To celebrate Reading Week, Class 10 enjoyed a lovely warm walk down to our local library and spent some time amongst the bookshelves. We loved the different craft and play opportunities that we found in the children’s section as well as the wide range of books to choose from. We even had the opportunity to work behind the desk and listen to a new story that we’s never even seen before!
In our Religious Education session this week, we continued our learning about Moses and the Exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. We learned about their hurried meal of lamb and a flat bread called matzah, and we found out that the Jewish faith remembers and celebrates this important time in their religion via the holiday of Passover (or, Pesach in Hebrew). To consolidate our learning, we sorted reasons for the Exodus into True and False … luckily, we weren’t caught out by any of the red herrings!
We have really been enjoying learning all about the stories of the Jewish religion, why not ask us about how the Jews were told to protect their first born sons from the tenth plague of Egypt?
Wow – what a fab American-themed day we’ve enjoyed in Year 3 today! Some fantastic costumes and great, fun activities from American musical bells and rock guitars – to -cheerleading and dancing … not to mention there were doughnuts at lunch time!! Yum Yum! Thank you to everyone for taking part.
Thank you to everyone who could attend our family learning event today … we hope you enjoyed our Roman Numeral Crack the Code experience! And for those that managed to uncover the secret the message – well done!
Here is this week’s spelling practice: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14Nb7RT0YlzLpH9ZohSyduZjiqCWUE5QM/view?usp=sharing
Last week, Year 3 children brought home a small blue ‘messages book’ with their school reading book, and we would just like to clarify the following:
Inside the little blue books, you will find:
The little blue books are not a ‘reading diary’ but if you wish to log your child’s reading at home then please feel free to use this. Teachers will check in with these blue books from time to time so feel free to include non-important messages that you would like us to take note of. However, any time-sensitive messages or matters of importance should be raised directly with your child’s class teacher to avoid it being missed.
Any further log-in details or the like will be added to these little blue books as we go, and you will be advised accordingly.
The expectations for home reading in Y3 are as follows:
We thank you for your support with this and, if there are any further questions, please don’t hesitate to speak with your child’s class teacher.
Mrs Dutton & Miss Cooper x
Last week, Year 3 continued their RE learning around the Jewish religion and its stories about God’s promises. We learned about the story of Moses, from his escape as a baby in a Moses basket on the River Nile to his victory in leading his people out of slavery and through the Red Sea itself. To consolidate their learning, children reenacted scenes from the story and created story maps to retell the tale. Why not ask your child to retell you the story and see how much they can recall? Can they remember the ten plagues that God sent to Egypt to help Moses in persuading the pharaoh to release his slaves?
A big well done to Azrael on his entry to our Roald Dahl library poster competition … it looks fabulous! Don’t forget that if you want to enter as well then the deadline is TOMORROW so get busy creating tonight and pass your entry to me in the morning for a chance to win and see your poster up in our new library 🙂
And… a very special shoutout goes to Esmai, who has been showing great integrity today! Not only did she receive lots of HoWL points from Mr Kershaw for her work in his group but she has also been reminding everyone that they should be following our school rules and only bringing in water in their water bottles – not juice! She even noticed that her own water bottle had juice in it and decided against drinking this – opting for water instead, even though she doesn’t really like it that much. As Esmai says … “I need to drink the water because I know it is good for me and my body”. Keep up the great attitude and integrity, Esmai – we are super proud of you!!
Mrs Dutton x
Today, Year 3 enjoyed another fabulous football PE session with Coach Morgan from Activ8. He was super impressed with everyone’s efforts but there were a few children who really stood out and received a postcard for great listening and sportsmanship – top job, everyone – well done!
Class 10 are busy working on their handwriting and today, in our handwriting lesson, we worked in pairs to give specific and helpful critique to our partners in order to help them improve their quality and craftsmanship. I was super impressed with the excellent conversations I could hear between everyone – well done boys and girls!
