Year 3CB: Blog items
Date: 30th Mar 2023 @ 9:27am
In design technology, we researched, designed, and made our own sandwiches. We spent time look at the different nutitience if different foods and what a balanced diet looks like. Once we had created our sandwiches, we evaluated them against the original design brief and reflected on what would have made them even better.
Date: 30th Mar 2023 @ 9:14am
In art this week, we used our mixed media artwork from last week to create a collage. We started by cutting out a rectangle for the sky and then created a section of mountains in the midground, followed by a section of mountains in the foreground. The we then chose other materials to add to create small details such as the sun, flowers, stars, and trees. The final results were fantastic.
Date: 21st Mar 2023 @ 1:20pm
Today in art, we have been exploring mixed media. We started by looking at what mixed media is and different collages that have been created through mixed media. We discussed what we liked about the different pieces of art and learnt where the background, midground, and foreground were. Then it was time for us to have a go. We had the chance to use paint, oil pastels, ink, bubble wrap, and printers to create our different pieces of art.
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 2:10pm
In design technology, we have been exploring what a balanced diet looks like. We are going to be using our knowledge of nutrition to create a balanced sandwich. This week, we tasted white, wholegrain, 50/50, seeded and tiger bread to help us decide which bread we liked best, and then we explored what nutrition is provided by the different types of bread.
Date: 16th Feb 2023 @ 9:59am
This week in maths, we have been looking at the properties of 2D shapes and 3D shapes. We then began looking at the nets of 3D shapes and matching the nets to their shapes. On Wednesday, we made our own 3D shapes from nets.
Date: 10th Jan 2023 @ 3:07pm
In writing today, we were looking at speech sentences based around the book Stone Age Boy. To start with, we found examples in the text, before collecting our own ideas. Then we wrote different sentences for the characters in the text. We worked hard to use a variety of different speech verbs and include the correct speech punctuation.
Date: 5th Jan 2023 @ 2:59pm
To launch our new topic, what lies beneath our feet? We found out all about Stonehenge. We then used biscuits to recreate the well-known monument. We found it a little bit difficult to balance the biscuits, but when they did balance, we were proud of our creations. Here are our final designs.
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Date: 1st Dec 2022 @ 10:34am
In reading, we have been exploring how to work out what different vocabulary means. We used a variety of techniques, including reading around the text, looking for root words, prefixes, and suffixes, and employing synonyms. All these strategies helped us discover what new vocabulary meant, and we will now be able to include it in our writing.
Date: 22nd Nov 2022 @ 1:23pm
This week we have continued to work with Mrs Mcaffer on our Amazon artwork. We practised drawing an Amazon bird with continuous lining at the start of the lesson. Next, we focused on using shading when drawing our rainforest birds to create more texture. We then completed a carousel of activities where we created leaves, used oil pastels to create Amazon birds and painted rainforest flowers on a mural.
Date: 17th Nov 2022 @ 10:52am
This week Year 3 had a wonderful time exploring colour, shape and line in their Art lesson. They studied the work of Irene Guerriero, a South American artist who used the rainforest as her inspiration. She is famous for creating huge pieces of work and so that is what the children set about doing. They started by collecting some inspiration in their sketch books. Once they had practiced drawing the shapes of different leaves the children had a go at colour mixing to create different shades of green. They then all collaborated on one large sheet to create a mural. We can't wait to finish it next week and see it displayed outside the hall in the next few weeks.
Food from the Amazon Rainforest
Date: 11th Nov 2022 @ 1:30pm
This half term our topic is 'What is it like in the Amazon Basin?' For our launch, we tried different foods that would be available in the Amazon Rainforest. We tried lots of new food and drink. Not many of us were a fan of the coconut millk but the persimmon fruit was a firm favourite.
Date: 8th Nov 2022 @ 6:52pm
Thid week in maths we are looking at recalling multiplication facts. We are focusing on revisiting our 2s,5s and 10s and also learning our 3s, 4s and 8s. In class today, we used arrays and repeated addition to help us with our recall.
Date: 1st Nov 2022 @ 2:49pm
This half term our connected curriculum topic is 'What is it like in the Amazon Basin?' We looked at the different types of animals you would find living in the Amazon Rainforest. Then we chose one of those animals to complete a drawing of. Here are our final pieces of art.
Date: 12th Oct 2022 @ 2:06pm
Today we celebrated Let's Celebrate Me Day. We came to school dressed as something that represented us. We dressed in our favourite colours, clothes that represent us and our ambitions.
During the day, we read the book Dot. We then used watercolours to create our own dots, which represent us. Here are some of our outfits and art work from the day.
Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 11:13am
In science this week we have been finding out what happens to our bicep and tricep, when we move our arm. We made our own moving arm to see what happened to our muscles.
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 11:11am
Last week we had an exciting visitor come into school. They came and shared lots of information all about Ancient Egypt. We enjoyed taking part in a crack the code written in hieroglyphics, a game of hounds and jackals, measuring like Ancient Egyptians and reneacting a mummification. At the end of the day, we even dressed up as mummies.
Date: 21st Sep 2022 @ 7:42pm
In English, we have been reading the story of The Egyptian Cinderella. This week we are focusing on speech. The children wrote their own speech bubbles for different characters in the text. They then used their speech bubbles in the freeze frames they created to retell the story.
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 10:14am
This week in the connected curriculum, we created our own human timeline. We explored some of the key events that happened in the Egyptian era. We learnt when the first pyramids were built and when Tutankhamun reigned over Egypt. Then we put the events in chronological order.
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 11:16am
On Wednesday we had our connected curriculum launch for our topic 'What was it like to live in Ancient Egypt?" In class, we learned all about the hieroglyphic writing system used by the Egyptians. We then went looking for as many hieroglyphics as we could find on the playground. Once we had located each one, we unjumbled the hieroglyphics to discover the word mummification.
Date: 27th Jun 2022 @ 4:57pm
In art this week, we have been focusing on the artist Noel Badges Pugh. We took inspiration from his drawings of seashells to create our own. We used continuous line drawing to create the outline and then used a range of mark making techniques such as contoured lines, dashes, curves, hatching and cross-hatching to make the shells more 3 dimensional. We even thought about shadows and created these again using mark making techniques.
Date: 15th Jun 2022 @ 10:05am
In maths, we have been learning all about scales and reading different intervals. Today we estimated the mass of different objects in the classroom before weighing each object. We used our knowledge of reading scales to help us.
Date: 25th May 2022 @ 5:23pm
In geography, we have been learning all about mountains. So far we have looked at the tallest mountain, what the climate is like at the summit and the different features. On Monday we used atlases to identify where different mountains and hills were in the UK.
Date: 16th May 2022 @ 1:26pm
In writing today we practised using apostrophes for possession. We used macaroni as apostrophes in our sentences.
Date: 22nd Apr 2022 @ 10:20am
In maths, we have been learning all about multiplication. Today we began learning how to multiply a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number. We used a method called the grid method and used ones and tens counters to help us.
Date: 21st Apr 2022 @ 2:29pm
To launch our topic 'Can I grow lettuce on a mountain summit?' we went on a scavenger hunt. We took a virtual trip around Snowdonia and completed the scavenger hunt along the way. On the scavenger hunt, we saw a summit, people, a cafe, rocks, a lake, grass and paths.
