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03 March 2017

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect:

To learn your lines and songs for the school production. 

It’s going to be a busy few weeks in Year 3 getting ready for the Year 3/4 production. Children should start to learn their lines now off by heart and learn all the songs, too. Thank you for all the support you have given to your children already. You can tell they’ve been practising and it’s going to be a great show!

World Book Day

We’ve had a great morning celebrating World Book Day. It’s been great to dedicate so much time to reading and, for some of us, getting dressed up has been great fun, too.

Already today we’ve crammed in lots of great learning:

• A special World Book Day celebration assembly.
• Mrs Burke came in to read a couple of her favourite children’s books to us.
• We had the chance to particpate in group discussions about the books we’ve brought in.
• We did ‘speed dating’ but with books where we had one minute to recommend our favourite book to a friend.
• We spent time reading someone else’s book to see if we enjoyed it
• And, this afternoon, we’ll enjoy some time relaxing and reading just for pleasure.

Here’s a few pictures from our day so far…

03 March 2017

03 March 2017

As usual, children have been given two pieces of homework to complete this week. Both pieces are due on Thursday 09 March 2017. 

Talk Time: I can discuss how adults I know work cooperatively. 

Working cooperatively with others is not only our SEAL sentence this week but it is also a crucial life skill. Children should discuss with an adult how working cooperatively looks in everyday life as an adult. A useful conversation to have would be to highlight how working cooperatively in the classroom is similar to working cooperatively in the workplace.

Practice Makes Perfect: I can show what I’ve learnt about decimals. 

We’ve just finished learning on decimals so this is a chance for children to show how much they’ve learnt. They should complete the questions they have been given independently – only asking for help if it is needed. There are 10 marks available so children should aim to complete the questions in roughly 8 minutes.

Getting On

This half-term our SEAL theme is ‘Getting On‘. This week, we had an open, honest conversation as a class in which we all agreed that we could improve our ability to get on. We decided to think of Year 5 as being a team – a team we are all a part of.

I then set the children a challenge. In teams, they had to build the biggest tower they could. However, all they could use were marshmallows and spaghetti. As we were building we thought about what makes a good team and even came up with our own (very cheesy) class motto:

“Teamwork makes the dream work!”

World Book Day

As part of our World Book Day celebrations tomorrow, we’ll be holding a table sale of books written by a family member of two pupils in school.

Finlay and Evie’s auntie, Clare Luther, is the author of a great series of a SEAL related books and they will be available to buy after school tomorrow in the playground (weather permitting).

Have you tried the Be Food Smart quiz?

As part of the Be Food Smart Change4life campaign, have you tried the quiz to find out how much you know about what’s really inside your food and drink!

PE

Our second PE lesson this week will be on Friday where Dance Leaders from Allerton Grange will be visiting us to lead a session with the class.

Please ensure your child has their PE kit on Friday and at all times.

I work co-operatively to help a group.

This week our SEAL statement is…

We used drama to demonstrate this in our SEAL lesson and the children devised some key things to remember when working with others.

• Be kind to your friends
• Share and take turns
• Listen to other people when they speak
• Listen to all the ideas from your group
• Let all your group speak, in turn, and make sure no one is left out
• Don’t take over
• If someone says something that you do not think is good, just change it a bit
• Help other members of your group
• Be fair
• Follow the school rules
• Don’t ever interrupt!
• Take a risk

We put this to the test with a team challenge in PE.  Each group had to get across the hall using only three hoops.  There was plenty of team work, problem solving and lots of encouragement!

Book Fair

This afternoon, we’ve been lucky enough to visit the book fair as a class. We enjoyed perusing the many books and were each given a voucher to use to buy one of the featured books.

We’ve discussed in the past how important reading is and this week is a great chance to really promote a love of reading. Ask your child if they enjoyed the book fair; talk to them about the book they chose; ask them if there were any other books that they liked – could you go to a library and see if you can find it?

Also, don’t forget that World Book Day is this Thursday. Your child should bring in a book from home and everyone has the opportunity to dress up if they would like.