Masks

The Sri Lankan masks we started making today are looking amazing.

Welsh Books

We have been doing some fantastic work on Welsh this term. Take a look at Taylor and J-Pal's book

- Mr T

Homework

Well done to everyone who completed the soil homework, you did fantastic work and presented it to the class well

Homework

Your homework this week is to present something on the four layers of soil that we have been learning about in science. Remember that the bottom layer is bedrock, followed by substratum, subsoil and then topsoil. You can present this work however you like. This is due in on Monday

Rocks Activity

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/materials/rocks_soils/play/

Half Term Homework

Your homework for half term is to create a fireworks safety poster on Purple Mash. If you don’t have access to Purple Mash, you can make one on A4 but it must be presented well. Year 4 can make one on their computer and upload their work onto Google Drive if they know how. To log onto Purple Mash the children can use their own logon or year 3 for the username and password. They need to save their work in the Fireworks Safety folder which is in 34T. Have a good half term everyone

Homework - 13th October

Your homework for this week is to produce a resource on the Kings and Queens of the Stuart age. This could be a leaflet, poster or quiz produced in any way that you wish.

I would like these in next Monday 20th October, ready to start our Stuart topic

Is it a marrow?

Thank you Callum for my gigantic courgette! I can't wait to cook with it on the weekend

Homework

Thank you for all those who did the Roald Dahl homework, you will have a raffle ticket so that you have a chance to win a prize at the end of the term.

All children have been given a quiz about Roald Dahl. This is due in Monday please

Have a good weekend everyone

Roald Dahl Day Activities Continue!

Year three and four having a fantastic time celebrating the work of Roald Dahl as part of our Roald Dahl Day!








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Roald Dahl Day

I hope you all had a great day today. Mr Twit told me he had a horrible time...you have to remember that he doesn't like children!




- Mr T

Fantastic Mr Fox

Well done to Callum who created a wonderful presentation on Fantastic Mr Fox and presented it very professionally!




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Fundraising

Don't forget to start fundraising ready for the walk on Friday. There will be a prize for the person who fundraises and brings in the most!


- Mr T

Homework

Your homework for the next week is to create an item on Roald Dahl to celebrate Roald Dahl day on Thursday.

If you can I would like you to create something on Purple Mash that could go into your Learning Logs. Quizzes and a the activities on 2DIY work really well. Remember to save your work into the Roald Dahl folder.

If you do not have access to the internet you can create something else that would celebrate Roald Dahl day.

I look forward to seeing your projects. This is due in by Friday 19th May so you have plenty of time.

Croeso

Welcome to our class blog. Over the next year I will be posting examples of work, videos, photos and messages such as homework so make sure you are checking it regularly.

Thanks

Mr T

Thank you

Thank you to everyone for my wonderful presents. I could not have expected so much and I am really touched. See you on Monday or if you are not coming, have an amazing summer holiday

Sports day

We are very excited on the way to Sports day. Let's hope the rain holds off

Reading books

Please could everyone bring in their reading books next week ready for the end of term. Thanks, Mr T

Pic Stitch

Creating a trailer for our Fable as an alternative to doing a story plan

Forest School Tomorrow

Tomorrow (Wednesday) we will be going to Forest School. Please could you bring in old trainers or wellington boots.

Grow a pound trailers

We had a great day today making videos for our Grow a Pound projects. I will post them online when they are complete

iPhone texts

I'm glad you enjoyed the work on speech marks today.

Here is the website where you can make fake iPhone conversations.

http://www.iphonetextgenerator.com

Dosbarth Glas

Morning everyone. I hope that you have all had a good week. I had excellent fun and will show you photos on Monday but here is one for you to enjoy.


Don't forget that there is the Dosbarth Glas shop on Tuesday so bring some money in to buy something if you can

Flags

Next week you will doing a project on the World Cup. I would love for some flags to be made on A4 that we could use for our display. This could be a collage, painting or drawing. I do not need any just printed out as I can do this in school but any crafted flags would look fantastic. You can pick any country that is in the football world cup.

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace sounded lovely today year 3. If you want to practice it or try any other songs you can by clicking here

http://www.cansing.org.uk/caneuon/can.php?id=87&iaith=en

Click on open below interactive screen

Eid Party

Just a reminder that year 3 and 4 can bring in their lunch on a plate for the Eid Party, if they wish. The children must still wear school uniform as it is not a school disco

Toga time

Today we dressed up as Romans. We felt very posh in our togas!

