Class 3

This week in class 3 we have been celebrating Chinese New Year. We made a dragon and even learnt a bit of Chinese! Instead of Maths we learnt some Chinese numbers for example 1 would be yi.

This week in class 3 we have been learning about the Anglo-Saxons and planning an information text about them.

In Maths we have been learning about remainders. This is an example of one above.

In history we made Anglo-Saxon brooches.

We have been learning about the Anglo Saxons.They invaded Britain in AD 406.

In maths we have been doing multiplication.

In science we have been doing skeletons.

Today we tried our first in school reading time. Key stage 2 used the hall, classrooms, library and field to spread out and enjoy reading. Feel free to bring in books, comics or magazines to read during this time every week.

Some competitive Blockbuster style maths from the boys today? 

This week it was Christmas Jumper Day and we are wearing Christmas jumpers. In Class 3 we are getting ready to write a story about Pompeii. Today we are planning the story. Did you know Pompeii is in Italy?

We have finished our unit in maths, it was multiplication and…

This week in Class 3 we have been dividing by 3,10 and 2. For example ten divided by two is five.

In English we have been learning about Pompeii. We wrote about how Tranio and Livia were feeling when Mount Vesuvius erupted.

We made Christmas cards in RE to show that God and Jesus are a…

This week in Class 3, we have been doing lots of geography and practicing using an atlas. We have been looking for mountain ranges and discussing how a mountain is formed. We used the computers to create fact files for famous mountains.  We have done some maths work on the computers as well,…

This week in Class 3 we have been remembering the soldiers in the war. We baked cookies in the shape of poppies then on  on Thursday we iced the cookies with red icing and black icing. The whole school had 2 minutes of silence to remember the soldiers. On the other days of the week we made poppies…

This week we have created food chains and some of us have created food webs. We have looked at producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores, predators and prey.

We asked ourselves what would happen if there were no producers? 

This week class 3 have been outside, hunting down minibeasts. When we found one, we were very careful not to damage it while we sketched it. Then, we noted down its habitat and made notes about what the habitat was like. We used this to discuss why certain creatures choose certain…