Year 3 Learning Community Pages

We have been learning about toothpaste boxes. we   took some boxes apart and disassembled them.  We looked at the tabs  that hold the boxes together, and how the nets worked.  We invented names for our own toothpaste, and made boxes. We have had lots of fun.  We not only made our boxes, but had to design LOGOs, jingles and names.  All of our boxes had to include bright colours to attract our customers, and a list of ingredients too.  This meant we had to look carefully and think about what we had to include in our designs.  Here is a photograph of our classroom display. 

Over the course of this term we have been finding out about and researching the life of Henry VIII and his six wives. In ICT we have been using 2 create a story to write biographies about the king, and files made in the program can be saved in a format called flash. Mr Mills has published several of our stories to our community pages on the school website, but wanted to see whether we could use our blog to share the work we had done using this tool, and yes we can Here is one of the stories we made, our others can be found in our year group community gallery on our school website.

Now he knows how to do this, Mr Mills is looking forward to showing us how to do it, and to using 2 create to help us make slightly more complex stories.

Mr Mills and Miss Clover would like to extend a huge thank you, to all parents and students who have met with us this term. These meetings are extremely important not only for us, but the children who enjoy enormously sharing with you and celebrating their successes. If you have not been able to attend so far, then please book a space and pop in for a learning conversation. We look forward to meeting with you soon.

We have just published our latest Podcast Episode.  A collection of acrostic poems, read aloud by students in our class.  We had great fun writing them, and were even more excited when we got to hear them.  Why not visit our podcast station, download them and listen for yourself.  Our Podcast Station is called the Buzz, and you can find it by following this link.

Mr Harrington, a teacher from Cefn Fforest Primary School listened to our Young Henry VIII poetry Podcast on 7^th November, and left us a message, and an acrostic of his own too.  This is what he said…

Great Acrostic Poems Year 3

Happy like a young Henry
Enjoyable like a lolly
Nourishing like fresh water
Rhyming like an ode
Youthful like a Year 3 pupils

Mr H Y4 Cefn Fforest Primary School
(also studying the Tudors )

Thank You, we hope you enjoyed our poems.  Mr Mills says your students podcast and blog too.  We look forward to visiting your blog, and having a peep at your wiki.

This term one of our key objectives for maths is to be able to add pairs of numbers that add up to 20 in our head, and for some of us to be able to add numbers pairs to 100. This game will help us to practice the strategies we need to use. Why not log on and play for 10 minutes or so every evening.

Mr Mills and Ms Clover

We went on a visit to Sandford Orcas Tudor Mansion.  This house belongs to a man named Sir Mervyn Medlycott.

This house was a big houseand it was really interesting.   We had a really good time at the beautiful Tudor House. We saw some big thick metal plates that the people who lived there used to eat with the metal they are made of is called pewter.  So do you want to go yet?

It was a long way to go but maybe not as far as it is from your house. It had an enormous garden.

One day Sir Mervyn said that he found some children’s leather shoes from the Tudor times behind the wall in the house.  He thinks that they might have been put there to bring good luck.  This house was the biggest house we have ever seen, well we are only 7.

We saw a four poster bed.  Did you know that the curtains were to make the bed like a little room?  People used to walk through your bedroom, so the curtains were to stop people seeing you when you were asleep.  They also helped keep you warm when you were in bed.

The toilet in the old house was a hole in the floor, it must have been very smelly.

On the wall in the church they had a statue that told the story about the people who built the house.  The picture was important because lots of people in Tudor times could not read.  They could use the picture to tell stories.

There is a fantastic stained glass picture of an elephant.  Well it doesn’t look like an elephant it was really funny.  Mr Mines told us it was because the person who made the picture, had never seen one, and he had to make it up from the things people had told him.  Do you want to visit now?
BYE BYE
See you again some time
C and K