Welcome to Class 3 - Squirrels
These are the staff who work in Class 3
Rapid Recall Facts
Squirrels had an interesting (slightly rainy) walk around Sheldwich looking ayt landuse and making a sketch map
Shhhh....we may have had a 'music' birthday party for Mrs Hammond's birthday.
Squirrels designed and made a healthy starter for their 'Healthy Me' topic. We chopped the vegetables and chose how we would like the dip..greek yoghurt with cucumber and coriander.
Spellings 11.10.2024
These are the spelling words that we are focussing on this week. We will have a test on Friday to see if we have remembered how to spell them!
early, learn, heart, heard, earth
Remember to practise your times tables on TTRS too!!
Spellings 04.10.2024
These are the spelling words that we are focussing on this week. We will have a test on Friday to see if we have remembered how to spell them!
favourite, group, famous, various, enough
Remember to practise your times tables on TTRS too!!
Spellings -27.09.2024
These are the spelling words that we are focussing on this week. We will have a test on Friday to see if we have remembered how to spell them!
remember, though, through, although, thought
Remember to practise your times tables on TTRS too!!
Spellings -20.09.2024
These are the spelling words that we are focussing on this week. We will have a test on Friday to see if we have remembered how to spell them!
address, answer, appear, disappear, called, arrive
Remember to practise your times tables on TTRS too!!
Squirrels have been enjoying playing the glocks to 'The Whole Wide World'
In PE we have been thinking of a fitness work out that challenges us physically and mentally.
In Science we have been learning about teeth and how to look after them. We made a poster to let everyone know how to look after their teeth.
Term 6 Overview
Spellings -05.07.2024
These are the spelling words that we are focussing on this week. We will have a test on Friday to see if we have remembered how to spell them!
with, said, February, school, once
Tip - these are all words I've noticed that the children have been misspelling frequently in their work!
Remember to practise your times tables on TTRS too!!
Ice Cream
A big 'Thank You' to Mrs Garrett who arranged for an ice cream van to come and visit us to celebrate our 'Outstanding' Ofsted result!
Paper Clothes
We had a little competition to see which group could make the best clothes out of backing paper! Gretel's group and Leo's group were the winners!
Clothes Making!
We had lots of fun having a go at making the clothes that we'd been busy designing.
Sports Day
We had lots of fun participating in Sports Day. We loved our individual races as well as our team activities. We made some posters with messages of support for our friends!
Sports Week
We had so much fun trying out lots of Olympic Sports during our Paris Olympic themed Sports Week.
Badminton
Archery
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Rugby
Taekwondo
We also did some Sports themed Art, by painting some pebbles with a sporty/Olympic theme.
And had a go at choreographing our own cheerleading routines!
Clothes Project
We have had an ongoing project this term in Class 3! We had to design an item of clothing for a specific purpose with our group. We then turned this into a big poster and presented it to our friends. We had to answer any questions they had about our design and how we would make it. Then, we had a go at making our 'prototype'!
Visit to Church
We visited St Thomas' Church where Reverend Peter taught us about why Holy Communion is important to Christians and how they celebrate it as part of their Church service.
Performing Arts Week
We had so much fun during our Jazz and Blues themed Performing Arts Week. We used some clips from 'The Princess and The Frog' to introduce us to the style and origins of the music. Then, we had a go at some call and response games as well as some improvisation to a backing track using the Glocks. We also write our very own Blues song, thinking about the things that got us down and frustrated us and had a go at putting the lyrics to a melody in groups.
A Very Fantastic Friday!
As we missed out having hot chocolate in our Outdoor Learning session (due to Sheldwich Has Talent overrunning), we moved it to our Fantastic Friday session! We had the most chilled morning - the perfect way to start our last day of term.
Outdoor Learning
We had so much fun in the Forest School environment making our own Viking settlements! We worked on these for two sessions and as it was raining during the second session, we used the opportunity to mix mud and water to make our own 'cement' and 'mud bricks'.
