tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148366766784797232011-09-29T01:29:51.774+08:00Here's the main page for 3W. Go to the links at the side for 3W Maths, 3W Science and 3W Literacy. If you notice a link isn't working or any other mistakes, please let me know. PLEASE REMEMBER TO ADD YOUR NAME TO ALL COMMENTS. UNNAMED COMMENTS WILL NOT BE POSTED.Ben Winterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13564246197309771600noreply@blogger.comBlogger3461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314836676678479723.post-39678163030553563592010-12-28T23:41:00.002+08:002010-12-28T23:46:18.189+08:00

Hello to all 3W readers. Have a look at http://mrwinter.edublogs.org for my latest blog...still very early days and I'm trying out edublogs for a change.I hope you are all well. Keep in touch with your news.Mr Ben

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If there are any ex 3W readers out there, then let me know, by commenting, how your holidays went.I'm still on holiday and am busy settling into my new/old home...the same oneI left when I came to work in Bangkok.I've been busy cutting the weeds down in the garden, buying bikes and helping the girls get used to the British roads. We have also been making plans to make our home bigger.Bea is

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Wow! The year has rushed by and we are in the final week.We said goodbye to Samuel on Tuesday and will be saying goodbye to everyone else on Friday.Tomorrow afternoon, Thursday 24th, we will have our final 500 marble reward for Y3. Come in your own clothes.Party food will be provided by school.Also please remember to bring a large plastic bag to school to put artwork, record of achievement and

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This week's homework is to design and make a poster to advertise your busking day act (busking day will be on Tuesday 22nd June and Y3 will performing from 10:00 - 10:30).Please spell all of these words correctly if you use them in your poster:busking,performance,donation,charity,location,audience,listening.Please make sure you tell the poster reader about where and when you will be performing.It

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Well done to 3W for reaching 400 marbles!Each child received a marble for their reading during book week and this pushed the total past 400.We will be having a classpartyDVDcombination reward from 1:30 - 2:30 on Thursday 17th June.We will spend some of the hour watching a DVD and some of the hour playing games and eating nice snacks...but we will need children in 3W to bring the snacks.You can

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Here are some of our Egyptian sklyine pictures.Hope you like them:

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Great photos from today's event and also from this week's reading week.Don't forget to bring in your reading minutes sheets on Monday so that we can add the last few days' information.Have a look for the "Where's Wally?" photo.

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Our reading minutes challenge started yesterday and today we have collected in the minutes.Well done to Bubblegush group (what an amazing group name too!) for reading the magnificent total of 208 minutes yesterday. All 4 members (Melanie, Toby, Joe and Annabel) of the group:readwrote down their reading minutesbrought their sheet to schoolNot far behind is The Beast Children with 175 minutes.Ahead

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Tonight's homework for maths is the Mymaths coordinates activity. It should be completed by next Monday, 14th June.

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I gave out the reading minutes record sheets today and will start to add the information to the class spreadsheet tomorrow.Remember:You must record your reading on the record sheet.You must bring the record sheet to class every day so that reading minutes can be added to the class spreadsheet.When reading at home, try to get an adult to sign for the minutes you read.You will need to have a

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During book week we will be having Character Day on Friday 11th June (come dressed up if possible and bring 100 Baht for the Y3 charity)DEAR time in class (Drop Everything And Read) - so bring a favourite book to keep on your desk so that you can read it whenever you hear the signal...Book sharing with K2T (Miss Tracey) on Thursday at 10:10 in our Library timeStory read by Mr Tilke on Thursday

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For Y3 book day on 11th June, you could come as Spongebob Square Pants...if you have some square pants!Come dressed as your favourite book character.If you want to come with a few simple props, then that's fine.If you want to make a fancy costume, that's fine too.You could come as Charlie from the books of Roald Dahl...You could come as Wally and dress in red and white striped clothes.There will

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Thanks to Rachel for these photos...I was really pleased to see you learning and having fun. Great costumes...well done for looking very authentic! What material would the Egyptians have used to make their clothes? How would they have made it?

