This week in English, we are completing our unit on information texts. The children have been busy planning some writing about their own imaginary creature and today we have worked on turning our notes into sentences. Tomorrow, we will begin writing our reports using the structure that we used last week.

In R.E yesterday, we listened to ‘What a wonderful world’ sung by Louis Armstrong while we watched some beautiful footage by David Attenborough. We were then inspired by the work of Sir David and that of Greta Thunberg when we expressed our ideas for helping the planet.

In maths this week, we are adding and subtracting tens and for Year 3, hundreds. We are also using our knowledge of number lines to 10 and 20 to help us to estimate the position of multiples of ten on number lines to 100.

In Art today, we have learnt about the African-American artist Alma Thomas and have produced our own paintings using similar techniques.

A quick note about Times Table Rock Stars: This program tests the children up to 12x the number and also includes the related division facts so some children may find this a bit challenging at the moment. BBC Super Movers has some nice resources for helping the children learn their tables and times tables.me.uk has online and printable resources too.
We are having a lovely week so far, can’t believe it’s already Tuesday!

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Today we have designed and carried out an investigation to find out if colour influences what we like to eat and drink. We looked at 5 mystery drinks and voted for our favourite based upon the colour. Next, we tasted the drinks and voted again based upon the taste. The coloured drinks were natural fruit and vegetable juices and the clear liquid was water.

A super week so far! This afternoon, we have used oil pastels in art to produce some work inspired by Robert Delaunay.

Thank you so much for all the plastic bottles! We will put them aside for a week and then start making our planes. How exciting!
This week in English, we will be continuing to look at information texts. The children are helping me to choose an unusual pet, a pet dragon! We have watched a news clip of a possible dragon sighting and then I have shared a text about the very rare Bridgnorth Ridge-Back. We have used a text map to help us and hopefully this will inspire some brilliant writing about our own dragons. In Maths, we will be looking at addition and revising our number bonds.

Well done Yellow Class for working so hard this week! In History, we have been learning about the evacuation of children during WW2 which was really interesting. As part of this topic we would love to make some model planes so if anyone has an empty plastic water bottle that they could clean and send in, we would really appreciate it. Our Science investigation yielded some fascinating results. Some of the coins had been turned to a very pale colour, which shows how important it is to brush our teeth! Please see below for some photos from our P.E lessons. Have a great weekend. Best wishes, Miss Pinches