Year 3 - Spring 2 - Week 5

Date: 25th Mar 2023 @ 4:25pm

 

 

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 This week, we visited church to begin our rehearsals for our upcoming Easter assembly. This links nicely to how we have celebrated Collective Worship, focusing on Jesus’ actions and developed our learning in RE through the Easter story. In RE, we focused on the importance of Maundy Thursday within Holy Week. We learnt that the word ‘Maundy’ means ‘command’ and that Jesus gave a new commandment at the Last Supper to, “Love one another, as I have loved you.”
 In English, we discovered there are many varieties of giraffe. Giraffes similar to ‘Zeraffa’ can be seen in Chester Zoo!  We researched different types of giraffes and recorded similarities and differences on a double mind map. Then, we used our research to form comparative sentences which included conjunctions such as ‘although’. 
 We also entered another Young Writer’s competition this week, focusing on diary writing. The children used their imaginations to create exciting diary entries. We love seeing our work published in real books!
To celebrate World Poetry Day, we learnt and performed ‘The Dinosaur Rap’ with Mrs Wall. We had a ball (? see what we did there). 
 In Maths, we started looking at fractions. We reminded ourselves how to work out the numerator and denominator, as well as the difference between a unit fraction and a non-unit fraction. We also learnt that when the numerator is the same, the greater the denominator the smaller the fraction. With Miss Lucas we recapped important place value knowledge such as counting in 4s, 8s and 50s, 10 more and 10 less than a 3 digit number and recording numbers in digits and words. 
 Our History lesson delved into how the Ancient Egyptians communicated and recorded via the use of hieroglyphics. The children used their inference skills to investigate a piece of evidence just like an archaeologist would and then they had a go at writing secret messages Egyptian style. 
 Using bar magnets in Science, we learnt that magnets have two poles - a north and a south. The children then investigated whether two magnets would attract or repel each other depending on which poles were facing. We were amazed at how strong the force was when two like poles repelled each other.
 In PE, we applied our tennis skills to some friendly matches and we cannot wait to compete again next week. 
 We have had an even bigger focus on well-being this week, smelling lots of calming essential oils and completing a meditation using chocolate… that’s right CHOCOLATE! 


Have a wonderful weekend!

Reminders:
•    RWI Spelling logs to be in school every Wednesday
•    Easter Assembly on Friday 31st March at St Peter’s Church
•    Songs and lines for our Easter assembly can be found on Google Classroom
•    School finishes at 1pm on Friday

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