Year 3 - The Lions: Blog items
A warm Wednesday!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 13th Jul 2022 @ 4:39pm
Thank you for sending in sun hats and sun cream.
After lunch tomorrow we are walking to St. Andrews church to meet Reverend Sam and have a good look around the church which links to our RE work.
The children have been learning about two different artists recently - Andy Warhol and Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The lions will be able to tell you all about our pop art project and how we used Andy Warhol’s ideas.
We have had a busy week with learning challenges. We have been writing, doing guided reading, learning about adding on two more ( using rabbit ears!) and practising counting in 2s. We have been sequencing a story, building bridges, measuring them and testing them to see how many cans of beans they will hold. We also looked at the Great Wall of China.
However, the lions did find the time to have a little paddle and cool down!
An exciting week!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 7th Jul 2022 @ 9:26pm
What an exciting week ...and we still have Fantastic Friday to come yet!
We are thoroughly enjoying our class story ‘Emma Jane’s aeroplane’ and we have all made a passport so we can visit China with her next week.
We have been doing lots of writing this week and working really hard on our cursive script. We all did amazingly well. Please let me know at the door if you would like a copy of the cursive script to work on over summer.
Please keep up the great work with reading. We are encouraging the children to read at home every day as well as recognising their sound cards.
The Lions have been looking at healthy and unhealthy foods this week. We continued with this theme by learning about Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The art work produced was fantastic. Please ask your children about this and please don’t be surprised if they speak in an Italian accent.
The lions were on holiday!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 7th Jul 2022 @ 8:27am
What a great day at the zoo! The Lions loved the coach ride, seeing lots of animals, having a picnic and being on an adventure! They were amazing! We learnt lots of new facts and saw animals we had never seen before.
The children took charge of the maps and they gave us a great tour! Unfortunately the lions and tigers had gone on holiday whilst they have a new home built.
Longton Rainbow Day flag, by Mr Pearson
Date: 28th Jun 2022 @ 11:15am
A human rainbow made up of Longton pupils celebrating that we are all unique.
Shining Lions, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 24th Jun 2022 @ 9:43am
Good morning. The Lions have had another busy week. They have been showing us all their amazing maths skills, their wonderful writing and how creative they are this week.
We have been working on odd and even numbers, thinking about our seasons, finding out more information about pirates and doing our weekly tricky challenges.
The lions did so well in their first sports day. We are so proud of them!
If you haven’t yet done so, please could you send in a picture of your child with any member of your family for them to use in our lesson on Monday. Maybe a cousin, brother or sister.
Finally please remember to read each day and add a comment to the reading record book.
Thank you.
Have a lovely weekend.
Welcome back!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 16th Jun 2022 @ 8:33am
It has been lovely to welcome the lions back!
This half term we are explorers and will be looking at pirates, travelling, the seaside and also China.
We are also doing three weeks of road safety.
We do have some sun hats in school but please send one in along with suncream. We cannot put the cream on but will encourage the children to apply their cream before we go outside.
Please remember water bottles.
I would be very grateful if you could send in any kitchen rolls or cardboard wrapping paper rolls.
Please continue to read everyday and sign your childs reading record book.
Thank you
A magnificent pride of lions!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 27th May 2022 @ 7:46am
Another creative day! We looked at past and present pictures of the Queen this week and made a fact file of our new learning. We have some amazing facts!
We finished our crowns, practiced our royal family song and made some puppets of the Queen.
We also performed at our very special Platinum Jubilee afternoon in school.
There are still some challenges on the Summer pick and Mix homework to complete but I will also post some extra challenges should your child wish to do any.
Have a lovely half term break,
Mrs. Thomson
Jubilee Celebrations, by Mr Pearson
Date: 26th May 2022 @ 12:10pm
As part of Longton Primary Schools Platinum Jubilee Celebrations the children in Y2 - Y6 have been joined together in the afternoons to focus on our performance for local dignities and special guests. The children have performed a drama about the Queen, the school choir has sung a number of songs including the National Anthem, a group of children performed a dance including a dance from each decade of the Queen's reign, poetry has been written and performed, decorations have been made for the VIP's tables and finally a good of children have baked and created sandwiches for an afternoon tea. Reception performed a song and dance and Year 1 showed how creative they have been through arts.
The problem with the crown!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 25th May 2022 @ 9:37pm
A wonderful day with lots of creative Lions. Please ask the children about our story. The Queen really wasn’t happy and had an awful headache! She had a big problem with her crown.
The children have embraced their challenges today which included hunting for tricky words, washing smelly socks and putting them on the washing line in pairs, playing a maths Crown Jewels game, creating a new crown for the Queen and doing some scissor work.
The lions worked in teams at the end of the day to tidy up! Our classroom is looking beautiful!
Lion Tribe Arts Week, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 25th May 2022 @ 9:26pm
The Lions have had a very busy start to the week. They have been learning about the Queen, the Platinum Jubilee, the Crown Jewels, the Queens Guards and all about London.
Everyone enjoyed the baking activity and also creating their Queens Guard. We have had lots of castles made around the classroom.
