Year 3: This week

 We have had a busy week writing about Boudicca's Revolt. The children have order the historical facts, written full sentences, made notes and completed a newspaper report. 

Yesterday we went to Maiden Castle to film the 'mock battle'. We will be doing some filming at school next week to show what we have learnt about the Battle of Watling Street. The shields will then be coming home on Thursday. 

In Power Maths we have been learning how to use the column method.

This week we is our Therapeutic Thinking week and so we have been talking about our pro social (positive) and anti social (negative) feelings. 

The Year 3 team 

Computing with Mr Spracklen

Today in Computing with Mr Spracklen we continued our unit of work on 'Spreadsheets'. 

Today's success criteria was to use -

- The‘more than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equals’ tools to compare different numbers and help to work out solutions to calculations.

- The ‘spin’ tool to count through times table. 

We completed this work mainly in pairs (so that we could talk through what we were doing and develop our thinking still further) -

Key activities included -

Want to find out more about spreadsheets and extended your child's understanding?

Check out this great unit of work from the Oak National Academy -

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/spreadsheets-ecb4

 

Year 3: Just a reminder

Good evening, could I just put a reminder out for AR reading books to come in to school everyday please. Also on a Friday please can we have the home learning folders in, even if the home learning hasn't been done. We need the folders to sort the spellings. 

Thank you 😀

Y3: Home learning pieces of art!

I popped into the classroom at the end of the day and as soon as I walked in I was amazed by the brilliant shields all around the room. Thank you so much for your support and help with these shields. It really is a task that the children will remember for a long time to come. 

They have all been asking me when the battle is! So the plan will be to 'battle' with these either at the end of this week or the beginning of next but this all depends on the weather. 

☆Mrs Thorpe ☆

Year 3: Home learning 4/11

 

Computing with Mr Spracklen

Today in Computing with Mr Spracklen we found out how spreadsheet programs can automatically create graphs from data.

We used 2Calculate (which is part of Purple Mash).

In class, all children completed Activity One -

Mr Spracklen was very impressed!

Most children also completed Activity Two -

Some children completed Activity Three -

If you want to explore this further at home... why not give Mr Spracklen's Activity Four: Extension activity a try -

Well done Year Three, another great Computing lesson!

Year 3: Home learning-shields

 It was so lovely to see all the children again today. We spent some time looking at our new timeline in the hall. We spoke about what we had been learning about last half term and then looked at what we are learning about now and how this fit on the timeline. 

Today in History we learnt about how the Romans conquered Britain and what happened during this time. 

It was brilliant to see the children getting excited when they saw faces that they recognised on the timeline and key events which they had learnt about in previous years. Some of the things that they noticed were the Great Fire of London and Nelson. We look forward to using the timeline in future lessons, being inquisitive Historians. 

Following on from above, we spoke about the home learning. Just a reminder that 

Hippogriff + Dragon’s = Roman shield 

Owl + Phoenix = Celt shield

Roman shields tend to be the red/yellow ones and the Celts the more earth coloured shields. I reminded them that we do not want swords in please. These are going to be used in our Mock battle. I had originally said by this Friday but I have extended it slightly to Monday. Please bring your child's shield in on Monday 7th November.

Any questions please just give me an email or catch me at the door.

Thank you 😀

☆Mrs Thorpe ☆