James Dasaolu Visit
The Olympian, James Dasaolu, visited our school and set us some challenges to improve our fitness!
History Day
We had lots of fun on History Day learning all about the history of our school! We began by looking at historical sources and seeing what we could learn about our school from them. Then, we joined Class 6 for a walk to the Old School House in the village and enjoyed sketching the Georgian half of the school. In the afternoon, we learnt about the rules of the school when it first opened and had a go at some Victorian style writing - we even got to have a go at writing with a quill!
Fantastic Friday - Glow Stick Party
We had so much fun having a Glow Stick Party for our Fantastic Friday activity (the children were in charge of the iPad for taking pictures!).
Drawing with Algorithms
We have been learning how to draw using algorithms in our Computing lessons. We have used the 'move' and 'turn' blocks to draw a square, then added 'go to' blocks to turn the square into a house. We then used a 'repeat' loop to save us time when writing the code for our squares and then played around with the number of repeats and the angles to see what cool shapes we could draw!
Our Easter Bonnet winners are...
Easter Bonnets!
Look at our wonderful creations!
Fantastic Friday
We did some painting with our friends for Fantastic Friday! It was great to see everyone's creativity all on one page!
School Trip - Egyptian Day
We went to Kent Life where they put on a wonderful day full of Egyptian themed workshops. We learnt about clothing, life around the Nile, how to make rope, we built our own pyramids, learnt about medicines, mummification and how we could entertain the Pharaoh with some dancing. We also had great fun playing in the playground!
Book Week
We have been looking at a selection of stories from ‘A Year Full of Stories’ by Angela McAllister and Christopher Corr. We have looked at the traditional Choctaw story of Grandmother Spider bringing fire to Earth which led to us writing our own stories for how fire may have come to Earth. We also liked the story of the Ship of Wheat and how the Lady of Stavoren had interpreted what is meant by ‘precious’. We then spent some time debating what the most precious thing was. After several rounds of voting, we landed on family being the most precious thing, although nature was a close second!
We had great fun dressing up on World Book Day - can you guess who we are?
Science - Plants
In Science, we have been identifying parts of a plant and thinking about their roles. We recapped the flower, leaves, stem and roots and have also learnt about some of the parts of a flower (stigma, style, ovary, filament and anther). These parts of a flower are needed for a plant to be able to make new plants. To help us with identifying these parts, we each dissected a daffodil.
Canopic Jars Part 2
We had so much fun painting our canopic jars so that they looked just like our designs from our Art Books!
Art Week
We had a wonderful time being creative during Art Week. We enjoyed working on our big project alongside Jo from Animate Arts and have never thought so carefully and philosophically about what might be behind a door! We begun by planning what the domestic scenes behind our doors might be and then chose a medium to create our big A3 final piece in. We then used blue pens to create a door that was special to us, since Delft is famous for it's blue and white pottery. These went on display, with the doors from all the other classes too, in the hall.
Canopic Jars
We had lots of fun transforming old drinks bottles into canopic jars. We designed how we wanted our canopic jars to look and stuck with the Ancient Egyptian theme of them having animal heads. We begun making our jars by using newspaper and masking tape to model a head onto the top half of the bottle and then used mod-roc to cover both halves of the bottle, taking care to smooth out the little bubbles and overlapping bits of bandage. They're looking great and we can't wait to paint them!
Mummification
We learnt all about the gruesome process of mummification and then had a go at mummifying our friends (only the wrapping part, NOT the embalming!!). We did a great job and had so much fun!
Stone Age Tools
We went out into the forest area of the playground to find all the materials we would need to make our tool designs from last week. We then either worked independently or in pairs to make our designs using only the natural materials that we had found in the forest and some string to represent the natural cordage/ animal hair that many of us had used in our designs.
Stig's Den
We spent the afternoon in the woods making dens for Stig. We used good teamwork and had lots of fun working out how to actually make our dens stay up!
