As part of our science and DT topics we are going to being planting seeds this term, if you have any spare compost or flower pots that we could use it would be much appreciated.

Summer Term

Welcome back to our final term in Year 3. Over the summer term our topic is World War II, we will be finding out about what impact this had on the local area as well as the wider world. We are also going to be looking at how to help plants grow well, linking this with the 'Dig for Victory' campaign durig the war and it also ties in nicely with our DT project on making sandwiches. We are going to be growing some of our own salad ingredients for the sandwiches, so if you have any unwanted compost or flower pots these would be much appreciated.
Thank You
Year 3 Team

Our Week

We had a very busy week last week. In Literacy we are working on writimg our own Robin Hood plays so that we will be able to put on a show for other classes. We are working in grouips to create our own 'Robin Hood' stories, which we are going to turn into play scripts.
In Numeracy we have been learning how to draw graphs and how to interpret data from these.
In science we were finding what we needed in order to see, after an experiment involving a long cardboard tube and a mystery object we discovered that not only do we need our eyes and brain, but we also need light too.

Epping Forest

On Wednesday 9th March Year 3 had a fantastic day at Epping Forest Conservation Centre. We spent half the day living like Robin Hood learning survival skills and the other half finding out about soil and the creepy crawlies that live in it. We had to work in our 'tribes' to build shelters and use our special tribal calls to call each other for help. We also used materials found on the forest floor to create our own smelly smoothies, some of which smelt disgusting!! We had great fun digging about the forest floor trying to catch the minibeasts that live there and working together to identify what we had found -lots of worms and millipedes mainly.

Here are some pictures of us enjoying our day.

London Zoo

Bread Tasting

On Wednesday year 3 did bread tasting. We tasted all sorts of bread.

First we tasted sliced white bread. Most people liked it, only some people didn't really liked.It tasted rather plain.

Next we tasted wholemeal bread(brown bread).Everyone really liked that bread.It tasted a bit sweet.

After that we tasted Seeded Granary . It had lots of seeds in it including the crust!. Not many people liked it at all. In year 3 not much people like bread with seeds in it.

Later we tasted Tortilla Wrap. Everyone definitely loved this. It tasted really really nice. We really liked it.

Next we tasted White pitta. It was quite thick and chewy. About 3 quarters of year 3 liked it, Some people simply did just not like it.

Then we tasted Brown Pitta. It tasted the same as White Pitta except it had a tiny bit more taste. A bit of us liked the taste of it.

Last of all we tasted Fruit Loaf. It tasted very very sweet. Hardly any of us liked it. Loads of people did not like it at all. Thank you for reading our Blog.

By Yasin and Lorina

measurements of cm,mm,km,m.

This week in 3d in maths we have been doing measurements. Well

some of 3d thinks measurements is hard!!! Today we are going to show you our fantastic ... work! enjoy!

1. 1cm = 10mm
2. 1m = 100cm
3. 1km = 10,000cm
4. 1km = 100,000mm
5. 1km = 1,000m
6. 1,000mm = 1m
7. 1m = 1,000mm

Well we have questions for you write the answers in the comment box.

How many cm are there in 7m?

How many m in 8 km?

How many mm are there in 100m?

How many cm in 18 km?

Fly,Eagle,Fly

This week year 3 have been reading about Fly,Eagle,Fly.

We've been describing the front cover of the book.


Then we described how they feel & whats going in a picture.


We only had one for each table & we worked as a table.


We even had to answer questions:





These are the questions we had to answer:

1. Describe how the farmer feels.


2. Describe how the Eagle feels.


3. Describe how the farmers friend feels.

By Raymon

World Cup Trophies

A few weeks ago in year 3 we designed some World Cup trophies in our sketch books. We had to think very carefully about what we were doing because we had to make sure that they would be able to stand up on their own because we were going to make them out of clay.

About 2 weeks ago we made our trophies out of clay. It was quite hard because we had to make sure they were smooth and it could stand up on its own.

In Arts week when our trophies were dry we had to paint them. We could pain them in Gold Silver or Bronze. We all enjoyed painting them and they turned out to be very good.

Mr Fraser was impressed with all of them. We showed them in good works assembly everyone was impressed and really liked them.

By Lorina & Yasin

space

This week has been ARTS WEEK!


We have been doing loads of fun. We have been learning about SPACE! We turned paper plates into orbiting planets & we have also been making space scenes,dioramas,A massive collage & A big ROCKET so we could go to space!!! That's only a joke. On Monday we have been doing some word searches,on Tuesday we've been making some scary/funny aliens and some foam UFOs.


