Year 3 have had a lovely week full of fun and exciting learning!
In music, the children had lots of fun during their drumming lesson, exploring pitches.
In maths, we took our learning outside to practise adding hundreds. The children enjoyed getting active and putting their maths skills to the test through practical activities.
It has been wonderful to see the children enjoying their learning, trying new things and working together throughout the week. Well done, Year 3!
This week, Woodpeckers put their learning about healthy eating and the Eatwell Guide into practice as they made their very own ratatouille!
Working in groups, the children used their knowledge of the Eatwell Guide to identify the different ingredients in their dish and think about how they form part of a healthy, balanced diet.
The children also had the opportunity to practise their chopping skills, carefully preparing the vegetables ready to go into their ratatouille. They showed great care when using the equipment and remembered the importance of safe food preparation.
Most importantly, the children worked brilliantly as teams. They shared jobs, listened to one another, took turns and helped each other throughout the cooking process. It was fantastic to see everyone getting involved and taking pride in what they had created.
The children were excited to taste their creations and evaluate what they had made.
A big well done to Woodpeckers for showing such great teamwork and cooking skills!
This week, the children have been very busy with their learning! They have been working super hard as they continue to get used to the routines and expectations of year 3. It has been lovely to see them growing in confidence and beginning to take on the challenges of KS2.
We have started our music lessons with Mr Chalk, which has been very exciting! The children have begun by learning about drumming, exploring rhythm and practising keeping a steady beat. They have really enjoyed getting involved and we are looking forward to developing our musical skills over the coming year.
In maths, we have continued working hard on place value, with a particular focus on using number lines. The children have been practising finding and estimating where numbers belong on a number line and thinking carefully about the value and position of different numbers. They have shown great perseverance when tackling some tricky challenges!
In English, we read The Stone Age Boy. The children have enjoyed following the characters on their Stone Age adventure and have thought carefully about the events and characters in the story. We will be using the book to inspire our writing as we begin working towards writing our own diary entries.
We have also started our new DT topic, Cook Well, Eatwell! The children have been learning about food and nutrition and thinking about what makes a healthy and balanced diet. We have been learning about how to stay safe when using kitchen tools and appliances, ready for the exciting part — cooking! The children are already very excited to get into the kitchen and have a go at cooking next week!
It has been wonderful to see how hard everyone has been working this week. Well done, Year 3! We are looking forward to another exciting week of learning!
This week Woodpeckers have been working really hard in all of their learning. We started the week by carrying on with place value in maths. The Woodpeckers are becoming really confident with this and have been enjoying demonstrating their knowledge on the board in our lessons.
We also started our topic, Through the Ages, looking at the Stone Age and the different eras within this. We have learnt about what life was like for people living in the Neolithic era and thought about questions we could ask to find out more about this time.
On Thursday we made our Christmas cards! The children all created the most beautiful cards that exceeded my expectations! They all had so much fun creating these and we are looking forwards to seeing how they turn out.
We are looking forward to carrying on with our Stone Age topic as start to write our diary entries and learn even more about the Stone Age!
What a fantastic first week we have had in Year 3! We have been busy getting to know each other and taking part in lots of exciting team building activities, including a bridge building competition where we had to work together and put our teamwork skills to the test.
We have started our learning and are beginning to understand that being in Key Stage 2 is a big step up from Key Stage 1! We are learning to take more responsibility for our learning, challenge ourselves and persevere when things feel tricky.
Most importantly, we have had a brilliant week getting to know each other, making new friendships and building our Woodpecker class community. It has been wonderful to see everyone settling in, trying their best and showing such a positive attitude. It has been a great first week and we are so excited for all the learning and adventures still to come!
We finally got to hold our Year 3 camp out. We all had a great time!
This week we had our school trip to Butser Ancient Farm. We had a great day and learning all about the Romans.
We started our day in an Iron Age roundhouse before becoming archaeologists. We then explored the Roman villa and learnt how they spun wool and made jewellery and mosaics.
This week we shared our library time with the Robins. It was lovely watching all the year 3’s reading and sharing books with them.
As part of their English, Year 5 had written their own Greek Myths. They very kindly shared them with Year 3.
Today as part of sports week, we took part in golf!
We had a fantastic Monday afternoon! We met Luke Delahunty and heard all about his journey to the Invictus Games. We also took part in very fun, fast paced circuits.
In our modern world we now don’t often use physical money when shopping. In order for year 3 to get experience in using money we turned our classroom in to a shop. The woodpeckers had to make the amounts that they needed to buy various food items. We also added amounts together and worked out how much change we would need.
In science this week, year 3 have been looking at the stems of plants and how water and nutrients are transported around using the xylem and the phloem. We placed celery into pots containing red water. After a few days we were able to see the xylem as they had been dyed red.
Miss Dore also discovered that a lot of her class love to eat celery!
After many weeks of hard work, eruption day finally arrived in Year 3!
This week we have been celebrating Science Week. On Monday we had a visit from an inflatable planetarium. It was very exciting to go inside and learn all about our solar system.
This week we were covering our volcanoes in paper mache.
We have been looking at forces in science. This week we used force meters to measure the force of friction on a shoe over different surfaces.
Year 3 took full advantage of the sun and read outside. It was lovely watching the children read out loud to each other and share their favourite books. They also had a go at matching the staff to their favourite books - it was quite tricky!
The time to build our volcanoes has finally arrived!
We started off by sticking the milk bottles to the cardboard. Then we scrunched up paper and stuck it around the milk bottle to give our volcanoes their shape.
Today Woodpeckers were tasked with finding the best rest to make a monument out of. They had four rocks to test: sandstone, chalk, marble and slate. They tested the hardness of the rocks by carrying out a scratch test and then checked the permeability of the rocks.
They decided that marble was the best rock to use when building a monument.
