A furious Mr Wilcox, exploded onto the playground. He had discovered the classroom in a mess during break time. As the class entered, they realised that they were stepping into a crime scene (not real). The were met by a body outline of a rabbit (looks like a squirrel), blood streaks and paw prints (water colours), paw prints, eyes and ears of a wolf around the walls. The pupils gave up being the Year 3 class and instead took up detection.

This was all in aid of building interest in our new book Wolves, which we will start on Wednesday. 

In Maths this week we have been working on number lines. This has been tricky and pupils can find further practices on Mathletics. 

We are still o our 3 timetables, all pupils improved from last week and we are aiming to get 60 correct answers in 3 minutes in two weeks time. Please practice at home and use TT Rockstars. 

Firstly I would like to mention how impressed I am with the maturity, alertness and enthusiasm of the Snow leopard class. Their attitude is commendable.

In English, we are continuing our work with Stone Age Boy. We have looked at fronted adverbials and spotted what a good setting description looks like. 

In Maths, we have been playing around with numbers up to 1000. We've played with dienes, counters, number lines and grids. 

For Art this week, we made blobs of primary colours and noticed what different colours came out when they mixed. 

We had tennis for PE and we focused on the backhand. There were some super stars in the class, who were able to teach others, encourage and praise. 

Reminders:

PE will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Library book changes on Thursday

Reading books change on a Wednesday and Friday. 

Round up of the week

We have had a relaxed start to the week, as there have been many new things for the children to get used to. This has not deterred them and every day they have shown up with enthusiasm and big smiles. We have looked at how we learn and we did this by learning to juggle. It was tricky and we thought about the skills that we need in order to become excellent learners.

We also started our Stone Age Topic, which involved building a fire (small sticks first), trying to start a fire, by rubbing a long smooth stick against a flat log with dry grass at the bottom and going on a scavenger hunt in order to find food.

Art

We have painted self-portraits and some have already been displayed around the school. We also learnt about the primary colours and how to wake up water colours.

English

This week we started our new book, Stone Age Boy. We made predictions about what might happen in the story and read through the book.

Maths

We have begun to look at place value to 100. We have written numbers, verbalised numbers, identified the values of digits and partitioned numbers.

Maths – Website

In case your child is struggling with a particular areas of maths then the websites below offer further practice in that area (the 2^nd website also offers links to YouTube tutorials in the domain)

https://garyhall.org.uk/primary-maths-resources.php

Timetable for today

Timetable

Timetable