Well, here we are at the end of another term (where does the time go?). After a lovely Easter assembly this morning where we listened to the Easter story from Emma (Lickey Church), we have been busy making our Easter cards. We had to practice our listening skills in order to carefully follow each step; some us learned the new skill of weaving (‘over, under, over, under‘ and then ‘under, over, under, over…). 

Also, one of our Year 4 children gained his penmanship licence today. It was a real pleasure seeing the unexpected surprise on his face when he received his handwriting pen. He was able to use it to write in his Easter card.

For Fresh Fruit Friday we tried fig.  Some liked it and some disliked the crunchy texture; at least everyone tried it.

We enjoyed our Afternoon Tea with with LB1 and  ate cake, mini chocolate eggs (naturally) and hot cross buns (which link with our current Year 3 RE theme ‘The Last Supper.’)

Please have a happy and safe Easter holiday – I hope the weather is kind so that we can all spend some time out of doors.

I will hopefully be back sometime to see how our children are getting on…maybe in the summer term. Love from Mrs Jones.

Today we had a taste of watermelon and kiwi. Everyone tried both fruits and some of us even had it for the first time – which is great to see the children trying new things and building experiences; also deciding on likes and dislikes too. 

We are in the midst of designing and making tiny outfits for our Minpin people – we are using lots of fine motor DT skills such as sewing, cutting & pinning.  We are using  wooden dolly pegs as our models. Hopefully, next week we will use our Minpins to act out scenes from the story.

Here is our close-up photo game – click on the link and have a go yourself. (Absolutely no peeking at the answers before you study the photos!)

CLOSE UPS

Here are the answers – can you match them to each picture?

apple                                cornflake                         

lipstick                            orange                           

ball-point pen             spaghetti (dried)         

sugar crystal                 fingerprint                   

  tea bag                          edge of book pages      

In LB 1 & 2 we had a circus of activities where we had to use our different senses to say what things were. We had feely boxes, played a sounds game, looked at very close-up pictures of everyday objects (this was tricky) and smelled some very pungent smells and had to guess what they were.

There will be a bake sale tomorrow at break-time (we have lots of  in date cakes leftover from last week’s Comic Relief bake sale).

50p per cake -maximum of two per pupil.

The interactive Google Doodle for today was just perfect for enabling us to find out about harmonies. It linked just nicely with our own musical compositions last week . We spent the first part of the lesson placing our own notes on the staves and then the program to put harmonies to our compositions.  They sounded great!

Our Year 3 children been learning how to compose their first pieces of music. They know the difference between an untuned instrument that only makes one note in different pitches as well as a tuned one with high, middle and low notes. Here we are writing our own music that we will perform to LB1.  They used Loki the Joker from Viking sagas as their stimulus.

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This week we finished our factfiles on The Evil Gruncher.  Using 5 main headings we compiled our posters for our classroom display.

We loved using the Macbooks for writing and editing our work.

In Year 3 games we are learning hockey skills including dribbling, passing to a partner & how to push pass. Look at our Year 3 boys in action!