Year 3 Silver Birch
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Y3 - End of Year Expectations for English and Maths
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World Book Day was amazing! Everyone had a great day talking about books. The 'work out the book' competition was particularly challenging.
As part of our Roman topic, in English we have been studying the Roman myth of Romulus and Remus. Once we had learnt the story we frieze-framed the main action.
King Amulius takes the throne of Alba Longa from his brother. |
A shepherd takes the twins from the she-wolf that rescued them from the river. |
Romulus and Remus are offered the throne of Alba Longa but decline. |
Silver Birch enjoyed learning about forces - focusing on friction and magnets. We learnt new vocabulary (attract, repel, magnetic) and discovered which metals are magnetic.
We tested friction on different surfaces. |
We explored magnetic objects. |
We carried out an experiment to find the s strongest magnet. |
Y3 spent a wonderful day following the River Avil from source to mouth. It was a magical day. Not only did we find the source of the river but saw some wild ponies, red deer and roe deer.
We followed the water to the source. |
We walked over the bridge looking out for the features. |
Finally we arrived at the beach and located the mouth. |
We combined Geography, Art and ICT to create 'The Water Cycle'.
We presented our river posters to the class, explaining the journey of a river from source to mouth.
We worked in groups to create large river posters to explain the journey of a river.
Working together on a river poster. |
Everyone has ideas. | Everyone having a go. |
In Maths we have been learning about length. We used different equipment to measure different objects. We learnt to convert cm, m and mm. We were then able to compare the lengths of different objects.
We enjoyed measuring different objects. |
We compared our heights and ordered ourselves. |
We compared the lengths of different objects. |
In Science this term we investigated rocks, soils and fossils.
We studied the properties of rocks. Here we are testing the hardness. |
We explored different soil types. |
We made fossils from plaster of paris. |
Pete the Poet came to work with us. We learnt about community and inclusion.
We all chose a puppet or animal to become friends with. |
Then we imagined a piece of cloth was a magic carpet. |
We took our furry friends on a magical carpet ride. |
Westover's Wonderful Word Day was a day of delight with lots of different and interesting words. What word would you be?
Creative, colourful words. |
A real 'hodgepodge' of words. |
An explorer. |
We had a visit from the museum service and learnt about animal bones. We even used a program to look inside our own bodies.
Learning about animal skeletons. |
Looking closely at the skeleton. |
We can see our bodies. |
Art was great fun! We learnt a range of skills including printing, painting and collage.
We worked together to recreate cave paintings. |
We made woolly mammoths. |
A herd of woolly mammoths. |
We enjoyed learning about Stonehenge.
We researched Stonehenge. |
We built it using wooden blocks. |
We even tried building with lego. |
We read and studied a book called Stone Age Boy to help us learn about the Stone Age.
We worked in teams of three to tell the story of The Stone Age Boy |
One person narrated and the other two took the parts of the boy and his friend Om. |
We all took a turn to act out parts of the book. |
To understand how important food was in the Stone Age we became a Stone Age family and acted out hunting for food in the wild life area.
We worked as a stone age family to hunt wild animals. |
We dragged and carried the dead animal back to our camp. |
We worked together to skin the animal and cut up the meat for food. |
We began our topic on the Stone Age by reviewing a range of stone age books - fiction and non-fiction.
Reviewing a non-fiction book |
Non-fiction comes in all shapes and sizes |
This book mixes fiction with non-fiction |
In RE we have been learning about Christian beliefs. We thought about Jesus and the type of person he must have been. We all had different ideas about the many parts of his character.
We worked in small groups to order the character traits. |
Finally the pieces are beginning to come together. |
At last the final piece. We are all happy with the outcome. |
We began our addition focus with some revision of key facts. We enjoyed adding multiples of ten and creating a family of facts.
We worked in groups of three to create a number sentence. |
We then showed everyone how to create a family of facts. |
We all chose different number sentences to work with. |
To help us write a diary as the character of Little Evie we focused on key parts of the story and considered what Evie would think and feel. We then stood by Evie and spoke out her thoughts and feelings.
I wonder what animals I will see in the wild wood today? |
I think that the wolf will be pleased with the gift I have for her. |
I am sad to say goodbye to my friend the wolf after such a happy day. |
We have been studying a book by author illustrator Jackie Morris called 'Little Evie in the Wild Wood'. As part of our learning with frieze framed parts of the story to help us understand the structure. We went into our wild life area to create a more authentic setting.
Little Evie waits for the wolf whilst other animals watch and wait. |
Tired after a day of excitement the wolf takes Evie home on her back. |
Little Evie greets her mama as the wolf returns to the wild wood. |
As part of our learning about Africa we created a map. Whilst we were working we talked about the many different countries and cultures in Africa.
