Good afternoon,
This week we have started a new class reader The
Firework-Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman. Year 3 enjoy the experience of
reading and listening to this magical story which is set in within a different
culture and time.
Wednesday started with the excitement of the snow, then continued with the discovery of tiny white powered footprints leading through the classroom. We deduced that the Tear Thief had visited and taken the jar of tears! Why did she come to Little Heath? The children investigated...
Exploring the clues, gathering evidence and interviewing eyewitnesses, Year 3 were on the Tear Thief’s tail. The English lessons also comprised of creating posters, writing a letter, punctuating quotes and planning and writing a newspaper article.
In the maths lessons this week we have been learning the 4 X’s
tables. We play the circle number game as a whole class, each recalling the
next multiple of four in turn, until the quickest is left standing. The
children have learnt methods to recall multiples of four and can also calculate
the corresponding division facts.
We have continued our learning of British inventors this
week with a study of Tim Berners Lee, a computer scientist who invented web
pages for the internet in 1989. We have discovered that many everyday things
that we do involve the internet in everyday life.
A Christmas theme is gently making its way in class with the
singing of carols and Christmas songs, sung in the music lessons.
Our time at school seems to go quicker each week, with lots
of activities, arts and crafts work and plenty of reading to do, the children do
have to work hard.
Mrs Worton
