English: The Year 2 children have continued to revise capital letters and full stops this week. The Year 3 children began the week with an adverb activity where they had to make sure the adverb used in a sentence made sense and was in the correct place. We then all spent some time revising the different types of sentences – questions, commands, statements and exclamations and practised punctuating these correctly through playing games and doing some written work.

Maths: This week the Year 2 children have been revising their number bonds to 10 and 20. The Year 3 children have been finding 10 more and 10 less of a 3 digit number. We have all been learning about the equals sign and how it means ‘the same as’ and therefore can be placed in different places in a number sentence and not just at the end – e.g. 20 = 15 + 5 or 19 + 1 = 10 + 10.

Science: The children did some brilliant work this week on describing why a material was suitable for a given purpose. They were using some good adjectives to describe the properties of the different materials.

History: We have started to learn about Christopher Columbus. We learned some facts about his life and then the children spent some time in partners on the BBC Primary History website looking at pictures and playing games linked to Columbus.

RE: We spent some time doing some work on peace in order to prepare for a whole school display. We talked about what peace is, what it means to us and how we can bring it in our everyday lives.

Computing: The children have continued to develop their word processing skills this week by learning how to insert text boxes and images.

French: We have continued our work on greetings with the children learning how to say ‘How are you?’ and how to respond.

PE: The children have continued with their dance and games lessons.

Well done for another hard working week Class 3! Enjoy your weekend!

English: We have been focusing on SPAG this week.

The Year 2 children have revised capital letters and full stops, remembering to only include them in the middle of a sentence when it is for the name of a person or place or ‘I’.

The Year 3 children have continued to focus on adverbs. They have expanded their vocabulary by finding adverbs which mean the same thing. They have practised using these within their sentences.

We ended the week with an independent writing activity where the children had to imagine they were Carl from the film ‘Up’, looking for someone to go on an adventure with him. They wrote a job advert for an explorer linked to this.

Maths: We have continued our work on place value with the Year 2 children working with two digit numbers and the Year 3 children working with three digit numbers. We have been comparing numbers when they are represented in different ways using the greater than, less than and equals symbols. We have also practised putting numbers in order from smallest to largest/largest to smallest and have completed some problem solving activities.

Science: This week we went on a walk around Bicton Village to see how materials are being used in everyday life – see earlier post in week for photos.

History: We have continued to learn about some famous explorers and have identified on a world map some of the places they have visited.

Computing: The children have continued to develop their word processing skills and have learned how to underline their text and put it in bold and italics. They have also learned how to move their text to different areas of the page.

RE: We have learned about the 5 pillars of Islam this week.

PE: Children have continued their dance and games lessons this week.

French: We have continued our work on greetings. The children have been practising how to ask and tell someone their name.

Well done Class 3 for working hard this week! Have a lovely weekend!

English: This week we have been learning about how to add detail and description in our sentences. The Year 2’s have been learning about expanded noun phrases. They have been thinking of some exciting adjectives and have been learning how to use more than on in a sentence and how to separate them with commas. They Year 3’s have been focusing on adverbs this week. They have spent some time learning how to spot them in a sentence as well as having a go at writing their own sentences containing adverbs.

Maths: We have continued working on place value this week. The children have been learning how to identify the value of each digit within a number – Year 2’s have been working with 2 digit numbers and the Year 3’s have been working with 3 digit numbers. We have been looking at how numbers can be represented in lots of different ways through using equipment and through partitioning a number – e.g. 58 is 50 + 8.

Science: The children were introduced to our topic of ‘Everyday Materials’ this week. We spent some time looking at and identifying materials we already know. We were thinking of the ways these materials are used and why they may have been chosen for that specific purpose.

History: We went on a mini expedition around the school grounds to try to understand what it is like to be an explorer! We had to use a map to help us locate the different locations. We then found out about different explorers throughout history and some of the places where they went on expeditions.

RE: We had our first lesson on Islam this week. The children have watched a video of a Muslim child explaining what it’s like to be a Muslim and what her life is like. We then talked about all the questions we would like to find the answers to relating to Islam.

Music: The children began their ocarina lessons this week.

Computing: We spent some time working on Microsoft Word, learning how to change the style, colour and size of our font.

PE: The children have continued their dance and games lessons this week.

Please see other posts above regarding homework and a walk around Bicton Village next week as part of our science work. 

We have had a fantastic first week back in Class 3!

English: We have watched the beginning of the film ‘Up’ and the children have spent some time discussing and recording predictions of what they think might happen in the story. They have spent some time imagining what it would be like to be in the flying house and thinking about what they could see as they flew away. We used our ideas to write some expanded noun phrases about what we could see.

Maths: We have been focusing on Place Value this week. The children have practised counting in 2’s, 3’s, 5’s, 10’s (Year 2 & 3) and 4’s (Just Year 3) this week through playing  games and completing puzzle activities. We have spent some time building numbers with equipment and matching numerals to written words. The year 2 children have focused on numbers up to 100 and the year 3 children have been focusing on 3 digit numbers.

History: The children have been introduced to their new topic of ‘Explorers’. We did a treasure hunt around the school to find clues about the two famous explorers we will be focusing on – Neil Armstrong and Christopher Columbus. The children then came up with some questions they have about these explorers and we will aim to find the answers to these during the course of our topic.

PSHE: We have spent some time creating our class rules and thinking about our hopes for the year ahead.

PE: The children have had a dance and a games lesson this week.

French: The children have been introduced to some simple greetings in French.

We have also spent some time talking about the reflection area in our class and how we can use it.

Well done for a brilliant first week Class 3! Keep up the good work!