Record of Achievements

Came home today for information about what to do with the Record of Achievement click here
They can be kept at home until the end of term 2.

3L Travel Website goes live!

3L travel website is now online on the world wide web.
3L were in groups of 3. 3L were working really hard to find pictures on google images of catagory things from the country they were working on. The catogories were weather, transport, hotels, where to stay, landmarks, animals, maps, flags, capital city, language, food and money. They emailed the pictures to the person in the group who was making the website. The person who was making the website went to their email, saved the pictures to their desktop and then went to the webpage and inserted the
picture from the file on the desktop. Using control and wheel they changed the size of the page so they could resize the picture. The students were typing the captions next to the pictures so the people who read it would know what the picture was of.
Written by the Hurricanes guided reading group.
Click here to see the website.

Maths Games

Please play some games to practise your Maths skills.
1. Log onto the first screen of My Maths Click here
2. Click games.
3. Choose a folder and then click on the game that appears on the right.

Play only the games on this list.

• add it up
• Beat the clocks
• connect 4


• drafts


• times it out


• sums to 20

Reminders

1. Please send back Parent-Teacher Consultation forms.


2. Please send in Secret Santa Gift tomorrow, we are still very short of Gifts!

Smoothie Results

Our final lesson on smoothies has left us with a winner to enter into the year 3 competition after the holidays. Everyone gave each of our five smoothies a score.
Which had the highest score?
Have a look at the graph who won?

Try and make some at home, here are the ingredients.

Messages

For parents -
3 Important letters came home today and Maths homework
1) Secret Santa - the name of the child you are buying a present for. (Spending approximately 200-250 Baht and sending the present wrapped and labeled by Tuesday next week)
2) Your home postal/mail address need urgently - see red home school book

3) Parent-Teacher consultation rescehduled letter

Animal teeth!

In science today we learned about animal teeth and skulls. We labelled the animal skulls with the correct label. We looked at their teeth to see which animal it might be. If it was a carnivore it would have canines and some molars. If it was a herbivore it would have incisors and molars. If it was an omnivore it would have all three types of teeth.
Try this game can you tell the difference between omnivores, carniovre and herbivores.


How good were you please comment.

Splendid Blended Smoothies

In DT we have been making smoothies. Each group made 4 or 5 different smoothies and gave each one a rating. Have look at us in action!

What was your favourite 3L and why? Please comment.

Many thanks to Lucy for providing the photos.

Many thanks to our parent helpers, we couldn't have done it without you.

>Bring a pair of trousers and a long sleeve top for water safety in swimming on Friday Bring your swimming kit to wear also.

Welcome to the world of Roald Dahl

Click here to go to the website.

In Literacy today we looked at Roald Dahl.

Have you read any of his books or listened to one of his stories?

What did you think? Please make a comment.

Sports Day

We worked hard and had fun.

Well done everyone!

Party Time!

3L Parents and children are invited to the class Christmas Party. Our class parents have kindly organised the party for the class.
It will be held on Friday 11th December at 3.30pm. Contact Class Parent Dilip or Latha through the Telephone tree on the Parents Gateway.

Try this link if the video doesn't work http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/kQuHB6TmSDblh8tf

Make that number!

Monday Homework

Log onto My Maths to do your homework on Division
Closing date Next Monday.

Marvellous Michael Rosen

In Literacy we read Quick Lets Get Out of Here by Michael Rosen....

Please read the comments below to see what the children thought.
Have you read it what do you think? Please tell us.

Try this webpage to read some more of his poems.
http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/poems.html

Shared Area

In our shared area we have Patana Central which is like a shopping centre. We have a dentist, a sushi bar, opticians, cafe and greengrocers.

When we play in these we are learning to be gentle, polite, communicate, cooperate, have a imagination and be a good thinker.

In the Sushi Bar you can make plastercine Sushi and learn how to use chop sticks and exercise the muscles in your fingers.

In the cafe you learn how to use money and pay with the right money.

