Year 3 Home Learning Activity - Wednesday 12th January - Light Sources

Learning Objective – Light Source Investigation – I can identify a number of light sources. 

Light source (where light can come from) Draw a picture.

Where I might find the light source?

I have asked the children to draw and label some sources of light.

DM

 

Year 3 - Shadows - activity to try at home

I have asked the children to have a go at shining a torch on an object on a table at home to take a look at the way a shadow is cast. What happens when the torch is moved around the object? What happens to the shadow when the torch is moved closer, or further away?
DM
 

Year 3 Awards - for the 2nd Half of Autumn Term

Today in our "Awards Assembly" the following children received a special praise for their hard work in the 2nd half of the Autumn Term:
    Layla - Creative Arts
    William - P.E.
    James B. - Maths
    Avril - English
    Noah - I.C.T.
    Music - Erica
    Rohana - Our World
    Nicole - Star Reader
                                                                                                                                    DM
 

Year 3 Parent Information Session - Friday 13th January

Year 3 Parent Information Session - Friday 13th January  in the classroom from 9am.
Please come along to find out more about the curriculum in Spring Term in Year3. This is also a chance to ask any questions you may have.

Home Learning Year 3 - Wednesday 5th January

The Year 3 "Home Learning" will now be given out on Wednesdays.
This is to fit in with when the school newsletters are being given out.



For their "home learning" this week, I have asked the children to have a go at an.....

...Ancient Greek Fact Finding Mission       Part 1

Have a go at finding the answers to some of these questions. See how many you can do. It doesn’t have to be all of them:

 

Find three facts about Athena?
Who was Poseidon?
What is the Parthenon?
Find the names of as many ancient Greek Heroes as you can.
Who was Aesop?
Find out three facts about “Alexander the Great”.
Who lived on Mount Olympus?
What was an Oracle?
What sports did the ancient Greeks play?

DM

 

Paper and Card Recycling Assembly

Paper and Card Recycling Assembly
In our school assembly today I talked to the children about the importance of us trying to recycle things, with a particular reference to recycling paper and card.
We talked about how paper is made from trees and then looked at a series of photographs that show what happens to "waste" paper when it is recycled and sent to a Recycling Plant to be made into "new" paper.

I encouraged the children to try to bring in any unwanted Christmas Cards and put them into our Recycling box. We are trying to collect as many as possible and keep a tally of exactly how many we manage to get. It would be very useful if your cards could be tied with an elastic band and the total number written on the front to save us from having to count them individually.

Many Thanks,
Duncan MacBean

Happy New Year - Y3 "ancient myths" - plastic bottles please

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year! I hope you had a lovely Christmas break.

We are starting our Literacy lessons this term by looking at some of the ancient Greek myths. We will be using these to provide an interesting content for developing Reading and Writing skills. We will ultimately have a go at writing our own stories in the style of ancient Greek myths!

Alongside our Literacy, we will be looking at pictures of ancient Greek pottery (decorated with scenes of their stories and their daily lives). We will be making out own "replicas" using plastic bottles covered in "papier mache".
I would be very grateful if you provide a plastic bottle (or two) so that we can transform them into works of art.

Many Thanks,
Duncan MacBean