Class 3: March 2015

Friday, March 20, 2015

Partial Eclipse and Pi work .

We all went outside to experience the partial eclipse. Armed with our pin hole cameras, we positioned our pin holes and saw the crescent shape on our white paper. Success! We felt the change in the temperature- it went really cold as well as going gloomy after being really sunny and bright. The birds flew up to the tree tops but carried on singing.
Once back in class we even managed to include this in our Beowulf writing! Suddenly the sky grew dark...something had awoken....something that lived in the abyss between the moon and the sun....

making sure we did not look directly at the sun

lining our pinhole cameras up

if you look closely you will see the crescent shape of the eclipse

success

March 14th was Pi Day- so in maths we looked at different activities associated with pi and circles.

Using compasses to create circle patterns.

solving calculations and finding the answer hiden in the 100 decimal places of pi.

memorising pi-how many decimal places can they memorise? 3.14.........they remembered 37 places.

solving pi based problems

more memorising-Isabella was a great teacher- she coached Jess and Sophie to remember 40 decimel places!

focusing hard

a good mix of pi based work.

Friday, March 13, 2015

Red Nose Day

First thing for early work , dressed in our red and funny for money clothes and faces, we did a Red Nose Day wordsearch and designed our own red noses.

red noses, red face paints

red nails and lip stick

red hair and red caps

red T shirts

red noses

red ribbons,red stars on faces

red spots

red hair clips

Lots of red in ou "new class room in the hall."

We had to design and create a board game invoving red nose counters that our peers could then play and enjoy later in the morning.

Jacob,Casper and Tyler created "Reach the Crystal Snout " game.

Holly and Darcy created mazes with jokes and dares to reach Pom Pom Island.

dares -jogging on the spot

Ethan made Red Nose Robots- a maze using follow me arrows.

Isabella and Megan enjoyed creatingThe Devils Dare-with good and bad cards.

Conor and Thomas created "Sweety Street" with estates named after chocolate bars-Milky Way,Taxi Bar...

Vincent, Leon and Harrycraeyed "8 Nose" a game involving sound cards!

next dare-press ups

more dares and forfeits

sit ups

Sophie and Jess made a game involving lots of dares- as seen above!

Elise, Rory, Jasper and Matthew made Nose City- their version of Monopoly.

George, Adam and Joseph created What?- a game so called because that's what people would say when they read the cards!eg Hug the person next to you...

Amy.Amelia,Sophie and Serena made a game with charades, jokes and a banker.

A creative morning with class 3 really entering into the spirit of Red Nose Day 2015.

English drama work -Beowulf.

In English we have been enjoying Beowulf.Having found out that there is one last monster to defeat, the old King Beowulf believes he has one last fight left in him whilst others, including his cousing Wiglaf, believe he is too old and should not fight the dragon! To help us empathise with the characters, we took part in a conscience corridor drama activity .On one side of the corridor children told the King why he should fight compared to children on the other side who told the king why he should not fight. The king walked slowly down the corridor pondering these views before finally deciding what he should do!

"don't do it, your kingdom needs you"

" you can win,fight the dragon"

"die a hero"

"let someone else fight"

Harry(alias King Beowulf) decided he was not ready to die and so would not be fighting. Jess( in her role as the King) listened to all and decided that she did have one last fight in her and that if she were to die then it would be better to die a hero!

Friday, March 6, 2015

Extra work before school.

Keen to get their Anglo saxon villages finished, Sophie and Serena came early to school in order to finish the models.

I could hear then singing as they worked so crept in for a quick photo.

Well done - a lot for 2 to do and you did extra at home to help get your village finished.

Totemic Visit

On Wednesday class 3 were invited to Totemic in Grantham .We were collected and when we arrived, after waiting in reception for the rest of the group to arrive( allowing time to read the Financial Times! )we were given a tour of the building( we had to listen carefully as there was a quiz later in the day!).

Boys did this without prompting and seemed quite at ease with the papers.

After that we split into 4 groups and completed different activities. 1 group made chocolate chip and mini marshmallow muffins .

This was followed by being taught about food allergens and how to look closely at the ingredients in order to find this information out.

Another group went to the document handling department. Here they found out about ( and did!)opening all the mail the company receives, processing the data on the computer and scanning it to Lisbon,storing it ,packing and sealing the new post.

entering data into the computer

getting envelopes ready

learning about the sorting and sealing machine( so quick)

ready to feed the paper in for the post

packing the envelopes

real post!

an amazing machine

doing a quiz to check they had listened and understood

Next baking group

ready to mix and make

now for the food allergens

How to answer the phones and deal with customers.

Holding music played in the background whilst children took other calls.

It department-computer repairs.

Time to take the computer apart and find and fix the problem-under supervision this was keenly done.

Next job please...

Customer relations -Marston style.

Hello, how may I help you?

Hard at work.

Lunch time

We were treated to burgers and chips, juice, ice cream with chocolate and wafers. Yummy!

Time to see how to get down from floor 4 without using the lift in case of fire using the Evac-Chair! Unfortunately it had to be an adult in the chair!