This week in art we Year 3 have been looking at colour theory and why scientist have been so interested in different colours. We explored warm and cool colours and the feelings that they can produce in people.
Grounds Day is back!
We have had a lovely morning tidying up our school. We have swept, planted and sorted. Our pot are looking beautiful with lots of new plants and we can’t wait for all the bulbs we planted to grow and flower in the spring.
This half term we have been focusing on athletics in PE. We have practised our running, jumping and throwing. At the end of this topic we were set a challenge to build an obstacle course which included the skills we had learnt. We then had to teach each other how to complete our obstacle courses.
We have now moved into the Bronze Age!
In history and art we have been looking at the Bell Beaker Folk and all the things they introduced in Britain. This included Bell Beaker pottery. We designed our pots first and then had a go at making them.
Woodpecker class had a great time cooking toffee apples on the campfire during their Forest School session today.
In Woodpecker Class we have really thrown ourselves into our Prehistory topic. At the moment we are exploring the Stone Age. As part of this we have been looking at monuments and more specifically, henges. This week we designed out own henges and then went outside to build them using natural materials. There were some many different and brilliant ideas for building them - no henge was the same! Miss Dore was very impressed with everyone’s creativity.
In science we have been looking at food groups and healthy eating. This week we combined our DT and science and made ratatouille. We all worked in small teams to chop, mix and measure our ingredients. At the end we all took a pot of our ratatouille home to try.
On Tuesday we had our school trip to Butser Ancient Farm. When we arrived we were taken into an Iron Age round house where we discussed the transition from the Iron Age to the Romans in Britain. After this we had a go at being archaeologists and found lots of different artefacts. Whilst on the way to our next activity we found some Roman public toilets - we decided that we preferred modern day ones!
Next we had a go at making some Roman jewellery using copper wire. We made rings, bracelets and earrings. After lunch in the shade, we turned our hands to making mosaics. We had small tiles and could copy a Roman design using symmetry or we could make make our own design.
Our last activity of the day was spinning wool. This initially looked easy but turned out to be surprisingly tricky. We had to gently pull the wool from the bundle whilst spinning it. We then got the opportunity to look around a Roman villa.
Overall we had a lovely day, made lots of lovely things and learnt a lot from our guide. Thank you to all the adult helpers who came with us.
The best way to end sports week is to finish with the year 3 camp out. We had a fantastic time setting out our tents, eating cake, playing with our friends, cooking dinner, learning about bats and going on a bat walk, cooking breakfast, washing up and sleeping - wow we did fit a lot in! Everyone really got into the team spirit and helped with all the camp jobs and activities. It was lovely to see how much teamwork was going on. Here are just a few photos of our fun time.
Robin Hood watch out there are some new archers in town! On Thursday we learnt how to use a bows and arrow to shoot targets. We played a game with the target where we had to shoot different parts in order to make a pizza. We then had to then fire our bows and arrows at smaller targets in order to earn points.
Today we had great fun learning how to skateboard. We learnt all about where to position our feet on the board, to turn and some tricks.
Our first day of sports week was focusing on teamwork and all the skills needed to be a good team player. We then used those important skills in order to get our whole team from one end of the field to the other just using two mats.
This week in science we have been looking at and naming the parts of a flower. To help us identify the various parts we used diagrams and real flowers which we gently pulled apart to reveal the important parts such as the stamen and carpel.
Over the past few weeks we have been researching Roman mosaics and had a go at creating a mosaic using squared paper. All of this has been leading up to us creating out own mosaics using tiles of paper. We first drew the outline of our design and then used glue to stick the tiles on. We love how different they all look and how bright and colourful they are.
In our modern world it is very easy to buy things online, use our phone to pay or our bank card. This week Woodpeckers have been practising using money. In our classroom we set up a shop. Each child was given a handful of coins and had to work out how much money they had in total to spend at the shop. They then had to work out the exact amount they needed for the items that they wanted to buy.
Woodpeckers were also set a challenge of working out how much money Miss Dore had in her 1p and 2p jar. They started off by sorting the money according to the coins. In pairs they were given a pile of coins, then they counted how much money they had. The last step was to then add each pairs amounts together to find the total.
In science we have been looking at parts of plants and their functions. Recently we have been focusing on the stems and how the xylem move water around the plant. This week we have carried out an experiment to see how important water and the xylem are. We had 2 sticks of celery. In one pot we put our celery in water with food colouring. In another pot we put a stick of celery, which has had the bottom covered in Vaseline, in water with blue food colouring. Over the next week we will be monitoring our celery to see what happens.
This week in maths we have been looking at capacity, litres and millilitres.
After weeks of hard work to construct our volcanoes, the time came to erupt them. Woodpecker had to measure out all the ingredients and mix then in the correct order to make their volcanoes erupt.
Over the last 2 weeks, Woodpecker class have been exploring magnets. We have learnt about magnetic fields, how magnets work and also what types of metals magnets are attracted to.
It is almost time to make our volcanoes erupt! As our last part of construction, we painted them so that they look more like volcanoes.
