ACE Geographers!

In our Geography learning 3H have been exploring the world’s continents and oceans. Today we focussed on the countries within Europe and worked brilliantly in partners to distil our knowledge of the European countries to create our map.

We explored the key features of each country to identify where they are located on our map.

We were able to retrieve information and use language like coastline, sea, Europe and land.

Stone Age Day!

3H had such an incredible day at Murton Park! We enjoyed living and working as people in the Stone Age would have.

We made Stone Age pottery and used sticks to add details. Stone Age people used pots to express themselves so each of our pots are unique to us.

We were archaeologists as we sketched some Stone Age items like tools and spears.

We also created a class cave painting!

We hunted wild boars, deer and bears! We had to be quiet and use hand signals to communicate with each other so we didn’t scare the animals away. We had a great time throwing our spears!

When farming, we had 3 activities. We used tools to farm and turn the land over ready for planting. We wove wool to create fabric and ground grain to make flour.

We ended the day in a roundhouse, listening to a story around the fire.

Christingle Celebrations

3H enjoyed making their Christingles yesterday. We learnt all about what it represents. “The toothpicks represent the seasons” Amber. “The red tape represents Jesus’ blood” Dominik. “The candle represents Jesus” Leah. “The raisins represent the fruit” Dylan. “The orange represents the earth” Maisie.

We are looking forward to lighting our Christingles this afternoon!

Stig of the dump

3H have been thoroughly enjoying immersing themselves into the story of Stig and the dump by Clive King. Each day we read a few pages from the book and the children are fantastic at asking questions about the story, predicting what might happen next. We discuss vocabulary brilliantly and love to infer meaning form what we’ve read.

ACE Mathematicians

In maths, we have been learning about addition and subtraction of two numbers across a 10 and 100. We have been discussing the concept of exchanging. A fantastic example of our mathematical language is “You have to exchange to work out 5 – 8, so you need to exchange 1 ten for 10 ones which would mean the sum is now 15 – 8.”

We have been resourceful like Emmet using our practical equipment to help us add and subtract.

This afternoon 3H loved using the library to read a fantastic range of books and scan some out to take and read at home. We have learnt about how to take care of books and how to look after the library and it was wonderful to see them putting this into practice so brilliantly.

Super Scientists!

3H loved exploring the bones in the human body with the help of ‘Steve’.

Steve the skeleton

Steve showed us the different bones in our bodies and what their 3 main purposes are:

  • Supporting us, so we can sit, stand and move around
  • Protecting soft and delicate organs, such as the brain and lungs
  • Allowing movement. We could be supported and protected by a rigid skeleton but it wouldn’t be much use if we couldn’t move. There are different kinds of joints in different parts of the body

We had lots of fun using our bodies to dance along to a song all about bones and then using what we learnt to label the different bones in a skeleton.