Attendance

The attendance percentage for last week was...

89.3%

This is a huge drop from last week and below target.

Maths Homework

The following Maths homework is to be completed by Thursday 3rd May 2018.

Spellings

The following spellings will be tested on Friday 4th May 2018.

impossible
illegal
irregular
inactive
insensitive
immortal
illogical
irresponsible
incomplete
inexperienced


Thank you for your continued support.

Stars of the Week!

Here are this week's STARS!

Learning Log

With only one week left until our Celebration Event we have been working hard to make sure all our work is ready for display. A letter has been sent via email about the Celebration Event, if you have not received it please contact your class teacher or the school office.

In literacy this week, following from our planning of a graphic novel, we have begun making our own. We took time to plan out each page so that we knew what our illustrations were going to look like to help us when it came to making the final product. Once we had a good plan in place we were given our blank books and have been creating them using our story and own illustrations!

Our maths focus for this week has been on identifying and understanding equivalent fractions. We have used fraction walls to help us begin to see that some fractions might have a different numerator and denominator but the size of the fraction doesn't change. We are so proud of ourselves for sticking with this and beginning to understand more about fractions.

Reading:

There has been some improvement with the reading this week, although there are still some children who haven't read at all and haven't brought their books back in to get changed. We have been talking about the importance of reading as we were writing our own stories, as the more we read the better our writing will be as we will gain a wider understanding of creating an interesting text to read. Well done for those children who are now regularly reading at least five times! Keep up the good work!

Books Makers

This week in literacy we have been turning our stories into graphic novels.

We made a plan for each page and the illustration that we wanted to include on that page. Here is a sneak preview of what we have been creating.

Attendance

The percentage score for last week was...

97.9%

This is a huge improvement! Also, it is above the target of 96% so we are doing really well. Let's keep it up and try and aim for higher!

Spellings

The following spellings will be tested on Friday 27th April 2018.

disappear
discontinue
disappoint
disagree
dishonest
misfortune
misspell
mistreat
misplace
mistrust

Maths Homework

The following Maths homework is to be completed by Thursday 26th April 2018.

Learning Log

We have had a great week in 3ST this week and have loved the warmer weather.

In literacy we finished the graphic novel 'Arthur and the Golden Rope' and discussed our favourite parts. We then wrote a letter to the author, Joe Todd-Stanton, to see if he could answer any of our questions and we tweeted him a link to our letters. We have been thrilled to get a tweet back saying that he would reply! We then decided that we would used this graphic novel to begin to create our own adventure stories to turn into graphic novels! We have come up with some amazing ideas and are looking forward to getting started on the finished product.

In maths this week we have been looking at comparing and ordering fractions. We used chocolate to help us understand that the larger the denominator the smaller the fraction (click here to see our blog post on that) and the we began comparing them using the <, > and = symbols. Towards the end of the week we started looking at equivalent fractions. We used the fraction wall to help us begin to understand this.

Reading:

There has been a big improvement in reading so far this term and we are really trying to be the best each week - well done! I have reminded the children that even if they are amazing readers they still need to be reading with an adult at home as this helps to improve their fluency with harder texts, gain a better vocabulary and have a wider understanding of text structure. All of this helps them with their writing skills as well.

Have a wonderful weekend, let's hope for more sun!

Question Time

Today we finished the story Arthur and the Golden Rope. We were amazed by the ending and loved discussing our favourite parts of the book along with the techniques we liked that the author Joe Todd-Stanton used.

However, we still had questions that needed answers. We decided to write a letter to Mr Todd-Stanton and see if we could get a reply from him on Twitter.

Here are some of our letters:

Comparing Chocolate Fractions

We had a mouth watering maths lesson today... with chocolate!

We worked in groups with a chocolate bar.

First, we wrote down the fraction of the chocolate that we wanted that would give us the most, without having the whole. We chose lots of different fractions: 1/2, 1/15, 1/12, 1/4 and 1/10.

We then had to split the chocolate up into 1/2, 1/4, 1/6 and 1/12 and find out which would give the most amount of chocolate.

Attendance

The attendance percentage for last week in 3ST was...

93.9%

We are still off our target of 69%. Please keep up the effort for the last term!

Making Volcanoes!

3ST have had a fun couple of afternoons making our volcanoes. First we created our basic volcano shape with cardboard then used paper mache to add detail.

Maths Homework

The following Maths homework is to be completed by Thursday 19th April 2018.

Stars of the Week

Here are this week's STARS!

Learning Log

Welcome back to Summer Term! Our final term in Year 3 and how time has flown already! It sounds like everyone had a fantastic Easter break with lots of stories to share with the class.

In literacy this week we have been coming to the end of our class text, 'Arthur and the Golden Rope'. We had an in depth discussion about the author and illustrator, Joe Todd-Stanton's use of text and illustration and how he tells the story sometimes only through the illustrations. We also compared the different techniques he uses when creating the illustrations. We wrote in role as Arthur to describe the adventure he went on to get the two impossible ingredients that the mighty God Thor had asked for. Towards the end of the week we created our own impossible objects poems and published them - these will be on show during our celebration event at the beginning of May (information to follow).

Our maths focus has stuck with fractions this week as we have looked at adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator within the whole. We now know to check if the denominator is the same and then look at the numerator and either add or subtract as we usually would. We also have looked a fraction wall to help us visualise how fractions come together to create a whole.

We have had lots of exciting afternoons this week creating watercolour paintings of the Northern Lights, investigation fizzy drinks and Mentos eruptions and beginning to make our volcanoes ready for our eruption display!

Reading:
I have been amazed to see the massive improvement in reading for the start of this new term. People who's last reading log entry was in 2017 have now been trying to read every day and it is fantastic. Let's keep up the great work. Remember, book bags with books and reading logs should be in every day but especially Tuesdays as this is the official book changing day. Who will be the best reader of this term?

Spellings

The following spellings will be tested on Friday 20th April 2018.

chorus
character
echo
young
touch
country
double
chef
machine
brochure

Fizz it Up

This afternoon we have had a very bubbly investigation to see which fizzy drink would give the best eruption to use in our volcano eruptions during the celebration event.

We chose five different fizzy drinks, looked at their colour and then put three Mentos in each (to make it a fair test) and decided which one was the best that we wanted to use.

Attendance

The attendance for the last week of term was...

87.1%

This is way below target so let's have a big push to get back up to 96% minimum!

Stars of the Week

Here are this week's STARS!

Sport Relief!

Here we are taking our turn on the bike for Sport Relief!