Year 3 Friday 21st May 2021 Happiness is enjoying the little things in life

It might have been the last week of this half term but that hasn’t meant that we have slowed down with our learning. The children have continued to be very enthusiastic with their work this week, demonstrating what they have learned and being real Bobby Bees. Well done children. You are all ready for a well earned rest and chance to recharge your batteries. When we get back to school for our final half term, I know that you will put every effort in to making the remaining 6 weeks in Year 3 amazing.

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This week in Maths we have continued to practise a wide variety of skills in our fluency and to keep our skills ticking over. We have also continued with our measurement work and read scales of different increments in order to measure capacity, length and weight. The children have needed to use their counting and multiplication skills to help them with this. In English this week we have written more information leaflets all about the Romans. The children have been keen to demonstrate all the different skills that they have been learning. We have been focusing on complex sentences and correct use of commas and also on writing questions too. Neat handwriting has also continued to be a focus and we have celebrated even more Pen Licences - see our celebrations below. Well done children.  In RE, we have learned all about Pentecost and how Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to help His disciples and how the Holy Spirit can help us too. The children have written lovely diaries as though they were one of the apostles. In RHE the children have been looking at relationships and forgiveness and how we can show our love for others through this.

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Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to Harcourt who were the winning house in our class this week. It has been lovely to see you in your own clothes. I wonder which team it will be in our final half term.

This week we celebrate Iris, Ruby Lilly and Rosa who have achieved their 100% reading target this week. Well done children - keep up the good work!

We have celebrated more pen licences this week and Angel, Alexander and Leo are now able to use a pen in their written work. Well done - keep up the lovely handwriting. I know we will have more pen licences when we get back to school after half term. (See the home learning page for ideas of how to practise your handwriting over half term.)

This week we are celebrating Georgia and Alexander. Georgia receives a Lizzie Ladybird certificate for her hard work and desire to keep improving this week. Georgia you have really listened to advice and that has really helped you. Well done keep up the good work. Alexander receives an enthusiastic Bobby Bee certificate this week Well done Alexander. It is so lovely to see you getting excited about your learning. You have been really joining in with our learning this week and your hand has been up whenever we have asked questions. Well done, we are so proud of you. Keep up the good work.  

We are also celebrating Evan who got our Lunch Time Role Model of the week and Nicola who received Jacqui’s Marvellous Manners. Well done children, we are so proud of you.

We hope that you enjoy these 2 videos of the children and their work this half term. The first is a fashion show with the children modelling their amazing t.shirt creations. The second is a collection of photos from the half term. So why not grab a lovely cuppa and a biscuit and sit down and enjoy.

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 Things to Note:

• ·Please check the Home Learning page for ideas about how to keep learning ticking over during half term. Thank you.

• School re-opens on Monday 7th June at 8:30am and 8:45am

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We hope that you all have a lovely weekend and a very restful half term.

Take care and stay safe,

The Year 3 Team     

Miss Brisco, Miss Edmondson and Miss Woodrow

Contact us at:

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

k.edmondson@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Home Learning Friday 21st May 2021

I know that everyone has worked hard this term and deserves a well earned rest and I hope that you all have chance to relax and enjoy some time to do the things that you want to do. I also know that the children are very keen Lizzie Ladybirds and want to keep improving their skills so I have made a list of some of the things that they could to to keep those skills ticking over during the half term holiday. (These are all optional and the children can choose to do whichever ones they want to do.)

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DT:

Mrs Curtis has set the children some Food Tech homework for the half term. Visit the art page for full details. Our food tech challenge for the holiday is making a fruit crumble. (my favourite.- I think I might just have to join the children and make myself a rhubarb crumble - yummy!) Make sure that you take a photo or two before you eat it and send them to Mrs Curtis. Have fun and enjoy eating it.

r.curtis@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

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Reading:

Read, read, read. Find a good book and a quiet place to read and just get lost in your book.  Enjoy!

(Don’t forget that you can quiz if you finish your book.)

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Maths:

TT Rockstars

IXL—pick any of the units that we have covered this year and see if you can complete them.

Play the Mostly Postie games using the link below:

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/mostlyPostie/index.htm

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English:

English IXL - Have a go at some of the following units to practise some of those skills that we have been using during the year - Pronouns Unit M, Prepositions Unit Q , Contractions Unit S , Capitalisation and Formatting Unit T, Word Meanings Unit V

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Handwriting:

Continue to practise your handwriting - select a sentence out of a book and copy it carefully using your cursive handwriting. Remember to make sure that you form your letters and joins carefully and correctly. Think about where the letters sit on the line.

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Spellings:

No spellings to learn for a spelling quiz when we return to school but see if you can look at the spellings covered so far this year and see how many of them you can remember how to spell. Good Luck!

