video from Simple Science on Vimeo.

Measuring in centimetres

In our maths work we have been looking at measuring in centimetres and using a ruler correctly. have a go at this site to help.

http://www.funbrain.com/measure/

Create your own monster.

We have been creating our own monster using the wonderful site from the New York museum. Click below to create your own monster.

http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

Make your own hero

Follow these links to make a hero of your own.


http://marvel.com/create_your_own_superhero

or try this one

http://www.cpbintegrated.com/theherofactory

Myths and Legends

In literacy our next unit will be looking at myths and legends.

We will look at this website to plan what will happen in our stories.

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

We will also design our own heroes. Link to come soon.

Maths Links.

A fun website to practice your times tables (three levels)
http://nwlg.org/pages/resources/ma_num/swf/y5d3a3.html

You can practice any of your times tables from x 2 up to x 10. You can double check your number bonds too!
http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/851/Hitthebuttonv7.swf

We will use this to draw graphs in class later next week
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/grapher.html

First Confession

In our next RE lessons we will be preparing for our First Confession.

Make sure that you are learning your Act of Contrition at home. There will be an important Confession meeting on Thursday 12th November for your grown up in school at 7:00pm.

Our targets for next half term.

Our targets for the next half term for reading will be:
MUST I can find main events, characters and information in a text.

SHOULD I can discuss plot and characters and find information from sections in a text using simple signposts.

COULD I can identify character actions and how they respond to events and note the main points in a section/text.


Our targets next half term for writing will be:

MUST I can use capital letters and full stops when writing a sentence.

SHOULD I can use commas to separate items in a list.

COULD I can use a comma when I add detail to a sentence with a clause at the end

Our targets next half term for Maths will be:

MUST I can work out and recall multiplication facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times-tables and the related division facts; recognise multiples of 2, 5 & 10

SHOULD I can work out and recall multiplication facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 times-tables and the corresponding division facts; recognise multiples of 2, 5 or 10 up to 1000.

COULD I can work out and recall multiplication facts up to 10 × 10, the corresponding division facts and multiples of numbers.

Half Term Homework

Over half term do not forget to do your literacy and maths homework. This needs to be brought in on the first day back ( Tuesday 3rd November).

Make sure that you keep learning your spellings and read every day.

Children in 3C - remember to learn your assembly part too!

Have a lovely half term break!

More 3D shapes

Click on the link below to explore the properties of 3D shapes.

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/3d/index.htm

Estimating and measuring

This week in maths, Miss Cranmer's group will be looking at estimating and measuring. See if you can measure the length of these lines accurately:

http://weddell.sqweebs.com/ruler/ruler_cm_easy.swf ( This one is not too tricky!)

http://weddell.sqweebs.com/ruler/ruler_cm.swf ( A little bit harder!)

Do not forget to look back at the timestable games to practice on too!

Do plants need leaves to grow?

In our science lesson on Friday we talked in talk partners about what a plant needed to grow healthily. We said that plants need leaves to take in light. Plants use this light to make food.

To investigate if this is true we set up the experiment shown above. On one plant we took off all the leaves. On the other plant, we left all the leaves on. To make the test fair, we kept everything else the same.

We will leave this set up for two weeks and then observe (see) which plant looks healthier.

Times tables practice

Here are some wonderful sites to help you with your times tables. Remember we are tested each Friday on our tables.

First a great site from Woodlands Primary School in Kent
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html

This one does exactly what it says on the tin!!
http://www.learnyourtables.co.uk/

Another great site is this one where you fly over the solar system solving tables problems
http://www.brainormous.com/online/loader_multiflyer.html

Finally, we have a site where you can race against children from all over the world.
http://www.tutpup.com/

Our report on teeth

This week in literacy we will be writing a report about teeth. Can you label the kinds of teeth we have?

http://www.pheaseyparkfarm.walsall.sch.uk/Our%20Teeth.swf

We will also be having a look at this link to find out information for our report.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things/teeth_eating/play.shtml

3A Teeth Song from Simple Science on Vimeo.

Shape

This week in maths we will be looking at 2D and 3D shapes.

Have a go at this game for a reminder of all the 2D shapes you know.

http://www.interactivestuff.org/match/maker.phtml?featured=1&id=31


Try out these games to test your 3D shape understanding!

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/longshape3d.html

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/MatchingPairs3Dshape.swf

Moon Maths

This week we are really getting starting on our timestables in Year 3.
The following game is great fun and helps us to practice. Focus on 2,5 and 10 timestables to start with!
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/moonmaths.swf (Link does not seem to be working, but we will use it in school!)

If you fancy flying a spaceship to the moon then click below. The spaceship is powered by your timestables.

http://www.brainormous.com/online/loader_multiflyer.html

Mass

Well done to everyone and especially Year 3 for your fabulous singing in the choir today at our school mass. Thank you also to all of you who sat with your families in the congregation. Year 5 led the liturgy today, Harvest Sunday, and did a wonderful job. We will think in school tomorrow about what the gospel reading means for us.

