Class 3

Class 3 your newsletter for after half term is now in your Google Classroom why not have a read? 

Please click on the link below prior to our Harvest at 10:15am On Friday. Remember to mute your microphone and your camera please. 

meet.google.com/gzm-hkna-dnu

It's the Big 60 spelling test on Monday. They can be found in the spelling part of the blog. Remember to revise those we have already done not next half terms. 

https://www.st-marys-colton.staffs.sch.uk/children/class-3/class-3-spellings

More science for Class 3 this week. We've finished our light topic by looking at solar power, and how it can be used as a renewable energy source. 

We've invented our own solar powered objects. Some children have tried to solve a problem in their lives (Orla invented a solar powered page…

In science this week, we've been desperate to make a giant sundial on the playground. Unfortunately this was called off due to poor weather conditions (which has been an excellent teaching point for the disadvantages of sundials). So, we've made our own personal sundials instead, to take home and…

This week, Class 3 have been hard at work creating an Ancient Egyptian version of Jack and The Beanstalk. We've been very imaginative and have impressed Miss Milward with our range of fantastic ideas. 

Some of our ideas have included:

• Jack exchanging his camel for scarab beetles, amulets…

We have had a great week and are very excited by our new class mate a very cute and cuddly Amur Leopard. Thank you PTA for helping us sponsor this animal for the next 12 months. We are looking forward to learning more about it and helping it survive. 

We've had lots of fun this week learning about how Egyptians communicated. First, we stained some paper with coffee to make it look like papyrus. Next, we wrote our names in hieroglyphics as practice before composing our own secret messages on the papyrus. 

Lots of the messages were…

We have had such a great week in Class 3. We have enjoyed our science lessons on light and our English unit based on the Egyptian Cinderella. 

We arrived at half past 9 and are half way through our activities! 
All having a wonderful day learning about the Anglo Saxons and preparing to battle the Vikings!

After half term our Science topic will be Plants and History will be Anglo-Saxons.

Please find below a knowledge mat for each of these topics. These include key vocabulary, interesting books and interesting facts about the topic.

Help your child prepare for their learning by looking at these…