R.E. day – How do Christians and non-Christians celebrate Christmas?
We had a wonderful R.E. day learning about how different people celebrate Christmas. Joey’s mum told us all about how religion (and therefore Christmas) had been banned in Belarus for some time while she was growing up and so they celebrated New Year instead. Then we had an assembly with a Vicar who told us all about how she gets ready for Christmas in the church and some key things Christians do as part of their celebrations. Next, we wrote some letters to Father Christmas and made a comic version of the Christian nativity story. In the afternoon, we made Christmas cards and decorations for the Christmas tree in the hall. We also all contributed to a large piece of art which will be displayed in St James’ Church. Finally, we played a game where we wrote down our favourite Christmas traditions and then we had to guess who does that tradition. What a busy day!
Margate Caves
We had a wonderful day at Margate Caves! We had two sessions down in the caves looking at the paintings and learning about the chalk that was mined to form the caves. We also had a workshop where we were rock detectives looking at how different types of rocks performed in certain tests and a workshop where we had a go at making our own prehistoric paintings.
Science - Different Types of Rocks
We learnt about how the different types of rocks were formed and then did a practical activity using sweets to represent this.
Igneous Rocks - lava or magma from volcanoes cools downs and hardens into rocks. We made honeycomb to represent the hot lava cooling down and hardening.
Sedimentary Rocks - layers of 'sediment' (dead plants, dead animals, small rocks, soils) become rocks over thousands of years due to pressure. We layered two different colours of Starbursts and then used the pressure of our hands to compress them into 'rock'.
Metamorphic Rocks - Igneous or Sedimentary Rocks that have been changed over time through exposure to extreme heat or pressure. We had a slice of Mars Bar which represented a Sedimentary Rock (layers!) and then changed it using the heat and pressure of our hands.
Cave Painting
We had ago at our very own cave paintings today! We shuffled under our tables (which we had to imagine were caves!) and then had a go at doing water-colour painting on some tea-stained paper stuck to the underside of our desks. It was much trickier then we thought it would be but A LOT of fun!
STEM week
We've had lots of fun during our 'Movie Magic' STEM week! We started by looking at insulating ice to stop it from melting (inspired by Frozen!), we then looked at some clips from Moana and had a little competition to try to make a boat that would float with a little Lego passenger. We also watched a bit of 'Finding Nemo' and learnt about sea creature adaptations before having a go at designing our own sea creatures and thinking about how they could have adapted to living in their environment. We also watched some clips from 'Inside Out' and learnt about the brain being responsible for our emotions and then created a personal piece of art based on our reflections on one of the emotions that we identified. This week, we have also learnt about reversible and irreversible changes with the help of some popcorn and static electricity.
PTA Fun Run
We had a great time running with Class 6 during our Halloween Fun Run, although we were all a bit like zombies at the end!
Dessert
We made fruit salad or fruit skewers for our healthy dessert. We could also have Greek yoghurt, plant-based yoghurt or no yoghurt at all!
Main Course
We made a pasta dish for our main course! The children could choose from toppings including tomato and herb sauce, tuna, sweetcorn, ham, chicken and cheese. They then evaluated their meal, thinking about the things they liked and things that they would improve.
Bones
In Science, we learnt about lots of different bones in our body. We stuck the names of the bones onto Gretel and thought about what job the bones did and why we would have them. We also tried to locate them on our own body. The class were brilliant at using their Knowledge Organisers at the front of their Topic books to help them with this!
Starters
We made vegetables and dips for the first course of our menu. We could choose to have carrots, cucumber, baby corn, cherry tomatoes, red pepper, houmous, fresh salsa and sour cream and chive dip. We practised our cutting skills and some of us even peeled the skin off our carrots! We thought carefully about how we wanted to present our foods - there were a fair few vegetable faces!
Maps
In Topic, we have been learning about maps. We looked at a map of the school and added symbols and colours (using a key) to show where different things could be found.
