Spellings

The following spellings will be tested on Friday 8th June.

division
invasion
collision
confusion
decision
television
tension
comprehension
occasion
erosion

Thank you.

Learning Log

The first half of the summer term has come to an end! We have covered so much this half term and everyone has worked incredibly hard.

In literacy this week we have continued with our story and met some new and interesting characters. We were introduced to a mysterious new island that crept up on our main characters. We spent a couple of days working to create a poem about this new island using some fantastic vocabulary. We drew illustrations of the island from the description in the book (there's a blog post on that), we then used these to help us create a fantastic sentence to describe. After that we spent some time perfecting and improving our sentence before we shared them with the class to begin to create a poem. We could then create our own poem! They were amazing! We were also introduced to sea monkeys! We created leaflets on how to care for a sea monkey and came up with some brilliant ideas on how to do that! We have finished the week off by forming an argument giving reasons why Cliff (our island friend) should either grow roots and become a settled island or go to the Shallowed Hallows and enter the competition! What will he choose to do?

Maths this week has been using our knowledge of lines (horizontal, vertical, parallel and perpendicular) to explore and find different lines within 2D shapes. We worked in pairs to investigate 2D shapes and begin to identify the lines within them. After that, we used this understanding to work on our own and answer questions about lines within different 2D shapes - we found this very challenging but didn't give up! Towards the end of the week we have been measuring lines in shapes and comparing them before drawing our own lines and shapes accurately.

Reading:

Again we have seen an improvement with most people's reading this week. We have three girls who are leading the way. The expected number of reads for this half term is 35 (reading 5 times a week for 7 weeks). Unfortunately, there was a large number of children who had read less than 10 times throughout the whole half term! As this is classed as homework these children are not following school homework expectations and are falling behind in their reading as they are not progressing through the home reading levels as expected.
There are 7 weeks remaining after the half term break. It would be great to see every child reading at least 5 times a week every week. Let's see who is going to rise to the challenge and be the best improved!

Enjoy the half term break, fingers crossed for sunshine!

See you in June!

Easter Island

This afternoon we have enjoyed trying to recreate some of the statues found on Easter Island!

Illustrators

Today in literacy we focused on a section of text that was very descriptive about another rambling isle.

"It was tall and rocky, and on its summit dark trees clustered. Among the trees stood a ruined temple, crumbly and overgrown. Around the temple towered huge stone heads with empty eyes and open mouths. They looked a bit like the famous statues on Easter Island. (In fact they were where the Easter islanders had got the ideas from, for this Rambling Isle had passed close to Easter Island, long ago.)"

After listening to the paragraph carefully a couple of times we began to draw the image that the description put in our heads. We then spent some time sharing what we had drawn with our partner, annotating sections.

Attendance

The percentage of attendance for last week was:

95.1%

That is just below the target of 96% but we have already had a great start to this week with everyone in and on time. Well done!

Learning Log

We have had an exciting and jam packed week this week. Dressing up in our fancy wedding clothes on Thursday was a great treat and we all looked fantastic.

In literacy this week we have been continuing our story 'Oliver and the Seawigs'. We were introduced to a new character... a mermaid called Iris! We discussed what we knew about her from the story and created a character profile for her. We then learned about idioms, like "piece of cake", and used them to write about Iris. Also this week we learned what a seawig is. We designed a seawig ready to be made in the afternoon - there are photos of this on the blog for you to see. We also created sarcastic scripts and used our knowledge of dictionaries to create our own dictionary approved explanation.

Our maths focus for this week have been on shape. We started by recapping on 2D shapes and remembering the different properties for these. We then moved on to 3D shapes and began to look at some shapes that haven't been looked at before such as a tetrahedron. We focused on the different 2D shapes that make up the faces of a 3D shape. We then used this knowledge to create nets of a real life 3D shape.

Reading:
We have had a huge improvement on reading this week with lots of children reading five times or more. All these children have got their raffle ticket for this week. At the moment the girls are well in the lead and seemed to consistently reading at least five times or more. Let's see if the boys can catch up with the girls next week. Lots of children have moved up a level so it would be great for those children to be moving their way through their new reading level.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Spellings

The following spellings will be tested on Friday 25th May.

measure
pleasure
treasure
enclosure
composure
creature
picture
adventure
nature
furniture

Thank you.

Maths Homework

Maths' homework to be completed for Thursday 24th May 2018.

Can you find 6 examples of 3D shapes in everyday objects that you might find around your home?

Example:

Tin of Beans = cylinder

Try and find as many different shapes as you can!!

Creating a Seawig

Today we started creating our very own seawigs! We took the inspiration from our current class text called 'Oliver and the Seawigs'. Not sure what a seawig is? We are now very knowledgeable to feel free to ask us.

Here are some picture of us beginning to make our own seawigs:

Attendance

The attendance percentage for last week was...

95.1%

This is just below target. Can we get everyone in this week and get back up to target and above for next week?

Spellings

The following spellings will be tested on Friday 18th May.

supermarket
superstar
superhero
anticlockwise
antibiotic
antisocial
antiseptic
autograph
autobiography
automatic

Learning Log

It might have been a short week this week, but that didn't stop us from fitting in lots of exciting things as we started our new topic. We had a fantastic launch day on Tuesday - click here to follow the link to see the photos.

In literacy this week we started by making predictions about the new book that we are looking at. We looked at an illustration of some of the characters and came to come conclusions about what type of characters we think they might be and what the story might be about. We then read the first few pages and discovered they are explorers.

In maths this week we have been looking at positional language with lines. Words like vertical, horizontal, diagonal and parallel. We have been completing different tasks proving that we know what these words mean and can display them correctly.

Reading:
We had a big increase of children reading at least five times this week which was fantastic. Quite a number of children have been moved up to the next reading level, they will not be able to change their books up a level if they don't bring their books in on Tuesday. Let's have everyone bringing their books in on Tuesday ready to change and see who has read the most for this week!

Stars of the Week!

Here are this week's STARS!

Maths Homework

The following Maths homework is to be completed by Thursday 17th May 2018.

Diving into Our New Topic

Yesterday we held our launch day for our brand new topic:

In the morning we did lots of activities based around our new topic. We cracked a morse code to reveal our topic title and then used the morse code alphabet to write our names and a secret message to our friends!

Attendance

The percentage for 3ST last week was...

96.3%

We are heading back up in the right direction! Well done!

Maths Homework

The following Maths homework is to be completed by Thursday 10th May 2018.

Spellings

The following spellings will be tested on Friday 11th May.

redecorate
reappear
return
refresh
submerge
subheading
submarine
international
interrupt
internet