We done the same on Wednesday,then finally on Thursday & Friday we've done a whole lot of things.


We are going to show 3D's fantastic work.


So look carefully at the work:





Earth is the 3rd planet away from the sun.


The sun is the biggest star & it's 2000x bigger than the earth.


The milky way is not in our solar system.

Pluto might not be in the solar system.

Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system.

Arts week

This week in glade it has been arts week. Every class was given a topic to do art with.Year 3 were given space as our arts week topic. We had lots of fun making things. On Tuesday we made some UFOs out of foam. Mr Fraser gave us a template to draw around onto a piece of foam. We had to cut our drawings out and we stuck different pieces of foam onto our UFO. We all really enjoyed making them and they all turned out to be very good.

By Lorina & Yasin

3D Victorian Slideshow

3F Victorian slideshow

A short clip featuring photos from our week of dressing up like Victorians.

The Victorians

Two Victorian girls walking to school together on a cold day. Unfortunately the other two can't go to school because they are poor so they are begging.

In this picture some domestic servants are serving two men.

In this picture,a Victorian teacher is teaching his class.

by Lorina and Yasin

Teeth & bones

This week we've been learning about teeth & bones.

This is Emma's work:

INTRODUCTION
People use their teeth to bite & chew food.
They also help us to say certain sounds.
People have 2 sets of teeth in the mouth.

PRIMARY TEETH
Most babies are born with no teeth showing.
The 20 teeth erupt during the time from 6
months of age to 2 years old.

PERMNENT TEETH
When primary teeth fall out 2 are replaced
by 32 permanent teeth (also called adult teeth.)
During the time 6 to 14 years old. As 2 permanent
teeth forms under the gum & in the jaw bone the roots
of the primary tooth is replacing disolve.
The primary tooth becomes loose and falls out.
The permanent-tooth will fill the space.

Victorians

In year 3 this week, we have been looking at the Victorians. They didn't have washing machines to wash their clothes because they were not invented! Instead they had washing boards so they could wash their clothes in the river.

Night poems

This week we have been doing night poems.

This is work from Jamima:

The night sky poem

The bright moon descends behind the fluffy clouds,

Bats squeaking whilst looking for their lovely prey yum.

The stars sparkling through the night,

The night is still silent ssshhh.

Bats squeaking, Owls hooting and mosquitoes whining.

Laura's work:

A shooting star zooming across the sky,

Bats sqeaking searching for their prey.

The stars twinkle in the night sky,

The bright moon is hiding behind the fluffy white clouds.

Gregory cool paintings

On Wednesday 3F were focusing on a picture from the book Gregory cool. We described it and had a go at painting it with some watercolour paints. We drew our pictures very lightly with a pencil before we actually painted them so we knew where to paint when we painted them. We had to think about the colours we used because the picture was from the night and we couldn't use too bright colours.

It took us a very long time because we had to concentrate and put alot of effort into our pictures.We have all worked really hard and we have nearly finished them. Here are some of our work. We hope you like our work!

Tobago

This week we have been learning about tobago.



This is work from Jamima:



Tobago
Tobago is very hot sometimes . Normally Summer time nearly 50 degrees. The winter time it is 16 degrees.

Weather
The month which is really rainy is August. The season which is rainy is to June to December. The sunny season is January to May.







Layla's work:




Tobago
Tobago has a land area of 300km (116mi) & approximately 42 kilometres.

Between January & August there is going to be high temperatures.

They speak in:

• Tobagonian creole English
• Trinidadian creole English
• English

Many Tobago Restaurants open air, ready to catch the afternoon breeze, sometimes with views.

• Coconut
• Yam
• Rice
• Beans
• Chilli
• Sweet deserts
• Dumplin
• Kiwi

By Raymon & Layla

Gregory cool

This week in year 3 we have been reading a book called Gregory Cool. The book is about a boy called Gregory who goes on holiday to Tobago to see his grandparents for 4 weeks. He also has a cousin in Tobago called Lennox. He does not like it very much in Tobago because he is not used to the country. The house that Gregory's grandparents live in is vey small and Gregory doesn't like it very much.

The house didn't even have a proper door! Gregorys room in the story doesn't even have any toys, books or any carpet! Eventually in the story Gregory gets used to the country and starts to like Tobago.

If you would like to read the first few pages of the book click on the picture.