3B
Monday 13th July 2020
Last week! Please find below your home learning for this week (don't tell anyone but you've only got 4 days of home learning this week!) Please have a lovely week and I will send you a message later on in the week. You should get your reports this week and find out who your Year 4 teacher will be. Included in your report are some messages from us and details of arrangements for September - so please look at all of the things in your envelope carefully! See you soon, stay safe and take care, Mrs Ballinger 😃
Monday 6th July 2020
Good morning! Two more weeks to go! 😮 Please find your home learning for this week below. Maths is more practise with time. Please choose the sheets that will further your learning. Start with the Year 2 revision if you need to, then telling time in 5 minute intervals etc. If you are already confident with these areas look at the other sheets using 12 and 24 hour clock times. Use the two knowledge organisers to help you if you get stuck. Have a great week! Mrs Ballinger 😀
Monday 29th June 2020
Good morning! Here is your home learning for this week! At least the weather is cooler, so you should be able to settle to your learning this week. You have Maths and Spag and a choice of other activities this week. In addition we would like you to read for at least 20 minutes each day. Use the review to write a book report about a book that you have read. Have a fantastic week! Mrs Ballinger 😀 julie.ballinger@racemeadow.org
Monday 22nd June 2020
Welcome to this week's home learning! This week is focused on the BFG, which would have been one of our mini missions. Maths continues learning about time - practise telling the time whenever you can. If you want to be creative this week, make a dream catcher by following the instructions - don't forget to send a photo when you have finished! It was lovely to receive emails from some of you last week and to speak to others on the phone. Please keep persevering with your home learning - it is important.
Have a lovely week and take care in the sunshine if we get some this week!
Mrs Ballinger 😊 email: julie.ballinger@racemeadow.org
Competition Time!
For your chance to win a prize take a look at the flyer below - good luck! 
Monday 15th June 2020
Good morning and welcome to week 3 of home learning!
I hope you are all safe and well. This week's learning is all about light, dark and reflection. You can also have fun playing with your shadows outside! Discover what happens to them during the different times of the day and find out why this happens.
Well done to all of you who are still competing your home learning - it is important and I am so proud of you! Keep it up and please send me an email to let me know how you are doing - julie.ballinger@racemeadow.org
Mrs Ballinger 😊
Competition Time!
This weeks competition is all about dance. Take a look at the link below - good luck!
Monday 8th June
Happy Monday everyone! I hope that you are all safe and well! Please find below your home learning for this week. This weeks topic learning is all about plants, you will be finding out the names of the plant parts and the life cycle of a flower. Please continue to send emails of your learning - I haven't had any recently and I'm feeling lonely!! Have a lovely week - Mrs Ballinger x
Competition Time!
We have another exciting sports competition for you to have a go at. This week it is Tennis so you can practise the skills we learnt in PE! Take a look at the flyer below to find out how to get involved - good luck!
Tuesday 2nd June 2020
Hello and welcome back! I hope you had a nice week off and have enjoyed the lovely warm, sunny weather.
Your home learning is listed below for the week. Please remember to write the date in your home learning book for each day and keep the pictures coming as we love to see what you have been doing while at home with your family!!
Remember that if you need any help with anything then you can email me at julie.ballinger@racemeadow.org
Stay safe and well!! Miss you all 
Mrs Ballinger xx
Competition Time!
Here is another chance for you to win a prize, take a look at the poster below...
Monday 18th May 2020
Hello! I hope you are all still having fun and staying safe at home. Your home learning is listed below for the week. Please remember to write the date in your home learning book for each day and keep the pictures coming as we love to see what you have been doing while at home with your family!!
Miss you all 
Mrs Ballinger xx
Get your dancing shoes on!
Mrs Deeming's daughter, Nikki, has put some dances together for you to learn.
Watch Nikki's dances and ask an adult to film you having a go and send it to me so we can share it here. Who's brave enough??? Mums and Dads, brothers and sisters can join in too!!
