This week has been Book Week at St. Clement’s and Year 3 have been busy researching, planning and writing non-chronological reports all about animals. Some of Y3 have focused on tigers and others on gorillas.
These video clips from National Geographic Kids helped to inspire our writing and also art work, along with reading a range of non-fiction texts.
Next week Y3 will be using their line drawings in a Pop Art style.
Y3 have been improving their mastery of their painting techniques with watercolours. Stonehenge provided the inspiration for the watercolour backgrounds and collage foregrounds.
Stonehenge is one of the wonders of the world and the best-known prehistoric monument in Europe.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/
Today in computers the children had to create a script that creates buttons that draw different shapes when clicked.
This half term our focus in Science is Rocks. Year 3 have been working collaboratively to explore the appearance and properties of a range of rock samples.
After making detailed and systematic observations and using their every growing scientific vocabulary to describe the samples, the first experiment involved making a prediction about which rock would be the hardest. Year 3 discussed how they would find this out and decided that a fair test would be necessary.
Please talk to Year 3 to find out more about a fair test and also the results of their enquiry. Next week Year 3 will be performing the water test with their rock samples.
This week in our 6’s and 7’s session we discussed getting on with other people. We talked about being kind and how to share and help others. Children also did a puppet play about sharing and being kind to others.
Year 3 – 26/09, Year 1 & 2 – 27/09, Year 4 – 28/09
To contribute to the life of the classroom and school.
Article 12: Every child has the right to express their views, feelings and wishes in all matters affecting them, and to have their views considered and taken seriously.
This term, in PSHE, the children are learning about ‘Living In The Wider World’. This week we discussed the importance of having a voice and being able to express our feelings about matters that affect us. The children were able to identify that the School Council collect and share pupil voice and help children create change important to them. The children presented speeches on why they would be an asset to the School Council. Pupils then voted for who they wanted representing their class.
Year 3 computing we started off by getting all the children to independently log on to their user name and password, which they used for the first time. We then discussed with the whole class on what we are going to be doing in computing this term and getting them ready for their first lesson on coding.
This week Year 3 took a trip back in time and became archaeologists for the day. In the morning we looked at how we find out about the past from the artefacts left behind. Year 3 had to work together and be very gentle to excavate the artefacts from the sand.After brushing them clean , we had to decide whether they were from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age or another time period. Once we had done this we set up our museum display in chronological order.
In the afternoon we had the chance to experience what it might be like to live as a hunter-gatherer. We made an arrow using a flint arrow head, a stick and some string. Next we had a go at making flour from seeds, this was hard work and took over an hour and a half to get less than half a cup of flour fine enough to use. We also had the chance to weave and use a spindle to spin wool. Our last activity was to make a bracelet using animal teeth and beads. Year 3 were able to take their bracelets home 🙂
We had a great day experiencing life as it might possibly have been back in the Stone Age period.
