Year 3JH: Blog items
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:05am
Good morning year 3
We have made it to the end of another week. Don’t forget to go to https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1 for your learning. You will now see your learning is split into daily tasks, weekly tasks, tasks for the half term, links and extra learning.
Don’t forget to try an email some of the learning you complete over to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have a lovely weekend and we will speak to you again on Monday.
Wellbeing challenge number 14.5.20
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 10:21am
Good morning everyone,
I've had a request to make the font on my blog a little easier to read so that some of the younger children can have a go at reading it themselves which is a fantastic idea, so hopefully this will be a bit easier to read!
I hope people enjoyed yesterdays challenge, I know that some people did the Jason Manford quiz at 1.30 so if anyone didn't get the chance to watch Friday the turtle or had any problems accessing the Facebook live video then here it is on YouTube today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvhZZq0UnJI
Today's challenge is one that will hopefully make you and others around you smile. I want you to tell someone a joke! In fact, I think you should try and make as many people laugh as possible! Laughing is very good for both your health and wellbeing and it's certainly one of my favourite things to do, especially if I'm feeling a bit sad.
If you don't know any jokes then have a look at these:
https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/jokes/jokes-kids-funny-497875
Here are some that I like!
What do elves learn in school?
The elf-abet.
Why didn’t the skeleton go to the dance?
He had no body to dance with.
Please e-mail me on EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk with your best jokes or any stories of making people laugh.
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
Thanks to everyone who has sent me pictures of them doing a few of the past challenges, here are a few of them!
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 10:05am
Good morning Year 3.
Thursday's Padlet learning page is ready for you to access with an updated sentence of the day and fluent in 5.
https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1
Remember, PLEASE keep sending us your work to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk - We absolutely love to see what you've been up to!
Love
Miss Humphreys, Miss Faragher and Miss G
Date: 13th May 2020 @ 10:50am
Good morning Year 3,
Your work on Padlet is ready ... https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1
Remember to keep emailing your work to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Love
Miss Humphreys, Miss Faragher and Miss G
Date: 13th May 2020 @ 10:39am
Good morning everyone,
I'm sorry I didn't post a wellbeing challenge yesterday but I was in school! I meant to do it the night before but then forgot and had an early night ready for school yesterday, oops! Sorry about that but I'm back today and have a choice of 2 for you to do to make up for it.
You've been very creative lately (please see the past challenges below!) so I'm giving you something a bit different today. One is i you would like to relax and one is if you would like to have a bit of fun.
The first challenge is to do Jason Manford's comedy kids quiz at 1.30pm today, available from the following YouTube link. If you can't do it at 1.30 then it will be up for a few days after. and if you want more then have a look on his YouTube channel for past quizzes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhVLZjO7Tms
The second challenge is also at 1.30pm although I think you can watch it later if you're not free then! The National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth are doing Turtle Time! A live video of their Green Sea Turtle who is called Friday. I always find watching sea animals very relaxing so you could watch it, learn some facts about turtles and then have a go at drawing the turtle. Ths live video will be on facebook so you'll have to ask an adult to log in to their account if they have one. https://www.facebook.com/NationalMarineAquarium/live/
Please e-mail me to let me know how you did in the quiz or any facts or pictures you have of the turtle! EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Mrs Glover
Past Challenges
I've been blown away by the effort you've gone to with these challenges (people have even dressed up!) and every time I get emails with pictures of your challenges it really cheers me up so thank you! Here are some pictures I've received over the last couple of days, thanks to everyone who's sent me one!
Date: 12th May 2020 @ 9:33am
Good Morning Year 3!
Here is your updated Padlet page with your work on for today. Remember to keep emailing us your work on y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1
Thanks
Miss Humphreys, Miss Faragher and Miss G
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 10:36am
Good morning everyone,
I hope everyone has had a lovely weekend! I spent a lot of time in the sun, in fact possibly a bit too much time! I also had some delicious food and lovely video chats with some of my friends.
Thanks again for all your wellebing challenge e-mails. It really cheers me up whenever I get one and see what you've all been up to!
Today's wellbeing challenge is actually Miss Bryce's idea so thanks Miss Bryce! It's a creative one and is to design your own superhero.
Who would they be?
What would they do?
What would they wear?
Have a think about what is important to you and then either draw, make or write about your superhero.
See the attached picture file for all the details and how it relates to Banksy.
Remember to e-mail EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk to show me pictures of your superheroes!
Past challenges
Some fantastic origami by all the pupils who gave it a go, well done!
