Rocks coming home

Today some of the children  have chosen to bring home  the rocks that they collected on their trip last week. We gathered most of these from the cutting near Bincombe where the new road has been built. These are part of the Purbeck Beds and were formed around 200 million years ago.
DM

Learning about Judaism

The children in Year 3 have been enjoying learning about aspects of  Judaism in their R.E. sessions. We found out about the special prayer called the schema. This is kept in a little decorated case on the door posts of a house. This case is called a mezuzah.
I have also told them the story of Moses and how the Jewish people fled from Egypt after the plaques.
DM



A Mezuzah

Delicious Bread! Well done

Well done to those children who have taken part in Mrs. Mewett's "Bread Making Challenge" - set as a "Home Leaning" activity.
We have enjoyed finding out about just how many ways there are of making different breads and sampling your creations.
DM

Indian Rice Farming

This morning, Mr. Farrington joined us to tell us all about Rice Farming in India.

This fits in with the work we are beginning about "Farm to Fork"; learning about where the food we eat actually comes from and what processes it goes through before reaching our plates!

We had to listen carefully and write down some interesting sentences about the things we had learned.

HomeLearning - Measurement activities (Fri 2nd October)

For their "Home Learning" this week, I have asked the children to have a go at completing the following practical measurement activities:

1	How tall are you in m and cm?
2	How many millilitres are there in your bottle of shampoo? (ml)
3	How much does your box of cereal weigh?(g)
4	How tall is the tallest person that lives in your house? Measure in m/cm
5	How high up do you sleep when you’re in bed? – measure in m/cm
6	Find the biggest potato (or apple, or banana) in the bag.  How much does it weigh?(g)
7	Measure the distance from your seat in the lounge to the television.  (Are you in danger of getting square eyes!?)   (m/cm)
8	How much does your breakfast cup/glass contain? (ml) Estimate or measure
9	How many millilitres are there in your bottle of ketchup? / or tin of soup? Have a look at the label on the bottle
10	If a soup/cereal bowl was full, how many ml of liquid could it hold?

Year 3 - Handwriting and presentation of written work

We are having an increased focus on handwriting and the neat presentation of our written work.
We are encouraging the children to check that they have an appropriate pencil grip and that they are sitting with a good posture - with their non-writing hand steadying the paper/book effectively.
Please can you reinforce these messages with any writing that the children do at home.
I am hoping to give out lots of certificates this week to children who have worked hard and made good progress.
Thank you,

DM

This week's visits

Our Geology /and Railway Trips this week were a great success. The children were excellent! - very enthusiastic and well-behaved. We had a really interesting time learning from the local environment. We were blessed with perfect weather too. Thank you to the parents and grandparents that come along. I hope that you had an enjoyable day too.

This picture shows one of the children with their arm inside a cylindrical thromobolite at Portesham Rocket Quarry. This is a fossilised remains of a tree trunk.

DM