Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items
Eco- Council Reminder, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Jun 2021 @ 2:38pm
Remember to have your presentations ready if you would like to be considered for this role.
LPS+ badges, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Jun 2021 @ 2:37pm
Just a little reminder for those of you who have been working towards your LPS+ badge for this half term (Gardening or World Consevation) to be collecting together your evidence and submitting it to the assignment in Google Classroom.
I'm looking forward to seeing it and us sharing it with the class.
Skeletons - what do they look like?, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Jun 2021 @ 6:42am
We worked individually then in groups to create a drawing of what we thought our skeletons looked like. Then we sorted some given bones into a body outline before playing a race against time game to check our skeletons against a correct one and move the pieces as needed. We finished by naming some of the bones with their common names and their scientific names.
Our final half term in year 3, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Jun 2021 @ 10:28pm
The sun has been shining and I hope you have all had a lovely break. I'm looking forward to finding out all about your half term fun. There are lots of great things planned for our topics this half term and I can't wait to get started.
Please remember to bring to school:
Pencil cases
Water Bottles
PE Kits
Sun hat
Arts Week Friday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 31st May 2021 @ 7:53am
The final day. We have loved arts Week and learnt lots of new skills. Here are our final toucan prints.
We also made fantastic mask wearing self portraits, when you take off the mask it reveals all our awesome characteristics and our wonderful smiles. They are all amazing the children did a fantastic job.
Arts Week Thursday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th May 2021 @ 6:05pm
Today we were printing. Earlier in the week we focused on the work of Henri Rousseau- the tiger in the jungle.
We have thought a lot about our outdoor environment and nature during lockdowns with many of us enjoying our country walks. In class we have been learning about the importance of the rainforest so we linked these 2 ideas together to create our own, multi coloured prints.
I only have a 1 photos I’m afraid as my hands have been covered in printing ink most of the day! Final pieces will be photographed tomorrow when they are dry.
This afternoon we took a bit of time out to enjoy some reading in the sunshine, tennis and finished off with a ice pop.
On Monday we make our own art shirts, take a look, can you find inspirational messages or try and spot a rainbow or 2!
Arts Week Wednesday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th May 2021 @ 5:55pm
Here are our final canvases. They look amazing, the children selected the design they wanted and used rainbow colours.
We also made a group fluid art painting.
Arts Week Tuesday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th May 2021 @ 6:26pm
Today we have been preparing for our printing day on Thursday and using acrylic paint to create a rainbow themed canvas. Here are a few photos. We will post our final creations later in the week.
Royal Mail Hero stamp design competition, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th May 2021 @ 9:41pm
All competition entries ready to post off.
Can you see who the hero is?
P.E., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th May 2021 @ 9:10pm
Although it’s Arts week the children still wanted their P.E. Lesson. Who can blame them -starting the day with physical exercise -perfect.
hop, skip and jump
balancing a bean bag on your head
throwing a bean bag into buckets.
skipping ropes.
Class compliment, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th May 2021 @ 9:04pm
We had a lovely afternoon despite the rain. We played games inside, built Lego models and some children opted for making fairy cakes and chocolate cornflake cakes which they shared with everyone at the end of the day. Well done Elephants, fingers crossed we can earn some more stars and have an outdoor afternoon before the end of the year. Keep shining brightly and I know we will.
Plants, plants, plants, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 7:41pm
Today we continued our learning about plants. We found out about different seeds and how they are dispersed. We finished the lesson by going into the hall to work in teams to complete a few matching challenges.
Can you match the tree shape to the photo of the tree and the leaf?
Can you complete the loop game matching parts of a flower to their function?
Can you sort the seeds into the forms of dispersal?
Can you match the leaf photos to the names of the trees they are from?
We were all focused on our learning and spotted by Mrs Woolley who gave us a class compliment.
Well done Elephants. :)
How are the rainforests being destroyed?, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 3rd May 2021 @ 6:02pm
We finished the non-fiction part of our rainforest English topic this week by working as a team to research, make notes and then produce a poster to inform others about the destruction of the rainforest.
Anglo Saxon villages, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 3rd May 2021 @ 5:58pm
Where did Anglo Saxons live? What were their homes like? The children worked in teams to read through the facts and then use these to try and create an Anglo Saxon village.
Chromebooks, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 3rd May 2021 @ 5:56pm
We have been learning how to use the new chrome books in class. Here we are reading opening up our homework - 4 reasons why the rainforests are important and them creating a slide show of them with more information we have gathered together. For homework the children then had to edit their slideshows changing the font size, colour and adding pictures.
Geography - Physical Features, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Apr 2021 @ 9:00pm
Today we found out all about the Physical geographical features of South America.
For those of you who like quizzes we thought this information would be useful to remember.
The world's largest River = Amazon (not longest that it the Nile)
The world's longest mountain range = The Andes
The highest mountain in the Andes = Mt. Aconcagua
The world's highest uninterrupted waterfall = Angel Falls
The world's driest place = Atacama Desert.
The World's largest rainforest = The Amazon Rainforest.
Did you notice anything?
Maths - Fractions, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Apr 2021 @ 8:50pm
A few photos from the other week - Mathletics in the computer suite and fraction loop games with our friends - great team work everyone. You all shone brightly. Please make sure you complete the activities on Mathletics and keep up the times table practise.
Rainforest animal factfiles, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd Apr 2021 @ 6:37pm
We have begun our topic on the rainforest. The children are loving it. After introducing a story called,
Flowering Plants - Science, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd Apr 2021 @ 6:27pm
Today we asked ourselves what are the functions/jobs of different parts of a plant?We thought about the roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers.
The flower
Outdoor day, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 19th Apr 2021 @ 6:43pm
The sun was shining and so was year 3 today during our outdoor day.
We split into 2 groups and swapped over after lunch.
Oli came from the Outdoor centre and the children experienced a range of team building activities. They had to plan, do and review each one, listen to people
Welcome Back, by Rebecca Catterall
Date: 12th Apr 2021 @ 10:26pm
It has been fantastic to see everyone again after the Easter break.. We have had a great day today, we started with P.E. then discussed a series of pictures taken from a story - we spent lots of time chatting with our friends about what we could see, what we thought was happening and putting the pictures in order. We then read the story and found out if any of our ideas were true. We continued the morning with fractions in maths using smarties and then reading and planting seeds in Science this afternoon. The weather improved as the day went on and we enjoyed the sunshine outside.
We have a busy half term planned with lots of creative elements to it. We would really appreciate your support by making sure the children have everything they need in school to take part in lessons. Please send in P.E. kits and pencil cases if they are still at home. Reading books are changed on Fridays - School books need to be read each week and returned but please read other books at home as well - make sure it is recorded in the reading diary which needs returning on a Friday when we change books. We are testing times tables every week. please help them with this at home. Daily practise for 10mins makes a huge difference. 2x, 5x, 10x, 3x, 4x, 8x are the expectation for year 3 and then we move on to the 6x, 7x, 9x etc. You might be learning the 4x table but make sure you keep practising all the ones you can already do.
Mrs Atkinson and I are looking forward to a busy and exciting half term. We will be posting photos of our learning here on the blog.
Shadows, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Mar 2021 @ 9:10pm
As part of our light unit in Science we have been exploring shadows. A lovely sunny day.
Easter Cards, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Mar 2021 @ 9:07pm
These look so cute. The children really enjoyed doing them.
Easter Service, by Mr Pearson
Date: 25th Mar 2021 @ 8:49pm
Photographs of the event can be found here
Easter shop., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Mar 2021 @ 2:44pm
The Easter Shop was busy today. Lots of Easter treats bought and on their way home.
