Class 3
Week ending 22.9.23
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Wow! Class 3 you are really showing me how grown up you are. We have got our rules and routines well in place now, and you are doing a great job at sticking to them.
This week we have learnt some amazing new words in History - Neolithic, Mesolithic and Palaeolithic, to name but a few, we can throw in hunter gatherers and nomadic! Miss Watkins showed us some stone age arrow and spear heads that her mum had discovered too. These were amazing.
In Science, we have learnt some new words too - igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. The children loved investigating the stones and discovered a few facts about them, including how they form and if they can float or not (density).
We have been reading The stone age boy too. They children have really enjoyed reading this and completed some lovely writing all about it.
I am really impressed with you class 3. Keep it up!
Miss Watkins and team
Week ending 8.9.23
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Wow! What an amazing first week in Class 3. You have really impressed me with your attitude to school. You all came in well on Tuesday and settled to work quickly. I hope that you have enjoyed your week.
In Literacy, we have completed some super writing about our holidays, created class rules and read lots of books. I was super impressed with your writing, and can't wait to hear all about your 6 weeks.
In Maths, we have been looking at number bonds and partitioning numbers. Again you astounded me with your maths work - your presentation and knowledge was impressive!
I hope that you have a great weekend and we will see you for another great week on Monday.
Miss Watkins and Team
Week ending 14.7.23
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In Literacy this week we watched a clip from the 1970s program Jamie and the Magic Torch. We looked at the image first and watch the introduction. We then wrote a new adventure for Jamie and Wordsworth. We then watched the program and we thought it was great. Everyone had different ideas about where Jamie could be with his dog Wordsworth. He went to different islands, met giants and ate chocolate.
In Maths this week we have investigated different kinds of problems looking at measurement, adding, subtracting, division and multiplication. Some of the problems have been very challenging.
Science has been very exciting this week as we have investigated how magnets work to pull the forces of different metals. We drew race tracks for cars and used magnets to move the cars along. We used plastic cups, wool, a paper clip to create an environment for crystals to grow. We poured boiling water into the cups with salt to mix a solution called sodium chloride which could react with the metal of the paper clip to form crystals.
In PE we practised for our sports day, we learnt how to throw the javelin and shot put safely. We took part in an obstacle race and the relay. It was great fun! We hope the real sports day will be just as fun!
We have been learning some new tunes in music and playing them with our recorders. Gypsy Dance, Old MacDonald and Hot Cross Buns, we are very proud of our orchestra.
Our favourite dinner this week has been Mac and Cheese!
We hope to see you at the school fayre tomorrow.
Miss Watkins and Team
Week ending 30.6.23
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Well it has been another great, if a little busy week here in Class 3 at Netherthong Primary School.
As always, you have made me really proud of you. The resilience that you have shown in class has been great - from sewing to yoga!
In Maths we have been revisiting addition and subtraction. You are so good at this these days!
In Literacy we have been learning about fronted adverbials, whilst learning about puffins.
As for our DT work! Wow, after a slightly knotty start from some of you, you have all taken onboard advice and help. The embroidery that you are working on is amazing! We have patterns, beautiful colours and wonderful images sewn into our fabric. I can't wait to see the final pieces.
Have a wonderful weekend one and all.
Miss Watkins and team.
Week ending 23.6.23
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Music, Music and little more Music!
This week we have enjoyed so many different aspects of our learning.
In Maths this week, we looked at statistics! We were collecting lots of data and using this to create bar charts, pictograms and other graphs to compare the different data. We also wrote a lot of questions that we could use to gather information from the graphs.
In DT we looked at samplers and different sewing techniques. A range of threads and stitches can be used and explored. We have designed a sampler of our own.
On Tuesday we walked to the Civic Hall in Holmfirth to experience a rock band – Dead Wax and a more traditional form of Jazz – a swing band. The group Big Easy came back to school with us for a workshop. We were all really resilient as it was a long walk and it was pouring down. The Big Easy then came into school and sang to us and helped us do a call and response session. We had a little go in music and we tried improvisation in music on our recorders.
In Literacy this week, we are continuing to read the Accidental Prime Minister. We are writing descriptive diary entries about our own adventure of becoming the prime minister. We pretended to be Joe.
In PE we had our PE coach and we really impressed her with how much we had improved. We also had a sneaky session with the yoga coach. It was very similar to the ones we had last year with some new poses and positions. It was really good fun!
Our favourite dinner this week was the mac and cheese.
Written by William and Annabel.