Theseus and the Minotaur

The children in Year 3 have been enjoying using the story of Theseus and the Minotaur to explore adjectives, adverbs and other powerful vocabulary.
There is lots of excellent creative writing taking place. Well done Year 3!
                                                           DM

Home Learning, -Year Three - Homophones - Assembly words

Home Learning, -Year Three           week of Fri 16 -Fri 23 January

1. Homophones

Homophones- words that sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning.

Can you find some pairs (or groups) of homophones?
Bear  Bare
Eye     I
You    Ewe    Yew

 

2. Assembly Words -

The children have been given their "lines" for the class assembly on Friday 30th January. I have asked them to spend some time reading these through (or even, trying to learn them).

Many Thanks,

Duncan MacBean

plastic bottles please

Dear Parents,
We are on the look out for plastic bottles to change into "ancient Greek style pots" (-with the addition of papier mache, cardboard, paint etc).

Please send in any plastic bottles.

Thank you,

Duncan MacBean

Our Writing this week (year 3)

Dear Parents,

This week the children are being challenged to address a variety of elements in their written work. We are using the story of Daedalus and Icarus as an impetus for our writing:

 

• improving our story writing by using adjectives/adverbs/powerful words
• linking clauses with connectives (+use of comma)
• use of speech marks to "bring our stories to life"
• proof reading – for accuracy and to make improvements in content of our writing.
• an emphasis on neat handwriting (I'll be very keen to praise select examples.)

DM

Waste Wizard Competition

Children in Year Three to enter the Waste Wizard Competition

In our school assembly today, we were visited by Kirsten Juniper from the Dorset Waste Partnership. She set the children the challenge of entering another special recycling competition. The children were asked to make a “Wizard” out of any items that can be recycled (excluding glass) to try to win a fabulous “Eco Pack Prize”.
The children should bring their recycled Wizards to school by no later than Friday 6^th February. I will be judging the Year Three entries and announcing the winners at a special assembly that we will be having (on the 6^th February).

Some of the winners will then be sent on Kirsten to be entered in the next stages of the competition.

After the children’s fantastic response to our “recycled Christmas tree decoration”, I am confident that the children in Year Three we will create some more brilliant entries for the competition this month.

I look forward to seeing some magical creations!

Duncan MacBean

Home Learning Year 3 (for the week of Monday12th January)

I have given the children the challenge of measuring various things around the house and finding out the weights and capacities of various things. (These are listed on an activity sheet.) They will need to borrow a tape measure (or ruler) and the kitchen scales will be handy too.
This practical measuring activity is to back up lots of measuring (of lengths, capacities and weights) that we are doing at school in our Maths sessions.
Many thanks,
DM

Myths and Legends

The children have enjoyed their first week of learning about "myths and legends". We started with the tragic tale of Orpheus and Euridice.
Our class assembly on Friday 30th January will be a compilation of 4 mini-dramas, representing a myth from ancient Greece, a Celtic myth, an Anglo-Saxon legend and a Viking saga.
                               We do hope that you can come along!   DM