Termly Blog
Term 4
We have had a very busy term with a school trip, World Book Day, Science Day and an Easter Performance. The children have worked incredibly hard.
In English we explored 'The Iron Man' looking at similes and creating our own monster to defeat. The we focused on explanations and the use of fronted adverbials of time, writing up an explanation on fossil hunting.
For World Book Day we dressed up as our favourite characters from books and explored 'Quest' by Aaron Becker. We wrote descriptions of each setting found in the book.
In Maths we continued on with measuring, advancing onto perimeter. We learn that this is the pathway around the outside of a shape and calculated this by adding the lengths together. We also had fun measuring and comparing lengths of each other and objects in the class.
In Science we created magnetic mazes and used a metal ball to moved around and escape the mazes. We also recapped rocks and fossilisation in preparation for our school trip. We visited Betteshanger Park and hunted for fossils using special equipment. The children had great fun, many finding different types of fossils to take home.
For Science Day we investigated which biscuit is the best for dunking. We had a variety of biscuits and measured how long it took for them to disintegrate in water. Surprisingly, Rich Tea was the best and lasted 6 minutes and 37 seconds!
In Geography, we continued our topic Rocks, Relics and Rumbles. the children researched volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis, creating fact files.
In DT we explored cam mechanisms, making different types and seeing which one we liked the most. We then designed our own automaton toys which were Easter themed.
The children performed in 'Good News' with Class 4, a play focused on Holy Week. They did amazing and enjoyed dressing up.
All things Easter, the children created some wonderful Easter bonnets and completed an Easter Egg Hunt outside.
Term 3
We started Term 3 with 'The Firework-Maker's Daughter', exploring Lila's quest to become the greatest firework maker. The children created some amazing artwork using oil pastels to show the bright, colourful fireworks. After creating a tool kit for quest stories, the children wrote their own with ideas like becoming the best chocolate maker, defeat a dragon and find lost treasure in space!
We then went on to explore crystals, using water colours to create various gems like rubies, emeralds and sapphires. Focusing on diamonds, the children researched and created information texts discussing how diamonds were formed, what colours they could be and where they could be found.
In Maths we continued on with multiplication and division whilst practising our times tables. The children solved 2 digit numbers multiplied or divided by 1 digit numbers using dominoes and a dice. These were quite challenging and the children did a fantastic job showing their working out and using part whole models to help them.
The children began the new topic of measuring, looking at objects in the classroom and comparing their lengths. They recognised that 10mm = 1cm before going on to 100cm = 1m. Outside we measured how far we could throw bean bags in Metres.
For Science this term we have been studying forces and magnets. We have done various investigations such as analysing how friction can slow down a moving object, what Newton Meters are and how magnets attract and repel. Through this we have been fair testing, research, identifying, classifying and grouping.
Merry Christmas from Class 3
Stop Animation
We have been using a new app called iMotion to create our own animations.. We are really pleased with how they came out :@)
Thea & Ellie
Theo
Ethan
As part our 'Through the Ages' history topic we have been learning about life in the Stone Age. We had special visitors who immersed us in the stone age using costumes, props and activities. The children had a chance to sort types of stone age rock, shape chalk into drums, drill a whole through stone with a bow drill, make their own stone age weapons as well as a photo opportunity! We engaged with a stone age story and retold it through drama. We had a go at pot making with a rabbit bone. We learned a rhyme/chant and much much more. The children really did enjoy it and learned so much, a great day was had by all!
Stone Age Day with the History People
DT - How to prepare potatoes
Our DT project is 'Cook Well, Eat Well'. We have been learning about the food wheel and a healthy diet. This session was about different ways to prepare potatoes and which ways are healthiest. Huge thanks to Jacob in the kitchen who prepared potatoes in so many ways that even I was surprised. The children got to help prepare, see Jacob's knife skills and most importantly tasted many of the different methods. They were good at identifying the healthiest options and to all of our surprise the class were huge fans of plain old boiled spuds!