Squirrels - Yr3/4

Welcome to the class page for the Squirrels!

We are a mixed Year 3 and Year 4 Class. Our teacher is called Miss Williams

Lucy and George are very proud to have received Blue Peter green badges for their suncatchers they made from recycled plastic bottles. 

They wanted to share with you and their classmates.

Pictures above

Our first entry for the nature photography challenge from DP, what an amazing shot of a nest of baby birds waiting for their food.

GW entries for the photography challenge. Some great close up shots of beautiful flowers and I particularly like the dandelion clock seeds on the shoe lace.

NP fantastic collage of beautiful flowers.

JH a great selection of close ups showing the delicate beauty of the flowers.  I loved the ones that look like fried eggs!

BM some lovely snaps of animals and insects 

Monday 1st June 2020

Good morning to all of the lovely Squirrels 

How are you all?  I hope you have had a really great half term break, haven't we be really spoiled with the sunshine 

I am sorry that I am a little late with my message this morning however I am sure you are all aware that this week is a little different for schools, some children and teachers.  A small number of children will be returning from this week in Hedgehogs and Owls year 1.  All of the adults are going to be in school today to make sure that we are ready so I have had to get things organised at home.  All of you amazing Squirrels will be continuing your fantastic efforts working from home just as you have been doing over the last weeks. Hopefully I will get to see you all very soon though.

Just as before, your suggested weekly activities and tasks are attached on our class page below this message.  I will also make sure that I am available to correspond with you each day and would still love for you send in and share all of the amazing things that you are doing.  Remember above all I am a Squirrel and our home schooling will continue as normal.

Thank you to all of you that took on the 'become a nature photographer' challenge.  There has been some really beautiful photographs sent in. I have decided that rather than me judging the entries I am going to ask Mrs Cattell to select the winning photograph from all of the entries.  Mrs Cattell is extremely qualified to do this and all of the entries will be anonymous.  I will announce the winner at the end of the week. Good luck everyone 

I have uploaded new tasks for you all on both the Spelling Shed and Prodigy sites so please get logged in a have a go.  Towards the end of last term we were knocked off the top spots on Spelling Shed by the Foxes.  Let's not be beaten again Squirrels, this is a team effort!

I hope you all have an amazing day and I am looking forward to receiving lots of messages from you all 

Bye for now,

Miss Williams x

English Weekly activities week commencing Monday 1st June 2020.

Please see attached suggested weekly activity document.

TC created wonderful artwork of Farcet windmill

JH getting fit doing daily Gonoodle and Cosmic yoga

MR enjoying making models and baking

JP created detailed artwork of a dragon and cuddling his cat 'Blu'

JP enjoying making cupcakes.....yummy!

AL created a model of his dog and painted it beautifully

LD enjoying time outdoors in the lovely weather

BM designed a fantastic and informative poster all about our carbon footprint

AL created an amazing Lego Eco house (check out the Eco features)

BT sharing some of the activities she has been doing whilst at home

NP built a Hot Rod Racer

Miss W chalk art at school

JP enjoying the view on his daily walk

OV has been busy creating this model of the Man U stadium

NP enjoying his daily exercise and making friends with the wildlife

GW having fun making a homemade pinata, having a foot spa, making his own juice bar and playing family games in the garden

DP showing his amazing mountains project and sharing some of his favourite toys

LD and her cats, Tilly and Cleo; her poster entry for the NHS competition and enjoying lots of fabulous activities such as playing in the woods, making lunch and doing some work, of course!

TC wrote a beautiful poem to the NHS

DS created his own amazing Pokemon cards and characters

AL wrote a lovely kenning about his dog 'Lincoln' and had fun building dens

GW completing a boat building challenge with LW, mum and dad.

LJ doing a spot of DIY, enjoying practicing her piano, going on a bike ride for her daily exercise, playing hopscotch and toasting some delicious marshmallows.

NP working super hard on his spellings

MR learning all about different medals, trying out mum's new stethoscope and making flags for the VE Day celebrations on Friday.

AL fantastic artwork of a medal

GW wrote a beautiful VE Day poem

VR with his blue eggs

VR wrote me a super poem

VR enjoying a delicious and massive ice cream

ED designed her VE Day poster

AL funny VE Day poem

OV building a very fiddly Man Utd Lego badge

OV completing his tackling tables with the help of Betsy his cat

AS camping indoors

AS being arty and crafty

NW erecting a tent ready for VE Day

NW creating some lovely artwork for VE Day

NW enjoying the sunshine and the VE Day celebrations

AS making delicious waffles with her sister

AS Keeping up with her exercise during lock down

AS doing some cooking

AS lovely piece of writing about the Alps

BM VE Day kenning

BM Guided reading on 'The Man Who Bought A Mountain'

BM climbing Mount Everest diary

BM learning Morse Code

BM and brother BM gas mask boxes

BM house all decorated and ready for VE Day celebrations

BM bunting up and ready!