We each took a small part of the map of Africa. |
We matched the colours and took care placing the tissue. |
Finally we put each part together to create a map of Africa. |
During our creativity week we studied Africa - we looked at African patterns.
First we painted the background. |
Then we printed the pattern. |
Finally we put the strips together to create a carpet. |
Spelling is never boring when you have words to read and sort into families. Our learning was focused on the suffixes ed and ing. Did you know there are different rules for adding these suffixes?
We worked in teams to find word families. |
Everyone worked together. |
We enjoyed the challenge of finding the suffixes ed and ing. |
We worked individually to design and make dragon eyes from clay. We used a marble to represent the centre of the eye. Once the clay was dry we focused on painting a detailed design to make the eye come to life.
We shaped the clay into our dragon eye shape. |
We used different tools to create different markings. |
We made sure the marble represented the eye. |
Once the dragon eye was we very carefully painted it. |
We worked really hard to recreate the detail of our designs. |
Here are some of the eyes. Which eye do you like? |
We worked in small teams to dramatise the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood.
Little Red Riding Hood is picking some flowers. The wolf is watching her. |
Grandma is in the wardrobe. Little Red Riding Hood is asking the wolf questions. |
Little Red Riding Hood is home drinking tea with her family. |
During an RE lesson thinking about God and the Bible we acted out the parable of the Lost Sheep.
The shepherd was looking after the sheep. |
The shepherd was counting the sheep. One was missing. |
Finally the shepherd found the lost sheep. |
A large wet foot print was found in the entrance to the Forest School Area. |
On the ground among the ivy a magical dragon egg was spotted. |
A dragon egg was even found among a pile of twigs and branches. |
A dragon reading zone appeared in the Library. This was very fortunate as we have been studying the Jackie Morris book 'Tell Me A Dragon'.
We sat and listened to the poem. |
The flames coming from the dragon's mouth appeared to move!! |
We really did not like the look of the spiky tail. |
On the European Day of Languages we all took time to learn words in a variety of languages.
We picked a flag and said 'Hello' in the language the flag represented. |
Some of the languages were quite tricky. |
We enjoyed playing a matching game and then finding out a fact. |
Learning to use a dictionary is very important. In Silver Birch class we are determined to improve and extend our vocabulary.
We began by learning about the layout. |
We each had a word to find. |
Finding the right page could be a challenge. |
We worked in teams to assemble a skeleton. It was quite challenging putting the bones together.
Firstly we assembled the ribs and pelvis. |
Next we added the legs, arms and skull. |
Finally we added labels. |
We thoroughly enjoyed learning about the human skeleton. We started by thinking about the bones we could already name.
First we drew around one of us. |
Then we worked together to add the bones we could name. |
Finally we looked at the results and discussed the next steps. |
We took advantage of the autumn sunshine to work in the Forest School area drawing leaves.
We took our sketch books and found a good spot to look closely at the leaves. |
Some of us decided to stay in the story telling area. |
The dappled sunshine brought out the many colours of the leaves. |
Gymnastics was great fun with Mr Hammond. We revised four basic shapes and then we worked together to create a sequence of moves.
The warm up was very exciting. |
What sort of shape are we practising here? |
What sort of shape is this? |
As part of our Science topic on 'Animals including Humans' we used the ipads to research the foods different animals eat.
First we found a website lots of interesting information. |
We worked together to read the information. |
Finding out about foxes was very popular. |
In English we have been learning a local Somerset legend - The 'Gurt Wurm' of Shervage Wood. It tale begins during the Bridgwater Fair. We acted out buying and selling at the Fair and told our stories about the 'Gurt Wurm'.
Would you like some freshly baked bread? |
Here is your change, I hope you enjoy the pies. |
A basket full of lovely juicy whortleberries. |
In Science we are thinking about food groups and the importance of a healthy balanced diet.
We sorted the food into different food groups. |
We found lots of healthy fruit and vegetables. |
We successfully managed to sort all the food. |
Our first PE lesson of the year was great fun! Mr Hammond reminded us how to use the Active Inspire Playground markings. We had a wonderful time jumping, running, skipping and so much more.
Jumping in and out of the shape was hard work. |
Remembering all the muscle strengthening exercises was so much fun! |
High knees was exhausting but so much fun to do! |
Silver Birch Spent the first week of term exploring different areas of Maths as part of a mindfulness unit to help us to understand how are brains 'grow' when we learn.
We worked with four triangles to create different shapes. |
We had to follow a set of rules which made the activity far more challenging |
We still thought about presentation and used a ruler whenever possible. |