Year 3 - Summer 2 - Week 5
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 3:15pm
Another week gone, where is this year going?
In English, we continued our class book, ‘Zeraffa Giraffa’ by Diane Hofmeyr. We discovered that on arrival in Marseilles, France, decisions had to be made on how to get Zeraffa to Paris. This inspired us to work in groups to design and create a new invention to transport the 11ft giraffe 550 miles to Paris. We thought of some wonderfully imaginative ideas and then wrote a letter to Monsieur Stravganza to persuade him to accept our idea. We then read further into Zeraffa Giraffa’s journey down the River Nile and used pictures from the book to create freeze frames of the main events.
In Maths, we were introduced to the concept of angles for the first time. Drawing on our previous knowledge from Year 2, we described turns as quarter, half, three-quarter and full turns. We soon recognised angles as describing the size of a turn and understood greater angles as having made a greater turn. We practised making quarter, half, three-quarter and whole turns in clockwise and anticlockwise directions and in familiar contexts such as on a clock face or the points of a compass. We soon moved on to ‘right angles’ to describe a quarter turn and learnt the symbol for a right angle. We went on to recognise right angles in various contexts, including in the world around us and within known 2-D shapes. We concluded our learning this week by being introduced to the terms “acute” and “obtuse” to describe the angles. We know that acute angles are less than a right angle, and obtuse angles are greater than 1 but less than 2 right angles.
The sun finally made an appearance as we ended the week with our Science trip to Martin Mere and became plant detectives for the day. The children were able to explore the wetland habitats to identify a variety of wetland plants and the things they need to survive. They investigated the function of their different parts and discovered how some are specifically adapted to a wetland environment. The trip provided a deeper scientific understanding of the functions of different plant parts, exploring and classifying living things and recognising that environmental changes can sometimes pose dangers to living things.
Let's hope the sun keeps shining over the weekend :)