For Monday, I would like Year 3 to think about travelling around the world. They cannot use planes or cars. I would like them to focus on the setting of 3 places that they might stop off at as they travel around the world. If they are places that you have been on holiday, that would be helpful. If they are places that they want to visit, that would be great too. If they bring photos, it would help with their writing. 

We have been playing around with Time Tables Rock Stars this week.

The way it works: 

• Firstly (if you haven't already) do the baseline test
• Afterwards, you need to complete at least 1 Studio game and 1 Sound Check. This gives you a level to work on.
• Then go and practice these table in the Garage section. If you are finding them tricky. Draw out your tables, using the array model, or bar model to help you see the tables clearly (see attachments below).
• When you feel confident, go back to the Studio and Sound Check to see if you are improving. 

Tips

It is not good to spend 15 hours a week doing this. Just do a little and often.  

Mix up the games that you play. 

Draw out the tables that you find tricky. It works!

This week we have been learning the highs and lows of using Microsoft Word. We researched our favourite food in order to inspire us to write food poems next week. The children have learnt; to copy and paste images from Google Kids, to edit the headers on a Word document, to centralise and enlarge an image, add a text box and save their work. We did hit some bumps along the road. but have learnt to be resilient when it comes to IT. Please try and play around with creating your own favourite food documents at home and practising these Word skills. 

In Maths, we have been learning how to take a fraction of an amount. If we have a fraction 2/5 of 20, the children know to create 5 boxes and equally share 20 amongst them, then circle 2 of the boxes for 2/5. 

What a great time we had! The insects that we discovered were mind blowing. We started our trip with a bug talk by a member of the Furzey Team and went exploring ourselves. We discovered amazing insets and arachnids hidden in the long grasses. The photo is of an garden orb web spider. We played in the adventure playground and explored the hidden areas that the gardens offered. 

The children generated many ideas about what we could do with our school garden and we have an idea of plants that we could add. 

Homework

Homework has been set on Mathletics and Spelling Shed. When searching for these websites, type in Ed Shed for the spelling shed and Mathletics and click on the first link. Pupils already have these passwords in the back of their diaries, but if they do not, then they need to bring their diaries in to get them stuck in. 

This Week

This week we have been learning about place value, along a number line and different ways in which we can partition numbers. 

In English, we have started writing out our own Stone Age stories, which include creative ways of travelling in time. 

In Science, we carried out an insect, arachnid and molluscs count around the school. We aim to look at ways of improving the living environment of these creates over the year as part of our scientific study. 

Last Day!