2022-24 Year 3 Blog

 Year 3 revised numbers and learnt the months of the year. They then practised them by singing a song. Each child identified in which month their birthday falls. They then practised further with matching months in English to French.

 We have been creating our amazing ugly animal fact files. They look spectacular, the children have worked very hard. Take a look!

 This week year 3 have moved onto a new unit exploring length. We have been looking at centimetres, meters and kilometres.  The children have enjoyed exploring the classroom and measuring various different objects. 

 Today, year 3 were visited by Fedelmid, an Iron Age inventor and shopkeeper. He talked to the class about six of his finest items for sale and asked the children which they would buy if they were an Iron Age person.  We learned new words such as carnyx - a sort of long trumpet for declaring battle and scaring enemies, and rotary quern - a device used for grinding wheat into flour. Year 3 noticed some similarities between Iron Age technologies and some of our modern household items. For example, one child noticed that her salad spinner at home looks a lot like the rotary quern. So which of these items would be most useful? The firedog was a popular choice among children who like BBQ! Many of us would choose the carnyx as a way of scaring off enemies. Many children agreed that the mirror would be least useful as we wouldn’t be too concerned about our appearance! Food and protection would be more important. And where would we be without a trusty Iron brooch to keep our cosy tuni...

 This week the children looked at the Ring of Fire which is located in the Pacific. Over 75% of the world’s volcanoes and 90% of the earthquakes happen here because of the movement of tectonic plates in the area.  Next, they located some of the volcanoes found in the world and we tried to pronounce their names. 

 Have you ever been to a garden? How about a rock pool? Well Year 3 certainly have! We looked at animals and objects and just how they can influence how we move and use our bodies. We had some brilliant wheelbarrows and incredible crabs on show.

 On Monday, we looked at rhetorical questions. We had lots of fun coming up with very obvious questions for our partners that didn’t need an answer. In our writing, we used rhetorical questions to follow on from an amazing fact.