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As you may know, I have been waiting, usually patiently, for the birth of our third child.Today at 3:30 am, Beatrice was born, weighing 3.23 kilograms.Is this closest to 7 pounds, 7 pounds 2 ounces or 7 pounds and 7 ounces?Thanks for your kind messages. I'm sure Miss Anne will bring her into the class for you to see in the next few weeks.

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Good Morning,I hope you all had a good day yesterday.Please let me know what you have been doing at home.Please check that you have done the activities from previous days.Thanks to Samuel, Seb, Bua and Punn for responding to the Learning at home questionnaire. Please have a go if you have not done it already. I can see all of your responses when I look at my google docs. We will use some of

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A big well done to Samuel, who has been editing the class Ancient Egypt wiki .Many of you have logins for this wiki which allow you to read, edit and add information to the site. Please have a go, or let me know if you are not yet a member. I will then send you an invite and you will need to make up a name to use so that you can take part.Here is an Ancient Egyptian quiz, which Miss Caswell

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We have decided to postpone tomorrow's Egyptian Day. That means we will still have Egyptian Day BUT it will be on another day. All the teachers are very sorry, but don’t worry we will still do it.

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We are at home again! Bangkok is not safe for school buses to travel through so make the most of being at home.Please check through the activities I have given for Friday, and Monday and do these if you have not done so.Keep learning by:Reading for 30 minutes...please read with an adult if possible...this might mean reading aloud, or it might mean the adult asking you about your reading. Please

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During our learning about rocks and minerals, Seb came up with the questionIs water a mineral?We weren't sure of the answer so looked in books and encyclopedias. There weren't any convincing answers.We looked on the internet. This site, which is a site you can add your own answers to, gave the answer of NO.However, you have to be careful what you read on the internet...Last year I was playing

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Year 3’s Egyptian Day is scheduled for this Thursday 20th May. At present we are still expecting this event to happen, however the current political situation could change all of our plans, so please keep an eye on the school website and check your emails for updates.One of the highlights of Egyptian Day is the Pharaohs’ Feast! In order to satisfy the taste buds of all of our Year 3 Pharaohs we

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Good Morning 3W!As you all know, there has been a lot of trouble and disruption in Bangkok and the school has had to close because of possible dangers on the bus routes to school.So, to keep you busy and help you continue to learn, here are some things for you to be doing:1.Read a good book for about 30 minutes. Afterwards spend 5 minutes writing your reaction to it...remember to use DETAILS

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School will be closed on Monday 17th May. Learning will be from home on this day. Check the blog in the morning for Monday's work.

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If you like making models using lego or other construction materials, then you will love this site.You build in 2D and a computer 3D model is built. Have a go.What can you build?Have a look here.Here is an example from Jessie and Annabel, which they very cleverly took a photo of as a screenshot (Shift+prt Scrn) and then saved as a word document and THEN emailed as an attachment:If you know that

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3W have done really well by reaching 200 marbles!The rewards areto wear your own clothes tomorrow, Wednesday 12th May, (some people brought them in today and so they will have this reward today)10 minutes extra playtime toworrow, Wednesday 12th May.

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Make a shape from the net you were given today.Remember to :Cut the shape out carefully and accuratelyCrease the dotted fold lines between the shapes faces and the flapsDecorate the blank side of the net (you could make the shape look like a real Egyptian pyramid, or you could use hieroglyphics to decorate a border)Cut a small hole in the shape for the string if you want to be able to hang up the

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That's what these children in Varanasi in India are doing.Why do you think the school is on a boat?Who organised the school?Would you prefer to go to school on a boat? Why?What do you think are the problems with going to school on a boat?

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When you open up a 3D shape, you have a net.If you open up a cube, you have a net with 6 square faces...but how many different nets could you make from a cube?Try this site to have a go.Solid shapes and their nets - cube

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Costume ideas will be coming out in a newsletter soon.If you have any friends in Year 4 they might have a costume which you could borrow from last year.

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Seb and Joe found out that a man called Mr Moh invented a scale of hardness, which we call the Moh scale.Samuel reminded us that diamond is the hardest rock.Seb and Joe also discovered that talc is the softest rock.Due to the different properties of rocks and minerals, we use different rocks for different purposes.Would you make a floor tile out of chalk? Why?Would you make a roof tile out of

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Your homework will involve making biscuits (cookies) using the recipe below. If you cannot do this sometime this week, then try to calculate double the quantities, for your maths homework.Why?Because we are learning about metamorphic rocks and cooking is very much like the process of making metamorphic rocks...there is pressure (mixing) and there is heat (from the oven) and the result is that

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Great pictures here from an exhibition of artefacts connected with King Tutankhamen.

