This week in Year 3 Maths lessons have been all about place value. We have been embedding and extending our knowledge of numbers. We have looked at reading and writing our numbers correctly, using Base 10 to partition a number and split it into its hundred tens and ones and some of us have even been looking at thousands.

Miss Groom challenged her group to solving the place value ice cream problem. We had to work together to discuss and match the words, the numerals, the expanded form and how many thousands, hundreds, tens and ones each number had.

Have a look below at our successes 🙂 

This week Green class took part in a drumming workshop. By working together as a class we were able to play a series of different  rhythms on the instruments. Everyone had a turn at playing all of the instruments. By the end of the session, we all  understood  the importance of watching our conductor closely so that we all started and finished at the correct time.

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Year 3 have spent time this week with our new school nurse in learning the importance of washing our hands properly. After washing our hands, we rubbed in a special cream that would show where any germs were left when our hands were held under an ultra violet light.  Where it glows white, it means there are still germs present and hands have not been washed properly.

After a long walk in the cold wind and sunshine, Green class arrived at Tesco, Aston. We were met by the Community Champion Mark who showed us upstairs into the training room to begin our Farm to Fork trail.  Our morning started with a  health and safety talk and then we split into two groups to explore the store. One group headed off to the bakery and the other to the fish and cheese counters.

We learnt lots of interesting information about the food in each department and also we got to sample lots of cheeses, fruits and tiger bread. Green class found out that our fruit and vegetables comes in a rainbow of colours and  from a wide range of countries around the world, even as far away as Guatemala!

Have a look at some of the many pictures from our day. Do you think we had fun?