ARCHIVED Year 3 Blog 2024/25

 This term we have been learning all about light. Last week we investigated how much light different materials reflect. The children had great scientific discussion predicting which materials would reflect the most light and why. We then used a lux meter to measure how much light the different materials reflected. Children could then predict and investigate where in the classroom would they find the most amount of light and why!

  Vesak is the Buddhist festival that celebrates the birth, enlightment and death of Buddha. Wesak is a very colourful and happy celebration. Homes may be cleaned and decorated. In many countries, Buddhists will visit their local temple for services and teaching. They will give offerings to the monks of food, candles and flowers. Chanting and praying are an important part of Wesak. Today we made 3d lilies as this is an important symbol for Buddhists. When the man we now know as Buddha was born he was thought to walk 7 steps straight away and lilies grew under his feet, this was thought to be a sign that he was special and meant to lead his people. 

 Year 3 sr Tarted a new topic: The four friends. They listened to a story about 4 animals who helped each other to pick an apple from an apple tree. They joined in with some of the words and added actions for animal movement. They then matched the animal words to the corresponding image.  This last week they leant the vocabulary to describe how each of the animals move. 

  The Iron Man This term, year 3 are reading The Iron Man. We have been collecting rich vocabulary to use in our first final write next week. We will be writing a character description for The Iron Man. We have been revising expanded noun phrases and adverbs in preparation for this.

 This week, the children carried out their assessment about volcanoes. Are all volcanoes bad for the Earth? There were some great discussions within the class.  To conclude their leaning, one of the children made a volcano and we used both coke and mentos as well as bicarbonate and vinegar to make it erupt.  What an explosive time. 

  Year 3 found out about French Easter traditions and how the French celebrate Easter. They learnt some Easter vocabulary and then revised colours by colouring in an Easter image. 

 Over the last few weeks, Year 3 have learnt the vocabulary for part of the body,and sung Head, shoulders, knees and toes in French. They also learnt the names of the different colours and learnt Il and Elle as pronouns to use when describing a monster. They read and listened to a description of a monster which they then drew. The following they coloured it in, as per the description. They then wrote sentences describing a monster.