Our work in RE

In RE we have been talking about miracles.

This week we will be talking about the healing of the paralysed man. What do you already know about the story?

Valiant

In Literacy this week we will be looking at the events of Valiant and talking about what makes a good adventure story. We will go on to plan the sequal to the film. What might happen?

Maths this week

This week in numeracy we will be moving on to data handling. Don’t forget to keep going with your time targets!
http://www.echalk.co.uk/Maths/vennDiagram/venn.html

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/grapher.html

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

Family Mass

Well done to everyone who managed to come to parish mass today.

It was great to see so many children from year 3 in the choir and sitting in the congregation.

Holy Souls Card Company meeting 4

Today we completed our business plan.
We discussed that we need to buy, card, envelopes, shiny cover, Sacramental pictures for Holy Communion and Confirmation and labels

We talked about conducting market research (asking parents) if they would but the cards and how much they would be willing to pay. We thought about how we could sell these cards to our parents, create our own shop or bring them out at the end of the school day.

Lent

We made our class Lent promise just before we broke up for half term. We will share these in assembly on Tuesday.

This week in RE we will be looking at the story of the son of the widow of Nain.

Writing an Adventure Story

I hope that you have remembered the story of Valiant, which we watched just before half term.

We will be using the story and characters in our next unit of Literacy where we will be writing an adventure story.

Reading and Writing Targets

This half term our reading targets will be:

MUST – I can find language that an author has used to make an effect.
SHOULD – I can find and talk about the language an author has used to make an effect.
COULD – I an talk about the effect words have on the reader.

This half term our writing targets will be:

MUST – I can choose interesting words from a word bank.
SHOULD – I can use lots of adjectives and verbs to add detail.
COULD – I can add detail to give information about something I write about.

Maths Targets for this half term

This half term in maths our targets will be about time:

MUST – use vocabulary related to time and be able to read the time to the nearest quarter of an hour.

SHOULD – use vocabulary related to time and be able to read the time to the nearest minute on a 12 hour digital clock and to the nearest five minutes on an analogue clock.

COULD - use vocabulary related to time and be able to read the time to the nearest minute on a 12 hour digital clock using am and pm and read the time to the nearest minute using am and pm on an analogue clock.

We will post lots of links to help but these are a nice start. Have a go!

http://nwlg.org/pages/resources/ma_num/swf/12-24Game.html
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec1.html
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/stoptheclock/sthec2.html

Bethany's report upon green plants

Cara's work upon the parts of a green plant.

Kristian's work upon green plants

European Internet Safety Day

Today at school we spoke about keeping ourselves safe online. We looked at www.thinkuknow.co.uk and we worked through some of the activities. Remember, anything that you put online stays online forever.

Would you give your name and address to a stranger?

Adding and taking away in our heads

Last week we were looking at different ways of adding and taking away in our heads. These games are a good recap. Have a go!

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

Year 3 Mass

It is our school mass on Monday afternoon. The theme is Our Lady of Lourdes and praying for those who are sick.
Year 3 have prepared and will deliver the readings and the bidding prayers.

Holy Souls Card Company Meeting 3

This afternoon our design team met and talked about what images / designs we will include in our cards.

We talked about what symbols are used for Confirmation and Holy Communion.

We also discussed buying a prayer card with the designs on.

Our ideas will go up on the Year 3 display board.

Maths World Cup

Click on the link below and have a go at beating the fastest times set by children from all over the world.
http://www.math-exercises-for-kids.com/competition/math-world-cup.php

Our infomation book on plants

By Ethan

Why do plants need leaves?
To make food. They do this by taking in the sunlight.


What is the job of the root?
To hold the plant in the grond. It also takes in water from the soil.

Our Information book on plants

By Sean



Why do plants need leaves?
To make food and it does this taking in sunlight.



What is the job of the root?
To take in nutrients and water from the soil. Also to anchor the plant.

Our Information Book on plants

By Jack whelan


Why do plants need leaves? This is so it can take in light to make food
so it can keep healthy.


What is the job of the root?

Roots take in water.
When a plant grows and it is in a small pot the roots cannot spread out so it has to
be in a bigger pot.Then it has more room.

Our Information book on plants

Today in our literacy lesson, some children will write their facts on green plants and put them on the blog.

We are learning to organise our work in sections. Have a look later at what we post!

Jesus's Baptism

We will be using this video in our lesson on Friday.

Holy Souls Card Company. Meeting 2.

Meeting opened at 2.20 p.m.with thanks from Miss Cranmer for the ideas for our logo. Some will be put on display and we will vote for the best one.

Miss spoke about how we are to make the card and the different options for the designs.
We talked about what "raw materials" we need to make the card.
We suggested items such as: ribbon, glitter, felt pens, religious pictures, sequins, glue, card, feathers, plastic case for the card.

We spoke about getting religious pictures because drawing would be really hard. We decided that we might have to pay for these pictures and this would make the cost of the finished product more expensive. All of the raw materials will cost money and this will make the cost of the card more expensive.

The meeting closed at2.50 p.m.

The Baptism of Jesus

This week in RE we will be talking about the Baptism of Jesus. What do you already know?

Maths links for this week

This week in Maths we will be looking at rounding numbers. These games are useful.

http://weddell.sqweebs.com/rounding/nearest10.swf

http://weddell.sqweebs.com/rounding/nearest100.swf

We will also be looking at adding and taking away. Have a go at this link:

Can you find the difference between these numbers?
http://weddell.sqweebs.com/mental/2%20digit%20difference.swf

Can you add the bricks to get to the top of the wall?
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/bricks2.swf

Green plants are amazing!

This short video shows how amazing green plants are!

Green Plants

This will be useful in literacy this week. We can use it to help us find information about green plants!

3B Plants Video from Simple Science on Vimeo.