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Animated explanation of Earth's mantle and crustThe blog looks different doesn't it!I had a few problems yesterday, but I hope it's now back to normal.Please let me know if:there are any problems,if any links do't workif you can't find something on the blog.Thanks for reading and commenting.

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Choose the right words from the list below in the right sentence:rock, four, magnifying glasses, sieves, microscope, three, organic, separated.1. We used _________ to separate out the rocks and soil.2. Soil is made up of _________ material (it used to be alive), as well as fragments of ________3. We used _________ sieves and __________ the soil into _________ different piles of material.4.

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Have a look at these video book reviews.I think you can vote on your favourite...I haven't voted yet, but if you find out how to do it please let me know.Some of them take quite a while to load so...be patient.Please let me know which ones you really like and we can then look at them in class together.

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We are learning about Ancient Egypt and want to make a large model for the shared area. We are making it from 8 squares of corraflute (60cm x 60cm) but we need to make it more desert like.We have some buckets of earth, soil, and rocks.How could we separate the sand from the soil sample?Please send your ideas in as comments.

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Animated map of ash fallout.Video of helicopter flying near plume of volcanic smoke - lightning and debris are visible. See below:These sites are from Lazzy Ferlazzo's blog.

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For your homework this week, I'd like you to make 10 facts with answers of 38!Aim for 10 facts.Try to include at least 1 question which uses each of the four operations (+ - x and divide).Try to have at least one fraction question.Try to have at least one money question.If the calculation is complicated, show your workings (use grid method, a numberline or a compact vertical method).This homework

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Can you find a difference between these two copies of the same page from different versions of the same book?Maybe we should write to the publishers!Well done to Tinn and Samuel for noticing the differences while they were researching.

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No...not the bicycle of life!Today our garden monitor came into class with this!We have successfully grown rice in our Year 3 garden!As you can see there is not enough to make a meal but we have gone from seed to plant to seed...a complete cycle of life.We were talking about the rock cycle earlier on as well as the water cycle.Are there any other cycles which you can think of? (apart from the

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We are really lucky to have a recent visitor to Iceland in our class, who returned to Bangkok hours after the volcanic activity started.Here are some pictures.To be esafe, we have not included the visitors name. Remember not to include names in your comments or else they will not be passed.Do you have any questions for our visitor?If so, post a comment and we'll post a follow up article with

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We used this graphic organiser to help become more familiar with words connected with Ancient Egypt.We worked in groups and this meant that we had to listen, talk, think, cooperate, and help each other learn to say and start to understand these words.Here is a link to the googledoc that we used in class.You can use the hyperlinks on the document to research.Look at some of the pictures of us

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You must have been hearing about the volcanic eruptions in Iceland.Flights from some parts of Europe have been delayed due to particles of rock, sand and glass in the air.  See this CBS news report.Here are some links for you to find out more:CBBC - What causes volcanoes?  You can also find out 2 helpful effects of volcanoes.ABC -  Iceland Volcano: Spewed Ash Grounds PlanesBBC - animated guide to

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Find out about the rock cycle and then show your knowledge and understanding by completing the googleform.Use this great animated site to help you answer the questions.Add your answers to the googleform. Right click on the link here and then open the google form in a new tab or window.Remember to read carefully and repeat the animation if you need to.Here's the animation.

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Thanks to the 3M blog, have a look at this amazing video of a helicopter flying right past a gushing spray of molten lava.Go here for video.Here's another one.Try this link too for an underwater volcanic eruption.

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You know the story of Flat Stanley, don't you?Well, these children have written another version of the story and their Flat characters went to different places in the world.  Listen to their story and comment.Today I just found this site which has a Flat Anubis.  You can print and cut out the Anubis character and then the idea is to take a photo of it in a special place.Maybe Anubis could be

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Here's the latest from the Ancient Egypt wiki...Do we only know about them (the Ancient Egyptians) from hieroglyphics on papyrus paper?Have a look here and add your own findings to our class knowledge.

