Author Archives: Mr Loftus' class (3rd)

Silent b and silent t words

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Mr Loftus' class (3rd)

We’re still working hard on silent letters. Here’s a wordle showing the words we came up with that have a silent b or a silent t.

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Silent letters

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Mr Loftus' class (3rd)

We have been looking at words with silent letters recently, and we were surprised there are so many! Here’s a Wordle of some of them. There are more out there! Can you think of any?

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Time and money

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Mr Loftus' class (3rd)

We’re always told that time is money! In third class, we have been looking at both time and money, and we’ve found some great sites that might help explain both. Here’s the time one, and here’s the money one. Enjoy!

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Bóthar Day

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Mr Loftus' class (3rd)

As it is Bóthar Day tomorrow, we’re hoping that the children will do some baking of their own so that they can bring in their buns and cakes to be sold for charity. Here’s a good website we found that might give some ideas.

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Third class Geography – Denmark

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Mr Loftus' class (3rd)

We started learning about Denmark today, and found out a lot of interesting things about it. Here’s a website we used that has some really funny cartoons and lots of cool information about Denmark.

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ph words

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Mr Loftus' class (3rd)

We were thinking very hard today tring to come up with words that had “ph” instead of the letter “f”. It was tougher than we thought. Can you think of any more? Here are the words we came up with

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tch words

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Mr Loftus' class (3rd)

Third class were working hard today thinking of words with the letters tch in them. You can look at the words we came up with here.

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On The Ning Nang Nong

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Mr Loftus' class (3rd)

We had great fun in third class today working on the famous Spike Milligan poem “On The Ning Nang Nong”. You can listen to the class reciting this poem below.
On The Ning Nang Nong

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Tone Matrix – very cool music game

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Mr Loftus' class (3rd)

We found this website today. It’s really cool! Click a square to hear a sound. Click more squares to head more sounds. To clear and start again, press the space bar.

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Silent letters

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Mr Loftus' class (3rd)

We were working very hard today thinking of words with silent letters. Here are the words we came up with. Can you think of any more?

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