Christmas lunch

On Wednesday we had a Christmas lunch .We used our best manners and
acted as if we were in a restaurant.The christmas lunch tasted delishes.
The best part was the christmas cookie and when we left we all said thank you.

by Phoebe

ICT working together

ICT - Y5's supporting us

ICT - collaborating

ICT - problem solving?

ICT Y5 mentoring Y3

NUMERACY - HOMELEARNING

Don't forget to practice your multiplication tables for home learning. Have a look on the numeracy page, where you will find a multiplication tables tab. It has different games on it, to help you learn in a fun way.

Literacy

This week we have prepared for our school production a grimm nigth for
hans christian anderson.
My most challening thing was to do the frogs and lilly pads. We made
them out of a4 paper.

But I enjoyed the singing and dancing.Ezekiel dressed like a builder
and Jasmine dressed up as a elf1 and the red shoe dancer. It was the
first time ever all year 3 did the key stage2 production we were so
excited but we did have butterflys.



your sincearly Jasmine and Ezekiel.

Literacy

In the school production we worked really hard.
My favourite part was singing. Ella's favorite part was being on the
stage.
My most
challenging part was trying to make a paper frog. Ella's was learning
her lines.

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Ella a nd Lily- Anne year3

The school production is humourous because
of all the effort we have put into it.We made paper frogs and lilie
ponds we found it a little challenging.
and the variety of moves
in each dance.

by quinn and Eddie.

Literacy

Key stage 2 have been working hard at singing and acting for the
production. We made frogs out of paper they were challenging.We also
made water lillys out of paper they were challenging to.

by
Archie and Jess.

Literacy

Our name`s are Anthony and Anna ,in Literacy we are learning. We like
our frog dance.

We think that the lily pads and were challenging and the lily
flowers.

by Anna and Anthony

literacy

In year 3 we have learnt some songs for our production.
we have been making tickets for the play.
Our favorite part was the singing and the most challenging was
learning the songs and the dance routine.

by Fahima and Joshua.

Literacy

We made tickets for the production and it was very
good.The main characters are Hans Christian Anderson and the Grimm
brothers and We prepared lot's of loverly song's for you.

The dancing was super challenging. We enjoyed the song's (hope you
do.)



By Ben and Millie C.

Literacy

This week there is a production and there are diffrent characters.
There are so many songs.
It is called a Grimm Night for Hans Christian Anderson.
We made a dance with frog music.
It was challenging because the rivem was slow.




By Amelie and Keeley.

literacy

We did a production called A Grimm Night for Hans Chrisan Anderson
Phoebe's make up was very green with a black spider. Peters costume
was green to because we did a frog dance also we did pantings of
water lillys for the backdrop . Phoebe was a witch from hansel and
gretel . Peter enjoyed the singing and Phoebe found it challenging
geting her voice loud enuff.by peter and phoebe
.

Literacy

For the production we painted water lilies for the backdrop.We made
origami water lilies and frogs.We
also made a dance linked with the frog prince.We mostly liked "The
Grimm brothers" song and the most

challenging part was finding our seats.



By Jan and William.

Literacy

This week we are doing a play .The play is called a grimm night for
hans christian andersen.
Ryan is a police man and charlie is elf number 2.
We are wearing face paint.
We found it hard lurning the words.
You can come if you like.




By charlie and ryan.

Literacy

This week there is a production and there are diffrent characters.
There are so many songs.
It is called a Grimm Night for Hans Christian Anderson.
We made a dance with frog music.
It was challenging because the rivem was slow.


By Amelie and Keeley.

Literacy

There was a production called a Grimm night for Hans Chistian
Anderson.

There is loads of characters for example ugly duckling, bed store
sails man, magic dancing shoes and Grimm brothers.







It was really challenginng when we had to practise our words.





We really enjoyed doing the dancing and singing.





By Millie T and Jamie.

literacy

We enjoyed singing the songs of grimm. It was magnifcent and
splendid and amazing.


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Erin and LUCAS

Literacy

I found learning the songs challenging because there were lots of songs
to learn.I enjoyed learning our dance for the production and the play
was exalant because we put alot of time and effot in to it.by sam

ART - A study of water lily ponds.

In production week, we learnt a little about Claude Monet and had the opportunity to study some of his water lily paintings. We wanted to create a back drop for our dance in the school production, so set about painting our own water lily ponds,using our colour blending skills and also created collages using our ICT skills.

The children really worked hard and produced some fantastic works of art. Make sure you come to the school production and look out for the backdrop to our dance.

