Monument and Barrows

This week we have been looking at monuments. We focused on henges and long barrows. The children researched them and then designed their own. We then went outside and built miniature versions using natural materials.

Butser Ancient Farm

On Tuesday, we visited Butser Ancient Farm to explore the Iron Age. We went into an Iron Age roundhouse for our introduction, before heading out into the sunshine to practise being archaeologists. We used trowels to uncover a whole range of artefacts. We found lots of flint, pottery, bone, chalk and various metal objects. Next, we learnt how to spin wool and we made bracelets. After lunch, we carved chalk using flint tools and dock leaves. Our last activity took place in a small roundhouse. This roundhouse contained Iron Age furniture and we got the chance to handle some objects and find out how things were made in the Iron Age.

Finding the perimeter

This week in maths we have been looking at how to find the perimeter of different shapes. We then used what we had learnt to create our own irregular shapes on the playground and found their perimeters.

Scrumptious Smoothies

On Thursday we made our delicious smoothies. We created shopping lists, planned our smoothies, cut up our fruit and blended them with either milk or juice. We even helped with the washing up! It was great fun and some of our smoothies were super tasty!

Graceful gymnastics

On Tuesday we enjoyed getting the gymnastics equipment out in order to practice our jumping and balancing.

Invisible Ink

This week we made our own invisible ink using lemons. We squeezed all the juice out of our lemons and mixed in a little water. We then dipped cotton buds into our juice and wrote messages on paper. Once our paper was dry, we used heat to reveal our messages.

Super Sewing and Slippery String

We have had a great time during art week. Our topic was birds and in Year 3 we chose to create bird themed art using string and thread. This week we have developed our sewing skills by sewing birds - it turns out that this was trickier than we initially thought! We have created flamingos using string and we learnt how to paint with string instead of paint brushes. On Friday we welcomed Mrs Parsons into our classroom as she came to show us her sewing.

Shaky Tower

I challenged the Woodpeckers to build he tallest tower that they could using marshmallows and pasta. However, their towers also had to be strong enough to withstand and earthquake.

Violent Volcanoes

We made our own volcanoes using paper and plastic bottles. We then made them erupt by mixing vinegar, baking soda, food colouring water and washing up liquid.

Greek Pots

This week we have been exploring Greek pottery. We looked at the different types of pots that the Ancient Greeks used and their decorations. We designed our own Geek pots and started to make them.

Greek Diaries

This week we have explored the story of Icarus and Daedalus further. We pretended we were either Icarus or Daedalus and wrote a diary entry, using the first person, about our escape from the island of Crete. We then had a go at translating our diaries into Greek using the Greek alphabet.