The children were fantastic in PE. It was the last session of our transport theme. They have worked hard on throwing underarm and over arm, long distance jumping, hopping, running and doing a variety of rolls.
Well done Lions!
Last weeks Lions, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 23rd May 2022 @ 8:21pm
I do apologise for not posting the blog last week! The lions had a busy week looking at maps and creating their own, using clay to fit Mr.Gumpy and his friends in, making jam sandwiches and packing up their class suitcase for their holiday! We had holiday camps and hotels set up around the classroom.
This week is art week and our theme is the Platinum Jubilee. The children will be busy trying out lots of new activities. They will also be bringing their beans and sunflower seeds home which are ready to plant in your garden.
Today the children have baked shortbread with Mrs.Regan, made a class castle with a moat and made one of the Queens Guards. We will be encouraging lots of scissor work this week to help the children with this skill.
Mrs. Thomson
Determination and Resilience!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 12th May 2022 @ 3:01pm
The Lions have had another busy week which has been a little different from our usual routine. However the lions fully embraced the changes and challenges showing their determination and resilience. Super lions!!
We are still working on our transport topic but have strayed a little bit when the children showed interest in seeds, planting, wanting to build with clay after reading Mr. Grumpys outing and wanting to have an outdoor exercise area!
We are working hard with our numbers to 20 and have enjoyed bingo as well as sorting our numbers in order on one of our washing lines. We are hoping to start snakes and ladders soon which will challenge the children to count on each time they throw the dice.
A huge thank you for the amazing homework pictures and the wonderful reading you are doing at home.
Mrs. Thomson
Busy Lions!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 8th May 2022 @ 8:25pm
Although these last few weeks have been a little shorter the Lions have been very busy having fun and learning in the classroom and also in the outdoors.
Last week we had a great catch up with our buddies in year five. They joined in with our key worker special time and we also got to read to them. They were amazed with our reading skills!
We have some Lions who are very keen to be the teacher and the assistant teachers in class. Therefore we swapped roles for a couple of minutes. They were amazing! There are a couple of pictures below.
A few more items for you to save for us please! We would like to add some baskets to our home corner containing hats, bags and socks.
Any old hats - wedding hats, caps, winter hats - any hats at all!
Bags - any size, colour or shape!
Socks - for our washing machine! (adults or childrens - for us to put into pairs)
Finally any small boxes. The children have asked for these for their art and craft area. Please turn the box inside out and stick it back together if possible. (Paint and glitter stick better to the wrong side of the box!)
Thank you
Mrs. Thomson
Lions, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 2nd May 2022 @ 1:03pm
Hello I hope you are having a lovely long weekend. Thank you for the homework photos that have been sent in, it is lovely to see the children enjoying their challenges. I will ensure they are shared with the class.
Well done to our star readers for last week!
A great big thank you to our wonderful super secret reader. The lions thoroughly enjoyed their story.
Please continue to send in egg boxes (half dozen boxes) the lions are enjoying creating their double decker buses.
I have included a picture of our story words from last week. Can you guess which story they were from? I wonder if the lions can remember what the words mean as well as the action we used for each one.
As well as our topic we are also learning about sunflowers. The children may come home with facts to share with you. Please share with us any facts that you know so we can add them to our learning wall. Our aim is to become sunflower experts! Any pictures would also be very welcome.
Thank you
Mrs. Thomson
Leyland Commercial Vehicle Museum - more pictures., by Mrs Thomson
Date: 27th Apr 2022 @ 11:09pm
More pictures to see!
Leyland Commercial Vehicle Museum, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 26th Apr 2022 @ 11:21pm
We all had a lovely day at the museum today. The children were very excited on the coach going to the museum but by the end of the day they had also sat in vehicles powered by horse, steam, diesel, petrol and electricity. They became fire fighters, engineers, drivers, passengers and even ice cream sellers. We climbed on board the pope mobile and even saw a car which belonged to the Queens grandfather.
We had lots of finding to do and then joined in with an interactive story about Tiggi the tiger. We have lots more pictures to follow tomorrow from the other school iPads.
Lion Adventures., by Mrs Thomson
Date: 22nd Apr 2022 @ 12:57pm
The lions have had a busy week and I must say that it is lovely to be back! We have had lots and lots to catch up on!
Our topic for this half term is called Ticket to Ride. We are looking at transport and vehicles, past and present. We will complete a DT project, be historians, work as scientists and explore and be curious on our class trip next week. (I had a fantastic time last week when I visited the transport museum and I think the lions will love it also).
We are working very hard in class. We are working on our phonics everyday and then using what we have learnt in our writing and reading. Please do try to hear your child read every day and also go through their word and sound cards as often as possible. It is really important that you sign the reading record book and add a comment each time your child reads.
I have attached a list of words from one of the stories we have read this week. Please ask your child if they can remember the actions. We then tried to say the word, do the action, clap and stamp our feet in between each word. Have a go!
You could also ask what mischief the naughty bus got up to in class today!
A new homework pick and mix document is now on the google classroom. I hope you enjoy the activities, they are all linked to our learning this half term.
Over the weekend please save and send into school any half dozen egg boxes and also any small shoe boxes.
