Our Library Session

Class 3 normally change their books in the library on a Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Phillips normally helps us out in the library every Wednesday and before school in the mornings. She is a parent who volunteers her time because she loves books and reading!

We're really lucky to be able to spend a little time choosing and reading...

Books are filed in the library by surname of the author if they are fiction (unless they are picture books) or by colour and number if they are non fiction. We are very lucky to have over 5,000 books in our library!

It's really important that books are scanned out using the computer so that the school can keep track of them, otherwise they can go missing and are expensive to replace.

Today, children in Class 3 found their favourite books to show you - look below to see their choices!

As you can see, some people had more than one favourite! We love books in Class 3!

Lunchtime Football Cup Final

Here are some of the highlights of the lunchtime football challenge cup final, Barnsley v. Fulham.

Pitch invasion at the end! Barnsley won 1 - 0, well done!

Mr Porter, who organised the competition, said that 70 out of 100 children at the school took part. He gave thanks to the captains who organised their teams really well. 

Mr Porter awarded lots of prizes including those for the best teams:

Third place team, Swansea

Second place team, Fulham 

First place, Barnsley.

Well done to everyone, particularly Mr Porter, for all his hard work!

More Animal Presentations (23rd May)

Today we learned about pumas, also known by lots of other names including mountain lions. We heard about where they live and lots of statistics about their size, weight and longevity. We learned that they can run at 50 mph!

We also found out all about frogs. Frogs like being in the dark so they can hide. They hibernate. We heard about gills and how frogs can breathe through their skin. We saw a frog with a mask! We heard that frogs eat pests in the garden and that they are corpulent (fat and well rounded). Frogs are very special because they are amphibians so live on the land as well as in the water!

Squirrels's nests are called drays. They have 1-4 babies in a litter, they eat seeds and nuts and red squirrels are very rare.

We also heard about sloths. There are 2 and 3 toed varieties. We all thought baby sloths are cute! Sloths are nocturnal and can live up to 40 years. We had a demonstration of how tall they are! They live in Central and South America and they move very slowly. They are mammals - give birth to live young and are warm blooded.

Class 3 Displays

Here is our recent display showing skeletons that children from Class 3 created...

...and a display of completed african designs that we started on Malawi Day.

Nets

This week we have been learning about angles and shapes and today we made some nets. We started with triangular based pyramids and then worked up to more complicated 3D shapes.

We tried really hard to get nice crisp vertices.

Elbows

Today we continued the science work we started last term on the skeleton and learnt about the elbow.

We heard that you only use 17 muscles when you smile but you use 43 when you frown! We tried this out and felt how different our faces felt. 

We heard about 'antagonistic pairs' which is when when one muscle works with another but in an opposite fashion. We have 206 bones and 650 muscles in our body.

We looked at how muscles make the body move using the website www.insideout.rigb.org.

And we looked at what joints look like in detail. 

Ligaments join bone to bone. Muscles make the joints move. We talked about being double jointed, what arthritis is and how important it is to warm up  and warm down before doing exercise. 

We then worked in pairs to make moving models of elbows.

We worked hard to follow our instructions independently!

The elastic bands show how the antagonistic pairs of muscles work - as one elastic band contracts the other relaxes and vice versa.

An interesting lesson!

More Presentations!

Today we listened to Year 3 presentations; we first heard about meerkats. Some are watch guards for the rest of the group. They are omnivores and eat lots of things including bird's eggs and lizards. They have long tails for balance and look after each other 'like a proper family'.

Hamsters eat monkey nuts and also get treats! They are nocturnal but get a cuddle after school! Fluffy curls up in a ball to sleep at night.

We also heard about labrador retrievers which are hunting dogs but are also used as sniffer dogs for the police and make good pets. They eat almost everything and you have to watch in case they eat too much! 

Bald eagles live in North America. 70,000 live in Alaska alone! They eat fish and dead animals. They can fly at 35.43 mph whilst carrying their prey. They can swim and they are the national bird of the USA. 

Geckos are small lizards - they eat insects and make good pets. They lay eggs - but never grab their tails! They live in hot countries like Madagascar and America. 

There were lots of statistics about the albatross such as their wingspan (3.6m). They mate for life and their eggs are white with red spots. 

Well done everyone!