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The assembly in school on Friday told us how we could get ready for Songkran.Today Maisie and I were blowing eggs...we made holes in both ends of the eggs, wiggled a toothpick around in the egg to loosen up the insides (a bit like what the Ancient Eggyptians(!) did with the brains of people they were about to mummify) and blew out the contents.  We then painted them.  How are Eggs and bunnies

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Great work 3W!What did you most enjoy about the project?

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Lesser known cousin of baseball and softball, Tball is a game which we have been learning in PE.Here are some photos from our very successful TBall championship at school today.The 3W girls team won and the boys came second. Great teamwork, strategy making, communicating, persistence and fun! Well done!

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Thanks to Miss Jane's blog for this great site.Find Egypt and have an adventure.Click here to have a go.

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Design a poster which advertises the Library.Look here.Remember your question words...they will help you add detail:whowhatwherewhenwhywhichhowThere will be a prize for the best design in each year group, and for the overall winner.The decision of the judges is final.The closing date for all entries is Monday 26 April 2010 at 0800 hours.

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Thanks to Ashish Kumar (Prabhav's Dad from 3w 2008/2009)for coming in and showing us lovely sparkly gems and explaining about how they get to be sparkly, where they are found, the difference between precious and semi precious stones and much more.

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Thanks to all the children who came to the Parent Teacher Student Conferences last night. 6 out of 10 were at the meetings.I look forward to seeing more of you tonight and some more on Friday afternoon.This week is the final week before the Songkran holiday. We have:A visit by Ashish, Prabhav's dad (a parent from last year's class) to show some shiny gems!Tomorrow we have our 500 Marble reward

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Not quite everyone on this collage...but I hope you like this Picasa Collage.:

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Love the Twits?Do you enjoy reading about a smelly, dirty mean bearded man and his equally grotesque wife?Then click here and use your BPS login to hear the story

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Potatoes come in packs of 5.In Year 3 there are 167 students/pupils/children/small people.Each child will eat 1 juicy, buttery, warm, tasty, sweet baked potato.How many packs will we need to buy?Will there be any left over?How many packs would they need if each child had just played football for 3 hours and was really hungry and so wanted two potatoes each?Please take some pictures at the

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We enjoyed playing this game today, and we came up with lots of words with the different spellings of the /ch/ sound (phoneme).Have a go by clicking here.

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We have nearly reached the end of Term 2 and soon we will have the Songkran holidays.It's time to have a reading challenge!  Have a look at this list which is on the School Library catalogue.How do I get there?From the BPS website, click on students, Library, Primary, Library Catalogue, Catalogue, Mr Ben's Reading Tips (Year 3).What do I need to do?From now until the end of April (that is about 6

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Dear 3W,Do you remember the school in Australia which wanted to find out how we celebrate Easter?Well I said that most Thai people celebrate Songkran.I know that some of you celebrate Easter as well.Please have a look at their wiki here:http://eastertraditions.wikispaces.com/Have a look at how Easter is celebrated in Israel. Did you know what the Ceremony of Passover is?http://

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And here's the CBBC quiz we looked at in class today.Here's a homework quiz for parents...see how well they get on!For more BBC quizzez, go here.If you want to make your own quiz try this site. You might need some adult help.Good luck.

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Joe diligently researched rocks and also learned how to make and sent a powerpoint.Great learning Joe!RocksjoeView more presentations from benwint.

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That's what we were finding out about this afternoon. We took photos around the school last week (thanks Miss Kem).We uploaded the pictures to Picasa and then made a caption for each.We used these words:natural and man madewords for the sense of touch (bumpy, smooth, rough)words for colourwords to describe what the rock is used forWe also made a cool collage (collage also has the /zh/ phoneme we

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Look here for some pictures of pure concentration and focus.Do you play chess?Do you know the names of all of the pieces?Do you know how each piece moves?I wonder if chess pieces have the same names all over the world?I wonder what the pieces are called in Australia and America?

