Year 3 have had a busy week with completing assessments, but they have worked incredibly well and tried their best. The children have also continued working on their cricket skills in PE and have written some wonderful kennings, haikus and acrostic poetry in English.
This week we welcomed trainee teacher, Hannah Jackson, into our class. You may see quite a lot of her over the coming weeks as she will be working in Year 3 until the end of June.
This week the children have started exploring different types of poetry. The children have had a go at writing their own kennings and we have started to explore acrostic poems. We also made the most of the weather and took our lesson outside again when learning about calculating perimeters. The children have made the most of the outdoors this week. On Monday, we took at walk around South Zeal, following the route of the river; the children completed a short art lesson creating observational drawings of the plants and today, they enjoyed finishing their final write for English in the sunshine, before having great fun with circus skills and swimming this afternoon.
A really lovely week - you all deserve a good rest! This week has flown by! Year 3 have been busy learning about length in Maths, water and weather in Geography, how and why magnets attract or repel each other and continuing with our 'A River' unit in English.
As part of our English unit, the children chose different settings that could be visited as part of a journey. In Art, the children then created one of these settings on paper. Their artwork was beautiful! For their next step, the children chose powerful verbs and adjectives that could go with the different pictures, decided on the final journey and then chose the order of the different places. The children will be using this journey to create a story about it using the different sentence structures and prepositions we've been learning about. What a busy week the children have had to begin another half term. They have been busy learning about statistics in maths, prepositions in English, finishing their pulleys in DT, learning cricket skills in PE, World Book Day and finally, their first swimming lesson. They all deserve a good rest this weekend! World Book Day
The children had a fantastic time yesterday, celebrating World Book Day. It was lovely to see all of the children dressed up and to take a closer look at their fantastic story jar creations - well done, everyone! For Children's Mental Health Week, the class explored some of the quotes from the book, The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy. We discussed the importance of kindness and being there for others; the children then created their own kindness quotes and created posters. Their ideas were so thoughtful and showed such compassion for others. To finish off the week, the children had a go at some mindfulness yoga and meditation. The video led the children through some visualisation and breathing exercises. It was all very calming before they headed off to get ready for the school disco!
This week, the class have enjoyed editing their scripts and then finally performing them, today. The children have also made a start on constructing their Minotaur traps in Design Technology. On Wednesday, the class really enjoyed working together to fill the giant 2, on the playground, for The 2 Challenge organised by the PTA.
Year 3 have had a lovely week. They have been busy planning their Ancient Greek play scripts, investigating friction in science, learning more tennis skills in PE, multiplying 2-digit numbers in maths, investigating pulleys and levers in DT and finishing the week off with relay races. The children all ran brilliantly this afternoon and I was incredibly proud to see how supportive they were of one another. Well done to all of them! Take a look at the photos below to see what we've been up to. Have a lovely weekend!
The children have all got back into the swing of things nicely. In PE, with Mr Berry, they have been learning tennis and badminton skills; the children are really enjoying having a go at something that is new to many of them. For indoor PE, we have started a gymnastic unit. Today, the children were experiment with moving in different ways with a range of small apparatus. In English, we have been exploring play scripts and Greek myths; this links nicely with our Ancient Greek history unit and our DT topic, Pulleys and Levers. The children have all worked really well together and I'm looking forward to seeing the fantastic work they create over the next few weeks.
Have a lovely weekend! Wow! What a busy week it has been. I have thoroughly enjoyed this week with the children - I hope they have enjoyed it as much as I have. The class finally had the opportunity to watch their volcanoes erupt yesterday. It was incredibly exciting for all of the children. We also took some time to enjoy our Forest School area too. This morning, the children all gathered together for our Christingle service; it wasn't quite the same as being at church, but it was still lovely for the whole school to come together. Unfortunately, the wind was too strong and kept blowing the candles out, so we had to light them when we returned to class. What a term it's been! The children have worked incredibly hard during the first term in Key Stage 2 and I'm very proud of them.
Have a safe and relaxing break. Happy Christmas! |
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