This week Nicola, our school nurse has been back to work with Y3. We have been working to find out more about hygiene.

Each group had to work together to discuss and list how we look after our bodies . Each group recorded reasons why it is important to wash and what would happen if we didn’t.

We discussed these parts of the body:

1. teeth
2. hair
3. bodies
4. hands
5. feet

When it is warm or run around we sweat. This helps our body cool down. Sweat does not smell, however when it dries on our skin the bacteria feeds on the sweat and this is what smells.

Did you know we should…

• visit the dentist every 6 months
• wash our hair 3 times per week
• wash our face and behind our ears everyday
• wash even if we use deodorant
• wash our hands every time after we touch an animal, after we sneeze and after going to the toilet
• cut our nails regularly
• wash our feet everyday
• wear clean socks and pants everyday
• dry in between our toes

On Tuesday, Y3 caught the train into the city centre to visit Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to start our new topic ‘Gods and Mortals’. This topic is based around the Ancient Greeks and Y3 will be finding out more across this half term.

At the museum we explored the Ancient Greek gallery, sketched some of the artefacts, and then worked with Sarah, the museum teacher to design an amphora pot with a geometric design. This design was then scratched onto a final piece to imitate the black figure technique. Afterwards we explored the red figure technique by painting an owl design, as a gift for Athena, the goddess of wisdom. Both techniques were used by the Ancient Greeks.

Finally, Sarah took us back to the Ancient Greek gallery to carry out a treasure hunt, where we found the Ancient Greek equivalents of everyday objects, e.g. a jug or mug. Y3 also found out more about each of the different gods and designed an offering for them.

Ask Y3 to tell you  more about our visit 🙂

This week has been an Innovate week in Year 3. We have reached the end of this term’s topic ‘Scrumdiddlyumptious’ and have finished off with accepting a challenge from Starsmooth International.

              STARSMOOTH INTERNATIONAL – A taste sensation!                We are currently seeking ideas for a range of fresh and tempting new smoothie recipes to add to our existing menu, to be sold in our world-wide stores.Winning applicants will have the opportunity to become part of our highly regarded design and development team.For more information, please contact Squeezy Joe on 7963 7662662.

After reading the advert and accepting the challenge Y3 discussed their understanding of what a smoothie is and then sampled what is already available to buy in the supermarkets. Before tasting Year 3 had to predict the ingredients of each smoothie.

Even Nicola, our school nurse took part. As you can see some smoothies had nicer tastes than others!

Year 3 were then able to identify the flavours they liked and designed and named their own smoothie. Have a look at their fabulous designs.

On Friday morning we worked collaboratively to cut our fruit safely and blend to make a delicious smoothie 🙂

This week Year 3 have been working hard to plan, tell and write their own tales of fear.  Everyone shared their ideas of possible settings for our stories and also fears. Lots of time was spent with a partner in drawing as story map and rehearsing  ideas for each of the five parts of the story.  Also, each pair listened to and made changes to their stories following peer assessment. Finishing the week on the writing of individual stories and using a checklist to make sure each paragraph had a range of  sentences and punctuation.

Miss Mcleod and myself have been astounded with the quality of writing this week. We are very proud of each and every child in Year 3. Mo Farah YOU are STAR WRITER this week 🙂

Ask your child to tell their tale of fear. Can you guess what the fear is?

Y3 have started a new unit in their writing lessons – a tale of fear. This unit is based around the picture book Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman.

This week Y3 have used a story map and actions to learn each of the five parts to this story.

1. Opening
MC is afraid of something and is worried about it.

2. Build up

MC starts to do something

3. Problem

What MC fears actually happens
4. Resolution

MC overcomes the fear.
5. Ending

MC has conquered the fear and looks to the future.

Wow! What a great start to this half term, Year 3’s new topic is called ‘Scrumdiddlyumptious’. This topic will have lots of exciting learning opportunities with food as the main focus.

Monday morning started with baking flapjacks in our Maths lesson. We discovered how important it is to be able to read a scale accurately when measuring out our ingredients.

Then on Wednesday, we travelled to Pizza Express where they had an opportunity to make their own pizzas! Every child had the chance to experience how to flatten the dough for their pizzas, before adding the other ingredients.

Year 3 all had the pleasure of taking home their pizzas to enjoy with their families. We hope you all enjoyed a taste of their handy work. Well done Year 3, the Pizza Express staff were extremely impressed with your behaviour and positive attitudes to your learning.

A huge thank you to the dads that joined us for the visit – your support was invaluable

This has been a very exciting week which started with and assembly and also a class workshop with Jane, our Science Boffin.

We had great fun making a polymer – slime! Ask one of us what polymer actually means.

As a class we investigated the question ‘Which chocolate melts the fastest?’  First, we discussed our own ideas and made predictions.

Then we investigated and after looking at our results we posed our own What if? questions to then further investigate.

Check back soon to see the photographs of our investigation and our results.

Over this half term, Green class have been working  to develop their gymnastic skills. We have worked on our individual rolls (forward, pencil and teddy bear), balances (one, two and three point) and jumps. This week we have spent time developing our mirror images with a partner and to then combining our skills to create and perform a sequence.

COMING SOON!

Have a look at our video clips and photos 🙂

Green class have reached the end of the Loosing Tale unit of writing. Over the past three weeks we have used actions to help us learn the Tale of Daft Jack, a story written by Laurence Anholt.

We have explored different sentence types to improve our writing, had a go at making some small changes to the original story before re-writing and this week we have applied what has been learnt by creating our own Losing Tales.

Have a look at our story maps and see if you can work out our story ideas.

What is a Losing Tale?

This is a story with five clear parts.

1.  Opening where the main character (MC) has something precious.
2. Build up MC sets off with the precious item.
3. Problem MC loses the precious item and has to search for it and face the consequences.
4. Resolution The precious item is found.
5. Ending MC vows to keep the item safe and reflects on their feelings or learns a lesson.