To learn how to eat properly in the cafe for example not to speak with food in your mouth. To learn how fun it is to be whatever job you are playing and then you could be it when you grow up.

You learn to design glasses and play where you test to see if your eye sight is fine in the Opticians.

In the shared area dentist we are learning about where teeth are in the mouth and what shapes they can be.

You can get pretend vegetables and fruits and weigh them and learn how to read scales in the year 3 greengrocers between 3w and 3C.

Written By the Blizzard and Lightning Bolts guided reading groups.

My Maths

Message for Parents:

Spelling homework came home today.

Also a letter is stapled in the redbook relating to your child's My Maths Login details.

I have also sent them an email with the login details in it and an email to you explaining my maths.

Have fun learning!

Teeth and eating!

As part of our unit on Teeth and diet we have been looking at different food groups and what happens to our food when we eat it and how each food group helps the human body.

Test Your knowledge with these activities.

International Day Postponed

With international day postponed homework will still be taken in if it is completed and we will keep it until the new date to present.
For information on international day click here

Fantastic Fractions

We are looking at fraction this week in Numeracy.

We are learning to identify unit fractions. We are going to be shading fractions of shapes. We are going to be finding fractions on amounts.


Play some of these games to have some fun of your own with fractions.
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/fractions/level1.htm
http://www.mathsyear2000.org/games/map-fractions/spring/
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/ngfl-flash/fractions/fractions.html

Harder work & Problem solving with fractions
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/fractions/fractions.html
http://www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/shade.html

Reminder

Please remember international day presentations are to be completed by Wednesday. This will be homework instead of Maths.

Spelling homework came home today and the next test will be Thursday.

Smoothies

Everyclass is making a smoothie for judges to taste and the winning smoothie goes in the snack bar so people can buy it.

Before we let the judges taste it we are going to think of stuff to put in the smoothies.

Today we tasted some drinks so we can see if we wanted to put them in the smoothie.

We tasted apple juice, orange juice, blackcurrant cordial, lemon cordial, drinking yogurt, sprite, soda water and plain water.

We walked around the classroom and we saw some drinks and we tasted them. You had to write if it was sour, sweet or other words to describe it. Give it a score from 0 to 10.
This graph shows us how many people liked the drinks.
The water the most popular drink that the class tasted.
That means we would use frozen water (ice) in a smoothie because we know children like water.

Written by Jasmine, Bella and Matthew.

Miss Louise typed it for them.

Super Phonics

Suuupppper Phoooniiics to the rescue!

Today in phonics we practised the two sounds the ure sound and the qu sound.

We played a game called buried tresure and we used the two sounds ure and qu.

The buried treasure game with the ure sound was hard because ganure was a word on the game and we thought it was real and it wasn't!

Play the game here http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

Written By Lucas and Patrick

Tiger Spirit Day

On Wednesday it was Tiger Spirit Day at school and lots of people wore black and orange but some students wore tiger clothes.
The studets did many activities. 3L did tiger drama, tiger stories, tiger masks, tiger collage and tiger drawing.
Written by Amy and Kerrianne

Loi Kratong

What a brilliant day!
Please post comments about what you thought of the day.
In Literacy we wrote a piece together about Loi Kratong. Here is is.

BPS has special days where students take part in different activities. There are many types of activities for example Loi Kratong, Tiger Day, international day and Busking day. Read below to find out more.
Loi Kratong
Loi Kratong is when Thai people say sorry to the god of water for making it dirty and thank you for the water.
On Loi Kratong the students go to the exam hall and do Loi Kratong activities such as make rubber leaf flowers, kratongs, dough dolls and lotus dolls. They also dress up in Traditional Thai costumes. The students float kratongs on the secondary pond.


What do you think?

300 Marbles

"3L have earned 300 marbles because we have worked so so so hard." By Bella
"We are going to celebrate with extra ICT time" By Shridula
"We can do what ever we want on the computer" By Matthew
"Well almost anything, I will have to check it first!" Says Miss Louise

Travel Website

Our site is finished so watch this space it will be going live in the next week or so!