Listening to God's word

In our RE lessons this term we have been learning how people listen to God's word and calling. Today we went to our Parish Church of Sacred Heart and Holy Souls in Acocks Green to celebrate Mass with the local community.

After Mass we spoke about the special place that the lectern has upon the altar. It is the place that we hear God's word from and the place where we can hear God calling us. Can you find the lectern upon this photo of the Altar of Holy Souls Church.

Holy Souls Card Company

Today in school we created our own company. We have decided to create our own Sacrament celebration cards for the Sacrament of Holy Communion and Confirmation.
We thought about some interesting names for our company such as:
Year 3 are creative from Alex
Year 3 Holy Souls from Phaneendra.
Year 3 Artists from Ben
Year 3 Arts and Crafts from Sean
Year 3 Community from George
Year 3 Crafts from Declan
Year 3 Craft Making Cards from Campbell
Holy Souls Card Company from Ella
Creative Year 3 from Kurtis
Year 3 Art Club from Tyreena and Niall.
Holy Cards from Connie
Year 3 Card Makers from Sadie

We voted for our favourite name for our company. The winner and name for our card making company is Holy Souls Card Company.


We also discussed and talked about what jobs we need to allocate to make this card company successful. We spoke about the roles of manager, artist and designer, idea collector, advertising executive, vendors, accountant("money maker" said Niall)

Links and activities about green plants.

We will be using facts from these links in our literacy work this week.

This shows parts of a plant and what plants need to grow

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/s_plants/index.htm

This re-tells key info about plant parts

http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/plant/index.html

This site shows what cress plants need to grow

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/factors_plant_growth/eng/Introduction/MainSessionPart2.htm

This site has lots of extra info about different kinds of plants.

http://www.catie.org.uk/plants_galore_page.html

Maths - Doubling

This week in Maths we will be looking at doubling and halving. How quickly can you double a number? Have a look at these links to remind you!
For the first game, can you keep doubling the number of donuts?

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/doubling/index.html

http://www.ictgames.com/rhoodbeyond10.html

Understanding what happens at Mass

In our RE lessons we have been talking about the Liturgy of the word. We know that the first reading at Mass always comes from the Old Testament. We discussed the story of Noah's Ark and the promise God made. This video re-tells the story, VERY QUICKLY!

Rounding to 100

Following on our rounding numbers to 10. Today we looked at rounding numbers to 100. Have a look at this bingo game to help you to practice this skill.

http://www.aaamath.com/g4_32_x2.htm

Here is a bingo game which we played in class.
http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/848/rounding.swf

Times tables

We will be looking at our tables in maths again this week.

This is a great game to help you with any tables you find tricky. Give it a go!

www.learnyourtables.co.uk

Do seeds need warmth to germinate?

We have set up three experiments. One tray of seeds will be left by a warm radiator. One tray will be left in a cold cupboard. One tray will be left in a cold fridge.

Is this a fair test?

What might the results show?

Does a plant need water to grow? RESULTS

Here is a picture of the results from our experiment. You can clearly see that the plant which had 200ml of water added looks very healthy.

Can you spot the unhealthy plant which had no water at all last week? What does it look like?

Can you help this plant to grow?

What does this plant need to help it grow well?

The World According to Humphrey

We are now well into our book by Betty Birney. Here is a site to check out further things about our favourite hamster.

http://www.bettybirney.com/humphreyville.html

Thank you Mr O'Kane!

Mr O'Kane has worked very hard over the past few weeks to keep our school safe in the very snowy weather.

Today he cleared a huge amount of the playground so that we could move around on it safely.

Here is a picture with the proof!

Making an Igloo

Today Year 3 and Year 5 made the most of the snowy weather and made an Igloo.

We worked as a team to collect snow and mould it into block shapes. Using co-operation and knowledge of 3D shapes, this is what we managed to create.

There was not quite enough snow for a whole igloo - but this was a pretty good effort! Well done everyone!

Check out our other pictures on the TV outside the office.

Snow game

Snow is falling yet again!

If you have a few spare minutes - have a go at this snowflake puzzle game from the Met office.

Remember that snow flakes need to have lines of symmetry!!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/kids/popup/popup_fun_and_games_snowflake.html

It's cold!!!

With all of the snow it really is cold. Luckily one of us can make something of it all!

Instructions

Have a go at making tea for my Gran. Put the pictures in the correct order and then write the instructions underneath. Don't forget those bossy (imperative) verbs and time connectives.

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

Adding and Subtraction

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/851/Hitthebuttonv7.swf

This is a good link for adding and subtraction games. ( There are also times and divide games!!)

Does a plant need water to grow?

We set up a fair test experiment to investigate this question.

We have left three green plants ( the same kind) in the same place, (with the same temperature, amount of light and size of pot) for a week.

The only condition we have changed is the amount of water we give to the plant each day.

Plant A has 200 ml of water.

Plant B has 100 ml of water.

Plant C has no water.

We have made predictions and will look at our results next lesson!

Following Instructions

This week in Literacy, we have been looking at instructions.

We followed a set of instructions to make our own Chinese lanterns.

Here is an example of some of them.

We looked at what needs to be included in a good set of instructions and will have a go next week at writing some of our own.

A Traffic Survey

This was taken in Acocks Green on Wednesday 6th January.

Place value bingo

Today in our maths lesson we looked at place value and how to partition (break up) numbers. We looked at HTU and we played place value bingo which is below.
http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Bingo%20-%20Place%20Value%20v3.swf

Fractions

This half term in Maths our targets will be all about 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.html

http://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

Happy New Year Everyone

Hope you have all had a great holiday and are ready to return to school next Tuesday.
I have found a great site to get you all in the mood for Tuesday.
Click below to have a go at some of the games on this site.

http://primarygamesarena.com