Thank you
Mrs. Thomson
World Book Day 2022, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 4:27pm
What a wonderful day we have had celebrating world book day !
The day started with a whole school assembly to introduce the teme and to share a story we wrote as a school in 2020. It was also when the stimulus for this year's whole school write was revealed. Our youngest children, the Lions started the story and it was then emailed from class to class to be developed. It finally reached year 6 this afternoon and they proofread the story and then added to it. At 2.45 we met back in the hall for the world premiere reading of The Magic Potion. Wow !!!! What a story! Well done, again Longton. Please take some time to share the story as a a family and to ask your child which part their class wrote.
Every class has met up via an online meeting with classes at Barden Primary School in Burnley and Reception and Key Stage 1 have had a visit from Librarian Tom.
At Longton, as well as the World Book Day voucher we like to give the children a book as a gift. Your child will have a lovely book in their book bags this evening. Please enjoy reading them.
Class Compliment Afternoon, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 14th Feb 2022 @ 3:08pm
The Lions had a lovely afternoon on Thursday celebrating their achievement of completing their class compliment stars.
They sang and danced, had hot chocolate in their pyjamas, ate cupcakes and crisps and then danced some more. After a class vote they watched a Disney film for the last twenty minutes of the day after a quick energy burst in the ball cage.
Good luck Lions achieving even more class compliments!
Great Learning!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 9th Feb 2022 @ 10:05pm
Our week is not yet over but I thought you would like to see what the lions have been busy learning. We have made fossils and learnt how palaeontologists could tell what dinosaurs looked like, ate and what they predicted their world looked like because of the fossils they found.
We have been learning a poem about our class pet, Tim the Triceratops and we enjoying putting actions to it.
Today we had a visit from a Police dog handler. They met Maverick and Goose. The children listened and also asked great questions showing their curiosity -
Do you bath the dogs?
Why do they not share a crate in your car?
How fast do they run?
We did PE this morning with lots of climbing, balancing, slithering, jumping and crawling.
Class Compliment Treat, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 8th Feb 2022 @ 10:16pm
The Lions have completed their first class compliment challenge sheet. Their class efforts, team work and behaviour have been noticed around school and visitors and school staff from other classes have awarded compliments.
After some wonderful conversations and truly amazing ideas from the children we have decided that we will have a treat afternoon on Thursday. Please send pyjamas or a onesie into school on Thursday in a named carrier bag. After lunch the children can get changed, have treats, do some party dancing and watch a short film.
This week the children have made fossils, learnt a tongue twister about Mary Anning, made carnivore and herbivore teeth and have been pactising their numbers in shaving foam! We have been getting a little messy recently!
The children are shining with their reading and phonics!
Thank you
Mrs. Thomson
Assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Feb 2022 @ 3:07pm
Today in assembly on Tuesday we talked about, animals and how they are the same and if they work well together. The animals we saw were penguins, dolphins and whales, zebras and ostriches and a crocodile and a bird. We also talked about when it’s important to work together.
Our Thursday picture news assembly asked the question ‘What type of events do you think deserve a celebration?’ This question came about as the Queen announced a special competition ahead of her Platinum Jubilee later this year. On the 6th February Queen Elizabeth will have reigned for 70 years!
The competition is to design a pudding. There will also be a 4 day bank holiday in June and other events too. We all like celebrating birthdays and weddings and fireworks.
A new class member!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 4th Feb 2022 @ 7:00am
Yesterday the children were amazed to find a new class member waiting for them in the outside shed. (Please ask the children who Tim is and how they found him with Miss. Lynch!)
We had a great day which started with dance, some amazing phonics work, a wonderful super secret reader, an outdoor science experiment and then finding Tim! The children were wonderful explorers and scientists!
I do apologise but I have not written down our super secret reader for next week - please could you pop in or phone Linda just to remind me what time you are able to come along next week. Also we have no readers on our list for after half term. You would be most welcome into school for your first or second visit so please let any one of us know in the classroom or contact me through google classroom to book a specific date which works for you. I would love to keep this amazing experience going all year!
Thank you
Mrs. Thomson
Terrific Tuesday!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 1st Feb 2022 @ 10:20pm
Lots of adventures for the lions today. A morning of dance with our visitor from The Blue Moose Dance Company. The children created dragon and lion dances.
Super learning in our phonics and maths lessons in class! Lots of team points were given out to our super stars.
This afternoon we had a visit from the fire fighters at Penwortham. We learnt a lot, listened and also asked lots of questions. After looking at the fire engine we have a lot to add to our project class engine!
The children enjoyed trying out the water hose and we all got a little wet! Especially when one of our very own lions got a little mischievous with the help of the fire fighter!
Outdoor Fun!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 31st Jan 2022 @ 9:39pm
Today we had a busy afternoon. We started to make our own fire engine, we had fun using the hosepipe, buckets and squirty bottles and also created some smaller engines with our friends. Penwortham fire station are hoping to visit us tomorrow afternoon and they are very keen to see our work, talk about how they help people and show us the fire engine.
In the morning we have a very special team of dancers coming to show us dances for Chinese New Year. We are all very excited.
