Bonsoir
Year 3 were developing their conversational French this afternoon including greetings, how they were feeling, numbers and their age.
With some children holidaying in France this year, they were keen to learn more so this website covers some of the basics.
À bientôt!
Films in the making
As part of our child-led film topic, we’ve been working on creating our own stop motion animation films. We worked really well together today to develop some short films that we’ll share with you soon.
We’re going to try our hand at some editing next to see if we can give them a more professional finish and audio too. We’ll then analyse our efforts, think about what we need to improve and have another go at it before half term to see if we improve. …Just like they’d do in the films!
Creative Art Homeworks
Here are our favourite homeworks from last week. They were all great so it was very hard to choose!
Fun in the sun
We had some fun in the sun today and we had some very proud moments. Children who, in the past, couldn’t jump up high enough to reach the higher equipment in the playground can now do it! We’ve been determined and resilient… and we’ve grown a bit taller too! 
As the sun was glaring down on us, some children made a safe choice to enjoy their fruit in the shade.
Money
Today, we began learning about money in maths.
We talked about why we need money and what we can do with it. The children had some wishful ideas about what you could buy with 50p! After that, we looked at the coins more closely and sorted them. We’re only looking at pence this week so just the 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p coins. Next week, we will look at pounds and will include notes.
Further into the week, we will be adding using coins, for example, a 5p, 2p and 1p coin makes 8p altogether.
Food diary
This week, as part of our food topic, we’ll use our knowledge of healthy eating to analyse our own diets. We gave everyone (including me) a food diary to complete tomorrow (Tuesday). It’s very self explanatory and we need it for our learning on Wednesday.
Children should complete the diary as accurately as they can and bring it with them to school on Wednesday. It should only take five minutes to complete.
It case it gets lost, it looks like this:
Thank you
Under the sea!
Reception listened with interest and enthusiasm to our expert!
Miss Rushbrooke came to tell us all about her diving experiences and the children had lots of questions to ask.
I think she has inspired them all to become divers!
Skittles science continued…
After our science experiment with Skittles last week, we went on to ask our own questions and plan our own experiment from it.
- What will happen if you change the sweet?
- What will happen if you change the number of Skittles?
- What will happen if you change the liquid?
This meant we could discuss independent and constant variables to ensure that we were testing just one thing and it was really interesting to see which of our predictions were correct and what was surprising.
…all really great Science, although we couldn’t help but be distracted by wanting to eat all of the lovely sweets we had in front of us!
Film production
Our film topic continues as we move into creating our own stop motion animations. The children have teamed up and started the process by noting down all of their different ideas.
They then decided on one together and started scripting (organising, assigning roles, noting what they would need) before mapping out their idea onto a storyboard.
We’ll begin filming next week and, hopefully, will be able to publish some of our masterpieces so that you can watch them at home.
Rocket seeds
A quick update on our rocket seeds…
They’re growing! We’ve been watering them and turning them each day so that they all receive the same amount of sunlight.
We can’t see any difference between the red and the blue yet but there is a noticeable difference according to which windowsill they’re on. We’ve concluded that one of the windowsills doesn’t receive as much sunlight as the others because those seeds are growing at a much slower rate.
Today, we’ll be calculating the percentage of seeds that have grown in each seed tray and noting it on our record sheet.