2022-24 Year 3 Blog

 So much learning taking place today. First, the children recapped what they had previously learnt about India and its location.  Then, they predicted what The United Kingdom bought from India. Some great answers, such as curry, metal, coffee and pineapples.  After that, Mrs Gregory had a bag of 5 items which the children had to use to guess what Mrs Gregory predicted. The first item to be brought out of the bag was an aeroplane, then a boat, leaves, a mug and finally a square teabag. this caused much confusion as one child said his mum only has round teabags. 😊 From there they watched a film  showing how tea is made. 

 170 years ago, on an island off the coast of Scotland, a storm came and blew away a large amount of sand... Below the sand, historians were shocked to find a Stone Age village! Year 3 started to explore the artefacts that tell us about what life was like for Neolithic people. The evidence suggests that this people ate fish, made jewelry, kept warm by a fire and even had dogs! Archeologists found ancient dog poo! Yuck. Year 3 were curious to find out why people abandoned Skara Brae. Why would they leave their cosy town behind? Look below to see some of the ideas that Year 3 came up with.

 This week we finished off our learning about Rocks and Fossils - with a surprise visit from Mrs Aitkin, who bought in her collection of fossils which she has collected over the years from holidays at Lyme Bay - where Mary Anning went fossil hunting.  We learned all about a range of different fossils: - crinoids - belemites - sea urchins - ammonites The fossils we got to hold were between 170 million, and 205 million years old! 

 Today, Year 3 wrote their very own cinquain poem all about Autumn. Our poems had 5 lines. The pattern of the poem went: 1 noun, 2 adjective, 3 verbs, 4 feelings and 1 final noun. The children have created some beautifully independent and creative pieces of work. 

 As their poetry unit continues, Year 3 have been creating and writing some amazing autumnal metaphors. They have even been using personification to really bring their writing to life.

 Year 3 have been making awesome  progress with their column subtraction this week and have even started applying this skill to some tricky challenges. 

 Today the children researched all about India and it’s location in the world. Using an atlas as well as books and texts they identified different human and physical geography.