Week Three: multiplication, story writing and egg dropping!

Hi hi hi!
So sorry for the delayed post but I have spent the last three days decorating my living room! As you can imagine, it is quite hectic with a one year old!

Last week was fab as always and we did some amazing learning with lots of progress.

Can I take this opportunity also to thank you all (parents and children AND siblings (Grace!) for all the amazing homework. I was blown away by how much time and effort you all put in... it was honestly the best homework I have ever seen in all my years as a teacher! Big thumbs up to all of you!!

Anyway, as I was saying... learning this week has been brilliant. In Maths we have started our work on multiplication and division by learning some key facts to help us with our understanding. 'Buy 1 get 3 Free' is a great tip to understanding the inverse rule.  I think we all realised this week however, just how important it is to really practise those times tables as much as possible because without those, it's tricky to learn anything else. Any practise helps... I've always been a fan of having a poster on the back of the bathroom door so you can learn them while laying in the bath (or sitting on the toilet!). Because of the need to practise, Mr Wainwright and I have decided to have a 'Times Tables of the Week' as a focus for everyone. Next week will be focussing on the 3x table so any help at home with this will be truly helpful.  Class three, if you already know your 3x table, how about working out the division facts? Or use the 3x table to help you learn your 6's? or even your 30's? How about your 0.3's? There's always a way that you can challenge yourself to become a better Mathematician!

English has been really fun this week because we have made our own story using the same structure as Rio. Our main character is Carma the Chameleon who is a vegetarian and can't change colour! Class 3 have worked hard to write really interesting introductions to hook the reader in and then tried amazingly hard to vary their sentences.  They loved the fact that I usually teach Year Five's the work they were doing! Great stuff!
During our topic work this week we have been learning about the popular cities in Brazil with the intention of creating our own holiday brochures next week. Science was so fun on Wednesday- the Year Three's used their designs to create a structure to keep an egg safe. We dropped them out of the staff room window! See below for some funny pictures. The Science in the activity was all linked to how our skin, muscles and bones protect our vital organs.

Homework this week is to find out about Bob Marley and Reggae. Forgive me but I haven't made a note on my home laptop about the pages in the Grammar and Maths books. I will make sure to add these in a comment first thing on Monday.

Have a lovely rest of your weekend- make sure that your ready for more learning next week!

Mrs Ward :)