Year 3JH: Blog items
Date: 10th Jan 2020 @ 8:05am
For our Connected Curriculum launch, we made Stone Age houses out of biscuits and icing sugar. It was lots of fun but also really tricky which made us admire how much hard work it must have taken to build houses back then without the bricks and materials we use today.
Date: 9th Dec 2019 @ 3:26pm
Our topic this term is India. During our RE lessons, we have been learning about Hinduism, Mahatma Gandhi and duties that Hindu's follow. We researched 3 Indian charities which support the 'Working for Justice' duty and made posters to promote them.
Date: 9th Dec 2019 @ 3:20pm
We were so lucky this morning to be visited by Santa and his special elf helper! We sang songs and all got a present! How exciting.
Date: 28th Nov 2019 @ 9:07am
Yesterday, we tested the strength of different magnets and saw how strong they were! We then did two experiments:
1:How many paper clips the magnet could hold flat,
2:How many paper clips the magnet could hold dangling in a line.
Some were stronger than others. We had great fun testing this out!
Date: 27th Nov 2019 @ 12:43pm
We reenacted the battle from the story of Rama and Sita and became demons and monkey warriors!! 
Date: 21st Nov 2019 @ 4:15pm
This morning, we participated in an anti-bullying workshop. We did roleplay and spoke about different types of bullying. We had lots of fun and acted out situations.
Date: 3rd Oct 2019 @ 8:39am
Yesterday, Year 3 were greeted by an Egyptian visitor who told us some fun and interesting things about Ancient Egypt. We had a go at some Egyptian games as well as taking part in a fact hunting quiz! We even got to see the mummification process! If that wasn't enough, at the end of the day we competed in our very own Ravensbury Charriot racing! What a brilliant day!
Date: 3rd Oct 2019 @ 7:51am
In groups, we created Egyptian Neck Collars in Art as we were looking specifically at patterns and Egyptian designs. We had so much fun!
Date: 19th Sep 2019 @ 1:39pm
In Year 3, we are currently practising place value. Use the websites below to help you practise at home.
How did the blossom become an apple?
Date: 22nd May 2019 @ 1:06pm
This half term we have been learning about plants and what they need to grow well. For our launch, we planted Cress seeds.
Date: 4th Apr 2019 @ 10:13am
For our Roman experience, we were lucky enough to meet 2 Roman soldiers! We found out what Roman soldiers and Celtic warriors wore and we got the chance to try on some Roman armour. It was really heavy! One of them even led us into battle and taught us different battle formations! It was a battle between the boys and girls. Girls were not allowed to join the Roman army but the girls at Ravensbury won!
Date: 18th Mar 2019 @ 2:17pm
We worked with Mrs McAffer to produce some fantastic Roman portrait sketches!
Date: 1st Mar 2019 @ 2:21pm
For our launch, we recreated a Roman banquet. We made laurel wreath headbands and ate food typically eaten during that time such as flatbreads, olives, grapes, pancakes, cheese, carrot sticks, apples and oranges.
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Date: 26th Feb 2019 @ 9:09am
For our experience, Year 3 took part in a rock quiz! We researched information about rocks and wrote our own questions. We filmed each other asking questions on the Ipads and then we showed them to the other year 3 class. We really enjoyed it!
Date: 19th Dec 2018 @ 11:05am
Year 3 went on a visit to a Hindu temple. We found out lots but we could also share our own information about Rama and Ravana as we have been writing our own stories during our India topic this half term.
Date: 30th Nov 2018 @ 1:00pm
We tasted lots of different Indian foods such as poppadoms, nan bread, vegetable samosas, mango chutney and mint and cucumber raita. We really enjoyed the poppadoms and mango chutney!
Date: 22nd Nov 2018 @ 11:24am
This half term, Year 3 are learning about India and what it is like to live there. We have also been doing Indian artwork. We looked at lots of different Indian patterns to help us design and make our own. Look at the bright colours we used!
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:31pm
This year at Ravensbury we are thinking about developing our times tables. We will be practising our tables in a variety of different ways. One of the ways we can practise is by using a range of online games and activities.
Click on the links below to practice! All of the activities work on a laptop, some may not work on a tablet.
In Year 3, we are learning the 3, 4 and 8 times tables and revisiting the 2, 5 and 10 times tables from Year 2.
Hit the button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Mental Maths Train
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train
Coconut multiples
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples
Daily 10
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Maths Fishing
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication
Tommy’s Trek
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/318/Tommys-Trek-Times-Tables
Magical Maths Mission
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/383/Marlons-Magical-Maths-Mission-Multiplication
Connect 4 Factors
http://www.transum.org/Software/Game/Connect4/
Sum Sense
http://coolsciencelab.com/sum_sense_multiplication.html
Number Fact Families
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families
Date: 13th Nov 2018 @ 3:57pm
We made some fantastic canopic jars! These were used by the ancient Egyptians for the safekeeping of particular human organs: the stomach, intestines, lungs, and liver, all of which, it was believed, would be needed in the afterlife. There was no jar for the heart: the Egyptians believed it to be the seat of the soul, and so it was left inside the body.
Date: 13th Nov 2018 @ 3:48pm
In Autumn 1, Year 3 learned all about Ancient Egypt. For our launch, we explored a tomb and found out how the Egyptians mummify their dead. We even turned our friends into mummies, explaining what we were doing and why!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:03am
Year 3 have started a new topic, ‘What Lies Beneath Our Feet’, as part of our connected curriculum. We will be learning about The Stone Age and finding out how different rocks are formed. For our launch, we discovered different artefacts used by archaeologists to find out about the past and we also performed a cave man dance and made cave paintings.
Year 3 have a special visitor!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:03am
Year 3 were lucky enough to have a very special visitor last week. We found out what it is like to go to a primary school in Africa. We asked lots of questions and we learned that although there are plenty of things that are the same, there are lots of things which are different. We were surprised to find out that students sit on the floor to do their learning!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:01am
Would you like to live in India?
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:00am
Year 3 have started learning all about India and thinking about what it might be like to live there. For our launch, we smelled some Indian spices, tried on saris and had a go at Bollywood dancing!