The world according to Humphrey

Today we started our reader, "The world according to Humphrey," by Betty G Birney.

We read the first chapter which introduced us to Humphrey, Ms Mac and Mrs Brisbane. We found out that Humphrey loved Ms Mac because she took him on a number of adventures. Mrs Brisbane doesn't like hamsters. So Humphrey promised himself that he would escape.

To find out more about the author click upon her website to explore her other books and characters.

http://bettybirney.com/

Maybe you could create a folder or factfile about the author. Her books, hobbies, how she writes or even write a story about Humphrey in our class. You could even send that story to her!

Next weeks spellings...

...are available on www.spelltube.co.uk

Only half have been out up so you will need your book as well to learn your words this week.

Roman Britain

Today we started our topic upon Roman Britain. We began by looking at a Celtic village.
Have a look at this site to get more information about the Celts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/celts/

Place Value

Today in our maths lesson we looked at splitting numbers into HTU. We took 252 and we broke it into 200+50+2. We spotted where the hundreds were and identified the value of the tens and the units. We also played a place value game which you can find here.

http://education.jlab.org/placevalue/gamepage.html

Welcome back

Our new spellings are available to see and practice on www.spelltube.co.uk.

We also began our new class reader The world according to Humphrey by Betty G. Briney. Expect to see and do some work upon this acclaimed book.

Santa Tracker

Follow Santa's journey on Christmas Eve. Make sure you leave him a mince pie and a carrot for Rudolph.

http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html

Happy Christmas

This will probably be the last post before we break up for Christmas. Year 3 would like to wish everyone who views this page a very "Happy and Holy Christmas."