Y3- Science week information

Next week we launch our Science week. During this week we will be thinking about our impact on the world and how we can reduce plastic waste. On the Tuesday the whole school will be partaking in a litter pick. Each of the classes will be picking up litter in different areas of the community. If anyone is available to support this pick this would be fantastic. We are going to split the class and do the pick in two groups. The aim is for it to take no longer than 1 hour per group. For us to do this effectively we are asking your support please in supplying your child with a pair of rubber gloves. If you happen to have a litter picker too then this would be great, but do not worry if not. 

We have some brilliant Science planned for this week including 'Mr G' who came to our school last year. Please give your money for this to the office. 

On the Thursday afternoon we will be having the Science fair where the children can show off their experiments/ creations! This will be from 2.45pm, everyone is welcome. With this in mind we have decided to cancel swimming for the last week of term (14th Feb) so that Year 3 can take part in the Science fair. 

Y3- Learning this week.

This week we are carrying on with our bar graph work. Using a ruler and labelling graphs is really important and so all the children will be drawing graphs in our Maths lesson this week.

In Literacy this week we will be listening to the interview from the explorer John Blashford-Snell and then writing his answers in to a transcript.

We have also taken part in 'safer internet day' on purplemash.  The children took a quiz  on using the internet safely.

Y3- A message from Antarctica!

We were very excited in Y3 today as we had a message from Antarctica. Grace's Dad knows someone on board the 'Ernest Shackleton' ship which is currently in Antarctica and he send Grace a 'Hello' message! We hope to have a Skype call with him soon to see Antarctica!!

This afternoon in Forest School we made some fat balls for the birds so we are ready for the RSPB 'Big bird watch' which will be happening on Thursday. We also attempted to paint hand prints on the wall of the roundhouse.

Thank you everyone that has signed up for parents evening, these are on the board in the classroom.

Y3 Shackleton's diary

Today the children used the information they already know about Shackleton to write a diary entry. We started by describing the temperature and sleeping arrangements. All of the children worked incredibly hard on this and I can't wait to read the finished product next week!

Thank you to everyone that has given us egg cartons and bottles, we have enough of these now. We would however still like to collect any buttons and shells or anything you think might be useful for us to reuse in a piece of art work.

In Maths this week we have finished off looking at multiplication and division. Home learning this week is a missing number multiplication sheet. Although we will not be focusing on times tables now for a few weeks, please do keep on practising them. We will be sending home the TT rock star log ins next week.

Y3 Stone Age Forest School

This week in Forest School we used the pieces of cloth that we stained last week as a back drop to our cave art. The children looked at cave paintings and then gave it a go! They used sand, clay and charcoal in their pictures. They came out fantastically and will be on display in our classroom very soon. 

We also took our sketch books outside. The children focussed on fading and shading. They all worked really well and concentrated on what they were sketching. 

Y3 Please could we have these items to reuse and recycle.

Please could you start collecting/ check your recycling for the following items:

We will be using the egg cartoons and plastic bottles in a craft ready for Science week. We would also like to collect those unwanted buttons you have around the house and any shells you don't know what to do with! The idea is that we are reusing or recycling so please don't go collecting from the beach or buying these items. If you have any surplus art materials at home that you think we could use we would be very grateful. 

Ideally this will be collected by the 31st January please. 

Thank you all in advance!

Y3- Division and the Stone Age!

Today in Maths we worked on dividing numbers by 3. The children are able to do this as they can multiply by 3. We spoke about the inverse and fact families.

It was fantastic to see that everyone had their Forest School clothes today, thank you all!
We started to learn about the Stone Age. We read the story

The children learnt about early man and the tools that they used. When we went outside the children used natural dyes to colour cotton fabric. We are going to use this next week for cave paintings. 

We also worked in groups to make tepees. 

And finally we cut elder and then took out the soft pith. The children used these beads to make jewellery.