Term 1, Week 11
Another busy week in 3
Sahara with the added bonus of whole school dancing, fossil fun and a little Christmas
spirit!
In Numeracy we continued developing
our estimating and measuring skills and moved on to learning how to convert
units of length. We have also been working on our Times Tables and your child
has these to work on using www.mymaths.co.uk
for homework this week. Your child knows what their target tables are and can
also find these in their Numeracy books. We have been testing them against the
clock seeing how many tables they can get correct which sets a great target for
them to try and beat.
The children have now completed
their individual dinosaur reports and they have all done a fantastic job. We used success criteria to guide the compilation of
these to ensure we were crafting our texts accurately and the children self and
peer assessed their reports against these this week. The new Literacy unit we
have begun is Instruction Writing.
In Topic this week we have
been busy learning about how fossils are formed and then we had a go at making
our own fossils using sand, plaster of paris and plastic dinosaurs. The process
of this made a great link to our Literacy learning of instructions. Another perfect link was provided by our class
project for the Christmas Fair that we completed yesterday, hand painting
beautiful glass tea light holders to sell on the 1st of December.
Lastly a few notices…
PearsonBook Club
Today your
child has come home with some information about a new online reading website
that we have access to. This is to support and compliment our school reading
scheme and has many comprehension activities that are built in.
Dance Unites
Please remember your child
will need a warm white top (or a larger
white t-shirt to wear over a coat) next Tuesday (the 20th of November) for our whole school dance project that will
be taking place that morning. Normal school uniform is to be worn as usual on this day.
Have a wonderful weekend.