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 10:36am
Good Morning Year 3
Here is the link to the padlet page with your work. https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1
Enjoy. We can't wait to see what you do.
Miss Humphreys, Miss Faragher and Miss G
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 12:22pm
Good afternoon year 3.
All your home learning tasks are available via the link https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1
and the answers from yesterday's sentence of the day and fluent in 5.
Enjoy your day.
The year 3 team
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 10:25am
Good morning,
Yet another lovely sunny day! I'm looking forward to getting out in the sun later although I actually got a little bit sunburnt yesterday! Remeber that suncream!
Today's challenge is a creative one, I'd like you to try a bit of origami. Origami is the art of folding paper and while it can be a bit tricky, it's also quite a nice relaxing activity once you know what you're doing and you end up with something that looks amazing. You could even make a few things and use them to decorate your house!
What you need for all origami is a square of paper, either plain or patterned. If youre not sure how to turn a piece of paper into a square then have a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxi1dIWRws
Then you could take some time to decorate your paper if you like before you fold it.
Then this is a fairly simple one to get started, a butterfly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWjEYlMZnhE
Just follow each instruction carefully and the good thing about watching a video is that you can rewind it as much as you like! If you're not a fan of butterflies then feel free to have a look for something else on the Red Ted Art channel.
Here's my butterfly that I've just made. It's not perfect but it's the first time I've ever done it so I was quite impressed with myself!
As always I'd love to see pictures of what you've made or of any past challenges, e-mail EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk to send them or even just to let me know what kind of challenges you prefer so I can make sure I'm doing ones that people like :-)
Past challenges
Thanks to all the children who have sent me pictures, you've all been very busy which is great to see!
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 12:56pm
Good afternoon year 3.
All your home learning tasks are now going to be available on a new website called padlet.
Here is the link https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1
We look forward to seeing your learning. Don't forget to send it to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Miss Faragher and Miss Humphreys
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 11:46am
Good morning year 3.
Yesterday's answers are below.
Reading
Here you can listen to the story Flat Stanley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkO_qyas7a0
Can you summarise the story in 50 words or less?
Maths
Sentence of the day
The ganges is 2,525km long and starts its journey the Himalayas. The river flows threw Nepal India and bangladesh
2 capital letters
1 spelling
1 punctuation mark
1 other mistake
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 10:43am
Good morning,
Another sunny day! First all of all I want to thank everyone who has sent in pictures of them doing my wellbeing challenges, it's fantastic to see and hear about how you're enjoying doing them! Have a look at the Past Challenges bit at the bottom to see some photos.
Today's challenge is another one to get you moving and do a mini workout. Sometimes it can seem a bit scary or time consuming to do a whole workout so these mini workouts are perfect if you want a quick break from doing school work or even from just watching TV if you fancy a stretch! All of these little energisers from Go Noodle are between 2 - 4 minutes long so perfect for something to wake you up in the morning or as a break from whatever you are doing.
Here are a few that I like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4DnPhR9_mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KReaoKLA-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALrdpsWYoJs
Or just go to YouTube and type in Fresh Start Fitness to see a variety of mini workouts.
Remember to email EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk with any photos of you doing any of the challenges.
Have a lovely day!
Mrs Glover
Past Challenges
So many fantastic photos of what you've all been up to, well done!
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 10:55am
Good morning year 3.
Yesterday's answers are below.
The text we are meant to be looking at this half term is The Great Kapok Tree. Here is a link so you can listen to the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Teb-_jTyI
Reading questions
Where is the story set?
What are all the animals trying to tell the man?
What does the man do at the end?
Do you agree with the man’s decision at the end? Explain why.
Sentence of the day
The amazon river the second longest river in the world and has the largest capacity
1 full stop
2 capital letters
1 missing word
Maths
Connected Curriculum
Also, remember you have a range of activities to choose from for this topic. Pick one to complete each week. I have attached them again below.
Enjoy the rest of your day
The year 3 team
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 10:20am
Good morning everyone,
I don't know about you but I can't wait to get out in that sun so today's challenge is one that can be done outside if you like.
Today we are focusing on having a growth mindset and doing this through yoga. Having a growth mindset means you have a positive attitude to your learning and know that just because you may find something difficult and you can't do it yet, you will get there as long as you don't give up!
Here are 5 different growth mindset yoga poses to try. Please feel free to try as many or as few positions as you like and send any pictures to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
Thank you so much to the pupils who have sent in pictures of their shields of strength from yesterday, it really makes my day to see what you've ben doing!
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 11:24am
Good morning everyone,
I hope you all had a good weekend and are ready to work hard on your learning (and your wellbeing!) this week.
