Les couleurs

In French this afternoon we practised our colours. Some couleurs were easy like bleu and orange. We thought about our Diwali play for Christmas. In Numeracy we practised our number bonds to 20. In Literacy we put are arguements for having or not having school uniform on paper.

Artists

We have a lot of good artists in Year 3. We watched animations of how you can draw a hand or a tiger. The animation showed that the artist started the tiger drawing by doing a big circle. We then found the positions of the mouth and eyes by drawing a triangle.
We found in Numeracy that if numbers are close together they are easy to subtract. We can put the lower number in your head and count on to the higher number. In Literacy we made suggestions about how we would like to change the school. We took these ideas and wrote statements in favour and against the statement.

Should we have a school uniform?

We are going to end the week in Literacy by writing a persuasive text. We gave suggestions of ow we would change the school. Some of the suggestions were: Swimming for all Key Stage 2 children, heathier school dinners, longer playtimes, every child to have a laptop and no school uniform. We discussed having no school uniform. We tried to persuade children to agree with our point of view.
In numeracy we used a range of different methods to solve addition problems. We used near doubles, number bonds, partitioning and changing the order of sums.
We practised our drawing skills in the afternoon. We saw how artists drew hands and a tiger's face and copied their methods.

Treat time

We finished off the day by having our treat and watching fifteen minutes of Nemo. In the morning we used a fraction wall to compare fractions to see which was bigger. We finished off our literacy by writing an information report about teeth and eating.

Big teeth

we did really well in Numeracy with our fractions. We used our division skills to find fractions of numbers. We put different dance moves together (criss-cross, hand jive, head slide, slot etc) and made up our own dance.
We discussed how we looked after our teeth and some of us practised cleaning teeth using a giant toothbrush and a giant set of teeth. We then wrote an information report about keeping our teeth healthy.

Steel band

We used 2calculate in Numeracy to practise our fraction skills. In Literacy we wrote information about the different types of teeth.
We had a fantastic afternoon watching a steel band. they played Amarillo, the music to Match of the Day and to the cricket as well as the wheels on the bus. Later on we all had a chance to play on the drums.

Fractions

We were very good at working out how much of a shape had been shaded. We then drew our own shapes to show fractions, this was much harder.
In Literacy we start writing information about food. We put our topics in different paragraphs.
We did not know much about teeth although we did think that we had different sets of teeth called scissors, vampire and moaners. We now know they are called: molars, incisors and canines.

Film stars

We started by trying to think of a number less than one. We thought of 0 and -1, -2 etc. Then Jason thought of a quarter. We then folder a piece of paper in half, then half again and so on. We managed to fold the paper in half six times then it became impossible to fold again. Each time we worked out what fraction each part was worth.
In literacy we practised spelling difficult words by conentrating on the difficult bit. For instance fluoride the bit we got wrong was the uo. If we got this bit right most of us got the word right.
In the afernoon we looked at food groups and finished off the day by watching a CD of our performance at London Live Videoconferencing. This was sent to us with a certificate thanking us for taking part.

Lovely sweetcorn

School started at 10.30 as Year 6 were taking exams. We looked at and discussed some shape poems and then brainstormed some words for our Firework poem tomorrow. We came up with some very interesting verbs: screaching, screaming, zig zagging, exploding whizzing and many more. In the afternoon Mr Greenwood got out a pair of tights and put inside it a potato, beans, water, banana and sweetcorn. This was to teach us about digestion. The digestive tube in our body can be 8m long. The food is broken down with the good bits going into the blood to bring energy to all parts of our body. The sweetcorn came out without changing. sweetcorn is good for us because it helps push food through our body.

Half day

We tackled some division word problems this morning with Mrs Iqbal. We then went round the computer suite and used our work from yesteray to edit the "Boneyard rap" poem. then it was off home. Short and sweet.

