We’ve had lots of fun in Year 3 this week! It’s been Art week and we’ve been creating our own Stone Age cave paintings.  First of all, we sketched our favourite animals native to the UK like robins, foxes, badgers, deer, seals and barn owls.   We practised scaling these up to help us understand how to make sure that our sketches were in proportion. We collected natural products like rose petals, different coloured leaves, twigs and grasses from the school garden and made marks with them in our sketchbooks to see what colours we could create. People living in prehistoric times gathered natural objects and used them to colour their work. Then we made a flour and water paste and mixed it with coloured spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg and turmeric to make our own paint.

We created a cave background using couscous and lentils to help create the illusion of a textured wall and then painted our animals onto our ‘walls’.  They looked very effective.

In Maths we’ve been comparing and ordering 3-digit numbers as well as rounding numbers to the nearest 10.  Next week, we’ll be rounding numbers to the nearest 100.

In English we’ve been looking at the features of free verse poetry by examining the poems of Michael Rosen and Kit Wright.  Next week we’ll be creating our own class free verse poem using natural objects from the countryside like pine cones, dandelions, daisies and holly leaves.  

Congratulations to our Stars and Learner of the week.  Have a super weekend and we look forward to seeing you next week in class.

Best wishes

Mrs Howard, Miss Cicero and Mrs Mills