DT - Production week - The frog Prince & his pond!

As part of our production week, we tried the very difficult art of paper folding - called origami. The children discovered that to be successful, they needed to use their numeracy skills as well as DT skills. They needed to fold precise rectangles and triangles, using lines and angles. They also had to assess their work as it progressed. It was really challenging. Here is some examples of our lily pond flowers and frogs.

Lucas taking the lead in the cross country

OUR NEW TOPIC - C'EST LA VIE!

Our topic for the next few weeks is called C'est la vie! (That's life!) and it will be about all things French.

The children have planned the questions they want answered, which include: What are the regions of France? What food is eaten? How tall is the Eiffel tower? How long does it take to get there? What are the houses like and how many people live in France?
Watch this space to see how we go about answering these questions creatively and don't forget to look at the topic page for activities and video clips. 
Remember we have our French page to support our learning of the language too.

LITERACY - writing postcards & setting an experiment.

Just before 1/2 term, we started to learn about the different styles of writing letters. We learnt how to send emails and how to write a postcard. To make the experience more real, the children had to write their postcard to someone important to them - most were written to their family. As part of the process, we discovered that no one really knew how long a postcard would take to arrive at it's destination (most children thought it would only take a few hours at most) So, we decided to set up an experiment. Postcards were written, and then Ezekiel (photographer) Jan and Jess went to the post office, bought the stamps (a mixture of 1st & 2nd class stamps) and safely deposited them in the right post box. Interestingly the cards took between 1 and 5 days to arrive, and 1 seems to have got lost (poor Peter). Perhaps we should write to the Royal Mail and let them know!

Ezekiel, the photographer, proving we were at the Blandford post office.

Buying the stamps. Jan & Jess, were extremely polite when asking for their stamps. A credit to their families & the school.

Making sure they went into the right post box.

Jan, inspecting the post box carefully!

PRODUCTION TOPIC

I hope you are having (have had) a fabulous holiday. I thought you might like to know what we will be getting up to after 1/2 term.
We will be having a short topic based on our school production - A Grimm night for Hans Christian Anderson. As part of our topic, we will learn to write formal invitations in literacy, design and create tickets for the performance and create a backdrop for our dance. We will study the French artist Monet..........

 and learn the Japanese craft of paper folding, called Origami.

 We will also be filming some of our art work and developing our photography skills. Our work will, of course,  need to be of a high quality, because it will be seen by everyone, and we will be attempting things more than once, so that we can improve it and be the best that we can be! Be prepared for hard work and lots of fun. The best kind of work! 

Numeracy

We made models of teeth made out of clay in topic.
In numercy we where learning about data.
by Ed and RYAN

Art

This week we have been learning about teeth and their different names.
We have made different types of teeth.We have learnt three different
type of teeth. The names are molar,incisor and canine.Another thing we
have been doing in art is mixing colurs[fruit].We have been mixing blue,
yellow and red.These are the three primary colurs.





By Jasmine and William.

Science

This week in science we have been learning abat teeth.by keeley

In Art we have made models of 3D teeth.by Jamie.

Art

This week in art we have been making 3D models of teeth out of clay.We
found it difficult.We found it difficult because it was hard getting
the right shape.bySam and Amelie.

Numeracy

This week in numeracy we have been working with data .We thought it
was kind of hard but challenge.

By Jessica and Quinn

Art

We made teeth out of clay .
By Anthony and Ella.

RE

we were planning a cruise to America. We felt excited.
by Peter and Erin

ICT - Exciting News

Next week we are going to learn to use our class email. This means that you will be able to send emails from school. You could let your family know when you are star of the week, before you see them. Email home learning to me from home or write a blog and send it. Just like I've done! How exciting!

Sent from my iPhone

SCIENCE - exploring materials

As part of our Hansel & Gretel topic, we looked at which materials are used to make buildings and the things that go in them. We then explored making our own, making sure the structure was strong enough to support the other materials. Just like a real building needs to be.

NUMERACY - symmetry skills

Having learnt about lines of symmetry in numeracy, the children then applied their knowledge to creating symmetrical patterns. Can you work out which ones have 1 line of symmetry, which have 2 and which one isn't quite symmetrical?

ART - STILL LIFE PAINTING.

Following on from our lesson on how to mix secondary colours from primary colours, we learnt how to sketch fruits. We then mixed our colours using only red, blue & yellow (with white to create different shades) looking carefully at the apples and pears to try and get the right match.

Look at these fabulous still life pictures.Well done year 3, you did really well, drawing and mixing colours independently.