Loi Kratong Reminder

Different Venue.

A Reminder; it is Loi Kratong on Monday so come in Traditional Thai dress and parents are welcome at 11.15 to take photos of us in the Exam Hall taking part in Loi Kratong activities.


We plan to float our Kratongs in the afternoon at the secondary Library at around 1.10pm.

3L Wins the Swimming Gala

Swimming gala 2009. Y3 was the best swimming gala ever and we earned a trophy for working a team. Klang and Camille were captains. At the end we were happy we won the Year 3 gala. Written by Hurricanes guided reading group.
Please post a comment about something you like.
Parents please email pictures to me and I can add them to the slideshow.

The Maths homework this week is to learn and recall from memory you 2, 5 and 10 times table.

For those who can recall these with only 1 or 2 mistakes then you must learn your 3,4, 6 and 8 times tables.

So you must know the following facts for the 2 times tables.

1x2=2
2x2=2
3x2=6
4x2=8
5x2=10
6x2=12
7x2=14
8x2=16
9x2=18
10x2=20
11x2=22
12x2=24

It is the same as this list but for the other times tables.

To help you learn and emorize them you could:

• try writing them out over and over again
• get someone to test you
• test someone else
• make a matching game
• play times tables games
• make up a song with them in
• find games on link and learn
• check the blog for times tables games

You will be tested on Friday!

Operation Plant Pot

We have finished.
Please see our photographs of each plant at the beginning, middle and end of our experiment. Can you notice a difference?
Here are some sentence about what children in 3L have noticed.

Control is very healthy and the leaves are purple and red. It thallest plant in our experiment" By Adhvay

"The no air plant is still surviving. It is a littl bit healthy. It likes the water too. When we take it out it looksnew. It i 35cm and it was 29cm. I has a little bitnyellow leaves. Its a bit droopy." By Goggy

"The no water plant is dying because we did not water it. The leaves are crunchy and delicate. The leaves are dropping and the leaves have fallen off." By Bella

"The no leaves plant still has no leaves." By Tang

"No Light. The leaves on no light had turned yellow. The no light plant is smaller than the control. The no light plant has one green leaf. Some of te leaves are bumpy and some are not." By Patrick

"The no soil plant has wilted." By Lucas "It has died" By 3L

3L work like Andy Warhol

"Andy Warhol have made lots of art and in art our topic is to do Andy Warhol art. First we draw on a piece of paper, photocopy it 4 times and stick the 4 copies together. Then we painted the different pictures different colours. Some of us did it in 3 days and some of us in 2 days. Nobody did it in one day."
By Amy and Noat
Please look at our work. Go full screen and afterwards make a comment!

Operation Tallest Beanstalk

"We have been learning about plants and have planted a bean stalk. It has grown very tall in three days, One is taller than the other." By Davina

Below you can see us getting the conditions just right for growing!

Interclass Basketball

Well done 3L!
Click the picture to see the slide show.

Travel Website

3L are building a travel website.

Today we were looking for pictures. We need more. You can find pictures for your country at home on http://www.dkimages.com/

Then email them to yourself.

Brazil - Amy, Davina & Bella
Japan - Lucas, Tess & Adhvay
New Zealand - Tang, Camille & Sam
Egypt - Jasmine, Ja & Patrick
Pakistan - Matthew, Vandan & Noat
Los Angeles (USA) - Klang, Mihiro & Goggy
Denmark - Jossie, Shridula & Nandita
Germany - Kerrianne, Catehrine & Pammy

We are looking for pictures of.....

Hotel, maps, weather, flags, capital city, money, food, langauges, landmarks & transport.

Can you write a comment telling us how long it takes to get to your country by aeroplane.

What has happened to our plants?

Here are our plants before and after. The hurricanes guided reading group have written what the class noticed.

No Air plant
The plant with no air drooping a lot.
The plant with no air has yellow and green leaves and a little bit of water.