Animal magic

Enjoying our trip to Techniquest and learning all about animals and plants

Celts Homework

Next week we will be writing a report on the Celts. We began our research in school but I would like you to continue this research at home and present it in any way you like.

You could use Purple Mash, create a piece of work or upload a video or presentation to Hwb+. I look forward to seeing the variety of documents.

This is due in on Friday 16th May. All of you had spellings today, we will be working on them over the next few weeks in Read Write Inc and the test will be on Friday 23d May.

Next week

What a few weeks. You all worked incredibly hard for the tests and I am very proud of you all.

We will be back to normal from next week with spellings given out every fortnight and homework given out every Monday. This will continue to be projects so that you can show your creativity. Every other Friday there will be a spelling test so that we have spent two weeks learning spellings and how to use them.

See you all tomorrow.

Mr T

Thursday

You did such a great job with the numeracy test yesterday, I'm so proud of you all.

I know that you'll make me just as proud in the reading test today,

Remember that you need to continue with your TASC projects this afternoon. Those doing the animations and videos need to get everything ready and rehearse ready to record tomorrow. See you tomorrow!

Skydive

Thank you Megan for sponsoring me.

It was the most incredible experience of my life. I'll post photos of the dive as soon as I get them

Skydive

Tomorrow I will be skydiving fir Brain Tumour Research, a cause very close to my heart as my niece has suffered with a brain tumour for the last 5 years. If you would like to donate I would be incredibly grateful. You can donate at the following link

http://bit.ly/1dB3Rbr

Thank you for any support

Mr Timbrell

National Testing

National testing is next week. Please ensure that you are in every day so that you can sit the tests on the correct days.

Fractions with sandwiches

We learnt all about fractions using sandwiches today. What food at home can you cut into halves and quarters?

Money

We really enjoyed solving the money problems yesterday. The links are still in the discussions board on Hwb+ so you can keep practising your number skills

Happy Easter

Have a great Easter holidays from both Mr Timbrells.

Don't forget to do your poem on keeping your seatbelt on for the competition

Fakebook

I hope you enjoyed making the Fakebook pages today, you did an amazing job making one for your life as coal miners

This week

I hope you've all had a good week and I look forward to being back on Monday. I will be giving you more homework on Monday but for this weekend could you find a picture of a coal miner or mine and create your own version. This could be using charcoal, pencils, a collage or something creative. We will be using these to inspire our work next week. Everyone who brings this in on Monday will get 10 merits. Make sure they are good quality as I will be using some on a display.

I hope you all have a good weekend.

Coffee morning

Why not come in for a tea or coffee and help make some resources this morning in 3T's coffee morning from 9am - 10am. I hope some of you can make it. Mr T

Class words

There are some words that we are all getting stuck on so this week I would like you to make a resource that helps us learn them. Everyone will then be tested on them on Friday. The words are:

made
school
people
couldn't
didn't
something
used
each other (these two together as lots of you are writing them as eachuther

I look forward to seeing your resources and remember to practise these words every day

Forest School

On our way to Forest School

Coffee morning

The coffee mornings will begin again tomorrow. We hope you can come in for a cuppa and help make some resources

World Book Day

Don't forget that you can dress up as your favourite character on World Book Day. You can also bring in your favourite book as we will be doing some work on this to celebrate the day. If you bring in a book, make sure your name is inside it. We wouldn't want your favourite book getting mixed up with the school's books.

Purple Mash competition

Why not use your extra day off to enter the Purple Mash competition. You have to create a resource to celebrate St David's day, it could be a poster, quiz, game or anything else you can think of

Half term

I hope you all have a wonderful half term.

You homework for this half term is to create a resource that helps you learn the 2 or 5 times table. This could be a quiz, poster, game or anything else you like.

You may wish to use Purple Mash or make it yourself, it's totally up to you.