Today's challenge has actually come from a website that Mrs Hughes sent to me to look at so thank you Mrs Hughes!
Today I would like you to think about resilience which means keeping strong and bouncing back even in a difficult situation. I'd like you to design a Shield of Strength.
Think about what your strengths are, especially the ones that can help you at the moment while we're not in school, and write or draw (or both!) onto a shield. Here is my shield that you may want to use for help:
I have attached a template of the shield in case you want to use it but otherwise you can just fraw a shield on a plain piece of paper.
As always I would love to see your challenges so please send them to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.sch.uk
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
Thank you to Shawnakaye who has sent me a couple of photos of things that make her smile!
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 10:44am
Good Morning Year 3,
Here's the answers for Friday's work.
Sentence of the day:
This term, we were supposed to be learning about ‘Can I grow lettuce on a mountain summit?’ in our Connected Curriculum.
SPAG activity:
Conjunctions -
I put on my shoes and I went out to play.
I can’t eat my sweets until after dinner.
I can’t go out tonight because I have to stay in and do my homework.
It had been a long time since I had last played football.
I was going to eat the sweets but I saved them for my sister.
She was kind to me although she wouldn’t let me play with the Lego.
Maths activity:
Place value: Five hundred and fourty eight
Problem solving: Money in total = £4.43
+ - x ÷
78+28 = 106
630-60=570
7x3=21
30 ÷3=10
Reasoning: Part whole model: No because 131 + 70 = 210
Today's activities:
Sentence of the day:
Today was the start of a knew day. i couldent believe my eys becos I saw a flower pop out of the ground and shoot up all the way to the sky I fort to myself, this is a bit like jack and the beanstalk_
In green:
-I needs to be a capital letter even if it is not at the start of a sentence.
-Eyes is spelt incorrectly, it needed another e
-You need a full stop after beanstalk.
6 unmarked errors.
SPAG activity:
The words a and an come before nouns and adjectives in a sentence. Use ‘a’ with a word that starts with a consonant e.g. a bridge. Use ‘an’ if the word that follows starts with a vowel e.g. an apple.
Put an 'an' or 'a' in these sentences in the right places:
I always eat ____ banana or ____ biscuit at break time.
The story was about ___ kind ogre who helped ____ angry man.
She had ____ argument with _____ friend from school.
They sat under _____ oak tree for ____ hour on ____ wollen rug.
Add an adjective to these noun phrases that will work with 'a' or 'an':
a _______ spider
an ________ door
an ________ man
a _______ day
a ______ bus
an _______ box
Maths:
How many 5's make 45?
Which of these numbers is not a multiple of 5? 35 70 53 65 15 90
Round 372 to the nearest 100.
382 + _____ = 582
What is five times eleven?
Which is not in the 8 times tables? 32 8 40 88 94
That's all for today. Come back tomorrow for answers and some new activities! We are really impressed with all of your learning. Keep emailing to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Speak soon!
Miss Humphreys, Miss Faragher and Miss G :)
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 10:58am
Good Morning 3RH,
I hope you're all doing well and loving your time at home (even though the sun isn't out anymore)!
Just wanted to show you some things:
First of all, 2 weeks ago, I set a challenge for you to create your own Roman shield. I have had some fantastic pictures back. Here they are!
How amazing are they!!!!! I'm sooooooo impressed with each and every single one!
Secondly... We have some certificates for Lexia. Well done to these children who have been working hard and completed a level.
Nabel, Dereck, Megan and Shawnakaye have all moved up a level! I have emailed your certificates to your adults! WELL DONE!
Thirdly, I set you a challenge to read in as many random places as you could, here are a few of the pictures I've recieved! Keep sending them in to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Finally, I said yesterday about sending a message to the rest of our class to let them know that youre missing them. Here's mine and Theodosia's below. If you want to send a picture of yourself with a drawing or message to our class then email me on y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Speak soon,
Love
Miss Humphreys :)
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 10:29am
Good morning Year 3,
Welcome to May! Hoping the sunshine comes out soon!
Ok, so yesterdays answers...
Adding the punctuation to the sentence of the day:
Early in the morning, the dazzling, yellow sunshine appeared from behind the clouds. What a beautiful sight it was!
SPAG answers:
Maths answers:
Todays activities:
Sentence of the day
Can you spot all of the spelling mistakes?
This turm, we were sposed to be lurning abowt ‘Can I grow lettis on a mownten summit?’ in are Connected Currikulum.
