Year 3 w.b: 6.5.24
Date: 10th May 2024 @ 3:47pm
Yet another wonderful week in Year 3 full of learning; writing threatening narratives, finding fractions of amounts and developing core skills and team experiences through the wonderful game of rounders.
In Maths, we have been working on challenges which involve using money skills and logical thinking to solve a range of problems. We have also learnt how to find fractions of amounts. A fraction tells you how many parts of a whole there are. When you find a fraction of an amount, you are working out how much that 'part' is worth within the whole. We discovered that you can see fractions of amounts all around us. Shops have sales that say, “¹/₂ price!” or “¹/₃ free!” We might also use fractions when baking, for example, “add half a teaspoon of salt” or “use a ¹/₄ of a kilogram of flour”.
In English, we began to write our threatening narratives about The Iron Man. In order to create suspense to build tension, scare the reader and keep the reader wanting to find out more, we had to carefully think about our language and vocabulary and used a lot of ‘Show, not tell’ to create tension in our writing to build up suspense throughout.
In P.E, we played rounders; one team bats while the other team fields and bowls. The bowler bowls the ball to the batter, who hits the ball forward on the rounders pitch. The batter then runs to as many posts as possible before the fielders return the ball to touch the post the batter is heading for. It was great fun!
In Forest School, we made Roman dens. Den making is a great activity – not only is it fantastically good fun but it also helps develop so many skills. It is at heart an open-ended engineering and design problem – we had to decide the kind of structure we wanted to build, how to construct it and what materials to use. It’s a problem with no right or wrong answers as the end result could be anything we wanted.
In Music, we enjoyed rehearsing our songs using our trumpets, saxophones and clarinets ready for our performance. You will all be amazed!
In Spanish, we learnt five new fruits; las ciruelas = plums, los melcotones = peaches, los platanos = bananas, los kiwis = kiwis and los albaricoques = apricots.
We hope you all have a wonderful weekend, enjoy the sunshine and take time to do what makes your soul happy.
The Year Three Team