Have a wonderful half term everyone

Giant collages

Don't forget that tomorrow we are making a collage of giants so you can bring in any materials you would like to use

Eisteddfod spellings

The Eisteddfod spelling test will be on Thursday so make sure you are prepared! Practise in all the says you have been taught in class

TASC Projects

3T presented their TASC projects on the counties of Wales to 6P today. A great opportunity for peer assessment

Giant projects

Thank you to everyone who put so much effort into the giant's pocket homework, they looked amazing

Maths problems

Making sense of maths problems is much easier when you act them out

Organised chaos

Board games, PowerPoints, Minecraft and lots of mess. It must be our TASC project on the counties of Wales

What's in the Giant's pocket

Mia and her mum created an incredibly creative way of showing what's in the giant's pocket. A lovely way to reuse materials from home. We will be using it in our poetry writing next week

Coffee morning

There will be no coffee morning sorry everyone. We will start them back up after half term.

Thank you to everyone that has helped this half term

Homework

Your homework this week is to make a collage ready for some poetry next week.

The poem is called What's in a giant's pocket? Use your imagination and find lots of pictures of items that you may find.

You could use Purple Mash, cut out of magazines or use a word processor at home. It is completely up to you.

This is due in by Friday preferably but Monday at the latest

Fact finders

Lions are carnivores, sheep are herbivores, so what are we? The first to post the answer in the discussion forum will get 5 merits

Coffee morning

Thank you again to the helpers this morning, you got so much done! It's much appreciated and lovely to see how you're enjoying the morning.

However, there were far too many biscuits and cakes left over, the staff just had to eat them!

2Code

Amazing coding going on in 3T. The children can show you some awesome interactive videos they have made

Coffee Morning

3T's coffee morning will be held this morning. Come along for a cup of coffee, cake and help make some resources for the children.

Discussions

Have you looked on the discussions on Hwb+ this week? There are lots of topics waiting to be replied to

English Advert Homework

Your English homework this week is to write an advert for an old toy. What are the benefits of it and why should people buy it? Use the prompts on the side to help you.

 

The adverts should be written on Purple Mash using the Mbay template. You will find the template under Themes -> Persuasive Writing -> MBay.

 

I wonder who's advert will really persuade me to buy the toy!

 

This is due in by Friday.

Watch out for the giant!

Our village is about to be attacked by the giant. What will we need to rebuild it?

Usernames

The children took home username cards today. They can use these to log onto our new website and so they need to keep them safe as we will be completing homework on this website every week from next week

Thank you

Thank you to my awesome helpers again. It's lovely to see family in class and I hope you enjoyed. See you next week!

Coffee Morning

3T will be having another morning on Thursday where you can have a tea, coffee and cake and help us make some resources.

I hope you can make it

Homework This Week

This week your homework is to create a game using 2DIY on the theme of giants. Who's game will be chosen to be featured on the website? Make sure the images are high quality and the game is challenging but can be completed. Save the game in the Giant Game folder on Purple Mash

Don't forget you now have new usernames. If you have any problems with it, use the year 3 username and password.

If you do not have access to the internet, you need to make a quiz resource on giants. This could be about a book or about a poem or story you find. You could write out a piece of writing and ask questions on it.

Spellings

I hope you all have a nice weekend. As the ious spellings are more difficult to learn I am giving you an extra week before the spelling test. There will be no new spellings on Monday, they will be tested on Friday

Welsh games

The children had an excellent time learning new games to remember Welsh phrases. My favourite was Tom and Jerry. What was yours?

Thank you!

Thank you so much to my busy bee helpers who got so much done, I can't believe how much you cut out,

Help!

Yesterday I attended a maths course where I was shown amazing new resources and games. These games are very simple but take a long time to make. If you could stay even half an hour tomorrow (Thursday) morning to help cut out the games I would really appreciate it. As a thank you there will be plenty of tea coffee biscuits and cakes on hand. I hope you can help us as the children are really looking forward to these games. I look forward to seeing some of you tomorrow.

Thank you

Mr T

Awesome readers l

Well done to reading club today. You are really impressing the year 6s with your fantastic reading!

Giants

Why did the Giant from Nowhere attack the town of Somewhere? The children had wonderful ideas and mind mapped them using 2Connect

Homework

This week's English homework is to produce a piece of writing on Jack and the Beanstalk

You can write a poem, newspaper, diary, letter or rewrite the story, but it must be a piece of extended writing and not just images and a few words.

You can use any resource on Purple Mash or create a well made piece of writing on paper.

If you need a reminder of the story you can watch the following video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/misc/stories/misc-jackandthebeanstalk/

The best work will be used on a display, I cannot wait to see what wonderful work you produce. This is due in on Friday 10th January.

Coding

The class had their first day of a taste of coding today using the Kodable app. We have some excellent problem solvers here