Into the woods….
Yesterday, we went for a walk to the top of Shadwell Lane and found a little woodland area. We spent an hour looking at the different trees, finding different leaves and sketching. We’re so lucky that we can find an area like this so close to school.
26 June 2015
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. As the visit to Harlow Carr is on Wednesday, please make sure the homework is handed in by Thursday 02 July.
There are a list of words for the children to practise and then they are asked to use the words in different sentences.
26 June 2015
Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 03 July.
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Red Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
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steady |
like |
dripped |
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head |
white |
shopped |
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bread |
high |
thinner |
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feather |
bright |
maddest |
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bear |
tried |
puppy |
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tear |
cried |
swimming |
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dead |
kind |
dropping |
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ready |
find |
winner |
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sky |
digger |
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right |
wettest |
Maths and leaves?
As we’d picked lots of different types of leaves on our walk in the woods, we looked at them closely today and were able to do some maths, too. We knew that leaves were important for photosynthesis because they collect the sun’s light. By working out the area of the leaves, we could estimate which leaf would collect the most sunlight (the leaf with the largest area).
Fab phonics
As always, we practise our spellings everyday in phonics lesson. Green group have been working on prefixes and suffixes for a lot of the year so this week we played a game to recap the double-up rule.
Explosive homework
Some super creative homework this week. From news reports to realistic looking volcanoes, Year 3 had the lot!
26 June 2015
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 02 June 2015.
I can work with fractions and time (Mathletics assigned tasks).
Log on to Mathletics and you will see that you have been assigned three tasks and a test on fractions and time. See if you can complete these on your own using the ? button to help if you get stuck. If your child has any problems logging on to Mathletics, let me know and I can give him/her time to complete this activity in school.
You don’t need to write anything in books for this. I will make a note as to whether the activity has been completed or not when homework books are handed in.
26 June 2015
The homeworks this week are both Practice Makes Perfect.
The first is an English homework. Children have a section from the Alice in Wonderland book. Their task is to rewrite this text as a script. Children should remember to include stage directions to tell the actors how they should say something or how they should move across the stage.
The second homework is a Mathletics activity which checks children’s understanding of angles. They have to compare and estimate the size of angles.
26 June 2015
The spellings this week are all homophones (words which sound the same but have different meanings or spellings). The words are listed in pairs and children may be tested on any of the words. As the spellings sound the same, they will need to understand the context that the word is read in.
Group 2 should learn all of the words.
Group 1 do not have to (but are encouraged) to learn the bold words.
| 1. | where | wear |
| 2. | weak | week |
| 3. | our | are |
| 4. | new | knew |
| 5. | bean | been |
| 6. | past | passed |
| 7. | through | threw |
| 8. | aloud | allowed |
| 9. | guessed | guest |
| 10. | weather | whether |
If you go down to the woods today…
What a great morning. Year 2 took a walk to the woods to have a look at the different types of trees we could find. Isaac turned out to be our nature specialist as he was able to tell us the names of many common trees just by looking at their leaves. Everybody had a great time and all of us were really excited about our topic learning.
