Year 3

The days are getting brighter and energy is coursing through Year 3. World Book Day was tremendous fun! There was an impressive range of splendid and resourceful  costumes and everyone enjoyed listening to stories read by different teachers. Meanwhile we finished our class story "Into the Forest" and discovered where Dad had got to and who was in Grandma's bed.  In the end there were no great surprises but we realised we had been masterfully tricked into imagining all sorts of horrors. We followed up on familiar fairy stories in drama, freeze framing scenes from our favourites. 

Hearing of our creativity, the author Anthony Browne wrote to Year 3 asking for help with his latest book as he is suffering from writer's block, so we are embarking on a story entitled "Into the Tomb" about a boy being transported back to ancient Egypt. We will make sure he has exciting adventures there. Still in Egypt, we researched Egyptian gods and goddesses on our Chromebooks and looked at the landscape, seeing how the course of the River Nile influenced how and where people live. We also loved completing each other's Egyptian wordsearches.  

We revisited symmetry and fractions and in RS learned about the Sikh naming ceremony Naam Karan. Children's names must begin with the first letter on a page of the Guru Granth Sahib that is opened at random. Soil is our current Science topic and we examined samples from different areas with magnifying glasses to compare textures. In the lab we conducted experiments to find out which was most permeable and made "soil soup" to observe how the particles float or sink. In PSHE we read "The Lorax" which is helping us to think about the environment. 

As ever, a busy week and a well earned weekend ahead!

Mrs Spurgeon, Mrs Laudy and Mrs Smith