This is the next page in our book ‘Jemmy Button’. The children worked hard to create freeze frames, copying the image. They even thought about what the characters may be thinking. I am really enjoying picking apart this book with the class. The illustrations are phenomenal, telling the story so powerfully!

Thank you to everyone that came to our art exhibition last half term. We have raised enough money to adopt the pig that came into the classroom. The pig is called Pumpkin, Here is some information about her:

http://www.thefarmanimalsanctuary.co.uk/Our-Stories/Pumpkin.php

Pumpkin is a Kune Kune sow. She arrived at the farm with two companions, Pudding, another Kune Kune and Princess, a large pink sow. They had been all been bought as piglets and kept as pets, playing ball with the children, coming to call, having bellies scratched. Circumstances changed and the family had no option but to find a new home where they could all be kept together. Pumpkin is a friendly little soul, she loves her food, particularly apple sandwiches, and she loves to escape by rooting up the fence to visit Colin our handsome ginger boar.

Year 3 are creating beautiful spiderweb art using a technique with melted wax or wax crayons and paint. They have been very successful and are nearly ready to go on sale on Wednesday. Please come and visit us from 2.30pm to view your children’s art work. You can purchase your child’s art work for £1.50. All proceeds go to the animal adoption agency to help to look after a pig. Just like Wilbur in the story we have been reading, Charlotte’s Web.

Today we classified smarties based on their colour and then totaled them. We recorded the data how we best thought. How else could we present this data?

Can an you explain what we were doing in this lesson and why we were doing it?

Whilst doing independent work in Year 3, our quiet critters come out of their jar! They sit on our desk and make sure that we are working hard and quietly! We love them and think it is great when they watch us working.

To understand more about how farms work (especially the one that wilbur lives on)nee have been looking at the history of farming.

Here we are looking at a timeline of farming and researching the tools that were used through the ages.

When did farming begin?

In year three, we use practical equipment to help us to work out tricky maths.

Can you name some of the things that we use? They have very strange names!