Year 3
Year 3 Homework Blog
Year 3- Tea experts!This week in DT week year 3 have been researching the history of tea and then designed and made their own tea brand. The children had so much fun learning about the history of tea, where it came from and how it become so popular. They also enjoyed tasting different types of tea although there was definitely some flavoured tea that was not very popular! The children then designed their own flavoured tea with their own ingredients and then designed the perfect tea packaging for their tea to go in. After designing and planning their tea brand the children followed their ...
- Deck the year 3 classroom with glitter and holly!This week year 3 have got into the Christmas spirit with glitter and tinsel pipe cleaners. We had a great day on deco day making Christmas gift boxes, tinsel snowflakes to decorate the tree, beautiful calendars and Christmas cards. Below are some pictures of the festive creativities! In addition, this week in guided reading we have been using magnifying glasses and we have been working really well during class discussions based on the book ‘How to live forever’ by Colin Thompson. We tried a new strategy to help us when summarising the story and the children really enjoyed this task ...
- Volcanoes, rocks, basketball and so much more!Year 3 have worked incredibly hard this week. They have become excellent geologists in science. They have worked scientifically during an experiment and investigated rocks and their properties. We looked at key vocabulary such as impermeable and permeable! The last few weeks in geography have been so exciting! We learned about the structure of a volcano and we even made our own volcanic eruption which was super fun! We have also been using atlases to locate the worlds famous volcanoes which has been very interesting and the children have been fully engrossed into the learning. In PE we are learning ...
- Autumn 2 – 5th NovemberI hope everyone had a restful half term and enjoyed the break. Year 3 have worked really well this week and they have settled back into school life even more enthusiastically than Autumn one. This week we started our new units in geography and science. In geography we are learning about earthquakes and volcanoes this week we looked at the earths four layers by dissecting an apple. The children really understood the four layers of the earth through this experience and were able to identify and label the layers confidently. In science we kick started our science unit on rocks ...
- Art week! 22nd October!What a first half term in year 3! Can I just say how proud I am of everyone in year 3! Everyone has worked resiliently, creatively and positively! Everyone deserves a restful half term and come back refreshed and ready for Autumn Two! Below are some pictures of our wonderful work this term. This week in Art the children have worked hard designing and making their own silhouette painting of the Stonehenge! Everyone worked creatively and the end results were beautiful! Have an amazing half term all! Enjoy the sweets on Halloween but remember to brush your teeth! Miss Hurrell ...
- Hillfort experts!This week has been a lovely week in year 3. In literacy we have been planning our own story based on the book ‘The paper bag princess.’ We are writing in first person as the dragon from the story. We have been looking closely at speech and using wonderful vocabulary to add great detail to our writing. I cannot wait to share these with you next week. In history this week we looked closely at how British society changed during the Iron Age. We became Celts and made our own hillfort to protect us from enemy tribes. We worked together ...
- Friday 1st October 2021What a busy week of learning year 3 have had this week. They have been working really hard in literacy editing their narrative based on our story ‘And Tango makes three’. Below are some pictures of some children’s work. I wish I could showcase them all on here as they were all wonderful however, they are all displayed on our wow work wall! Children used subordinating and coordinating conjunctions well to join sentences together and add extra detail to their writing. We have also started our new learning in computing this week. We started the unit with logging onto our ...
- Friday 24th September. A super fun learning week!This week Year 3 have been learning lots about how to be a great historian. We became archaeologists and dug for evidence. We worked as historians and dug up artefacts from the Stone Age and from the non-written source of evidence we deducted information we could get just by observing the artefact. The children worked exceptionally hard and they made some great deductions. In science this week, we made predictions before leading up to our plant experiment in which we will be setting up next week. We also used the computers in our computing session to research the female and ...
- A brilliant second week!Year 3 have been working incredibly hard this week. I have been so impressed with how well they have got on with the maths. Children have been successfully using their maths toolkits to help with their problem solving. This week we have been looking at place value and we have also been finding 1, 10 and 100 more or less of a 3 digit number. Keep up the hard work year 3! Year 3 have also been putting their drama skills to practice. We had some successful acting skills in roll as Mr Gramzay from our focus book in literacy ‘And ...
- Welcome to Year 3!What a fantastic week year 3 have had this week. I have been extremely impressed with how well they have settled coming up into KS2, they have mastered how to work in their new classroom taking ownership of their own working toolkit and tidy tray. The children have been enthusiastic through all subjects this week, they have tackled the learning with confidence, resilience and most of all they have done so with a smile on their face. This week we started our new History unit, The Stone Age to the Iron Age. The children absolutely loved making their own toilet ...