English activity:
Maths activity:
There are also lots of resources on BBC Bitesize:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zd3q2sg
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zm6wjhv
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z773bdm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhtyvk7
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Answers will be revealed Monday morning.
That's all for this morning folks, enjoy your learning.
Miss Humphreys, Miss Faragher and Miss G :)
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 10:19am
Hi everyone and Happy Friday! I can't believe it's already the end of another week. I hope everyone is working hard and staying safe.
I got the idea for today's wellbeing challenge yesterday when I saw the most amazing rainbow in the sky. It was the brightest colours I've ever seen and I could see the whole arc. There was even a faint second rainbow next to it!
Photos don't really show how amazing it was but you can see how vivid the colours are:
The rainbow made me feel happy when I saw it and I thought it might make other people happy too! So today's challenge is to take a photo of something that makes you feel happy. You could find something in your house or do it on a walk. It could be a person, an animal, an object or even something that you've made. Anything that makes you feel happy or positive. If you don't have a camera, phone or tablet of your own then ask an adult if you can borrow theirs but please be careful with it!
If you'd like to share your happy photo then please e-mail it to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk, I'd love to see it and then I can post some of them and spread the happiness around!
Have a good weekend,
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
Thanks to A who sent a photo of himself doing the breathing exercises I set yesterday, I hope they helped you feel nice and calm.
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 10:01am
Good morning everyone,
I hope everyone enjoyed some relaxing colouring yesterday, here is a picture of mine. It isn't quite finished yet but I had a nice relaxing hour doing it last night:
Today's challenge is to do a mindfulness breathing activity. Mindfulness can help you relax and be in the moment, appreciating everything that's around you.
Just one breath
Find a relaxing place where you won't be disturbed. Sit in a comfortable position, either with your legs crossed or any comfortable posture. This activity can be done in as little as one minute, but you can also do it for longer periods of time.
Begin by setting a timer for one minute.
Start breathing deeply in and out. Notice how the breath feels as it moves in and out of your body. Notice how the air feels on your skin. Pay attention to any sensations that you notice or any sounds that you hear.
Take another slow deep breath and see if you can imagine how the breath moves down into the lungs and then back up again. Thank your body and breath for giving you life and keeping you healthy.
Take one more deep breath and hold the breath for a moment - then release it.
If any thoughts worry you, try and imagine your thoughts immersed in a white, puffy cloud and push the thought cloud out of your awareness.
Afterward, notice how you feel after taking this one-minute break.
If you want to tell me about your experience or send any photos of yourself doing the activity then e-mail me on EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk.
There are more simple instructions below.
Mrs Glover
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 9:42am
Happy Thursday Year 3,
Hope you're all having a lovely time learning at home with your adults.
Let's start with the answers for yesterday.
Sentence of the Day answers:
Julie and Ben were walking through High End park on Sunday when a fox jumped out of the bushes and chased them all the way back home to their house on Windmill Lane.
They all need a capital letter because they are proper nouns – they are the name of a person, thing or place and therefore need a capital letter.
SPAG activity answers:
Maths activity answers:
Today's activities!
Sentence of the day:
Add the punctuation in to today’s sentence of the day.
Early in the morning the dazzling yellow sunshine appeared from behind the clouds What a beautiful sight it was
SPAG activity:
Remember – expanded noun phrases are 2a sentences! You know how to do these brilliantly!
Maths activity:
Match the fraction to the correct drawing representation. See if you can draw them accurately yourself.
We are really impressed with every piece of work we are receiving so well done! Keep up the good work and don't forget to send your work to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Friday tomorrow = Today is the last day to send your Roman shields into the Y3 homelearning email. We will upload the pictures on tomorrow's blog! Remember, this can be a Roman shield which you make out of materials or one that you draw on paper. Have fun!
We are really proud of you all! Keep smiling :)
Love
Miss Humphreys, Miss Faragher and Miss G :)
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 10:45am
Hi everybody!
Wow, 3RH I am soooooooooo impressed with all of the work you've been sending in for me to see on our y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk email address. I thought I would share some with you so you can see what everybody else has been up to!
Billie doing some fantastic fraction work and some column method in her garden!
Dereck's fantastic KWL grid and his fluent in 5 working out!
Goodnews doing some online reading!
Ileri's KWL grid, Sentence of the day and Fluent in 5 working out!
Keira has been super busy watering her tomato plant and making decorations for the NHS!
Megan has also been busy planting and growing her own things and practising her times tables on beat the clock! Here she has: lettuce, chilli pepper, pepper and 4 Pansy plants!
