Class 3

Welcome to Class 3!

Teaching Staff

Miss Latter, Mrs Bateup, Mrs Giles and Mrs Entwistle 

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Learning Lens - W/C  30th September 2024

Welcome to Class 3!

Here are some of things we have been learning about this week:

• In Maths, we have started working on addition and subtraction. We have been using what we have learnt about place value to support our understanding. We have been recapping our knowledge of number bonds to 10 and 100 then applied this knowledge to add and subtract 1s, 10s and 100s to numbers within 1000. It is really important to take these steps slowly and use our practical and pictorial representations to support and help us learn.
• In English, we continued reading our class text Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. We have been working on our sentence structure this week. We have thought about what types of sentences there are and how they are made. We then moved onto what a main clause is and  how we can join two main clauses together by using coordinating conjunctions. We wrote these sentences based around our class text. We will continue to work on our sentence structure throughout the year.
• In RE, we have been thinking about what questions we would ask Noah if we were interviewing him. The children came up with many varied questions. Everything from - Was the ark smelly? How did you know what God was saying to you? And my absolute favourite - Did you and your wife get on for 40 days and 40 nights?!
• In Science, we continued learning about our topic of Rocks. We learn about fossils this week and how they are formed. We now know that Fossils form when a plant or animal dies. They get covered in silt or mud so that they cannot decay or be eaten by scavenging animals. Over time, layers of sediment build, squashing the mud and turning it into stone around the dead plant or animal. The materials in the body are replaced by minerals that flow in water through the rock, leaving a rock in the shape of the plant or animal that was once there.
• In PE, we started playing handball. We worked on our spacing and how to pass a ball. Different types of passes are used for different reasons, so we reflected on why we might use a chest, bounce or over arm pass.
• In History, we continued learning about the Stone Age. We learnt about a place called the Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands. The houses were constructed from slabs of stone and its contents inside were made of stone. We compared what we have learnt about how people lived in the Stone Age at different times. In the early Stone Age people either lived in caves or houses made from materials they could find around them such as twigs or moss. However, in the later part of The Stone Age, people retired their nomadic lifestyles and found permanent places to settle. An example of this is Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands. The houses here were constructed from slabs of stone and its contents inside were made of stone. In History, we also started learning about the Bronze Age. The Bronze Age came after the Stone Age. We looked at chronological order and placed the Bronze age on a time line. The Bronze Age marked when humans first started to work with metal. But why Bronze? Copper is a soft metal, but when melted and added to tin, it becomes bronze which is a much harder and durable material than copper or stone.  It was used to make weapons, tools and armour, along with building materials such as decorative tiles. 

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Latter and the Year 3 Team