The kiwi that spoke

We listened to the story The Papaya that spoke recited by Warminster Prep in England on their blog http://year3wps.wordpress.com/. Over the last two days we have created our own versions of the story. We had a lot of fun practising and trying to remember the story as it is quite long. We hope you enjoy Connor and Liam's version.

Reindeer or Caribou

This week we are learning all about Reindeer. Did you know that Santa Claus only started using reindeer in the 19th Century? We also learnt that Rudolf was invented in 1939 by a shop who wanted to sell more things for Christmas. Did you know Reindeer means 'snow shuffler.' We hope you enjoy reading our Reindeer reports below.

Reindeer are mammals that live in the North Pole, Asia, Russia and Europe. Males are called bulls and females are cows. A reindeer is a mammal. Some people call reindeer Caribou. 

Reindeer have four legs, two brown eyes, two big enormous antlers and a small, small tail. They can be white, brown or grey. They have very wide hooves. 

They eat mushrooms, lichen, a little bit of grass, berried and their babies drink their mummies' milk. They are born in May and June. They run away from wolves or fight with each other. All reindeer actually do is find shelter or find food or make babies. The Antlers fall off and reindeer grow new ones. By Connor

Rocking Roosters

We have been reading a book called Chicken Food by Jill Eggleton. It is about chickens who refuse to eat slugs and bugs and crickets and worms unless they are made into a burger pattie for them. Today we made Rocking Roosters. We had to colour all the feathers, cut them out, glue them on and add a beak, eyes and lastly stick some feathers on.

Venus our Pitcher Plant Pet

A Pitcher Plant is a plant. It eats flies. It is slippery and has water inside. When a fly is in the Pitcher Plant, it eats the fly. The Pitcher Plant is green and it has little red lines in the middle. It can't move. When the fly goes inside then the plant eats it. By Harshil

A Pitcher Plant is a plant that is dangerous to insects. It is a carnivourous plant. It is green inside and sometimes it can be slipper, then the insects fall inside. It needs water to grow. Inside the Pitcher Plant there is acid, liquid and mush. It makes mush from the insects. By Michelle

The Arts Festival

This week is the Arts Festival at school. We have our Art displayed in the hall and on Thursday and Friday there is a performance of various music and dances. Yesterday we watched the dress rehearsal. Amisha is doing a poi dance and dancing in BoogieBods to Justin Beiber's song 'Baby.' Keisha is dancing in Bollywood. Kawiti is in the boys Haka group. Today, we went to look at the hall today and felt very proud to have our work displayed.

Welcome to Warminster

Our teacher had trouble adding Yr 3 Warminster's blog to our page as a link. It is one of our Quadblog schools. Make sure you check out their fantastic blog : http://year3wps.wordpress.com/

Mrs Yollis' Blogging Comments Advice

Here is an excellent video made by a school in California, explaining how to make a good comment about a blog.