We’ve had another exciting week this week, and are really getting stuck into our new topics this week.

In Literacy, we’ve been developing our use of basic punctuation.  Our topic this half term is focused on explaining topics clearly both orally and in writing, so we’ve been practising our oral presentations – we’ve done brilliantly!

In Maths we’ve been using number patterns to help us add sets of numbers.  Mentally we’ve been focusing on super-quick recall of tables 2, 5 and 10 – we’re smashing it!

Our Topic is “All about me: sound and hearing”.  We’ve been thinking about what types of animals have the best hearing and why and how we hear sound.  We’re really enjoying it.  We can’t wait for next week!

We had a great time in the Riverside Centre this week.  We made shelters and we ate our lunch in them, which was the best part.  We tested if they were waterproof by our leader, Ashley, throwing  water from a watering can all over the den.  We also played elves, giants and wizards which was a lot of fun.  We’re very lucky that we’re going to the Riverside and we can’t wait to go again next week in our smart, new weatherproof clothes.

Tonight our Christmas cards are coming home.  We used the theme of a robin on our card and used our handprint to make the body.  The bird is individual to our handprint.  We all enjoyed  making our first Christmas card in Year 3.

In English, we have learned about conjunctions in sentences: these were called and, but and so.  We used adjectives to describe and we learned to spell past tense verbs.  In maths, we have been learning number bonds to 100 and over.  We’ve enjoyed our sessions of “Big Maths” and we have place value.

In our Topic, we have learned about World War 2 and the Blitz.  Some of us have brought in medals and  photos and even a real shell of a bomb to class!    Next week we are looking forward to starting our Missions in our Topic work.

In Topic this week, we have been exploring NASA’s website to find out about Space inventions that we now use in our everyday lives. An example of this is an infrared ear thermometer. Originally, the technology was used to measure the temperature of distant stars.  Now, we use the technology to measure ear temperature to check for high temperatures.

In English this week, we have been looking at instruction writing and choosing adverbs and bossy verbs for our writing.  Also, we have been working on our Oracy skills preparing to present our instructions on how to wash your hands properly to Nursery children.

In Maths this week, we worked on our data handling skills and created, extracted and interpreted pictograms and bar graphs. Also this week, we have been working on measurements of weight.  Did you know, we measure weight in grams and kilograms? 1000g=1kg.

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In Welsh this week, we have been working on our third person profiles.  We researched and wrote about our patron Saint, Saint David.

In English, we we finished writing our story, The Legend of Alltwen. We included lots of adjectives, adverbs and complex sentences to make our stories more interesting.

In Maths, we have using expanded column addition to solve problems.

Finally, we have been practicing for our class assembly and we are looking forward to performing it for our parents and siblings next Thursday.

Blwyddyn 3.

What a busy last week of term.  This week in topic, we have been learning about shadows and have carried out an investigation on light and shadows.

In English, we have been looking at simple, complex and compound sentences using interesting vocabulary to improve out writing.  As well as this, we innovated the story of Gelert, changing it to the Legend of Alltwen.

In Maths, we have been working on addition using the expanded column addition to add 3 digit numbers. This was challenging.

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We have had a great week! This week, we have enjoyed going swimming.  In topic this week we have been doing missions and our major task was to solve words problems involving adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.

In English, we have been learning the story of Gelert and writing our story maps.

In Maths, we have begun to look at our times tables using arrays to help us multiply and divide.

Next week, we are looking forward to another week of swimming.

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Waw! What a busy week! This week in topic, we have started our mission work on the solar system. These included cracking codes, finding information about the planets, working out clues to order the planets and creating our own planets.

In English, we have begun to Pie Corbett the story of Gelert using actions.

In Maths, we have been ordering 3 digit numbers on a number line and using Freddie the frog to help us subtract by adding on.  Furthermore we have been using our knowledge of place value to round numbers to the nearest 100 and 10.

Next week, we are looking forward to our swimming lessons!

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Another busy week.  This week we have been looking at facts about Henry VIII and we have used the facts to write a personal profile in Welsh.

In English, we worked on compound sentences and have innovated the story Nail Soup in preparation for writing our own stories.  Also, we have used the story mountain to plan our own stories and have begun to write the opening of our story.

In Maths this week, we have been learning about fractions like 1/2, 1/4, 1/3 and 1/6 and have been finding fractions of amounts.  This was challenging.  Also, we used our knowledge of fractions to solve a puzzle.

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Another jam packed week!  This week the Riverside teachers came to teach us in our Garden of Learning.  We played some fun games and made crafts out of wood. In Topic, we started our art work and have decided to make collages of Henry VIII.

In English, we have learnt about similes.  Similes contain the words as or like in them and they are used to describe something as something else.

In Maths, we have been using Freddie the Frog to help us subtracting by counting on.  We have also been working on positioning numbers on a number line.  This was quite hard.

Until next week…

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