Welcome to Year 3!
Miss Whatmough is the class teacher working with Mr. Irvine who is the Year 3 teaching assistant.
This half term we will be learning all about ‘The Stone Age’. We will be travelling back in time to find out what it was like to live in the Stone Age times. We have lots of exciting lessons planned for this topic!
Monday – Please remember your swimming kit (towel, swimwear and swim hat)
Tuesday – P.E kit (This should be left in school and will be sent home every half term)
Thursday – ICT and Greek
Friday – Spelling Test (All spelling books MUST be in school on a Friday)
Please remember to bring your reading book into school EVERYDAY along with your reading record.
Rainbow Spellings and Times Table book to be brought into school on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday to be tested.
During this half term if you get the opportunity you could find out some interesting facts about ‘The Stone Age’ ready to share with the class. If you have any information posters, books, information packs, photographs or anything Stone Age related that you would like to show the class then bring them along in your book bag.
If you are lucky enough to have your own copy of ‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura, then you are more than welcome to bring it into school. Please make sure it is named on the inside cover.
For this half term our class novel will be Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. If you have your own copy, you are more than welcome to bring it into school. Please ensure your book is named on the inside cover.
Please ensure your child reads their reading book regularly at home. Please sign and date their reading record and send both into school daily. The children will be given the opportunity to read this during class time to a teacher or independently.
Water Bottles
Water bottles are allowed in the classroom for children to access throughout the day. Please ensure your child’s water bottle is clearly labelled. All children are encouraged to take their water bottle home daily to be washed.
Here we have a picture of year 3 doing our chocolate tasting. We tasted “White Chocolate” “Milk Chocolate” and “Dark Chocolate”. We found that the class most liked the White Chocolate. The Dark Chocolate was the least popular.
Year 3 have been enjoying their science lessons and have been doing experiments with flowers. We have been trying to prove that plants suck water up through the roots and stem into the rest of the leaves and flower. We have done this by adding a blue colouring to the water. Some people in the class predicted that the results would be seen instantly. However, the changes seem to take place over time. Have a look at our photo. We look forward to seeing the results next lesson!
Today, year 3 have thoroughly enjoyed their Chocolate Workshop lead by ‘The Ministry of Chocolate’. The children have learnt ‘Where Chocolate comes from’, how it is made, created their own chocolate bars and lollipop designs. The children have held a ‘real life’ cocoa pod, that has come all the way from Ghana. The children had the opportunity to taste a Cacao nib which is simply chocolate in its purest form, before anything else is added. Year 3 are now ‘Level 10 Chocola-ologists’. Why not ask our year 3 children which chocolate is the healthiest?
Last week, year 3 had been very busy designing their own chocolate bars ready to sell on our ‘Year 3 Chocolate Delights’ stall this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday break time.
We have been very lucky to receive a very generous donation from Aldi, to help towards the ingredients for making our chocolate bars. The money that we raise will go towards to cost of our chocolate workshop, that we had in school last Friday.
The children have started making the first batch of chocolates. There are still many more to go. This week we will start to design our own packing, ready to sell the chocolates.
Starting from Wednesday 17th October, Year 3 will be selling our chocolate creations for £1 each at morning break times. Their will be a choice of Milk Chocolate, Smarties, Oreo, Orange or Marsh Mallow flavoured chocolates. These will be sold from the group room by Year 3 children.
In Year 3 we have been getting very festive. We have been making hanging decorations and painting trees. Take a look at our work.
Look at this homework that the children have been making this half term. We are so impressed with their creativity. Please keep this coming in!
