Week Ending 11/11/16

Yet again in Year Three we have had a busy week! Even though we have just been on holiday that hasn't stopped us from diving straight into our school work.

In Maths we started to round up numbers, looking at the divisions of tens, hundreds and thousands. We have come to understand that everyone needs a method that can be agreed upon, so we used the common method that means if we have the number 5 then we must round up to 10, similarly 50 to 100 and 500 to 1000. If you would like to look further into this, please follow the link below:

https://www.mathsisfun.com/rounding-numbers.html

In English we looked at time connectives to make our work more interesting. We took an example of some writing which started each sentence with the word He. Deciding that this writing needed to be improved we began to use time connectives to make the work more interesting and to give the writing more tone and colour. If you are interested in discovering more about time connectives, please follow the link below:

http://www.theschoolrun.com/what-are-time-connectives

We underlined the time connectives in our work to demonstrate both that we understood and as a reminder of what they are and how to use them:

We also looked at the differences between their, there and they're. We began to draw some pictures that can help us understand the keys differences between these homophones. Here are some pictures that may help you (including one from us):

In topic we have been learning about the different parts that make up a plant. We have learnt that plants are very clever and that they are able to create their food and support themselves mostly by the sun and by water.

Here is some of our work on this new and exciting project:

We also discovered that while plants may look inactive they are anything but! Have a look at this time-lapsed video to see evidence that plants are always busy:

We have also begun our Christmas concert preparations. Anytime you can spend with us at home preparing we would love!

So indeed, as you can see our first week back has been very, very busy!

Now, we have to run off as it is our assembly this week and we will be in front of our peers reading an extract (or two) from our dinosaur project books!