Science!!!

Next week we are having an exciting science week. We will be doing lots of  investigations involving rocks and soils. We have found some fun games to play on!


http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/materials/rocks_soils/play/

Community

Our new Christian value for this half term is Community. What can we do to make our community a friendly group to join? Which communities do you belong to?

Our cliffhanger story!

We have started making a story map for our new topic today. We had great fun putting the actions to it too. Here is a copy of our map...

Talk for Writing

In school we have started using an excellent writing scheme called talk for writing! Read some Information here if you would like to find out more.

http://www.talk4writing.co.uk/

Homework 07.11.14

Visit these websites and play fun games to work on your SMIRFS!

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/subtraction.htm

http://www.ictgames.com/subtraction.htm

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/addition-and-subtraction

Our fabulous homework!

Some of our homework this week was to make a poster that would persuade people to visit Pompeii.

We have worked really hard and are proud of what we have done! We hope you like them...

Science!

We carried out an experiment to test which material would make the best roof for the three little pigs!

Here is a fun link to have a go...

material test site

This week we have been learning how to use a numberline to help us with subtraction! There are lots of subtraction games on this site for you to have a go at! :-)

http://www.ictgames.com/subtraction.htm

Welcome to year 3!

Hi there Explorers and welcome to Year 3! We have had an excellent first few weeks and are very excited about our first topic - the Romans! Here is a fantastic website for you to explore...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/

We have also been trying to improve our quick mental addition. Have a go at this game - how quickly can you sort the mail?

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=PostSortingcalculationsv2

I am looking forward to a great term with you all, we have some exciting lessons planned for this week and will be blogging all about them! Watch this space!

Easter eggs and bonnets!

 We had lots of fun creating bonnets and eggs at home, here are some of the things we made.

Teegan created a fabulous chicken nest!

 

Here is Harry posing for the camera!!

 Karlson designed an amazing bonnet that looks like a magicians hat! Well done!

Emily looked great in her bonnet!

World book day

We have had a fantastic day celebrating world book day. We enjoyed dressing up and talking all about our favorourite books!

Shrove Tuesday

Today we ate delicious pancakes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday. We learnt all about why we do this and know that Lent starts on Ash Wednesday.

3d Egyptian Model Process

Callum has kindly sent in some photographs of him hard at work making his 3d model. Thank you Callum, it is very interesting to see the steps you went through to create your masterpiece! :-)

Thank you year 6!

We have now learnt how to upload things onto our class blog with the help of year 6. They posted our last few updates... thanks for your help girls! :-)

Ancient Eygpt
During the Hoildays we created some 3D models or a piece of artwork related to Ancient Epygpt.On Thursday 25th February our parents and carers came to see our fantasic creations.

Look at our amazing pieces of artwork

Mr Weaver vists the school
Mr Weaver came to the school and answered our questions about he bible, and whta inspired him to be a priest.

 

Visit to Selby Abbey

As part of the RE Topic, we vistied the abbey to see the beautiful stain glass windows; they were pretty unique and amazingly pretty. They really inspired us :-)

 

Lately, a class of visitors came to our school from Escrick primary school. They are our year 3 French penpals and we often write to them. When they came to visit we introduced ourselves in French! We  played some fun games... our favourite was called onze :-)

Bondgate Community Woodlands

Today we went to Bondgate Community Woodlands in Selby to plant some new hedges! Although it was a bit chilly, we had a fantastic time and learnt about different parts of a plant. We also looked at the bio-diversity of the woodland

 

A couple of years ago, our school planted the first trees there. There are now over 4500! You can read all about it on thir webpage...

 

http://www.yorkshire.groundwork.org.uk/north-yorkshire/news--events/news/2010/bondgate-community-woodland.aspx

 

Maybe it will be updated with information about us!

 

Here are some pictures from our fantastic day :-) !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have had a great first week back at school! Today Matthew did a presentation all about his AMAZING collection of Egyptian toys. He taught us a lot of new information and answered our questions too! Thank you Matthew! :-)