Year 3 - Spring 1 - Week 4
Date: 26th Jan 2022 @ 12:01pm
What another fantastic week of learning! Well done Year 3!
It is safe to say that the ‘Mad Scientist’ workshop was certainly a highlight of our week. The fun interactive session had us on the edge of our seats with exciting experiments reaffirming our passion for science. Thursday saw us mark Holocaust Memorial Day, an important and poignant date in our calendars, where we recognise and remember those who lost their lives as well as the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. To mark this, we created remembrance candles so that those who died, will never be forgotten.
We continued our narratives at the start of the week in English, recounting the adventures of Tom and Om from our story ‘The Stone Age Boy’. Later in the week we explored Stone Age cave paintings and imagined what the characters would be discussing as they investigated the painting and how they might feel. This allowed us to develop and apply our knowledge of inverted commas. Next week, we will reach a pivotal point in our story, allowing us to form a narrative using a range of features such as paragraphs, speech and prepositions, whilst expressing how the characters feel.
In Maths, we continued to focus on division, specifically dividing with remainder. We started the week by using related multiplication facts to help us solve a range of questions, Afterwards, we focused on numbers that could not be divided equally. We loved getting practical and using taught methods and a range of resources, we were able to identify question that left a reminder and questions that did not. Next week, we will finish off our topic of multiplication and division before moving onto money.
Rounders was an absolute hit this week and we cannot wait for next week. The children loved getting involved, working as a team, and using their skills to play some highly competitive games!
Mr Fogg was back this week to continue our drumming journey in Music. We started by recapping our skills from last week, practising our rhythm and tempo whilst also reading music. Before long the sound of the Djembe drums could be heard around the school!
In RE, we continued to unpick our topic ‘Jesus, the man who changed lives’. This week we looked at the ‘Story of Levi’ and compared him before and after he met Jesus. We were then given the question ‘Why did he change?’. This allowed us to dig deeper, creating a great discussion.
How could we forget Science? We had another exciting lesson this week which saw us investigate the meaning of reflection. Using a range of objects and a torch, and our STAR words ‘dull’ and ‘shiny’ we investigated which objects were the best at reflecting the light and which were the worst. This allowed us to draw the conclusion that shiny objects reflected light better than dull objects!
The wonderful ‘Starry Night’ by Vincent Van Gough was our primary focus in Art this week, specifically the way he used line, pressure, and colours to create the most wonderful landscape scenes. To develop our skills, we were each given just one part of the portrait, recreating each section in our art books using a range of mediums.
Reminders
- The Year 3 school trip will take place on the Tuesday 8th February.
- PE days will continue to take place on a Wednesday and a Thursday.
- Please can I ask that when you read with your child at home, that it is recorded on the online reading journal on Google Classroom.