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One of the blogs which I follow is by an American teacher called Larry Ferlazzo.He writes lists of links to great websites.One he made recently was a list of websites about cars.I know that there are several car crazy members of 3W, so follow this link for a great list.Here is one of the links from Larry's site:The car that fliesWhere would you go in a car that could fly?Who would you take and

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Here are some samples which I brought into school.Are they rocks or not?Are they natural or man made?Are they igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary? Why do you think so?Most rock scientists (Geologists) need to use other senses to test rocks...Let's be geologists...how should we test these rocks?

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We have been getting so much better at division.First of all we read the question forwards and then backwards!This might sound crazy, but we read 45÷ 5 as:"fortyfive divided by five AND THEN how many fives are there in 45.It makes the question so much easier to understand.Have a look at the progression below, (thanks to StMichaelsLichfield for this great document.

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Do you know the answers to these questions about about rocks and soils?Do you know the answers to these questions about the Ancient Egyptians?You might be able to find some of the answers here.If you do then log into the wiki and add some answers.If you are from 3W and you don't have a login, email me and I'll set you up.You have the chance to show your knowledge, research skills and writing

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Well done to our amazing violinists from 3W who performed so well at the lunchtime concert. They did a great job...especially as they didn't have their accompaniment CD!Well done, you sounded note perfect.Mr Parkin was good too...wasn't he!

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Do you like rock songs?Here's one which has words which you don't normally associate with rock songs...like schist, limestone, shale and granite.Thanks to Joe for this link.

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The BBC has an incredible selection of photos in a really great format.Look here and you can select what kind of pictures you see.I found an amazing underwater image of an elephant.Look here.

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There are three kinds of rock:Igneous rocks - come from inside the earth...look here for a cool animated site.Sedimentary rocks are made by particles of rock (or sand) being dropped or deposited in layers.Metamorphic rocks are made by changing one of the other types of rock.We call the process of making and changing rocks The Rock Cycle. Look here too.

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Why are diamonds so expensiveis a question which lots of 3W want to answer.Can you help us?Please leave your answer as a comment.Here are some links to help you research:WarrinerprimariesFOSS web rocks and soils database - includes colourful pictures of different sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks40 common minerals and their usesHere's a quiz for you to try.

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If the idea of Racing Grannies on their wheelchairs sounds fun to you, then this is the site for you.You can customise (change) the hair and skin colour of your Granny as well as the wheelchair design and wheel type.Then it's up to you to race your Granny as fast as she will go, which depends on your addition skills.What a great game!Also a reminder that timezattack is a great way to learn times

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Are you bored of writing the same old sentences?Do you always start off with the same words?Would you like to make your readers sit up with surprise and be unable to put your writing down?Then try this link to a very helpful site.Sentenceplay lets you type in a basic sentence and then gives you ideas to help you improve it.There are ideas like:try starting the sentence with a verb which begins

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Please have a go at the multiplication activities on mymaths.co.uk.Try to edit Punn's writing or have a read of Melanie's story, which has fantastic mythical beings.Answer some questions on the wiki about rocks and soils or The Ancient Egyptians

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Look at these great photos of 3W using the grid method to multiply!Once you can partition numbers into Hundreds Tens and units, and you know a few times tables, the world is your oyster.Here is a video of Adelia explaining how to multiply using the grid method. Doesn't she explain her calculation well?

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Have a look and listen here.The art historians are talking about an original egyptian sculpture.Don't worry if you cannot understand all of the words.Try to answer some of these questions.Who is the sculpture of?What was it used for?Does the sculpture have a false wig or beard? Why?Is the head a normal size? Why?Would the statue have been painted when it was made?

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We talked about different ways we could start our adventure stories today.Here are some of the beginnings we came up with.Describe the settingThe busy streets of Bangkok rushed past the windows. It was cold. The a/c was turned up too high and Seb lifted his bag so that it covered his shivering body. Cane was nearly asleep and his head rested against the window. He started snoring and Seb gave

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The earth is divided into 2 halves by the equator(Jessie and Samuel).The earth is also divided into continents (Seb), like Asia(Melyssa) which are made up of lots of countries(Jessie).Here are the names of the continents:Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia (Mr Ben thought this continent had other names too), Africa, Antarctica.Egypt is in Africa.Here are 2 google earth pictures

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Have you read Punn's story?Have a look here on the class wiki.She's written a really exciting mystery story.Could you write your own one?

