We’ve had a great start to the next part of our Autumn Term in Year 3.

In Maths, we’ve been working hard on mental addition using our Think 10 number bonds. We’re also using TTRS to help us revise our times tables and we’re enjoying going against the clock revising multiplication and division facts for 10, 2 and 5 before moving on to our 3 and 4x tables.

In English we’ve been looking at the features of free verse poetry by examining the poem ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Wright. We’ve worked hard to create some lovely sentences about natural objects from the countryside like pine cones, dandelions, daisies and holly leaves.  We used super adjectives to describe each object and next week we’ll be writing noun phrases using our new vocabulary to help us write our own free verse poems.

In History we finished our prehistory topic by comparing life in the Stone Age with life in the Iron Age and decided which era we’d like to live in. In Science we found out that we could make a fossil by preserving a bone in plasticine with water mixed with food colouring to simulate mud forming on top of it.  We simulated sedimentary rock forming on top of it and compressing it by adding layers of tissue. We were able to conclude that fossils are formed by animals and plants becoming trapped within rock millions of years ago. 

Congratulations to our Stars of the week and to our Learner too. Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you next week.

Best wishes

Mrs Howard, Miss Cicero and Mrs Mills