BM Creating a bright and cheerful VE Day poster

Delicious shortbread parcels BM made and delivered to neighbours

BM showing off her new hairstyle from the era.

BM all dressed up as an evacuee

BM's VE Day poster

JH made a delicious cake for the VE Day celebrations

JH outside celebrating with flags and posters

DS a collage of pictures with them getting prepared for their VE Day celebration

DS baking a VE Day celebration cake

DS VE Day menu and all of the decorations are up ready......let's party!!

AM's cat not impressed with the paper fish we made.

MR made an amazing Lego nurse 

GW decorated the outside of their house with bunting and posters

GW and his sister made delicious cakes

GW designed his own VE day poster

GW designed some special bunting for VE day

GW house all decorated ready for the celebrations

GW created an International Nurses Day Lego super Lego hospital complete with A&E department, ambulance, operating rooms, ICU and nurses.

GW's beautiful nurses poem

ED beautifully written poem about mountains

DP amazing artwork of a medal

DP baked a delicious cake for VE day

DP getting creative in the kitchen

DP designed colourful bunting for VE day

DP decorating the garden ready for the celebrations

GW humorous diary entry Wednesday 13th May- day 49 of lock down

AL built a Lego train

LD drawing Waldorf flowers

Miss Williams, MR and R rainbow paper chain

LD created a beautiful Waldorf flower

OV amazing work on mountains including a poem.

DP hilarious limerick about a man named Dylan!

AL was inspired by the Japanese artist Hokusai and spent 3 hours creating his very own masterpiece

BM had a super treat, a pampering spa day!

BM and her brother were painting pebbles and added them to the Yaxley pebble snake to cheer people up

NW composed a Water Cycle Rap

AL wrote an acrostic poem

AL a funny Limerick

AL completed a tricky puzzle

AL enjoying some crafting activities

JP, his cat 'Blu' and his amazing cat tower which he helped build

ED fantastic water saving poster

LD enjoying making and completing a treasure hunt

Homework

This will be as practical as possible and linking to the work undertaken in class. Homework will be given out on Fridays and collected in on Wednesdays.

Parents can help with homework tasks, but please leave feedback in books to let us know of any particular difficulties or activities you enjoyed.

I have included spellings for each child should you wish to work on these as part of home learning and if you would like a copy of the tackling tables sheet that your child is currently working on then please just ask. 

Please make sure homework is well presented and reflects your child’s full understanding. Home school communication books must be in school each day so records of reading can be written in.

Spring Term 2020

This terms topic is 'Anglo-Saxons'.

History/ Geography

Throughout the whole of the Spring term, we will be delving into history and studying at first the Anglo-Saxons followed the Vikings. We shall gain a detailed understanding of the impact they both had on Britain, the settlements, culture, beliefs and religion. 

English

For the first part of the Spring term, we will be finishing our study of historical narratives and ending the topic by writing our own stories based around the eruption of Mount Versuvius and the devastation of Pompeii during Roman times. Following on from this, we will be taking a closer look at persuasion.  As part of this topic, we will be working on apostrophes for possession.  We shall then move on to myths and legends, once again practicing our character and scene setting writing skills.

Maths

For the first half of the Spring term, we will be concentrating on becoming confident in our chosen methods of multiplication and division.  Following on from this, we shall be learning about length, perimeter and area. Finally, in the second half of the term we shall move on to fractions before finishing with the measurement of mass and capacity for the year 3 cohort and decimals for the year 4.

Science

For the first half of the term, we shall be looking at the properties of solids, liquids and gases as part of our topic 'States of Matter'.  For the second half of the term, we shall move on to the topic 'Where does all that food go?' This includes a study of the human skeleton, teeth and digestion.

ICT

This term, we will be using 'Scratch' to learn how to program our own interactive stories, games and animations.

Art and Design

This term, as part of our Anglo-Saxon topic, we shall be learning the craft of weaving just like the Anglo-Saxons would have done.

PSHE

The topic we shall be looking into and studying is conflict.  We shall be looking at what can cause conflicts and the different types of conflicts that we might all experience in life. The emotions that might be experienced as a consequence, methods and strategies to cope and then finally resolution of conflicts and moving on. 

RE

We will be looking at the Gospels.  We will gain an understanding of the Gospels as being biographies about the life of Jesus written by different authors and from each authors opinions of events.

Wellbeing week January 2019

'Urban Pioneers'

Squirrels class trip to the Peterborough Museum and the Cathedral Visitors Centre.

December 2018