Year 3 are excited to share with you some of the wonderful learning they have been doing this term. Click on the posts below to find out more...
Year 3 have started their new maths topic: measure. We have been busy measuring items in the classroom in millimetres, centimetres and metres. In English we have been learning how to punctuate speech using inverted commas and today we have celebrated World Book Day with Quentin Blake Art.
Year 3 were very lucky this week when Rafael's parents spent the morning with us sharing their experiences of life in Brazil.
Try one of year 3's marvellous medicines which are guaranteed to cure all grandmas of grumpiness and proven to return smiles to all family members. Perhaps you would like to purchase Riley's Relentless Remedy or Elodie's Emerald Elixer or Olivia's Operational Ointment or even Pia's Petrifying Pills.
I hope she isn't! Year 3 have been describing the Grandma from George's Marvellous Medicine who is a grumpy old grouch to say the least. We have been writing some wonderful similes and metaphors to help us understand her character. We have also been learning how to organise our writing into paragraphs.
Merry Christmas from the Year 3 Team
This week year 3 have been learning how to be newspaper reporters and have written eye-catching headlines for the newspaper reports they are writing. Today, we have all been enjoying our STEM focus and have been engrossed in making our marble runs using good team work skills.
Year 3 have been investigating friction in our science lessons this week. We set up an investigation comparing how far a toy car would travel on different surfaces then recorded our results in a table. Ask your child which surface allowed the car to travel the furthest and why.
Year 3 have been discussing fireworks this week but not because of Bonfire Night or Diwali. We have started reading our new class book; The Firework Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman.
We have had 2 days of prehistory active learning this week; first we had a wonderful visit from a person from the Stone Age and an archaeologist on Wednesday then today we have spent the whole day outside completing Stone Age inspired activities as part of our forest school.
Year 3 have been making music based on Mussorgsky's A Night on Bear Mountain. They have used percussion instruments to represent the footsteps and spells of the witches in famous tone poem.
Year 3 have started their first science topic of key stage two; rocks and soils. They have been studying different rocks and can already describe the 3 different types of rocks; sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic.
Thank you for all your hard work this year, we wish you a happy summer and good luck next year!
