3H have been so engrossed in their arts fortnight this week. It has been brilliant has been to see their creativity shine!

Continuous line drawings

They started off their warming up with some continuous line drawing of Icelandic landscapes

Tie dying fabric

Then they worked together to tie dye fabric.

Cold and warm colour palettes

They sectioned off an A3 piece of cartridge paper into 4 parts. Two opposite parts are cool colours and the other are warm. They then drew abstract shapes to represent this i.e. spiky lines for ice and smooth lines to represent lava flow.

Once this was done, they set to work using what they had learnt about cold and warm colours to add to their piece.

Take a look at some of the pieces with their first layer on.

They then used pencils, felt tips and oil pastels to add depth to their pieces.

Sketchbooks

They spent time creating a land of fire and ice page in their sketchbooks. They cut out textile art images and labelled them as well as drew cold and warm colour palettes.

Soundscapes

They worked together to compose soundscapes based on a video and backing track using graphic notation and choosing instruments based on their timbre.

Textile art

From there, they began to sew and stitch beads onto their colour palettes.

Tie dye

They spent all of Friday working so hard on adding texture to their tie dye. They explored different pieces of fabric and cut out designs, sewed them on and then stuffed some of them to create a relief.

Here are beginnings of some textile art work onto tie dye.

Of course, they have also been practicing their dance all week however we don’t want to spoil the surprise! We look forward to seeing you all next Friday to see all of their brilliant hard work.

This afternoon 3H finished off their art unit with some lovely arctic animal sketches.

A big part of this half term has been our DT learning. We have each made our pair of mittens!

Last week Year 3 were looking at division. They used resources to help them to help them explore the concept of remainders.

This morning 3H explored parts of Adel Woods as part of their Roots and Routes project.

We started by exploring sounds in the forest, listening for what we can hear and then recreating them. Then used our sounds to create a rhythm as a class. We spent time exploring things we can find in the forest to make sound.

After exploring the sounds of the forest we moved to meet an Indian dancer to explore movement.

Year 3 have been listening to Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev. We spent the afternoon using the Chromebook’s to research about his life.

In maths, 3H have been looking at multiplying a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number. We have spent quite a few lessons exploring this concept in different ways. Here are some of them showing the grid method and column method during their independent work. They have been so resourceful in their learning this week!

Today in science we have been investigating light.

We picked our partners and used torches to investigate items in the classroom and whether they are transparent, translucent or opaque.

Here are some photos of our investigation.

3H had a DT day! Previously, we had designed our mittens. Then we had measured out the mittens to our hands and cut them out. Today, we started off by cutting out our designs and then we began to sew the designs on to our mittens.

Before sewing, we discussed the learning journey that we were about to embark on and how we might feel and be able to help ourselves throughout the process.

This morning was the start of our Roots and Routes project! We started the morning in the dance hall exploring movement and creating letters.

Then we talked about Ivan’s journey through the icy forest and acted out the different animals he might find along the way in groups. We focussed on our senses, exploring what he might feel or hear at different points. We created the beginnings of a map.

Back in the classroom we discussed line, shape, texture and shade. Then we took our viewfinders outside to capture parts of nature and sketch them.

Finally we returned to the classroom to finish our sketches.