Boneyard rap

We are now getting better at working out division sums. In our stand up challenge on the two times table it was very difficult to pick winners as many children were so fast.
Our rap today was the boneyard rap which we used for a model of our own writing. Some of our ideas were the Northwood rap, pet shop rap, fairy tale rap and the Nigerian rap. There were some excellent raps.
We finished our work on rocks with a quiz which showed that we have picked up a lot of information about rocks.

Rapping

We tried division with remainders today and we did very well. In literacy we looked at some rap poems and then in groups wrote our own raps. MC Leonardo suggested some wonderful lines. In the afternoon we discussed what we know about rocks and wrote a story about Roger Rock and how he is broken down by the weather and water it is broken down to become soil.

Division rules

We all worked well at solving division sums. To work out 20 divided by 5, we counted up in 5s (4) to get our answer. Some children particularly Amy were able to answer these questions very quickly by the end of the lesson. These questions are much easier if we know our times tables so our homework this week is to learn our 2 times table.
In Literacy we wrote an information text on Florence Nightingale. We used the past tense and wrote events in the orde that it happened in her life. Amazing how many children can remember details of the owl she used to carry around with her.
We tested in the afternoon which rocks are permeable and impermeable.

Early home

Today Year 6 were taking their econdary transition tests so the other children finished at 1 o'clock.
We remembered that in Numeracy that it is easy to multiply by 10 and 100. We tried to use this skill to answer more testing questions such as 40 x 3. Some of us spotted that if we can do this sum like this: 4 x 3 x 10. This made the sum much easier.
We used Literacy, Science and ICT skills to prepare an information text on rocks and soils.

Guido

An array is a group of dots in rows and columns. We used these to help us understand multiplication and division. We found that if we know that 5 x 3= 15 then we also know that 3 x 5 =15, 15 shared between 3 is 5 and 15 shared between 5 is 3.
We watched a DVD of the story of Guy Fawkes and made notes of what we saw. Did you know his first name was really Guido? We practised the moves for the Cha Cha slide. If we knew our left from our right it would be billiant.
In the afternoon we researched rocks and soils on the Internet and then went on the library bus.

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Our task in Numeracy was to find different sets of four numbers that add up to 20. We worked out that this can be made easier by looking for a pattern.
The pattern we used was:
0 + 0 + 0 + 20 = 20
0 + 0 + 1 + 19 = 20
0 + 0 + 2 + 18 = 20
0 + 0 + 3 + 17 = 20
In Literacy we worked on suffixes and prefixes. Suffixes are letters added to the end of a work to change its meaning. Beauty becomes beautiful (full of beauty) care becomes careful (full of care).

Cha cha cha

What wonderful dancers we have in Year 3, including Becky and Karen! We watched a DVD of the cha cha slide and then learnt and used the moves.
In Numeracy we investigated what happens when you add two even numbers or an odd and an even number. Children explained that they knew the answer because they did the sums and this proved that their statements were correct.
We learnt that prefixes are letters that can be put in front of words to change their meanings. If you put un in front of the following words they will have an opposite meaning: tie (untie), tidy (untidy) kind (unkind). We will be working with some more prefixes tomorrow.
How can you tell which rock is the hardest? This is the problem we had to solve. We tried to scratch each one with a finger nail, a 1p coin and then a nail. By making a note of which ones were scratched we were able to find out which rock was the hardest.
Mrs Redmond told the class that she had been told by a teacher at Welling school that they had seen our videoconference at London Live. They said we were the best prepared and most interactive videoconference. We were the best! We agree.

Rocks all around us

We used calculators in Numeracy and investigated what happened when we add tens to numbers. We saw that the unit number always stays the same. In literacy we had sentences in which the words were in the wrong order. We had to change the sentences so they made sense.
Who can stand up the longest on one leg. Temi and Brogan had a competition. Brogan found this task easy but Temi couldn't do it. This was because we made Temi stand with his foot next to the wall. We realised that this wasn't fair and that they should both have been tested the same way. It is the same in science, to make a fair test we mut treat them both the same way. We looked at what houses are made of and found out that they are mostly made from rocks. Glass is made from sand and limestone, floor tiles from clay, some roofs made from slate and then there's bricks and cement.