Click on the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68_bJ2bABo8&feature=youtu.be
W/C 11.05.2020
Look what 3B have been up to this week. Layton has been doing some lovely things for other people - well done Layton, that's lovely! 😊
Home learning this week...
Competition Time!
Fancy winning a prize? Take a look at the flyer below - good luck!
Monday 11th May 2020
Hello! I hope you had a nice weekend. Your home learning is listed below for the week including video links to support you with completing your maths. Please remember to write the date in your home learning book for each day and keep the pictures coming as we love to see what you have been doing while at home with your family!!
Stay safe and well!! Miss you all 
Mrs Ballinger xx
Monday 4th May 2020
Hello! I hope you had a nice weekend, even with the change in weather I still managed to have fun in my garden! Your home learning is listed below for the week. Please remember to write the date in your home learning book for each day and keep the pictures coming as we love to see what you have been doing while at home with your family!!
Stay safe and well!! Miss you all Mrs Ballinger xx
W/C 27.04.2020
Keep your eye out here for updates to see what you've all been up to!
Monday 27th April
Hello! I hope you had a nice weekend and have enjoyed the lovely warm, sunny weather.
Your home learning is listed below for the week. Please remember to write the date in your home learning book for each day and keep the pictures coming as we love to see what you have been doing while at home with your family!!
Remember that if you need any help with anything then you can email me at julie.ballinger@racemeadow.org
Stay safe and well!! Miss you all 
Mrs Ballinger xx
Monday 20th April
Welcome back!! I hope that you all had a super two weeks over Easter and didn't eat too much chocolate!!
Your home learning is listed below for the week. Please remember to write the date in each day in your home learning book.
Keep the pictures coming - we love to see what you have been doing while you are at home with your family. We especially like to see how your creative tasks have turned out.
I hope that you are still collecting things to go into your time capsule - I am. Answers for this week's Maths and English will be posted on this page on Friday afternoon for you to check. Stay safe and well!! Make sure you check out the Racemeadow Facebook page to see the message for you from all of the staff at school!! Miss you all xx
Layton's Easter activities...
03.04.2020
Well, that's week 2 done! Here is your final challenge for this week. The next two weeks are the Easter holidays - so relax and enjoy family time - but most importantly stay safe and stay at home. Please feel free to email over the break and take the time to complete your challenges. I will be back in touch with you on Monday 20th April. If you need anything in the meantime, please email or contact school. Have a lovely Easter everyone with lots of eggstra fun activities!! 😂😊 Be good - Mrs Ballinger x
Hot off the press!!! I have just received this super drawing of an Anglo Saxon village from Lena. I am really impressed with the detail that has been included. Well done Lena - keep up the good work!
Sophie's home learning:
Sophie has been very busy completing Anglo Saxon activities and her daily challenges too! Well done Sophie - super pictures and lovely handwriting too!
02.04.2020
Wow, it's Thursday already! Here are today's challenges. I would love to see some pictures of your shadow drawings or musical instruments - email me if you have any. I hope that you enjoy today's creative challenge! I will post you some pictures of the challenges that I have done at the end of the week! Enjoy your day - at least the sun is shinning!! Speak to you tomorrow! Mrs Ballinger 🌞😊
Mrs Ballinger's home learning week!
01.04.2020
Welcome to Wednesday everyone!
I hope you are all safe and well. A big well done to everyone who has logged onto sumdog or has sent me emails to let me know how you are getting on. New photos added below to show you what Jack, Layton and Lia have been up to. Enjoy today's challenges. Be good! Mrs Ballinger x
Home learning in action!!
Not all learning is academic - helping is good too!!!
31.03.2020
Hello 3B!
Please look at your learning challenges for today. I hope the sun comes out later for your creative challenge!! Stay safe and be good! Don't forget to email me with your news. See how some people have been getting on by scrolling down and looking at the slideshow and video from your friends in your class!!
Login to sumdog today too! Miss you all - Mrs Ballinger x
30.03.2020
Good morning!! I hope you are all well and had a good weekend.
