What a great day we’ve had! How cool do we look?! 🤘🎸

Don’t forget to practise those times tables!

Good morning!

We have a very busy week planned this week. We are going to start our new topic of Mythical creatures! We are ao excited to start learning about where they originated from and what stories they are included in. We are going to look at where dragons, unicorns, and the Lock Ness monster come from and what they are. This will include making a wanted poster for the Loch Ness Monster and a fact file all about dragons!

This week’s spellings are focussed around the prefix ‘dis’ having a negative effect on the root word :

In our maths learning, we will be looking at the 8 times table and diving by 8. You can practice your time’s tables and 8 times tables/divides by going on tt rockstars!

Have a great week,

Miss Housley 🙂

Wow, what a lovely first week back! I have really enjoyed getting back into the swing of things and what a great class you are! Thank you for making this week so lovely!

We have started our final unit on our locality topic and we’re now looking at what it is like in France (our nearest European neighbour) and have been finding out some interesting facts.

We have been working so hard using coordinating conjunctions to join sentences together in Literacy and spotting patterns in addition and subtraction calculations in maths. We’ve even managed to do some science on rock features and learned all about Diwali – what a busy week!

This week we are going to compare all of our knowledge on victorian mining to modern miners and how safety equipment has improved over the years. We will also be creating a beautiful piece of charcoal artwork of a mining scene in our topic learning time.

In our maths this week, we are learning how to cross the 100 in place value when adding and subtracting numbers. Wea re using base 10 to help us with our calculations this week too!

This weeks spellings are:

1)kindly

2)quickly

3)safely

4)rudely

5)strongly

6)sweetly

This week we are starting a new unit in our topic work and we are focussing our learning on coal mining! As this is a large part of Yorkshire’s history, we are excited to learn more about the history and role this had in social changes in the area. We are going to create timelines of local history, write a diary from the viewpoint of a miner and write a job advert for a job in the mine!

In maths, we are subtracting 3 digit numbers with 1 digit numbers and using a number line to help us subtract larger numbers.

Our spellings this week are:

1)  fair

3)  brake

4)  break

5)  meet

6)  meat

Home Learning 8/10/21

Remember Home learning is set on a Friday and should be returned the following Friday if you want it marking. If there is something you don’t get chance to do or forget to do, don’t worry. Keep the book and just collect a home learning slip from the class or check the blog as the home learning is always up on the blog on the day it is handed out.

This week we have been looking at what it means to be from Yorkshire and we even made some yummy Yorkshire puddings. We have also started a new unit of adding 3 digit numbers in maths.

For this week’s home learning, I would like you to use your literacy skills we have learnt this week and design your own recipe for Yorkshire puddings. Don’t forget to include commands, sub headings, bullet points, what you need and ingredients list and the method.

This could be a crazy flavour or the classic flavour we made in class! You can make up the ingredients or look up the exact measurements. Make sure you add lots of colour to your recipe and drawings/pictures of Yorkshire puddings!

There are also new maths challenges on Mangahigh that I have set linked to our maths learning, if you want another home learning challenge!

Have a lovely weekend 😊

Miss Housley

Home Learning 1/10/21

Remember Home learning is set on a Friday and should be returned the following Friday if you want it marking. If there is something you don’t get chance to do or forget to do, don’t worry. Keep the book and just collect a home learning slip from the class or check the blog as the home learning is always up on the blog on the day it is handed out.

We have had another busy week of our topic work this week, focussing on computer skills and map work based on Yorkshire, Barnsley and Birdwell.

For this week’s home learning, I would like you to use the persuasive language skills we have learnt in literacy to design your own advert about Barnsley, Yorkshire or Birdwell. You can use the facts you already have about Yorkshire or find some amazing facts about Birdwell or Barnsley and use these in your advert! Remember to make it stand out and try to include questions to make the reader agree with you!

For Example: Can you see why you need to go to brilliant Barnsley?

Don’t you think Yorkshire is amazing?

Do you want to see God’s own county?

There are also new maths challenges on Mangahigh that I have set linked to our maths learning, if you want another home learning challenge!

Have a lovely weekend 😊

Miss Housley

This week in year 3 we have a lot of learning planned for our topic work of Yorkshire!

We are starting to locate Yorkshire on maps and locate Birdwell and Barnsley too! We will also be completing our amazing Pete Mckee artwork using the computer skills we have been developing in class.

1)  earth

2)  early

3)  learn

4) heard

6) rehearse

Home Learning 24/9/21

Remember Home learning is set on a Friday and should be returned the following Friday if you want it marking. If there is something you don’t get chance to do or forget to do, don’t worry. Keep the book and just collect a home learning slip from the class or check the blog as the home learning is always up on the blog on the day it is handed out.

