St John the Baptist CE VA Primary School Year Three

This week, we went outside to look at the mushrooms and other fungi growing around our school. We also found lots of sweet chestnuts- another sign of autumn!  The children have been learning about diary writing in English and in maths, they have been learning about estimating numbers on a number line and using reasoning to explain their answers.

This week, year 3 have been very busy creating things. We have made a class ‘solar panel’, covered in little panels each made by a child that depicts a different thing we can do to protect the environment, such as turning off lights, using wind turbines and recycling plastic. We have also made our very own worry dolls as part of our South American topic.

In dance, the children have been working hard to create their own motifs to the theme of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Each group have chosen a selection of 4-6 dance motifs (with travelling in between) to create and perform together.

Thank you to year 3 for a wonderful week! The children finished their rainforest leaves by adding water colour paints. They started by practising with the paints, experimenting with the amount of paint added to the water. After they had finished their paintings, the children then shared and evaluated their work with each other. In English, having collected sounds from around the school, the children created their own versions of the poem ‘The Sound Collector’ by Roger McGough. Super work everyone!

In year 3 this week, we have been deepening our understanding of place value. To help us with this, we have been creating monsters out of thousands, hundreds, tens and one dienes. The children created some fabulous monsters and were working hard thinking about how many dienes they would need to build them. Well done everyone!