We had a brilliant time at the farm on Monday, seeing and learning all about the lambs.
Just a reminder that it is the farm today. Normal school top and home trousers please and wellies or sensible footwear such as walking boots. It hasn't rained very much over the last few days so it shouldn't be too muddy. They will be going in the afternoon so won't need to take a snack.
This week the children should have bought home a homophones sheet to complete.
Thank you all so much for coming to our assembly. We all are super proud of all the children for confidently saying their lines!
As well as assembly practice this week we have been problem solving in Power Maths using money. Here is an example of one of the questions that we worked through yesterday.
We rewrote a poem yesterday about a butterfly. The children focussed so well on improving their handwriting. They had to use their BLP especially Reggie the resilient tortoise.
In Art we learnt how to do a gradient of colour and followed a step by step guide on how to draw a banana tree. Did you know that a banana tree isn't actually a tree but a herb!
Yesterday afternoon we spent some time in the garden planting a range of different sunflowers.
We hope you have a lovely weekend 😀🌻
Yesterday, Year 3 had the fantastic Nick from Bugfest in to show the children some of the creatures of the Rainforest. The children loved listening to Nick and seeing and even sometimes holding the bugs!
This week we have been writing facts about the Rainforest. We have watched videos and written in note form. The children have learnt about the reasons behind the deforestation of the Amazon and were so passionate about preserving it. There will be some more work to come linked to this. Please could we have all animal masks in by Tuesday 22nd March
Today we started to plan our assembly together and the children decided what they wanted to talk about during the assembly next week.
In Maths we have been adding using money and really focussing on using the correct columns when writing in the column method.
Tomorrow we will be carrying out an investigation into which material would be best to make a parachute for a rover returning from Mars.
Just a reminder that it is Comic Relief on Friday. I know you have had various emails about it but all cakes are welcome to sell (labelled and nut free please) and children can dress up if they want to as their hero, or something red or a Comic relief top. Donations for this will be welcomed and all will be sent to Comic Relief to help people live free from poverty, violence and discrimination. This includes funding organisations that are supporting people right now in Ukraine, and those attempting to cross the border.
What an amazing week we have had. On Tuesday we got the chance to visit Mars at the Corn Exchange.
The child lay underneath Mars and listened to the story 'Curiosity' which was all about the Mars Rover Curiosity. Once back at school we also learnt lots of facts about Mars. Did you know Mars has two moons? Although it looks hot because it is red, Mars is actually a cold planet.
This week the children have been learning about the different layers of the Rainforest and the animals that live in them.
Today we started to learn about the Yawanawa tribe in the Amazon Rainforest, Brazil. We learnt how they used the seeds from a annatto plant to paint their faces. They paint patterns inspired by nature and animals. The children used felt tips to do this themselves on a template.
Then we followed a step by step guide by the artist John Dyer, who has been to the Amazon and worked with and painted with the Yawanawa tribe and drew a tribal figure.
**My computer will not let me upload the photos at the moment but I will add these tomorrow**
What a fun filled and inspiring end of the week we had last week! World book day saw a range of different characters in the room. We shared our favourite stories and thought about why that story is our favourite. We even listened to a couple of chapters of our class text 'melt' as an audio book. Thank you to POWSA that provided the class with pass the parcel and jelly an ice cream!
In the afternoon we had a talk from Bob, a Scientist who bought in a number of space rocks to show the children. He spoke all about Mars and the different rovers on it. The children are looking forward to going to see Mars on Tuesday 😁
On Friday we explored the Amazon Rainforest using Google Earth- Voyager. This is an amazing website you can access from home. If you use the Voyager link (the sign underneath the magnifying glass) and scroll down you will see 'The Amazon Basin'. When you click on the link it will take you there and you can even put the person on the map. The children were so curious about this. I did mention to them the importance of having adult supervision when using anything on the internet.
At the end of the day on Friday the children got to go on the bouncy castle (which was from our world book day celebrations). Then they had an 'out of this world' experience in a planetarium! We visited all of the planets and the sun. We even saw a rocket launch. This was a fantastic experience and the children had lots of questions.
Home learning this week is to fill in the countries where there are Rainforests on the world map. The countries are on the right hand side.
It was fantastic to see everyone this morning. Thank you for your hard work with the home learning over the half term. I wasn't going to collect them in but seeing them in the classroom definitely makes it feel more like the Rainforest!
Today is the beginning of Mars month. We have lots of different activities planned including a planetarium coming in on Friday!
Today we used an atlas to label continents, the equator and the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. We identified a number of countries and thought about the different climates of the world.
A few reminders
Wednesday (tomorrow)- Swimming
Thursday- World book day. Dress as your favourite book character, please bring the book into school as we are going to share them. Also the children need to bring a packed lunch that is wrapped up like a gift.
Friday- There are no hot dinners due to a planetarium coming in.
Next week
Monday- Cricket engagement day (the children will be having a special cricket session)
Tuesday- We will be going to the Corn Exchange to see the Mars art exhibition.
Today in Computing with Mr Spracklen, Year 3 started a new unit of work.
Over the coming weeks we will be exploring 'Branching Databases'.
Today we explored what is meant by the term database? We learnt that a database is a collection of data organised in such a way that it can be searched, and information found easily. Database usually refers to data stored on computers.
A branching database is used to classify groups of objects. It is used to help identify the objects by answering questions with either ‘yes’ or ‘no’(like the game GUESS WHO).
Branching databases can also be called binary trees. They are called branching because each time a question is asked there can be two answers, making two branches. When you put all the questions and answers together in the database, it forms the shape of a tree (upside down).
We look forward to exploring more next week...
