DT – felt arm cuff
On Tuesday afternoon, the Bluebirds in year 3 finished their Egyptian arm cuff. The made them out of felt, stitched them together with running stitch, and embellished them with buttons. Here are some of our finished cuffs:
The Diary of a Killer Cat – our reviews
This afternoon, the Bluebirds in year 3 finished reading The Diary of a Killer Cat. These are some of our reviews
Diary of Killer Cat – warning Poster
This morning, the Bluebirds read the next chapter of The Diary of a Killer Cat. Tuffy, the cat, went to the vets. He scared the other animals in the waiting room, he scratched the vet, knocked off the bottles that were on her desk and broke and scale to weigh the animals.
We came up with adjectives to describe Tuffy and created a warning poster to other vets in the area not accept Tuffy at their practice.
DT Sewing
During our Design Technology lessons this week, the Bluebirds in year 3 have been practising their sewing skills. This week we have been learning how to thread a needle, start and finish sewing and practising running stitch.
Zi Yan has made a decorative hanging at home out of felt using embroidery thread and a permanent pen. It looks great!
Design Technology – Egyptian arm cuff
This week in year 3, the Bluebirds are doing Design Technology. We are designing and making our own Egyptian arm cuff.
First, we did some research and tested some different materials. After investigating felt, cellophane and paper, we came to the conclusion that felt was the best material to use.
On Monday afternoon, we designed our arm cuff. Here are some of our designs:
Character Study
On Monday morning, the Bluebirds in year 3 read two more chapters of our class reader, Diary of a Killer Cat. We thought about the character of Dad and created a role of the wall for him. The Bluebirds came up with some fantastic adjectives. We decided he was both courageous and cunning, and being sly and sneaky. He was acting was suspicious and being dishonest.
Branching Databases
For the last two weeks in Bluebirds class we have been doing Computing in our topic lesson. The children have been using J2E Branch to create a branching database. This software included asking lots of yes and no questions which we did at the beginning of every lesson.
Before we started using the branching software the children started with organising different things into groups. The children worked in pairs and organised things such as sweets into colours and patterns. They also cut out lots of different food types and grouped them accordingly. A lot of the children put them into healthy and unhealthy food groups.
Then it was time to get the laptops out and have a go for ourselves, the children had options of animals, food, dinosaurs and aliens. They have to drag all the objects across and then begin to organise them through asking yes or no questions.
Excellent English
On Wednesday morning, the Bluebirds in year 3 stared English by writing a role on the wall for the character of Ellie in our class reader. Ellie is the daughter in the family and an owner of Tuffy, the Killer Cat.
Our task was to rewrite the events of the story so far from the perspective of Ellie, remembering to use adjectives, expanded noun phrases and to write in the present perfect tense
The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine
The Bluebirds in year 3 started a new class reader this week. We are now reading The Diary of a Killer Cat.
On Monday, we used the first day’s diary entry to explore the idea of sarcasm, as the main character, the cat, is quite sarcastic in the book and it can be funny. We decided that sometimes sarcasm can be funny, but sometimes it can come across at rude.
On Tuesday, we looked at past and present tense. Miss Hookes also introduced simple past and present perfect tenses. The simple past tells us something that has started and finished in the past and included the past tense form of the verb. The present perfect tells us something has started in the past, whether the action has finished or not and it still affects the present in some way. The present perfect tense uses have or has and a past participle verb that usually ends in -ed and -en. However, some past participle verbs are irregular, like flown.
We wrote sentences in the present perfect tense about the two diary entries we’ve read from our class reader so far.
