English: We have continued our work on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory this week. The children have read some of the poems/songs the Oompa Loompa’s sing about each child and then they worked in small groups to plan and write their own – they were fantastic and you may get to see a snippet of them in Celebration Assembly! We ended the week with a debate about who we think the worst behaved child is and why, using evidence from the book to support our reasons.

Maths: We have been learning how to find the perimeter of different shapes this week which has helped us practise our measuring and addition skills as well as reminding us of the properties of shapes. We have also been practising adding amounts of money – both pounds and pence.

History: This week we have done some more role-play – acting as Celts and Romans imagining what it was like when the Romans invaded Britain. We then used our role-plays to help us write a diary entry as a Celt describing what happened and how we felt about the invasion.

Art: We have been making some cards this week.

We have also begun our Celebration Assembly preparations – all the children are excited to present what they have been learning to you. We hope to see you there next Friday! Have a lovely weekend!

It’s been another hard working week in Class 3!

English: We have continued our work on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with the children doing some role play as the children who won the tickets. We have read the part in the story where the children go into the Chocolate Room and have imagined what it was like, role playing our emotions and then writing a detailed description.

Maths: We have continued our measurement work this week and have been measuring how tall we are using metres and cm and converting between the two. We have also been doing some money work, learning about place value within money and comparing different amounts.

History: This week we went into the hall with our Roman Shields and pretended to be Roman Soldiers. We learned about the different formations the Roman Army used and talked about why these were effective. The children had great fun re-creating these formations in small groups.

Computing: The children have used all they have learned the past few weeks to create a poster with both text and images in publisher.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

English: We have started to read ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ this week – which we are all thoroughly enjoying! The children have written a diary entry in character as Charlie, describing what it was like to find the golden ticket and they have done some character descriptions of the other ticket winners. They were very good at using the text to support their descriptions.

Maths: We have been learning about ‘tenths’ in maths this week and have been linking this to decimals. We have also been learning how decimals link to measurement and have been putting this into practise whilst carrying out some measuring investigations.

Science: We carried out an investigation this week involving fizzy drinks! We were finding out the weight of carbon dioxide in fizzy drinks to help us establish which one was the fizziest. The children are improving their skills of evaluating their investigation once they have carried it out.

RE: We have been learning about the timeline of the Bible in order to help us understand when Jesus was alive.

Computing: The children have been planning how to use the drawing features on publisher to create their own poster.

Well done Class 3 for another great week and an extra special well done for being so well behaved when we went to Chester! Enjoy your weekend!