Noah has been super busy! Reading and completing his sentence of the day and fluent in 5 activities from our blog!
Cassie has been helping her brother read and been practising her times tables!
Shawnakaye has been so busy completing the sentences of the day and even doing some timestables practice too!
Theodosia has been extremely busy practicing her times tables and completing her sentence of the day and fluent in 5 as well as work online!
Dabira has had an excellent go at writing her own Roman diary entry!
Ruby has been busy doing lots of writing as a mountain explorer and some great fractions and grammar work!
Ben has been busy making Roman coins and practising his times tables!
Fatima has been very busy completing our daily work uploaded to the blog! Here's her maths and sentence of the day!
I am SO impressed with every single person who has sent me some work! As you can see, I get lots of pictures and I love them!
It is great to share on our blog so if you want to send any pictures of yourselves with messages to the rest of the class, you can do! Here's mine!
Love,
Miss Humphreys :)
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 10:35am
Hello everyone,
It's a rather miserable looking Wednesday out there so my wellbeing challenge today is an indoor one.
It's actually quite a simple challenge today; I'd simply like you to do some colouring. Colouring is a lovely relaxing activity that you can do on your own for some me-time or together with a family member to make it a more sociable activity.
I think most of you were given some colouring pages when we finished school but if you've already used these and don't have any more at home then good news, there is a website where you can do online colouring:
https://www.online-coloring.com/
Or you could always draw something to colour! Anything you like.
I have a new Enchanted Forest colouring book that my husband bought me (pictured below) that I'm going to do a bit of colouring in later, maybe while I listen to a podcast or to some music to have a bit of a break from staring at a screen. I'll post a picture of my efforts tomorrow.
Remember to send in pictures of your challenges to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
A big thanks to Roderigo from Year 1 who sent me a picture of his crystal ball challenge from yesterday, some fantastic goals there!
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 10:06am
Good morning Year 3,
Half way through another week of home learning! We are so impressed with all of the work you have sent in to us this week!
First of all... here are the answers for the sentence of the day and fluent in 5 from yesterday:
A mountain range is a group of mountains found on land or under the sea. Some mountains used to be volcanos like Ben Nevis in Scotland Snowdon in Wales.
A needs a capital letter to start the sentence.
Under not unda – it has the er suffix
Sea not see – this is a homophone, two words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have a different meaning. Sea is like the ocean which is the one we want. See is to see something.
Some not sum – again, homophone. Some means a few of something and sum means the sum of something e.g.the sum of 2 numbers in maths.
Used – It may sound like it has you at the beginning but it is just the ‘u’ sound
2 in 1 = Wales – first of all needs a capital letter because it is the name of a place and secondly, it is spelt differently. Whales are the animal. Wales is the place.
2/3 of 12 = 8 3/8 of 40 = 15
4/10 of 50 =20 2/4 of 44 =22
Well done if you got those answers correct! Now on to today's challenges.
Sentence of the day:
Can you spot where the capital letters should go and why?
julie and ben were walking through high end park on sunday when a fox jumped out of the bushes and chased them all the way back home to their house on windmill lane.
SPAG Activity:
Maths Activity: Addition and subtraction of fractions with the same denominator.
Remember, you only need to change the numerator by adding them together or taking them away. The denominator stays the same.
The answers are only these 3 fractions on the bottom so if you got a different fraction to 3/10, 7/10 or 9/10 for your answer, check again carefully.
CC activity:
Watch this video on getting to the very top of Europe’s 10 tallest mountains and imagine how it might feel whilst you were stood at the very top of them. After all that hard work and training, how would you feel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imiz_vi_Ozg
Now, can you write a short diary entry as if you were one of the people in the video? Remember, a diary entry is FIRST person. That means, I, I’m, we, my, us, me, I’ll – you know this from your Boudicca diary entries! See how much you can describe. Answer these questions:
What can you see?
What can you hear?
What can you smell?
How do you feel?
What are you thinking?
Start with:
Dear Diary,
I can’t believe we’ve finally made it to the top. The view is …
We can't wait to read them all!
Finally, speaking of reading. We set you a challenge to read in as many different places as you could, we've had a few emails back with pictures of this which were great! Keep sending your pictures of you reading in random places to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk - Here, we've seen Miss G reading... in her bath!!!
She's reading on her tablet. Remember, you can read using Lexia and Reading Plus and lots of other online platforms too!
Happy learning at home!
Miss Humphreys, Miss Faragher and Miss G :)
PS. The Roman Shield challenge ends on Friday! Remember to send your pictures in of you designing or creating a shield!