Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Hold tight, we are off to Brazil!


Class 3, both Mrs. Ward and myself are looking forward to learning with you after the Christmas holiday. 




We will be starting our theme 'Around the World in 50 Days' with a visit to Brazil.  We will be watching the film Rio and studying the book too.  Don't worry if you haven't seen it we will be watching lots of parts and using it for our first adventure story unit in English.  In Music we will be travelling north to Jamaica and sharing the rhythms of Bob Marley, learning some of his songs and adding our own music to them.  In Maths we will be doing further learning on calculation methods with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  Starters to lessons will be to practise those times tables, place value knowledge and speed up our fluency of other key recall facts.  In Science we will learning about humans and animals, starting with preparing a healthy menu and then cooking it and inviting special guests in to sample your cooking talents.  We will also be making our own muscles and skeletons!  We will be having some special 'animal' visitors in February to learn more about different animals in our world.
In theme afternoons we will be looking at the problems in the rainforests of South America and the pollution in the big cities.  This will be linked to our artwork in the first half term.


RE will be looking at 'Sacred Writings' initially linked to Judaism.
Please login to your Active Learn (don't forget there is a link on the right and on the Learning Zone on the website) and keep reading your Bug Club books and have a go at some of those maths games to get that fluency going for next term.  We will be assigning new books and games linked to our first maths unit soon.
For some extra holiday homework and for 3 extra housepoints, please watch the clip from Rio on the next post and leave a comment describing the setting using at least 2 adjectives and 1 adverb.  We look forward to reading them.
Have a wonderful Christmas holiday everyone!
Mr. Wainwright

24 comments:

  1. I have done
    jonty

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  2. Sorry I forgot the sentence so here it is. The colourful, elegant birds are flying through the blue sky. And I also want to say good luck to Mrs smith and I, class 3, the whole school and all the staff will miss you.
    Jonty

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  3. Sorry this time I forgot an adverb and also my sentence wasn't really about the setting which it should have been. So i'll try again in the next comment.

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  4. The colourful, elegant birds are flying gracefully around a peaceful and lush rain forest. And again I want to wish Mrs smith the best of luck and you have been absolutely amazing. And you have been a wonder to learn from.
    Jonty

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  5. Excellent sentence Jonty! I hope Mrs. Smith is enjoying her Costa cake tonight. Have a great Christmas and I look forward to teaching you next term.

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  6. The rainforest has beautiful trees elegantly waving their leaves with colourful birds landing on them.
    Elise

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  7. Well done Elise, you've even added personification. Wonderful sentence. I hope you have a fabulous Christmas.

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  8. Well done Elise, you've even added personification. Wonderful sentence. I hope you have a fabulous Christmas.

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  9. The graceful birds, noisily swoop in the sky.

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    1. Great sentence Grace! I'm looking forward to sharing the film and book with you next week.

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  10. The bright, colerful rainforest woke up energetically.
    Jude

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    1. I love this sentence, personification included too. Well done Jude!

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  11. The serene and brightly coloured forest and jingly music feels me immediately with excitement!
    The birds are enthusiastically and joyfully and loudly singing their sons while flying and dancing in the clear blue sky.
    Carma

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    1. 2 sentences Carma, well done and a great choice of adverbs.

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  12. In the juicy, green forest the birds wake up whistling and singing whilst dancing and swaying on branches. They swoop past leafy, green trees and make really nice patterns like fireworks in the sky.
    Sophie

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    1. Thank you Sophie. Could you add an adverb to describe how the birds were swaying? Maybe- swaying peacefully.

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  13. A beautiful colourful forest full of tropical birds flying
    quickly.
    Natalie

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  14. The beautiful birds flew across the jungle whilst the trees slowly moved. By Archer

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    1. I like this sentence Archer, you have alliteration too with the beautiful birds. See you tomorrow.

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    2. I like this sentence Archer, you have alliteration too with the beautiful birds. See you tomorrow.

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  15. In the peaceful rainforest, the bright, beautiful and joyful birds are singing and dancing excitedly to the music.
    Imogen

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    1. Wow, I am impressed with the adjectives and adverb you have used in your sentence Imogen. You have thought about many senses in your description too.

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