Over the last two weeks we have been researching and writing our information texts about the Stone Age using subheadings and paragraphs.  We have been reading Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura and practising our Reading Viper Skills -  especially retrieval, predicting and inferring how a character is feeling.

Last week was assessment week so we did a very long Reading assessment and 3 different Maths assessments so we were exhausted!

In PE,  we have been trying to beat our personal bests in gymnastics, by holding a tricky balance for longer than last week.  We have also been practising our tennis skills.

In Maths we have been learning about fractions including  numerators, denominators,  the whole and also we have been comparing fractions with the same numerator  and with the same denominator.   

In History we have ordered events on a timeline and have been remembering our learning about Bertha Benz in Year 1 and also thinking about INVENTIONS in the Stone Age and ordering how important we think they were for humans.  It was really hard to decide if creating fire was more important than farming or building houses! What do you think?

In Computing we have begun learning about sending emails as a way of communicating using technology.

In PSHE, we are thinking about our Dreams and Goals and how we can achieve them by working towards them using little steps.

FInally, we'd like to say a big HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR for this weekend!  We hope you enjoy celebrating the start of this New Year of the RABBIT.

from the Year 3 Children and Staff

6. 1.22

Happy New Year!

We have had only three days in school but we've fit a lot of learning in already!

We've completed our Stone Age inspired front covers using chalk pastels and stencils to draw round and also to make 'negative space'  animal pictures.  We made the background more like a cave wall by crumpling up the paper and then staining it with old tea bags.

In Maths we have been practising column addition and subtraction with exchanging as well as solving problems.

In English we have been learning about why paragraphs are useful and what they're for.

We have also done balances, shapes and jumps in gymnastics  as well as starting tennis skills.

Our new Jigsaw topic is DREAMS AND GOALS.

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year Three Children and Staff