Melting Kennings

This week year 3 have been learning about Kennings and Caligrams. We have linked this to our topic which is Titanic so we went outside to look at ice and how it moves!

We then used our ideas to write Kennings!

A colossal boat destroyer.
A calm captain panicker.
A silent filler.
An oak wooden deck ripper.
A death bringer.
It is like a monster rising.

A solid crasher.
A patient waiter.
An aggressive wave fighter.
A silent swimming
It is a wave pusher!
Natasha

A spiky reflector
A ice freezer
A ship demolisher
A transparent waiter.
Jake

Revolutionary Inventions

In 4E we have been designing our own inventions and creating adverts for them.  Here is Amy's Super Stationary Swapper.  We think it would be a welcome addition to our classroom!

The Happy King's Castle

Year Three have been learning all about explanations this week. The children designed their own machine which would keep a king happy and clean his castle from top to toe! Here is an extract from Diya's explanation.

Do you suffer from an enraged king? If so buy this mammoth machine which will clean the whole castle of yours. But how does it work?

To start the machine you will have to simply press the red button, a big spark will spin around in the pump. Meanwhile,  a dashing flash will appear and get the machine started.

Diya (3B)

Message from the Queen

This week Year 3 have been learning about the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. We watched a section of the coronation and thought very carefully about what happened and how she might have felt. We then wrote a diary entries pretending to be Queen Elizabeth.

Dear Diary,

Today was a special day because I became the Queen! First they gave me a brilliant gold robe. Have you ever seen such a gold robe? I felt embarrassed but I felt exquisite. Then I was handed a golden glittery sceptre. Suddenly the crown was brought to me on a soft fluffy pillow. The glittery golden crown was placed on my head and I was Queen!

From Queen Elizabeth (Vanessa)

On Our Playground

This week 3C went outside for their learning. We worked together as a team to carry out some different activities. Then we split into smaller groups to explore our playground. We found little objects that we found interesting and brought them together. We used alliteration and adjectives to describe the objects. When we came back into the classroom we used our adjectives alongside some verbs to create a poem of all the exciting things we found on the playground.

Our outdoor poem

A slippery slimy stick,A happy hopping hula-hoop,A murky moldy mushroom,This is what we have found!

A cracked curvy cone,A smooth smelly shin-pad,A lovely lonely leaf,This is what we have found...On our rough rocky playground!

From the Window

This week in 4E we took our learning outside!  We brought our iPads with us and took pictures of different things that would inspire our poetry.  We then used Pic Collage to present our poems and pictures.  Here are some of our poems:

Once upon a time...

This week Year 3B have been writing their own Fairy Tales. The children were given three objects to inspire them. Holly had a frog, a crown and a wand! See if you can spot them in her narrative!

Once upon a times on a lily pad as slimy as a snake there lived a friendly frog. Leaping, the lonely frog jumped from lily pad to lily pad. Every day he hoped to catch a glimpse of the princess because he loved her.

Eventually, the princess ran down to the clean pond so she could bounce in the med. Have you ever seen eich a muddy, nice princess?

Suddenly, she almost stepped on the frog but luckily the frog said "ribbit". If she had stood on him he certainly would have been squished in the mid. A few seconds later, she decided to take him home.

Although he was squishy, slimy and green he was actually a pretty prince who was born in England....
Holly (3B)