St John the Baptist CE VA Primary School Year 3

It has been a busy week in year 3. We have been looking at poems and how to use interesting vocabulary when writing poems. In art we enjoyed moving the charcoal in different ways to see what effects we could make. In maths we have been learning how to find differences in numbers. We enjoyed playing a game using counters and numbers within 20 to find the difference. If our number was the largest we won a point.

This week  Year 3  have enjoyed becoming newspaper reporters in order to write our very own newspaper reports. We have also role played different scenarios to remind us of what it is like to be a good friend in PSHE. In art we used a variety of skills to create an atmospheric scene for characters using charcoal. We re-called all the techniques we have learnt so far as well as using a torch to form a shadow around the figures we were using for our atmospheric scences.

In year 3 this week in English we have been continuing to look at recounts. The children have particularly enjoyed looking at a range of newspaper reports as well as engaging in The Real Story Of The Three Pigs. They have learnt how to analyse a newspaper report for its key features.

In year 3 this week the children have enjoyed looking at how we report information. They have enjoyed looking at a variety of newspaper articles and learning what is needed to create a newspaper report.

In art the children explored different ways of using charcoal within their drawings. They discovered what happened when they incorporated movement within their drawings.

This week in Year 3 the children have been settling into their new routines.

In English, we have been looking at fables. The children learnt what a fable is and why they have morals. The children enjoyed creating posters containing the key features of a fable.

In Science, the children discussed and explored what is a liquid and what is a solid. They learnt that a liquid can change shape and a solid can’t. They learnt that a viscous liquid is a thick sticky fluid that does not flow easily.