This week’s home learning is related to our topic focus this week of the Sheffield based artist Pete McKee. We have been drawing in the style of Pete Mckee and learning about him as an artist.

I would like you to draw the people you live with in the style of Pete McKee. This could be drawing one person or a few people. His style is based on comics so don’t forget to include simple colours in your work.

I have also given you a spelling list for Year 3 for you to practice up to 5 spellings of your choice. You could write these in bubble writing to practice, writing in felt tips or show off some sentences include g the words. This is great practice for you to see and learn the spellings of year 3. (You won’t have a test on the ones you pick, this is just for you to practice some spellings at home).

Have a lovely weekend 😊

Miss Housley

This week we have been looking into number lines in our maths work. We have looked into number lines to 100 and 1000!

We also learned about contractions and how important the apostrophe is in a contraction, for example, it is = it’s.

In our topic this week, we have looked at Pete Mckee, the local artist and we have started to learn about his works that can be seen around Sheffield! We will even be drawing our own portrait in the Pete Mckee style.

Miss Housley 🙂

Home Learning 17/9/21

Wow! What a fantastic start to year 3 we have had. We have jam packed lots of learning into our days and have been very busy. Our home learning this week is based on our new topic ‘Where am I from?’.

Can you find out as many facts about Yorkshire as you can? This includes asking the people you live with about what they know too. Can you write these as sentences in your home learning books? Can you try to include some of your literacy knowledge on expanded noun phrases into your sentences too! (Remember the adjective is before the noun!)

Eg. Yorkshire is famous for yummy Yorkshire puddings.

You can set this home learning out however you like in your books. This can be sentences, a poster on Yorkshire or some bullet point facts with some drawings/pictures!

Home learning is always due in the following Friday. Have a lovely weekend 😊

Miss Housley

We have had a great start to year 3 and we are so busy with our amazing learning!

Our topic for this year is ‘Where am I from?’. We will be looking closely at the local area and using our map skills to locate the settlements and dwellings in Birdwell and Barnsley!

We have made a great start to this and have learned lots of important facts about Yorkshire and Birdwell!

Our spellings this week are:

1)they

2)grey

3)disobey

4)obey

5)prey

6)survey

Miss Housley 🙂

Welcome to the Year 3 blog!

Here we will share posts and pictures of our amazing learning from the class.

We will also share the spelling lists each week and any important information for the class.

Our PE days are Monday and Tuesday.

Home learning goes home on Fridays and is to be returned the following friday.

The spelling list for the week commencing 6.9.21:

Miss Housley 🙂

…right here in our classroom!

First, we had to use the numerator to help us identify how many fractions to colour-in, in all of these different shapes!

If we could do that, we had to use both the numerator and denominator to help us colour in the correct fraction!

Then the real challenge began.  Mr Swallow gave each team 2 hoops.  First, he told us that UNIT FRACTIONS had to go in the green hoop whilst NON-UNIT FRACTIONS had to go in the blue hoop.  Our team had to discuss and sort all of the fraction cards we had made into the correct hoop!

Finally, Mr Swallow changed the criteria for the 2 hoops…we had to put fractions that made a half into the green hoop and those that did not make a half into the blue hoop!

Some of us were challenged further, to use the hoops to sort fractions that were less than a half, from those that were worth more than a half!!!  That meant that we had to use our reasoning skills to decide what to do with those fractions that were worth EXACTLY a half!!!

We have been finely honing our design technology skills this year so Mr Swallow set us a 3 lesson challenge!  We only had 3 hrs to work in teams to construct a replica of a famous Roman landmark…take a look at how we are getting on…

We were trained how to safely cut with a craft knife and how to safely use a glue gun with Mr Swallow’s supervision.

We investigated which number could be divided into halves, thirds or quarters.

As we sorted the numbers, we looked for patterns and jotted down possible rules…it turned out that our Times Tables are as useful as ever!!!

Welcome to our new Summer term topic;

The Romans: 

History heroes or Villains?

A couple  of our guitar students decided to play an impromptu concert for their classmates on the playground at playtime!

If it’s good enough for Ed Sheeran!!!

We have begun by looking at how we read the volume of a liquid by using a variety of measuring cylinders.

We found that real-life measuring requires a few specific skills:

• check the scale of the container (What intervals does it count in?  What unit does it measure?)
• get down to the right height to read the level properly (the level looks different if you are above or below it!)
• wait for the water to settle (if it’s moving, it changes the reading A LOT!)
• estimate- when the water is not on a mark, which is it closer to?  Use your judgement

Let’s see these wacky, tube-map inspired designs you guys have come up with to represent what is important to you…

I ended up with 4 train lines on my map…that would be really handy for dropping me quickly at all of my favourite places.  We noticed in class, that some of my stations are on several lines, for example:  The Holidays station is on my hobby line, because being on holiday is one of my favourite things to do!  It’s also on the family line as I always go away with my family.  Finally, it’s on my healthy line as we tend to have really busy holidays and go swimming, cycling or sometimes even snowboarding.

