Week 2, Forest School. Tied up in knots and mud painting!
Fun in the sun, today we painted with mud, showed super team work by making picture frame and hunted for bugs!
Week 1, Forest School
What an amazing first session, we are all so very excited!
Exciting Emotions
Today we learned about different emotions in our story. We learned lots of new vocabulary and come up with actions and facial expressions to explain their meaning. We then thought about how Hansel and Gretel would feel at the different parts in our story ready for our re-tell next week!
Forest school (after school)
Year three had an amazing time building on the skills they have learnt in Fridays sessions, building a pyramid with their wonderful knot tying skills , finding bugs and starting to name them - the centipedes were very fast we couldn’t catch them! Some enjoyed some observational drawing, a very…
Feature Finding
We were excited today to use our yellow highlighters in Writing! We were on the hunt for features we would find in a Narrative. We learned about using cliffhangers for suspense and dialogue to show what they characters were saying. After searching we made our own writing checklist which we will…
iPad Training
We were lucky enough to have a special visitor in school to teach us how to use our iPads for learning. We used an app called KeyNote to create our own story of Hansel and Gretel using pictures, audio and text. We had SO much fun and showed our visitor what an amazing school we are! Well…
Latin Launch
Today we had our first Latin lesson using our textbooks. We learned how to ask somebody who they were and how to reply. We then labelled a Latin family with their names, learning that for males ‘us’ is added at the end of his name and for a female ‘a’ is added at the end of her name.
”Quis…
Hundreds, Tens and Ones
We moved onto exploring 3 digit numbers today by partitioning them into their separate parts. We looked at numbers using dienes to understand what 3 digit numbers look like before writing addition number sentences using what we found out.
For this picture it would be: 200 + 40 + 5 = 245
Democracy
Today we voted for our first class text. We chose 4 different books, read the titles and blurbs and then had a post it note to vote for the one we wanted to read. We can’t wait to read Dave the Pigeon every day after our lunchtime break with Mrs Myatt :)
Science
This week in Science we conducted two experiments to explore the function of the roots and the xylem within plants. The children had a lot of fun submerging their carrots in water as well observing the role of the xylem in transporting water and nutrients to the flower and leaves changing the…
Persuasive Letter
This week in writing, we have been reading and finding features of persuasive letters ready to write our own letter next week.
Investigating Roots
Today Year 3 have been investigating roots, they have started an experiment where they will watch the roots of a carrot grow over time.