Kingfishers Year 3 / 4

We have been writing letters to Iron Man.

TEAMWORK, THINKING, DISCUSSING AND LETTER WRITING!

First Aid Training - Learning the Recovery Position.

CHOO, CHOO - RAILWAYS, RESEARCH AND READING!

THE NEW CODERS - CODING CLUB RULES!

Thank you for the science food-chains, and the effort made to complete homework this week.

Super safe, super manners, super swimmers! AMAZING TEAM KINGFISHERS!

Direct Speech - New Speaker. New Line!

Sammy the Snake loves all your stories.

My Snake Surprise!

Thank you Mrs Wood and Pucky!

SNAKE SURPRISE!

Kingfisher - 'Snake Fact Files' - WOW AMAZING!

HOMEWORK UPDATE - Homework is given out on a Friday and needs returning / completing on the following Thursday e.g. Friday 7th - Thursday 13th, Friday 14th - Thursday 20th.

Remember the Kingfisher Motto - TRY YOUR BEST AND FORGET THE REST.

Discussing the introduction to our 'Snake Story'.

Teamwork and great discussion. A great start!

All children have a new reading book and reading record. There are also Ebooks on their Active Learn account to start reading too! Happy reading and let's try to get a golden ticket at the end of the week.

Swimming will start for Kingfisher Class on: Friday 21st September 2018. All paperwork needs to be back for Friday 7th September.

Swimming letters will be issued tomorrow - please complete the form and return for the 7th September at the latest . Thank you!

SWIMMING NEWS!

Homework - we try to be very clear and informative about homework; however, if you are unsure about it please come in and see us.
Spellings - every Thursday the children will have a test and then be issued with a new set of spellings to learn for the following week. Please can you encourage your child/children to look up the words in a dictionary to learn the definitions.
Active Learn - Ebooks, numeracy and science challenges plus spelling , grammar and punctuation (SPAG) games will issued to each child's account weekly. Please monitor reading records as we communicate via these books.
CGP Books - these will be given out and children will know the section they need to complete and when to bring them back into school.
Mini-Projects can also to set, with the influence and help of the children and their ideas.

All we ask, is for children do their very best, and forget the rest. Every little helps to reinforce the skills they are learning at school - including reading. READ FOR MEANING - READ FOR FUN!

ALL HOMEWORK NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED AND HANDED IN ON A THURSDAY MORNING. NEW HOMEWORK WILL BE ISSUED ON FRIDAYS.

Thank you!

Together we can achieve: teamwork makes for dream work!

Welcome Kingfisher Class of 2018-2019

Celebration Day!

Sporting Achievements!

Kingfisher Class would like to thank Leesbrook Community School - specifically its science department and team, led by Mr A Thomas, for the equipment they lent us to complete a fun, yet safe experiment.

What melting point does gallium (Ga) have?

Skills used: predictions, measuring water in ml, teamwork, recording results, close observational skills, and finding the answer - writing up a conclusion.

Awe and wonder - how do you know the 1g of gallium has changed state?

Here are some of the responses:

'It wobbles when I shake it!'

'It flows around the bottom of the test-tube.'

What temperature will gallium (Ga) turn from a solid into a liquid?

Literacy : Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts; Alfie's Story and The Ugly Five.

Children have read a range of animal stories to inspire their own stories.

We love our motto: read for meaning; read for fun!

Champion Coder Barry.

Indian workshop

Kingfishers Magna Experience!

Poo from the Past! Aztec Poo!

Amazing Magna and smiles!

Kingfisher Class leading science for STEM week!

For most people, the idea of finding old human poo is disgusting; and the idea of cutting it up and looking at it through a microscope is even worse! But this is exactly what some archaeologists do to help us understand what people ate in the past, and how they prepared their food.

Poo from the Past - they loved making and adding the dietary evidence to their Aztec poo, add popping corn or maize, pumpkin seeds, and the skin and seeds from plants like tomatoes, chillies and peppers – these are parts of the foods that Aztec people ate, which might not have been fully digested.

The Fire, Water, Air and Earth Pavilions enthused, excited and ignited the Stanley children's interest, and for some, love for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The practical workshops were amazing; from extracting DNA from a kiwi, looking at chemical reactions to observing forces that impact on a hot air balloon, the children were engaged and active.

Thank you to all the parent helpers that supported this school trip.

Amazing Magna!

Kingfisher Class compared their shoe size, calculated the surface area, created a tally chart and finally put the information onto a line graph.

Preparing for STEM WOW WEEK :)

World Book Day Fun

READ FOR MEANING: READ FOR FUN!

Pancakes and Play-scripts!

Performing, speaking and listening, and imagination.

We have looked at the seven days of creation, God's message and how he passed on his earth for Christians to love, respect and look after.

Bible Stories. Discussion. Questioning. Sequencing. Understanding.

Problem Solving.Fractions. Numeracy Buddies.Dedication.

Which materials are conductors or insulators of electricity?

Electricity Investigation

Kingfisher Class have been learning Spanish with help from our lovely Mel. We have been learning about (so far) Costa Rica , the animals that live there; the food they eat, as well as numbers to 10 and colours.

Learning Spanish

Numeracy - Fractions and Decimals Topic

Electricity - making circuits

A great Christmas play: All Around the World. Super dedication and teamwork everyone.

What an excellent 2017.. we can't wait for 2018!

Start date for swimming in 2018 - 12th January.

LITERACY

Biography

Autobiography

Poetry

Letter Writing

Play scripts

NUMERACY

Problem Solving

Fractions

Operations (add/subtraction/multiplication/division)

Measures

Graph work - Science

Topic

All Around the World

Science
Electricity

ICT

Scratch - Coding

P.E

Pilates/Swimming

Spanish

40 minutes of Spanish

R.E

People and Creation - Freeze Picture

Our team point winners: Professional Pupils, have shown great acts of kindness, and made the rest of the class a hot chocolate with all the toppings today. They have asked questions, listened carefully and produced delicious hot chocs for everyone. Amazing teamwork and kindness shown today.

Magnets and Forces Day.

Many experiments and exploration going on today; measurements and recording happening too! Super work Kingfishers.

We love out Christmas shopping bags!

Multiplying decimals with the Base Ten Blocks.

Animation Day - I Can't Sleep Stories.

Today, the class have been using a variety of programs: Purple Mash (story creator), Scratch and an animation app. Our expert coding club members have been sharing their skills with other children in the class; teaching them how to chatbot. It has been great day, ultimately bringing our story writing to life through ICT . Super ICT skills Kingfisher Class!