Hello from Miss James, Mrs Reynolds-Lawrence, Mrs Jeavons, Mrs Harper and Mrs Gill. We hope you have had a fantastic Christmas break! We are looking forward to a brilliant term finding out about different exciting topics and having lots of fun along the way!
Our Spring Term topic is Ancient Egypt!
P.E
For this half term, PE will be on Wednesday and Thursday for 3RL and Wednesday (Swimming) and Thursday for 3J.
Homework
Reading: Every child will be encouraged to read up to 3 times a week. (Books changed as required)
Spellings: A set of spellings will be sent home each week on a Friday and tested the following Friday.
Maths: My Maths weekly activity (tasks set each Wednesday)
Additional resources and links to websites can be found at the bottom of this page.
Today, Mr Hatch from 'A Taste of History' delivered a brilliant informative and fun Egyptian day! We looked at fascinating artefacts and found out lots about Ancient Egypt in an interactive way. A huge thank you to all parents and families who provided costumes for the children - they looked wonderful!
For our new unit of writing, we will be learning all about explanation texts. In today's writing lesson we learnt all about the process of mummification by mummifying a doll. Have a look at some of the steps involved.
We are really enjoying our plants science topic this half term. In yesterday's lesson, we dissected plants looking at the different parts.
To begin our Ancient Egypt topic, the children were set a challenge to solve the hieroglyphic code. They had to hunt for the hieroglyphics outside to find which letters they represent. They were then set additional challenges to write words in hieroglyphics. A very exciting way to start our new topic!
This week we walked to Himley Road Methodist Church to hear all about the Christmas story. We journeyed back in time to discover what it was like for Mary when she was visited by an angel, how the shepherds felt when they were surprised by an angel and why the wise men chose the gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. We also learnt about why the birth of Jesus was such a significant event. Whilst we were there we also enjoyed completing different crafts all about the Christmas story. We all had a wonderful time learning about the meaning behind Christmas time.
In Science this week, Year 3 have investigated how switches can be used within a simple circuit. The children created their own switches using a piece of card, split pins and a paper clip. Have a look at their circuits below.
This term in DT, we have been designing our own Christmas Biscuits. Firstly, we investigated biscuits by looking at and tasting a variety of biscuits to decide what made them appealing. We then adapted a basic recipe by thinking of a number of design ideas with different flavoured doughs and with different decorations. After this we designed our final biscuits and created a budget for our design. Today we made our final designs. The pupils worked hard in the kitchen to make the dough, shape, cut out and bake their biscuits. They then decorated their biscuits using their design. The children were so sensible and made sure that their biscuits looked fantastic. I think you would agree that we have a class of star bakers!
This half term, the children have been learning all about electricity in their science lessons. They have learnt how to make a simple circuit and have learnt about conductors and insulators. Take a look at some of their learning below:
Year 3 have been learning how to punctuate direct speech ready for their wishing tales this half term. Ask your child what punctuation is needed in direct speech. They might want to practise writing a conversation at home
On Tuesday, Year 3 visited Kingswood to experience life in the Stone Age. We had a brilliant day discovering new facts about the era, building dens, cooking bread over an open fire, gathering food, moving heavy rocks using logs and using Stone Age weapons.
To end our unit, the children created paired drawings and then we created a whole class artwork inspired by Stone Age cave drawings. We turned our classrooms into a cave and used all of our new drawing techniques such as cross hatching to create fantastic pieces of art. We had a brilliant time and produced fantastic final pieces.
Take a look at some of our fantastic Stone Age handprints that we have created as part of our Cave Art topic.
Today in Science, we have been exploring a variety of natural rocks. We studied each rock sample and looked for key features. We drew the rocks and labelled them using key vocabulary. At the end of the lesson we learnt about six different rocks: chalk, slate, limestone, granite, marble and sandstone. We were then able to match each rock to its correct name. Have a look at us being rock detectives below:
Today we revisited representing numbers to 100. We made two-digit numbers using a variety of equipment such as base ten, bead strings and counters. Take a look at us working hard to make the numbers on our grid.
We have had a brilliant time so far in Year 3. This term, we are learning all about the Stone Age. We discovered that people from the Stone Age made jewellery out of teeth. Using clay, we created our own teeth necklaces.
English Resources:
Maths Resources:
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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