Olympic Games websites

Find out about the Olympic rings here. This information will help you answer the questions in class.

Here you will find out about the Athletics events.

Find out about London, the host city of the Olympic games. Click here.

An update

Please accept my apologies for not putting anything up for a couple of weeks. To make up for it, here are a few photos of some of the fun things we've been doing in class.

Picnic in Brandon Hill Park during our trip to Bristol Museum.

Designing a mask for an Egyptian pharoah.

Practising our bowling and striking skills.

The Olympic torch came to visit us on Thursday!

Ancient Egypt poster

Here are a few websites that help you with your Ancient Egypt poster:

http://egypt.mrdonn.org/

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/egypt.html 

http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/egindex.htm

http://www.eyelid.co.uk/pyramid3.htm (Click on the links on the left.) 

http://www.kidskonnect.com/subject-index/16-history/253-ancient-egypt.html

 Have fun!

Mr Bertenshaw

Tracey Corderoy

We are very honoured to have the children's author Tracey Corderoy in to visit our school on Monday. You may wish to familiarise yourself with some of her books. You may even have the opportunity to go to the library and read one or two of her books. She will be in all day Monday and will sign books at the end of the day.

This is her website: http://www.traceycorderoy.com/

Mr Bertenshaw

Krindlekrax

Ruskin Splinter is just about to enter the sewers to confront Krindlekrax.

What do you think will happen?

Weather watch

Use these two websites to find out about the weather in Weston-Super-Mare and the weather in Cairo.

Weston-Super-Mare

Cairo

Compare the weather in these two places, writing about it on the sheet provided. Which place is hotter? Which place do you think gets more rain? Which place would you prefer to go on holiday? (Leave comments below to answer the questions when you have finished.)

Photos from Year 3 football v Kewstoke Primary School

Here are some photos from the mini football tournament we played against Kewstoke School. Match reports to follow soon...

St Georges A v St Georges B

St Georges A v St Georges B

St Georges A v Kewstoke

Penalty save!

Nile crocodile

Use these notes as a starting point for your information sheet on the Nile Crocodile.

What it looks like:
dark bronze, black spots, green eyes.
4 metres long.
Sharp claws and teeth.
Eyes top head.
4 legs.
Powerful tail.

Where it lives:
Egypt and central Africa.
In rivers and lakes.

What it does:
hunts in water.
can run fast on land.
eats fish, birds, mammals its own size - even hippos!

Click here to find more fun facts!
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/nile-crocodile/

All about plants

 Continuing on from your homework this week, tell us about any unusual plants you know of. 

What is the plant called? Describe what it looks like. Why is it unusual?

Do you know what this plant is and why it is unusual?

Crocodile facts

Here are a few websites with facts about crocodiles. Remember to take notes, only writing the key words! Don't take notes on everything, just the facts that you find interesting.

http://bestfunfacts.com/crocodiles.html

http://ozmagic.homestead.com/australiancrocodilefacts.html

http://www.coolfacts.in/some-amazing-facts-about-crocodiles/

http://www.facts-about.org.uk/facts-about-crocodiles.htm

Two Digit Targets

Hello everyone. I hope you are enjoying the holidays!

Here's a place value activity for you to have a go at.

Click here.

Post the numbers you make as a comment below.

Mr Bertenshaw

New Scramble!

It's been a while since we made words using the Scramble board.

Look for as many words with 3 or more letters as you can. The longer and more interesting the words, the better! Can you find any plural nouns?

A       T       H       S

M      R       G       E

I         X       O      B

N       P       L       Y

Post your words below as a comment.

Mr Bertenshaw

Play Monster Hearts

Click here to play Monster Hearts. http://www.bhf.org.uk/cbhf/default.aspx?page=289

Remember to name your monster. How old did it get? How did you keep it healthy?

Iron Man sentences

Share one of your powerful Iron Man sentences from your homework with the rest of the class. Choose the one you think is the most interesting.

Write a secret code!

A secret code writing is a way of passing people messages without other people understanding them. There are all sorts of ways of writing a secret code. I am going to use numbers.

In my code each letter of the alphabet have a number, like this:

A   B   C   D   E   F    G   H   I   J   K   L    M   N   O    P    Q     R    S    T   U   V    W    X    Y    Z
1    2    3   4    5   6    7   8   9  10 11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19 20  21  22  23   24  25  26

So 'HELLO' would be written '8-5-12-12-15'.

Task 1) What is this word?  6-15-15-20-2-1-12-12

Task 2) Write your own message using the code above. Put dashes between each number so they don't get mixed up or confused.

Task 3) You might even want to make up your own code and explain how to 'decipher' (read) it.

Have fun!


Mr Bertenshaw

Some links you will enjoy

To see a baby playing table tennis, click here.
Post below your comments - what is he doing well?


To play some human body games, click here.

Post what you learnt from these games.

Enjoy half term!

Mr Bertenshaw

Maths Challenge: Six in a circle

Apologies for the lack of posts on the blog in the last few weeks. Thank you to those who have found us some greetings in other languages. Meanwhile, here's a challenge for you to think about.


A class of 30 children were numbered from 1 to 30. Here are some of the class:

Their teacher set out a ring of 6 chairs.

Child number 1 sat on the first chair, child number 2 on the second chair, child number 3 on the third and so on going round the circle, up to child number 6. The teacher then asked child number7 to stand behind child 1, child 8 to stand behind number 2 etc. They continued this pattern until all the children were either sitting on a chair, or standing behind one.

Questions:

1) How many people were standing behind each chair?

2) Which child numbers were standing behind child number 3?

You have until Thursday 9th February to post your answers below. I will publish all the answers on that date.
 Make sure you say who you are!

Enjoy,

Mr Bertenshaw

Body parts challenge!

There are 4 children and and dog playing in the park.

1) How many legs is this?

2) Including the thumbs, how many fingers is this ? (Let's agree dogs don't have fingers!)

3) How many arms and legs are there in total?



Mr Bertenshaw

Skeleton question

We have a label to put on our class skeleton, Mr Bones, but we don't know where it goes?!

Can you find out which bone is the 'carpus' bone? 

Leave as a comment below and explain where you got the answer or how you found it out.

Thank you!

Mr Bertenshaw

The Human Skeleton

This website will give you more information about the human skeleton. Click here once you have learnt the different names of the bones of the human body.

Greeting of the week

Bonjour! !Hola! Guten Tag! Bore da! 

Can you find out ways of saying 'hello' in another language?  Answers as a comment below please.

I found this website useful: http://bloggerjb.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-say-Hello-in-100-languages - Click on it.

Just submit your favourite ONE way of saying "hello" that you found so that everyone gets a chance.

Enjoy!

Mr Bertenshaw

Messages for Libby

Libby, we are all very sorry to hear you are unwell and we know you are being very brave in hospital. We wish you a speedy recovery and hope you are able to enjoy your birthday on Saturday.

Have a look at the comments below for messages from your classmates.

Money activity

Happy new year everyone!

This is the website we will be using in class on Thursday 5th January.

Click here!

Scroll down to Sweet Shop.

Also click here.

Mr Bertenshaw