No Soil Plant
The no soil plant is looking very like its going to die soon.
When we touch the leaf it falls down very easily.
The leaf is very black.
We think it will die on about 10th,11th,12 or 13th.

No light Plant
We have looked at the no light plant.
We have noticed that the red part of the leaves are turning yellow.
It was a amazing sight. So if the no light plant doesn't have light, the no light plant will have green and yellow leaves.

No leaves Plant
the no leaves plant is still looking healthy
but it has no leaves.

Control plant
Control plant is very healthy enough.
And nothing is going bad on control plant.
Do you think that the control plant is healthy enough.

No Water Plant
The No Water plant looks like it is going to die.
I hope the plant will grow well until November.
Its very droopy and the soil is very dried.
When you touch it it will stick on your hands.

Reminders

Interclass Basketball on Friday. Wear Green!
Maths Homework is a quiz on the E-classroom. Please check your email to find out how to log onto the E-Classroom. The homework must be completed by Monday.

Aquathon

Look at how hard we worked! Well done 3L!

You have got to believe me I'm telling the truth......

We played a game yesterday in Science. It was to help us learn new science words for our topic on Materials. Each group had a science word. They found out what it meant and wrote it down. Then they thought of two made up meanings. Next, the rest of the class had to guess which one was true and which ones were made up.
Can you guess which is the true meaning?
Brittle
1) The smell of fresh air and grass.
2) To fill a plastic bag and pop it.
3) Hard but likely to break or snap.

Absorbent

1) a drop of water that rises

2) when a material soaks up liquid easily

3) a material that is made from glass

Buoyant

1) able to float

2) how to say hello in Greek

3) a boy ant in love with a girl ant

Opaque

1)You cannot see through it

2)It is black fire

3) It's a crime

Durable

1)To control a robot

2) Strong and likely to last

3) To blast into space

Saturated

1) On saturday we have fun

2) Drive around Saturn

3) Soaking wet

Please post comments telling us what you think is true.

Please post your own science words for this game. You could use transparent, waterproof, flexible, elastic, dull, hard, strong, shiny, magnetic, aerodynamic and streamline.

Calligrams

Click on the "open new window" icon (a rectangle next to the slide number) to see it in full size and pause on someone's work.

Computer Plants

Try this simulation.

Operation Pot Plants

What happens if you take away what a plant needs to survive?

We are doing and experiment with 6 plants. We are taking away one thing a plant needs to stay alive and then we are going to watch a see what happens. Each group is taking away one thing. Our groups are pictured below and have typed a piece of writing to go with their picture.

<=The picture here is the control plant. We haven't taken away anything from this plant.

Red Table

We put the plant in the plastic bag to let no air to the plant. We put a transparent plastic bag so we can also give it the sunlight. We water it by a tube.

Blue Table

This plant is our experiment for taking soil from it. We went to the year 3 garden and took the soil out. Then we took the plant back and watered it.

Yellow Table
We are experimenting about what will happen if we cut the leaves off. The first day we watered the plant. The second day it stilled did not grow leaves but the roots are growing amazingly out of the bottom of the plant pot.

Pink Table

We are experimenting on a plant with no light.

We put our plant in a box.

We are using a special tube which we are connecting to our plant.

We have made air holes so air can go through. We put cloth on the hole so light can't get through.

We won't know what's happening in the box because we can't open it. Maybe we will have to think of a way we can check it without letting light go into it.
Green Table
Our group has not watered their plant for a week.I t is not dying

at all. We think it will survive. The soil is very dry and the plant is still normal but one of the leaf are turning pink .

Some of the leaves are healthy and some of them are riped.

Hello from 3L

Today we have seen our class blog for the first time. We think it is an excellent idea.
We want to add more pictures, videos and work to our blog.
Watch our blog get better!
From 3L

Naughty Elephants Squirt Water

"What did you do at school today?"
"Nothing."
Sound familiar? Now try adding
"Let's look at the blog".