This week in Science we began learning about what makes Usain Bolt so quick as part of our Animals Including Humans topic.
We learned that to run fast we need really strong muscles and to be very physically fit. We discovered that muscles work in pairs to contract and relax, to enable our bodies to move. We also learned about two specific type of joint found in the human body; the ball and socket joint, and the hinge joint.
We then went outside with the iPads and struck a pose, then in small groups we labelled each of the muscles and joints we had used using the Seesaw app.
Take a look at our awesome work below.
This week in Year 3 we have moved on from Place Value and began our next unit, Addition and Subtraction.
We have looked at patterns in adding multiples of 100; for instance, to solve 300 + 200 we can use 3 + 2 to help us.
We then began looking at adding and subtracting 3-digit numbers and ones. We noticed that when not crossing 10, only the ones digit will change.
This enabled most of us to work out these quite tricky fluency questions in our heads! Look at our fabulous work!
This half term in Year 3 we have been learning about the Stone Age, working towards our Learning Challenge question of ‘Who first lived in Britain?’
This week we learned about stone circles such as Stonehenge. We built replicas of Stonehenge out of biscuits, then took photos of them on the iPads and labelled each of the stones using the Seesaw app; the alter stone, the inner horseshoe, the outer circle, the bluestones and the heel stone.
Then we got to eat the biscuits! Yum!
This half term in Year 3 we have been reading the story of Stone Age Boy. We created a story map to help us remember the order of the story, and rewrote the story using this to help us. This week we are moving on to the ‘innovation’ stage, changing one or two key parts of the story to make a new one. Today we used post-it notes to stick over our original story map and changed 3 key elements:
Once we have changed these aspects of the story, we will rewrite it with our innovations.
In Science in Year 3 we are learning about the human body. Our Learning Challenge question is ‘How does Usain Bolt move so quickly?’
As part of this, we all measured and ran 100m across the school field. The fastest 4 times were recorded and compared against Usain Bolt’s world record winning time of 9 seconds.
Over the coming weeks we will discuss what makes him such a fast runner, learning about bones, muscles, food and nutrition. Take a look at some of our fabulous work!
This week in Year 3, we’ve been working from home! The children have been accessing their work via Seesaw. Some children used the Seesaw tools to answer their questions directly on their devices, while others chose to use pencil and paper and upload a photo.
The Year 3 staff are all incredibly proud of the children’s efforts!
Take a look at some of our amazing work from this week:
A fact file about Usain Bolt for our Science topic: How does Usain Bolt move so quickly?
Examples of our daily gratitude journals. Being at home is a great opportunity to think about all of the things we are grateful for.
We are flying through our Place Value unit of work in maths! We’ve been watching the White Rose videos to help us answer the questions in fluency, and showing off our incredible understanding in reasoning and problem solving challenges.
In DT we’ve been looking at examples of Stone Age settlements as part of our topic: How did the Early Britons make shelters?
And finally, we’ve been producing some fantastic Stone Age inspired cave art!
This half term, Year 3 will be reading ‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura. The story revolves around a young boy who finds himself back in time in the Stone Age! He meets a young girl and they become friends, having lots of interesting adventures together.
In our literacy lessons we will be focusing on narrative. We will be using this story to write our own retelling following Talk for Writing, then eventually we will write our own narrative where the main character travels in time.
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This week in science, Year 3 have been investigating which magnets are the strongest. We know it’s not just about the size of the magnet, but the strength of a magnet’s magnetic field. We tested out 5 different magnets to see how many paper clips would be attracted to each. Here is a pictogram of our results:
Over the last few weeks, Class 7 have been using the story structure of ‘Escape From Pompeii’ to write their own disaster stories. We planned our stories using the basic structure of the original text, then edited and upleveled our work. When we were sure our work was the very best it could be, we submitted them to the BBC’s 500 Words competition. This week we received our certificates!
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