Investigating the pieces of bark in the bark area

Today we have been learning about area and perimeter, we have also learned about quadrilaterals, irregular pentagon and compound shapes. We drew the bark area and we separated compound shapes into simple shapes to help us calculate the area easier.
We have also estimated a one metre squared space with border tape - we were only 10cm out - not bad! We thought that was going to be too big to count all of the pieces of the bark area so we made and measured, 10cm x 10cm squares to use instead.
We used trundle wheels today to find the perimeter of the bark area and with our measurements we were able to calculate the area by using the simple shapes we had created from the compound shapes.
Tomorrow we will be continuing our investigation to find out how many pieces of bark are in the bark area.


Year 3 and Miss Williams

Class Assembly

On Wednesday year 3/4 did their class assembly in front of the whole school and our parents!

I'm really proud of year 3/4, they spoke clearly, smiled and read their work beautifully! They shared their learning of the 1960s including a role play, facts about Martin Luther King and our toy packages.

Here are some pictures of our class assembly.

Maths Enquiry

For maths we were investigating some really tricky questions.
We created our questions around the World Cup.

Here are our questions:

How many blades of grass are there on a pitch? (We used the Penfold instead)
How many footballs will fit into a goal?
How many squares are in the fence surrounding the Penfold?

We weren't allowed to count everything, we had to show a method of working out.

We used our speaking and listening skills, our knowledge of measuring (some of us measured distance on a trundle wheel, others marked our square meters, and we had to show written working out.

Here are some pictures of us working!

Also, here are our answers, they are, of course only estimations!

Number of blades of grass on the Penfold = 6,048,000
Number of footballs that will fit into a goal = 300
Number of squares in the fence surrounding the Penfold = 1148

A recipe for Persuasive writing!

Our new literacy topic is persuasive writing. Today we combined instructional writing with our new topic by writing recipes for a good persuasive text.

Below are some of our recipes.


To make a persuasive text, follow these instructions. 

Cautiously drop into your bowl a spoonful of persuasive speech.
Next, grab a teaspoon of flattery and stir carefully.
After that, generously add a dab of exaggeration.
While your mixture is bubbling and boiling, sprinkle in some humor.
Then dash in some feelings!
You have now completed your persuasive text!

By Corey


To make a perfect persuasive text, follow these instructions. 
To start your text put in a dab of exaggeration, your first  ingredient has been added!
secondly, throw a bucketful of flattery in (you may need a bigger bowl) and thoroughly stir the sticky text ingredients. 
After that, drop in a plop of bribery and hardly mix. 
Second to last, drop in a range of amazing, fantastico, stupendous wow words.
Finally, dump in a truckload of persuasive speech and cook for 5 minutes. 

By Bradley

Wormery

For our science topic on habitats I made a wormery.

Inside it I put:
Leaves
Soil
Sandwomery
Mud
water
worms

We put the soil  and sand in the wormery in layers, it looked really neat. Now the sand and soil is mixed because the worms have been moving around and tunneling.

Every day I check on the  to make sure that the worms are still okay. I usually give the worms 10 mls of water a day but today I put in 15mls

because it is hot today.

Here are some pictures of our wormery.


By Seth.

Super, fantastic D&T (Post name by Dylan!)

Today in D&T we painted our packages. Our packages have been designed to hold a popular 60s toy. We had to think carefully about the colour we chose and use our skills from art to successfully paint our boxes.

Here are some pictures of our fantastic work!

Persuasive Writing

For Big Writing this week we were writing persuasive letters. Some of us chose to write to our favourite sport coach/ manager/ chairman and others chose to write a letter to Miss Worsley. 

Below are 2 examples to brilliant writing demonstrated by year 3 and 4 today. 


Dear Daniel Levy, 
                            I am writing to see if you could sign me as a goalkeeper for Spurs. If you agree, like everyone else, I know that Spurs would be at the top of the league in no time! I would be a Spurs legend, everyone knows that you are the best chairman to ever step foot on Earth. Please sign me. 

Yours Sincerely, 

Bradley 


Dear Miss Worsley, 
                               I am writing to you because I would like to know if we could have Monday, Tuesday and Thursday off. Everybody agrees that you work too hard everyday and if you let us you can have a big lay in and have breakfast in bed and have more family time as well. 
So I hope you like the idea to have Monday, Tuesday and Thursday off and I would be very grateful if you get in touch soon. 

Yours Sincerely, 

Grace