It looks like Faith has plenty of things she is looking forward to…

By land, air and sea!

A look at transport, how it works and how it has changed over time.

Wow!  One of our households was certainly put through a thorough inspection this week!

Birdwell’s chief fire marshall dopped by with a very comprehensive checklist to see if the property was up to code!  Unfortunately, lots of things needed fixing!  The inspector was even frustrated enough to have to record, “Tut, tut!” on her checklist!  Thank goodness she had several sensible and formally worded recommendations to make the house safe.  Well done chief fire marshall, Birdwell is in safe hands!

Meanwhile, in school, the chief’s deputies gave the school a thorough test.  Mr. bailey looked extremely fraught as the inspectors examined the school!  They did not miss a trick and even ran an impromptu fire drill to see if the children of Birdwell knew what to do in a fire emergency!  The inspectors were certainly not shy at pointing out the faults as well as the things that school got right/

The inspectors were pleased to see that all locations in the school had up to date fire plans and fire safety equipment and that fire doors were clear and in excellent working order.  However, they were not impressed that the staffroom had improperly vented microwaves and the wheely bins require chaining into place!  I imagine they will give Mr. Bailey and Neil the caretaker a stern talking to on Monday morning!

Mr K completed a successful site visit in Barnsley

He thoroughly enjoyed recommending the changes he wanted to see and was really good at using the correct formal language in his letter!

Even despite the sound not being too good on my video tutorial, we still had some fab portraits sent in.  One of our pupils really thought on his feet and used a youtube tutorial to follow when the sound on our lesson wouldn’t work for him!  Great improvisation Mr. G!

We were learning a few techniques that would make the subject (person) in our portrait look sad or shocked…see what you think.#

Here are the introductory paragraphs from the children in school..  Listen carefully, can you hear the formal language choices they have made.  Does the introduction convince you that the letter is from an important fire official?

Some Year 4 pupils also contributed a paragraph, being a year older, they included some advanced vocabulary and ideas.  Feel free to magpie bits that you like and use them in your own way…

Wow!

Remember, tomorrow you will help me write my introduction so you will have to teach me the correct formal language to use!

Here is Faith’s fantastic newspaper article.  Lets see what criteria from the learning across the week she has decided to include:

• Newspaper layout features (headline, columns, pictures etc)
• An opening paragraph that tells us what, where, when
• Background information, tellings us what tsunamis are and how they are formed
• A quote from a bystander, using speech marks correctly

What can Faith tick off from the list?

Our final lesson, tomorrow, will be about proofreading to check for mistakes and improvements and also, checking all of the different sections work well together.

Here is Riley’s article that he has created on Word!  Have a read and see what[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear3.edublogs.org/files/2021/01/Riley-newspaper.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ] features Riley can check off the list…

Olivia sent in her fab newspaper, she got the format just right, it really looks like a newspaper…I like the EXTRA NEWS feature Olivia! 🤣

Lewis sent us his tsunami article set in Japan!  He even found space to give us a weather forecast…

Leo pulled out all of the stops with his newspaper!  He ended up producing 4 pages!  That’s almost a newspaper instead of just an article!  Well done Leo, take a look, everyone…

As well as an amazingly cheesy grin, L added in a fantastic opening paragraph and even used a quote before I asked him to!  #Newspapergenius

Riley R went the extra mile with his newspaper!  He even printed things out to stick in!  Very well done Mr. R!

Today, we were lucky to host a visit from some eminent names in the field of geology.  Professor Know-It-All, of Oxford University and her colleague, Dr. Kleva-Cloggs, from the Swedish Institute of Advanced Geological study, dropped by Birdwell Primary School to explain to us the stages of how tsunamis work…

Prof. Know-It-All

Dr Kleva-Cloggs

We were then joined, live via satellite by the famous Dr. Von-tsunami-stien

I’ve loved seeing what you are up to, send it in and I’ll keep adding it here for us to see as soon as I can..,.

Wow!  Mr. Leo Gosling sent me what he has done so far on his newspaper layout and first paragraph and it comes as no surprise that he is proud of the result!  What pride he’s taken in his presentation and what a lot of features he’s included!  I can see:

• Newspaper name
• Date
• Author
• Headline
• Subheading
• Columns
• Picture
• Opening paragraph with what, when, where
• Price!!!!
• Weather report (now you’re showing off!!! 😁👍)

Frankie has based her article on a real life hero…HER UNCLE!!!  How fab is that? I can’t wait to see how this article comes along, you’ve clearly taken a LOT of pride in this so far Frankie!

Send me your newspapers, let’s see how they’re looking so far…