A huge thankyou to all off the parents who came to our very successful parent workshop today!
We had great fun designing out own stone henge images, decorating pebbles and building bender huts. We hope you all had as much fun as we did!
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We have been in creases today in Year 3 testing our oragami skills.
We were trying to follow a set of instructions from start to finish to inspire our own instruction writing in Literacy. First we had a go at following instructions all together. Then some of us tried to verbalise the instructions to our partners. It was quite a tricky task but we were very pleased with the finished product. Here's how we got on: We found some very special pebbles this week. As we have been looking at rocks in science and learning how rocks are formed we were very intrigued by these special pebbles.
We used our special pebbles as inspiration for a short story, we held them, listened to them and smelt them to try and decide where they came from or where they would take us. Every child in Year 3 went on a very different journey with their pebbles - from being turned into a strawberry to being shipwrecked at sea - and in turn produced some fabulous pieces of work! We became archaeologists this afternoon after receiving some 'organic remains' from Eric the archaeologist. Unfortunately he was unable to detect from which time period his samples came and so we were tasked with the job.
We spent some time discussing the different things that man has eaten from Stone Age through to Roman and Modern Day and used these ideas along side the 'poo clues' Eric had left for us. Then we set about dissecting the organic remains to decide from which period of time each poo came from. It was a very messy job but we succeeded on our quest and discovered that Neolithic people ate lots of grain, fish bones and sometimes even grit! In art this term our work is inspired by the art work of Neolithic men that was used to document the lifestyles of the Stone age people. Using earthy colours, we have been having a go out outlining our hands using chalk and this afternoon we even turned our tables into caves! It was very tricky producing our artwork just with the classroom lights off so we imagined it must have been extremely difficult to produce art work in caves only by candle light! This experience has also given us lots of ideas for our cave painting stories and we will definitely be able to come up with some exciting description now.
This afternoon we started our new topic for Spring term 'Stone age to Iron age'. As a starting point we made a timeline. To help us understand just how long ago the stone age was, we used toilet rolls,each with 200 sheets on. Every single sheet of paper was worth 30 years in time.
When we had finished adding important dates in British History onto our timelines such as WWI, WWII, the Battle of Hastings and of course the Stone age, Bronze age and Iron age we unravelled them down the corridor. Our toilet rolls stretched right from the end of the Year 3 cloak room all the way past the first Year 4 classroom. We were very surprised that man has been around THAT long! This morning we joined Year 5 in our annual Christmas service at St Mary's. We did a fantastic job of singing the carols and sharing our readings. Then, this afternoon it was party time with Year 4! Miss Pinches and Miss Williams were very impressed with our dancing. There are definitely some future 'Strictly Come Dancing' stars within our midst in Year 3! As you can see, we have had a very busyand productive term in Year 3!
We wish you all very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We have had great fun in Literacy this week writing our own firework poetry using fronted aderbials and simile. Here is an example of one of our poems: We then designed and made paper fireworks to display our fantastic poetry.
Next week we're going to write instructions on how to make your own paper firework. What a fabulous time we have had on our trip to york chocolate story today! We learnt more about where chocolate originates and got to taste chocolate in it's many different states. The first chocolate was certainly different to what we are used to eating today! It was fascinating to learn about the production of chocolate in the Terrys factory and the chilren asked lots of excellent questions. We also got to watch (and taste) some chocolate being made and even made chocolate lollies which we will be writing instructions on how to make in our upcoming literacy lessons.
As part of our chocolate topic we carried out a science experiment today to investigate the changing state of chocolate. We were comparing minstrels to chocolate buttons and wanted to know whether there would be a difference in the length of time the two chocolates took to melt. We discovered that minstrels took longer than chocolate buttons to melt which is what many of the children hypothesised. It seems that the hard sugar coating on minstrels helps the chocolate to stay a solid for longer.
We had great fun stepping into the shoes of scientists today and of course we got to eat our samples once the investigation was complete! |
Year 3 BlogIn Year 3, we have Miss Williams in 3DW, Miss Horne and Mrs Whittaker in 3HW. We have wonderful support staff who help us with our learning every day; they are Miss Thomas, Miss Lockwood, Mrs Goodwin and Mrs Lloyd. |