Goodbye to Daniel and Well done for 300 marbles!

We say goodbye to Daniel today and we'll miss him...especially as we have the football tournament this week.Good luck in Singapore, Daniel, and keep in touch by email or blog comments.

We made 300 marbles today and will be celebrating with a 40 minute session in the computer suite on Tuesday, from 11:30 until 12:10.

It's a busy week this week:

• Egyptian Day on Wednesday - Parents, don't forget you can come and watch, from 8 until 9am. Children will then be doing a selection of activities until past breaktime. The Egyptian feast (remember 3W is responsible for bringing cakes and biscuits) will then take us until lunchtime.
• Interclass football on Friday morning, from 8ish to 10ish (on the fields on the other side of Soi Lasalle.

Looking after our teeth

During this term, we learned about teeth and eating. All of us made a made a poster about looking after our teeth.

So we found out some facts. Here are some facts about looking after your teeth:

1. Don't eat more than 1 whole bar of chocolate in a day

2. Avoid fizzy drinks and sugar.

3.Cut out sugary food.

Did you know?
Some people are born with teeth.
A complete set of adult teeth includes 32 teeth.
A canine tooth is for ripping.
The enamel is the white, hard outside layer.
Some animals only have canine teeth...like crocodiles and sharks.

GCSE maths questions - have a go! And thanks for the party!

On the BBC site there is a maths GCSE quiz.
Try some and send the answers in as a comment.
Here is the link.

Good luck.

By the way, a big thankyou to Nicole and Popie for organising the party at fun-arium.
It was great to see so many parents and children from the class there.

Smoothie design

So far we have:

1. Tasted fruit,
2. Tasted juices
3. Thought of words to describe appearance, smell and taste

Now we are mixing it up!
In groups today, we need to make and test small trial quantities of smoothies.
At the end of the blending today you will choose your favourite trial.
Next week you will make larger quantities of that one.
Everyone in the class will then taste a little of all of the trial smoothies.
Our class winner will go through to the Y3 FINAL!
The winner from the final will be supreme Y3 Champion Smoothie, 2009!!!

Know your number facts? Now solve some problems!

At NRich there are some tricky puzzles and challenging problems for you to solve.
Be a Mathematical Mystery Detective and post the answers to the comments section of this blog.

Or be a fantastic risk taker and post your answers to the NRich site!

This challenge is about dates...it fits in perfectly with our challenge to learn date facts. (See earlier post about dates here)

Want to remove some brains?

Have you learnt how to make a mummy?
Do you know which organs to remove?
Do you know what the Ancient Egyptians did with the brain of the person they were embalming?
Go to the Y3 EAL blog to find out.

Money - pounds and pence

Today in maths we will be solving problems using money and making amounts using coins.

Can you solve this problem?