Robin Hood Stories

Today we worked hard in English to write stories about Robin Hood...

As you can see, the children were working in pairs (or threes) and were thinking carefully about their vocabulary, punctuation, openers and connections. We call this VCOP. 

There were lots of imaginative ideas buzzing around! Once the stories have been completed we'll share some with you on the blog.

Further Investigations into Sound

      This afternoon we continued our investigations into sound. We learnt that sound travels in waves and we thought about what it travels through to reach our ears.

We banged a drum in different places around the classroom, including outside it, and decided whether the sound was louder or quieter and why.

 

We discussed what noise sounds like when we're under the water and whether sound can travel through brick, metal and other substances including air.

We went to different places around the school to listen carefully. What can you hear in the hall?

A fly buzzing and a pencil dropping - even the lights humming if you listen really well.

What can you hear here in Key Stage 1? The door banging on the frame, children and teachers in the classroom.

What can you hear in the playground? Cars going past, children inside the building and birds tweeting.

Finally, what can you hear on the school field? Birds singing and Bumblebees having a lesson outside.

We tried out homemade 'telephones' afterwards and found that the sound travelled much better when the string between our plastic cups was pulled taut...

Finally, here's a tune on the harmonica to end the lesson!

See what you can find out about sound for next week!

 

School Council Elections

Today we voted for Barn Owl Class School Council representatives. The boys candidates were Ollie, Finlay, Joseph, Alex, Seth and Elliott. The girls candidates were Priya, Maisie, Faye, Minnie, and Grace.

The candidates gave reasons as to why they would make a good representative and the class made their choices. The voting was very close...

The winners were Ollie and Grace! Deputies are Finlay and Minnie who got almost the same number of votes.

Well done!

Myths, Legends... and Sound!

During the first week of term we were introduced to our new English topic, myths and legends. 

Mrs Andrew is helping us to study Greek myths and last week we heard about the story of Pandora. Mrs Waller has been looking at the legend of Robin Hood and today we started to prepare for a piece of extended writing on this topic.

We looked at some pictures of Robin Hood and worked on noun phrases which we will use in our writing.

During the afternoon we started our new science topic, sound.

We used everyday objects and instruments to see how sound is produced.

We watched rice jump on the surface of a drum when it was struck...

We could see the vibrations when an elastic band was twanged...

We could see the clapper of the bell vibrating...

And we could see the ruler oscillating when it was tapped...

We will continue our investigations next week!

Welcome to Barn Owl Class

We have changed from Class 3 to Barn Owl Class and will soon be sharing some of the experiences we have had during our first few weeks.

We are looking forward to learning with Mrs Waller, our new teacher, who will be working on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Mrs Andrew will be working on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, as she did last year.

COOL CODING!!!!!!

Class 3 are doing espresso coding, and we think you should play it at home. When we do coding we go on Bressingham Primary School jotter and then click classes and go on espresso, now we put in a password and username and then we're on!!! Have a lovely time on espresso coding.

Here's some more detailed information...

Go on Bressingham Primary School through Safari. 

Next scroll down a bit and go on Bressingham School Jotter in the website. 

Next click classes then Espresso

Click the website address

Put in your login and password

Then click coding and choose the programme you want.

Our blogging group said "it's been a busy week for Class 3; we have worked our socks off! We have especially worked hard on coding, including today. We start on level one Espresso coding but we are now on level five. In coding we use special language such as debugging. That's where you go back and change something you've got wrong the first time".

A Variable is something where you change different things on the programme 

An Event is where you click on something or swipe

An Algorithm is where there is a pattern or string of commands

We wrote a computer programme which helped the car move at different speeds and directions.

We got some views from other people in the class. 

Adam and Ruby:

"It's really good, I think Key Stage 1 should go on the first stage and have an adult to help them. When it says key press you tap it and letters pop up and you can pick one. Once you're onto the racing car level you can make your own track. On the bit where you press 'my code' at the bottom there is a colour and if you put in the colour, say, yellow, you'll stop."

Daniel:

"When you tap or swipe it is called an event."

The Butterfly Lion!

Class 3 have been learning about the fantastic book by Michael Morpurgo - it's called The Butterfly Lion. Last week we made arguments. We wrote down extracts from the book to act out the best dramatic argument.The argument  involved  Bertie, the main character, and his cold father. They disagreed about keeping the white lion cub who Bertie greatly adores.

In the book Bertie lives in Africa and he has a white lion cub. After his dad killed the lioness he wanted to  keep him. The lion cub is surrounded by hyenas with no protection but luckily Bertie saves the white lion cub with great courage. However Bertie gets sent to boarding school in England so Bertie cannot keep the lion and the white lion is sent to a circus in France.

       

Here is some of the work we have done...

Why don't you read the book to find out more!

Measuring liquids

Today in maths we refreshed our memories on capacity, particularly litres and millilitres.

We went to the outside classroom to practise and compared our estimates against actual measurements.

Rocket Science

Yesterday Mrs Gilbert worked with Class 3 to plant the seeds Tim Peake had sent us from space!

Here he is with some of the seeds:

The class split into groups to plant the seeds:

Two sets of seeds were planted: the seeds from space and some ordinary seeds from a garden centre. 

The seeds were labelled in 2 sets, red and blue, and numbered from 1 to 100. However, we don't know which are space seeds and which aren't! We'll watch carefully to see if there are differences in the way the plants grow.