Class 3 Gedney Drove End 

Well done, Matthew, who has made a wonderful effort in every subkect this week and behaved beautifully, as always.

In the world there are lots of dogs. Some of them are mean, some are friendly and some of them are friendly most of the time. Dogs are better then cats because you can play with them and they don’t scratch. But, they don’t come back when you let them out.

Today’s BlogSpot is brought to you by Finley and Matthew C.

Armor and golden apples.

Your armor can make a huge difference as armor increases your defence.

Here are the crafting recipes.

The order of the armor is: leather, gold, chain, which is impossible to craft, iron and then diamond .

There are two types of golden apples: enchanted and non-enchanted.

And here are the crafting recipes .

Non-enchanted                                     Enchanted

The non-enchanted golden apple gives you 4 to 5 seconds of regeneratration and the enchanted golden apple gives you regeneration 4 for thirty seconds, resistance and fire resistance for five minutes.

Have you ever tried a white cucumber? Have you ever even heard of one? Class 3 hadn’t- until today!

It looked like a pale apple, and smelt of both cucumber and lemon. As for the taste, here’s what the children thought:

It was a little sour but really tasty!

I don’t like cucumber, but I did like the white one.

As I chewed the white cucumber, the tastiness flew down my throat.

The more I chewed, the nicer it got.

The more I chewed, the more desperate I felt to be sick.

It tasted a little bit sour.

The sour taste made me pull a funny face.

As my face clenched up, I fully realised the sourness of the white cucumber.
I didn’t like it, I spat some out in the bin, it was really sour.

Congratulations to Matthew, our Star of the Week!

Matthew has set a great example to others this week, with a sensible attitude and kind acts. He puts a great effort into his work and has achieved very well in his assessments, showing good progress. Well done, Matthew!

We were very excited today to have the opportunity to handle some genuine artefacts from the second world war. Take a look at our pictures!

Ellie testing out some tank equipment.

Jacob couldn’t believe how heavy this was!

We were allowed to handle the artefacts.

John counts his bullets carefully.

Max and Finley were allowed to hold real grenades. Be careful with those, boys!

Looking ready for action!

The Class 3 “Home Guard”. The jackets were made of warm, heavy wool. Can you spot the officers?

Sam lines up his sights…

…while Callum keeps an eye out for the enemy.

Miss West would like one of these! So simple, yet so much fun!

Callum watches to try and spot how this toy works.

Lots of fun!

Another simple, but clever, toy. This was one of Lani’s favourites!

Matthew found this toy strangely hypnotic…

Jack and Sam in training.

Callum is feeling peckish! How many brands do you recognise?

Matthew aims like a professional.

Finley and John admire the medals and memorabilia.

We think there’s room for all of Class 3 in this army truck!

We had a great time and asked lots of intelligent questions. We’re really enjoying this topic!

A conditional verb is used when an action might happen, or depends on something or someone else. For example, if, might, when, may, must, could etc.

We’ve been learning how to use them in discussion writing. Here are some of our sentences so far. Can you spot the conditional verbs?

The war should be over by Christmas: if so, families should be happy. (Jacob C)

The Germans would bomb, if they had any sense. (Jacob R)

Returning children to cities is foolish because it is possible that there could be no future for London. It will be devastating. (Matthew M)

I ought to be good for my mum while the war is on. (Matthew C)

The children ought to be out of London and into the country by September 3rd, 1939. (Callum H)

If the Germans go ahead with their plan of targeted bombing, people could possibly die. (John)

The danger shall be higher in London, so children will need to be evacuated. (Sam)

We can win the war, if we believe. (Finley)

Parents should know that, if the children go away, they shall return after the war. (Natasha)

If the Germans go ahead with their plans of targeted bombing, possibly we might lose the war. (Max)

When the children eventually return, their friends will be overjoyed to see them. (Callum M)

I would go to the beach but, sadly, the German bombers have blown it up. (Shane)

If every child got evacuated in the world war, no children could die. (Lani)

The Germans might abandon their plan, although it would be stupid to under-prepare. (Jack)

When the evacuated children eventually return, they may not recognise their parents. (Ellie)

We asked our Lunchtime Leaders why they volunteer for the job.

Max: I like being a Lunchtime Leader because I love helping people.

Ellie: People ask me to do it because I’m good at it. I can cut up food for smaller children and help them open their yogurts and drinks.

Matthew: I enjoy sitting with the little ones and helping them. I also like playing with them too!

A quick special mention to Matthew C, who tidied all the table trays (again) after they were left in a mess before lunch. Thank you!

After a day spent designing and making shelters to protect an egg from a 500g “bomb”, the children were ready to test them out!

On Thursday 11 th of September 2014 our class travelled to Duxford Imperial War Museum to find out about life during World War 2.

In the workshop, there were different rooms. There was a kitchen room, toy room, living room with a Morrison shelter, a plane identification zone, a communications zone with semaphore and morse code, an actual soldier’s kit and a detective room.

Callum’s favourite part of the workshop was when we got to play with the toys.The toys were pinball, toy fishing ,Noah’s Ark, snap and lots of others. In that part we also looked at the old desks at school.

After lunch, we went looking around at the World War planes- but we didn’t just see any random World War 2 planes sitting in a hanger like museum exhibits… we saw loads of them taking off! It was phenomenal!

Later on, we went to the tank and land force museum.We walked around the building and saw lots of artillery and tanks as you would expect from a tank museum.

We really enjoyed our visit to Duxford and we would like to go again as it was exciting and informative.