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Year 4 blog "What we learn with pleasure, we never forget." (Alfred Mercier)

It has been a super week! Children have as usual thrown themselves into all learning. They have written their own story, based on the Firework Maker’s Daughter. They have tried hard to include humour, description, excitement and all the wonderful Year 4 grammar skills learned this year.

Children have been learning all about angles, polygons and triangles in Maths week - along with keeping our number skills ticking over. They have learned that angles are the measure of a turn.

On Thursday, we learned all about Fossils in Science and children have brought home their own fossil that they have made.

RHE

This week we have focused on Relationships and distinguished between friends, family and others. We have learned how to help keep relationships healthy and kind. We have learned that although there are many different types of family, one family type is not better than another.

Let’s Celebrate!

Together, as a class, children have received 15,125 learning points over this half-term! AMAZING!

This is because of how hard all children have tried to develop their resilience, self-belief, concentration, courage, reflection, creativity, co-operation and curiosity. The winning team was Bamber this half-term but, as we said in class you are all winners for developing your brains and hearts so much that you earned all these points!!!!

I had to give out 3 certificates this week too - I have just been so impressed with the focus, independence and effort!

Clara Clownfish/Lizzie Ladybird certificate: To Kiefer for being a pattern spotter - being super with angles this week and always seeking to improve yourself!

Kiki Chameleon/Roger Robin certificate: To Jack for always trying hard to have original ideas and for being such a co-operative learning partner.

Kiki Chameleon/Sadie Spider certificate: To Amber for going for it with her reading target and trying so hard to think up ideas for her story.

Music stars this week were Esme and Mason

PE stars this week were Holly and Kai

This half term these children met their reading target:

Esme, Harriet, Abi, India and Lena.

These children met their reading target twice!

Mason, Christian, Kai and Isabella

Excellent!

Here are some super limericks done for homework last week!

Notices

Some people have still not returned their Holy Communion letters. Please could we have these on the first Monday back.

PE change after half term: Inside PE on Monday has now changed to outside PE on Tuesday. Wednesday/Thursday PE is as normal.

I have put some optional home learning on the homework section to practise key skills which you may want to dip into to keep learning ticking over in the holidays.

I hope this weather improves for our half-term break! Whatever you do, we hope you have a lovely break with your families and stay safe.

God bless and take care,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Forster.

This week...

Great news, our butterflies have emerged!! We found out that they are call Painted Lady butterflies. They are very beautiful.

We had to give them some sugary water to drink and pick some flowers for them to get the nectar from. The butterfly's primary source of food is nectar which it gets from plants and flowers

We also found out that Butterflies eat by extending the proboscis deep into a flower to sip nectar. Butterflies also use the proboscis to drink water and juice from rotting fruits.

Before we released the butterflies we managed to hold one on our hand, they felt so lovely. Take a look at our photos

One of our friends even made a butterfly picture using the peg boards. Well done!

Look out for the half term challenge sheets being sent home today….butterfly spotting! Good luck!

If you ten minutes spare click here to watch the The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

It may come as no surprise that hatching caterpillars and waiting for them to emerge as butterflies was fascinating. With that in mind we intend to repeat the cycle again after the holidays as well as expanding our investigative impulses by finding out about other insects and minibeasts. Maybe you could get ahead of the game and explore in your gardens to see what is living there. We’ve already started looking in the nursery garden!

Download the garden spotter sheet to help you out!

The children were excited to find deep at the back of the cupboard a big marble run game. It took us ages to fathom out how it fitted together, but we got there in the end. We have had endless fun experimenting how it works.

We have also been given the most fabulous road and train track, great fun!

Our passion for number is going from strength to strength and this week we had a new number puzzle arrive. We have made it over and over again. We LOVE number challenges!!!

Everyone had a good time playing a rhyming game with lots of fun objects (especially the snake in a box! Arghhh!)

…and now for our photos of the week!! They include balancing, block play, birthday celebrations, garden watering (our strawberries are amazing!), water play and mark making. Have you noticed how well the children are doing forming letters?

I must remind everyone that Sports’ Day will take place on Monday 14th June (Health and Happiness week). Unfortunately, owing to restrictions, we are unable to invite you to join us at this event but rest assured we will take loads of photographs to share with you. Please make sure that you send your child to nursery wearing shorts, t-shirt and trainers on that day. We have their special personally designed t shirts here. All the children are invited to take part, when I know the times I will text everyone!

It is IMPORTANT that before you wash your child’s Sports’ day shirt, you MUST press it for at least three minutes to seal in the colours.

Lastly, can I thank all of you for your wonderful support of nursery and your child’s learning. All the team are very proud of each and everyone’s journey this year, long may it continue. We hope that the sun shines on us over the holidays and you create some magical memories with your loved ones that will last forever.

See you all on Monday 7th June bright eyed and bushy tailed.

The Nursery Team