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I've just set up a page on the wiki for us to store any adventure stories you have written and edited.Go here to go to the wiki, then log in and paste in your edited story.I will then be able to set up a new page for you.Then readers from the class can read and help you edit the story.3W authors, get writing!(Remember that this is an optional project for today)

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There are 2 exercises for you to do on mymaths. This will be the maths homework for next week, 15th March. You could make a start on this on Friday to get it done quickly.Here is a video of the grid method which most of us have been learning in class:

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Dear 3W Parents and children, My Learning at HomeAs the school is closed on Friday, here are some learning activities for you to do. These are in place of learning at school. I do expect you to try your best to do at least some of these activities. To complete them you will need to do some independent learning, but it is a good chance for you to learn with your family too. There is

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We are reading Treasure Island, a classic adventure story.I was looking for websites which help you write a story. Here are a few:Learn EnglishReadathonStory elements to write about (includes sound)Which do you prefer? Why?Here is a website which Miss Caswell recommended which has mystery stories.Here is a pirate adventure. If ye keep yer wits about yer, ye may end up speakin jus like a foul

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Have a look at our questions! This link takes you to a web page which I have just started which YOU can help to build!If you are from 3W and you know any answers, contact me, by email or leave a comment and I will set you up with a wikispaces account so that you can add your answer.Which of the question words might be the most useful?Who...? What...? Where...? When...? Why...? Which...? How..?.?

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Here is an extract from the school webpage:Important MessageDue to the current political situation and possible disruptions to the city’s transport routes there will be no after school activities on Friday 12th March 2010. Further information will be posted here if necessary.

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Sing along with this maths song, here.

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When you have listened to a story for 10 minutes, comment about what you have heard.You do not have to listen to a whole story. If you have only read some of the story, your comment could start with these words:I am enjoying the story so far and want to find out…The words are quite difficult and this makes me …I am confused about… because…I think…is going to happen.If you have finished your

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If we decide to do a research project, we need to:Gather informationknow what we want to find out...have a research questionbe able to readbe able to write down notesfind the important facts ( keywords) in a piece of writing and use them in our writing , without copying them word for wordlook at more than one source (more than one book, more than one website) We need to communicate our

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Try these...to practice your 2,5,10 x tables. They were made by children at Ambleside Primary school!Now try these to practice your 3 and 4 times tables.

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Here are some ideas for Mr Ben to wear on Smile Day:Mr Rubbish's wig (and glasses??)- Mr BenPurple Boa (feathery scarf) - JessicaElastic bracelets - Laure, AdeliaNecklace - Guilli, AdeliaLipstick - JessicaGirl mask - RitaFake sword and handbag- MelyssaFake gun - SamuelClip on earrings - Laure

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Yes, here are some audio books which you can listen to for free.Here is the site for Treasure island, which we are reading in class.The stories are the original versions, so may have lots of old fashioned words, but give them a try.Let me know what you think.Thanks to Free Technology for Teachers for this tip.

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Make up your own Wacky Tale!Choose the type of writing you want to make and put in the right nouns, verbs and adjectives... Here's one I made:It also gives you help with parts of speech.Adventures Abroad One of the most interesting places in the world to visit is Egypt. This place has everything! There are sleepy mountains for sleeping, and lakes that are perfect for roaring. Just 17 years

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Smile Day - 12th MarchFor Smile Day we are having a cake sale, a fashion show and non-uniform day.All children have been encouraged to do a chore or job at home to earn the 100 baht they will donate on smile day for the privilege of wearing non-uniform.Remember that the money will go towards paying for operations, such as Cleft palate reconstructive surgery.For the fashion show 3W have the chance

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Is there light at the end of the tunnel actually means that there is something which makes you believe that a difficult or unpleasant situation will end See freedictionary.We have almost reached the end of the topic of light and shadow! Hopefully it hasn't been unpleasant!Here are some of the chatterboxes which were great fun to make. They are also a great way to check our understanding of the

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If you know lots about parrots, then see if you can help Morgan.Leave any answers you know on the Questions and Answers blog

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Guess the number is a game which I cannot explain.Can you?

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