Please have a look at these short grammar and punctuation challenges, Maths puzzle and a science challenge.
There will be new challenges for you each day - we hope you enjoy them!! Don't forget to login to sumdog.com for your weekly challenges too!! 🙂 Watch Zach's video below and see how he got on with the challenge!
Home learning
Look how busy Zack has been...
What a fantastic Anglo Saxon house - complete with furniture! Zack has also been reading, gardening, watching the birds in his garden and going for walks with his mum. He even made a volcano! Well done Zack - keep up the good work!!
Zach's egg challenge
Home learning during school closure.
Check here every day for things to do at home while school is closed.
Mrs Ballinger's email - julie.ballinger@racemeadow.org
send pictures of what you've been doing - I would love to see what you've been up to...!
29.03.2020
On Monday you will be able to log in to sumdog.com and complete some spelling, reading and maths challenges that I have set for you. Your log in and passwords were sent on Wednesday 25th March by Marvellous Me. If you haven't got access to Marvellous Me at the moment please email me julie.ballinger@racemeadow.org and I will send your sumdog details. I will also put some challenges on this webpage for you too! Missed you all this week.
Hope you are all OK and are staying safe. Contact me if you need anything at all - Mrs Ballinger 🙂
Try some of these activities:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYnmH2_NwwPzEoA-iJPxNgQ
Youtube video with Anthony James showing you how to create a dinosaur with junk modelling.
https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
Choose any story to listen to for free! 😊
https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html
Join in with Jo everyday at 9am for a PE session!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q
Maths, English and topic videos to dance to.
This allows you access to any learning resources or games you might like.
http://www.sciencefun.org/kidszone/experiments/
A variety of experiments you can carry out!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00sp0l8/horrible-histories
Horrible histories
https://www.artforkidshub.com/how-to-draw/
Learn how to draw lots of different things!
Welcome to Year 3! We have a very exciting year planned - including a visit to Cadbury World and an overnight residential trip to Chasewater.
Our first topic is all about food - Scrumdiddlyumptious!!
To finish our topic, we tasted fruit, learned how to prepare different fruits and then designed and made our own smoothies.Then we invited our parents in to taste and evaluate them!
Launch morning...
When we arrived, we had to have our golden tickets checked by the conductor. School looked so different!! We had to travel through tunnels and along the tracks in the link corridor to get to our classrooms! There were even engines in the reception area and at the bottom of the corridor!!
We had a special message from the Polar Express team too!!!
We had a fantastic day in our pyjamas, watching the Polar Express film and enjoying hot chocolate and marshmallows...☕
Throughout our Polar Express mini mission, we learned sketching techniques using different lines to create texture and shading. We also explored primary and secondary colours to create colour wheels. Building towards our final piece of artwork, we also investigated tones and tints of blue to create a fantastic colourwash background.
Below is a slideshow of the learning process...
Charlie Small: Gorilla City
Who on earth is Charlie Small? Where on earth is Charlie Small??
These are the questions that we needed to answer for our new mini mission.
A mystery backpack had been left by Mrs Skilleter's table. Then a clue arrived, and then another and then some others...
Year 3 managed to work out that Charlie Small had ended up in South America! In the Amazon rainforest! Along the way to finding Charlie, we learned the 7 continents and 5 oceans of the world and where the equator and tropics of Cancer and Capricorn were. We created a map of the world's biomes and learned about the layers of the rainforest and the animals that live in them. Sadly, we also learned about the effects of deforestation of the rainforest on the environment and the animals who live there.
The story of Charlie Small was fantastic! He got struck by lightning and ended up being transported to the Amazon Rainforest! While he was there he wrestled a crocodile, met a mechanical rhino and escaped from a pack of hungry hyenas!!
When he came face to face with a giant snake with huge pointed fangs, we decided that we should write this part of the story.
We brainstormed our ideas, created a story board to show the sequence of events and then acted out the story so that we knew the order. Finally, we wrote the chapter in our own little book. Make sure that you look in our mini mission books to read it!
