Advent calendar in class 3

Our advent calendar this year is an interactive one with different tasks each day . (we do have a traditional chocolate one too!).These may be hangman, Pointless, word games or maths games. The product game proved a favourite and got rather competitive.
On Wednesday( also our Christmas Jumper day) 2 teams played against each other to try to get 4 in a row by multiplying numbers 1-9 by moving only 1 at a time to make the products on the board. Tactics came into play-teams had to think ahead and block as well as trying to get the answers.

Children edged ever closer to the board  trying to beat the other team.

The score was 1 game all and the second game seemed to have reached a stale mate . 

Joseph could not help himself- under the table thinking how to win!

Checking times table grids for all possibilities.

Hands up with suggestions for team captains Rory and Jasper.

Just when I was about to call it a draw, Rory moved the slider to make the winning move...I had not seen it! I thought a draw was inevitable!

Cipher codes in Computing lessons.

This week in Computing, the codes looked at included caesar cipher codes and pi pen cipher codes.
Children enjoyed creating messages in code for their peers to decipher.

Pig pen cipher codes

The pigpen cipher  is a geometric simple substitution  which exchanges letters for symbols which are fragments of a grid.

In cryptography, a Caesar cipher, also known as Caesar's cipher, the shift cipher,Caesar's 

code or Caesar shift, is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques.

Some super work using codes, challenging and enjoyable.