Teaching Time

This week we have been practicing telling the time. We have been doing very well - We played a game and managed to score 5500 points. Click on the link below to see if you can beat our score :)


http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec3.html

The October Gallery

On Tuesday we went to the October Gallery to look at the work of artist Nnenna Okore. She uses recycled materials to make her beautiful artwork.

We looked closely at her artwork and then created our own work. We had a fantastic time and would love it if you came up to Year 3 to see our artwork on display.

Homework - Friday 14th November

(To be handed in Monday)

1. Think of a title for your adventure story.

2. Draw a picture of what you think the beast look like.

3. Write full sentences describing the beast using adverbs and adjectives.

- Don't forget to use full stops and capital letters!

Science

Materials Link

As promised here is the link to the materials website we looked at last week. Now you can practice at home!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/science_7_8.shtml

Chatterbox Instructions

Last week we made notes whilst we watched our teachers make paper chatterboxes. We then used our notes to write instructions and tried to make our own chatterboxes. It was lots of fun but quite difficult!





Click on the link below and see if you can follow the instructions to make your own chatterbox -
- http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/howto04/tg/movie.htm

As promised, here is the link for the make and do section on the cbeebies website...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/make/

There are LOTS of instructions here.

We have been making paper lanterns at school today. Follow these instructions to see if you can make one. What do you notice about the instructions? What are the important parts? How do you know it isn't a story or a poem?

This is some writing from 3 Scarlet's class. It has been evaluted. Do you think it has met the features list?


How does it make you feel?

What atmosphere does it create?

Can you guess our new literacy topic?

Instructions! Today we have been seeing if we can follow oral (we someone tells them to us and we have to listen) instructions. It was a little bit messy!

We found out that we follow instructions all the time at school and we're usually really good at it. Here are some other pictures of us following instructions in a science lesson last week. We were doing an experiment to find out what objects magnets worked though. We found out they work through thinner objects like paper but not thick objects like our class dictionaries.

In literacy we are writing atmospheric passages that describe a setting. As a class we decided that it was important to have interesting adjectives, adverbs, powerful verbs, similes and correct punctuation. Have a look at Tahmed's description and see how many of these features you can spot.

This is Albion's spelling sentences homework. It is an excellent example of how the homework should look. It is neat and clear. There is a title which is underlined, he's written the date and he has underlined his spelling words. He has also written long and interesting sentences. Well done Albion!

Click on it to see it more clearly.

Welcome to 3 Scarlet!

We have started off really well with so many star spellers. Please remember your spelling test in on a Monday. This is when you get your new spellings. You will also get maths homework on a Wednesday and Literacy homework on a Friday. This week in maths we are doing some number work so practise your number facts. In literacy we are writing an atmospheric setting description, so you need to read lots and look out for interesting adjectives.

Well done to our star spellers this week


Heba

Fatima

Tahir

Ayub

Taslima

Jackie

Faraaz

Albion

Venesa

Bader

Saida

Eilaaf

And people who almost got them all...

Safiyah

Adam

Ikram

Ahmed

Jeannelle

Today in science we had such a fun lesson. We were finding out which magnets were the strongest. We were testing which magnets were the strongest. We did this by testing how many paper clips they could hold. The highest number was 40!

Remember children, look out for magnets and if you have any at home, bring them in.