Year 3 - Spring 2 - Week 2

Date: 2nd Mar 2022 @ 10:23am

What an incredible week, filled with laughter and joy!

How could we not start by discussing ‘World Book Day’? The children looked incredible when they arrived at school in their outstanding costumes, which of course, filled the classroom with a wonderful buzz. When they arrived however, the children were met with a rather perplexing mystery, the crayons had quit and they were not coming back without our help! The children spent the morning completing a series of challenges set by individual crayons to help restore the pack! Afterwards, they took part in a fantastic game of ‘The Masked Character!’ It was truly a fantastic day.

In Maths, we finished off our topic on Statistics, completing a series of activities surrounding bar charts, both drawing them and answering questions. Afterwards, we began our topic on ‘measurement’ completing a ‘Teach Active’ lesson, connecting our learning back to Year 2 and reminding ourselves of the importance of lining up the ruler carefully.

In English, we continued to investigate our book ‘The Big Blue Whale’. We started the week by discussing what we thought the two characters in our book would be saying to each other, creating speech sandwiches as they went through the book. Later in the week, we created our own poems about various sea creatures, ensuring each poem started with a command and used a range of similes. Next week, we will complete our assessments in SPAG, Reading and Spellings.

In Science, we completed another exciting experiment, this time looking at water transportation in plants. We explored, using water and food dye, how water transports up celery through its veins.

In Geography, we connected our learning back to KS1 and revisited the 7 continents and 5 oceans in our work. After, we used our atlases to identify and answer questions about the continent of Europe. Next week, we will investigate the continent of Europe in more detail.

Music was again, a hit! Mr Fogg truly knows how to get us going and this week we continued to practice the ‘Encanto’ theme tune. It was quite tricky, but we persevered, and the result was well worth the effort.

In PE we continued to focus on our new topic football. We revisited our dribbling skills and developed our passing, working in small groups to accurately pass the ball. Mr Brindley continued this effort (even with all the excitement of ‘World Book Day’) and ensured we had a fun, interactive and competitive football session.

This week we said goodbye to the fantastic Mr Ahmed who has been supporting us in class over the past few weeks, we wish him the best of luck in all his endeavours. 

Reminders

• Next Monday we will be having an additional dance session, please ensure children are in their PE kits.