Understanding what happens at Baptism

This week in RE we will be looking at what happened at our Baptism. We will be putting the events in order and understanding the symbols of Baptism. Tomorrow we will role play what happens at a Baptism in class. We will use RE-quest to look at the images. Have a look

http://www.request.org.uk/main/dowhat/baptism/infant06.htm

Counting on in 2,5, and 10s

Use the following links to practice counting on in steps of two, five and ten. Over the next week in maths we will be looking at our two, five and ten times tables. The first helps you with your timetable facts at speed.

http://weddell.sqweebs.com/tables_backwards/tables%20speed%202510.swf.

The second site asks you to 'catch' the multiples of 10.

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Ghostblasters1/gbcd.html

Alien addition

In our maths today, we pratciced adding two single digit numbers together. Have a go at this game.

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/

Charlotte's Web

We will be looking at Charlotte's Web in our visual literacy this week.

What kind of settings are used in the story? What wow words can we use to describe the settings? Take a look at the following website where you can pick the settings for the story and write what happened as a comic strip.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/flashlightreaders/charlottesweb/comic/

Middleton Landmarks

Being a Disciple

Over the last week in RE we have been thinking about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. We read the story where Jesus picked his 12 disciples and talked about how this would have felt and what the chosen must have thought.
This afternoon we went to our first KS2 Mass in the hall on the theme of friendship. Well done Year 3 for your fabulous singing and participation!

Odd and Even

Today we looked at odd and even numbers and how to recognise them. Two sites to practice this can be found below.

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Ghostblasterseven/ghosteven.html


http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=npmenu

Middleton and Ash End House Farm

On Tuesday 22nd September, we will visit the village of Middleton to compare it with Acocks Green, and then we will head to the nearby children's farm at Ash End House. Further information regarding the trip will be given to the children on Monday but if you want to have a look at where we are going then click below.

http://www.ashendhouse.fsnet.co.uk/

Number bonds to 20

One of our big targets this term is to know our number bonds to 20.
There are lots of good sites to practice this. Click below for a great site from ictgames.

http://www.ictgames.com/funkymum20.html

Teeth

We will be looking at different type of teeth and how to look after our own teeth soon. Here is a video to help us get started.

3A Teeth Song from Simple Science on Vimeo.

Place Value

In our maths work today we were looking at place value and breaking up the HTU (partitioning) into the different parts that make up our numbers. To practice this skill click below and see how many you can get right.

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/853/PlaceValueChartv4.swf

Welcome to year 3

Welcome to our new year 3 group. Here you will find links to help you with your school work and information to help in year 3. It is a good source of information for our parents. Please use the comment button to tell how this blog is helping you with your work.

Welcome Back!

All the pupils at Holy Souls return tomorrow to their new Year group and new teachers.

Year 3 we look forward to meeting you!

This week in RE Year 3 will think about all the groups that they belong to and think about how important our Mission Statement is to our school.

Rama and Sita (our version)

Here is Santino's presentation based upon the story of Rama and Sita. We used powerpoint to help us to retell the story.

One World Month

Our religion for "One World Month" is Hinduism. Here is the story of Rama and Sita and how this led to the Hindu festival of light, Diwali.

The Story Of Rama And Sita

View more documents from Yogesh Goel.

Magnets and Springs

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

Here is the next topic in our science work from our friends at simple science. The song follows on below.

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

Right angles

In response to our tests last week, we have been working upon right angles in our maths lessons.
We have been using the wonderful www.learningclip.co.uk to identify and create right angles of our own.

We will have another go at the question on right angles in our test that we found hard to see if we now understand.

Summer fayre

In our summer fayre on Saturday we will be singing and dancing "We're all in this together," from High School Musical. Sing along here!

More Spelling Games

Click on the link below to go to more spelling games. These are from the BBC learning website.

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/index.shtml

Light and shadow

3F Shadows Song from Simple Science on Vimeo.

This is the song we were listening to in todays science lesson.

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Light and Shadow

Have a go at this activity it will help you to get a head start on our topic for this term.

Carroll Diagrams

Today we looked at sorting 3D shapes using a carroll diagram.
We looked at each shape and decided if it had the correct property to go into the correct box.
We used www.learningclip.co.uk and then we clicked upon year 3 block C unit 2 f.

Improving sentences.

Today we looked at improving our sentences by using better openers. We showed how we could use ----ing -----ly words to improve basic sentences.

Here is a program which starts with a simple sentence then it grows and becomes more complex the more times you click on it.

http://www.telescopictext.com

Book reviews

We are at the moment reviewing our class reader "The world according to Humphrey." We have looked at other books that Betty Birney has written and we have described what Humphrey is like.
Here is a review from amazon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-According-Humphrey-Betty-Birney/dp/0571226833/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242574970&sr=8-1
Another review from an American site.
http://www.sonderbooks.com/ChildrensFiction/humphrey.html

Do you think our reviews are better? Why?