End of another week!

Well done to everyone for a fantastic Sports Day this week!  What lovely weather we had to make the day perfect.  To all of you who supported our Class 3 Balloon Race we have already received emails from balloon finders - one as far away as Kent!  We will announce our winner next week when Class 3 will have decided which Amazon Rainforest to adopt.

Apart from the excitement of Sports Day we have also enjoyed meeting children's author Clementine Beauvais.  Clementine's presentation really inspired the children to write by making the ordinary - extraordinary with an exciting   We look forward to seeing her influences in the Mystery and Suspense unit that we begin next week in literacy.

Today Year 3s made their own Classification display (interactive game) in Science and we were able to video the children playing the game by using one of the new ipads - thanks to Phoebe for being my ICT support, although I think I still need some help in orientation as we had to watch the game with crooked necks!!

Year 4s had a fabulous presentation with Oaks and Acorns today from a local bee-keeper, Chris.  We learnt all about how a hive works - did you know the Queen bee never leaves the hive because the keeper clip her wings?  We also learnt that bees will travel up to three miles away from the hive, but will always return to their 'home'.

In Maths we have revisited measurement and in particular capacity and perimeter. Next week we will be revisiting counting up and down in tenths.  In Science we shall be creating an animal which lives in the  Amazon Rainforest using key questions to classify.

Class 3 will continue to learn their songs for the Summer Production.  You should all receive a parent mail and hard copy of a letter from Mrs Bowles with regard to costumes for the Production tomorrow.

Mrs S

With David, investigating equipment . . . 

and hives . . . 

and beeswax

Our interactive Classification game

Emily and Lydia's yes/no to key questions

Notice for Children of Class 3

Hi there

I have added some more Active Learn games and Bug Club books for you.  The maths games include some which will help you in units of work that we are still to cover.  Don't panic - have a go, I am sure you will be successful!

As you have enjoyed our use of Bug Club for Spelling and Grammar activities I have added the Present Perfect Tense game/video we played today, some more spelling strings which we shall be learning next week  and some more books to keep you entertained until the end of term.

For those of you who still struggle to access Active Learn/Bug Club (or find it difficult to find the time to look at your allocations), I shall be making time available in the ICT suite to help you.  Also I shall plan some time for small groups to also access Active Learn on the Ipads during class time.

I hope that you enjoy the allocations.

See you tomorrow.

Mrs S

All things mini-beast and ipads

What a fantastic science afternoon we had today.  The weather was beautiful for our trip around the garden in search of mini-beasts.  Following on from the trip to Colchester Zoo, Class 3 have been busy identifying mini-beasts and asking key questions.  We were delighted to be able to take the Ipads out and took many photos of the beasts we found.

Next week is really busy as we have Sports Day on Tuesday, a visiting Author on Wednesday, a special Magna Carta assembly on Monday and Oaks and Acorns on Thursday!  Curriculum wise we shall be looking at comparing measures in Maths, continuing our journalistic writing in Literacy and looking at adaptation in Science.

As we have been very busy this week I have yet to send the homework books home, many apologies. However the books will be sent home tomorrow and the children will have one week to complete their leaning task.  Their task is:

"To design a model of a river.  As Designers we need to have an understanding of the precise measurements of the model (for example: how big will it be overall? how wide will the river be?, how long are the tributaries etc). I am expecting you to detail these measurements along with what suitable materials are to be used (cardboard boxes, paper mache, colour tissue paper, plastic, modelling clay, paints) and of course a drawing of the finished article.  This learning task should be over a double-page in the homework books.  Homework due in on Friday, 20^th June 2015."

Here are today's science pictures:

Enjoy the weekend!
Mrs S

The Zoo

What an amazing day we had when we went to the Zoo!  Arriving in downpours the weather then held for an extremely hot day!!  I am immensely proud of Class 3 - well done to all, your behaviour was impeccable, as to was that of our Parent Helpers!!  A huge thank you to Mrs Easton, Mrs Simpson and Mrs Toyne.  Every child has told me it was their best school trip and it wouldn't have been possible without you ladies.

Here is just a selection of photos from the day - I look forward to Class 3 being journalists next week when we write a journalistic piece on the day.  I hope you will be able to remember all that fantastic scientific vocabulary I heard you using.