A highlight from this first week back after half term has to be the Mousehole Machine dance. Watch Y3 perfrorm their final dance piece to you below. They have spent lessons perfecting their machine like moves and ideas to create this wonderful final piece. Well done Mousehole class I'm super proud of you!
We had lots of Archie fun this morning with different activities and enjoyed parading in our outfits for St Anne's this afternoon. The children's and resident's smiles beamed from ear-to-ear.
Today has also been Safer Internet Day and we have learnt about the importance of telling a trusted adult when needed.
Number Day
Mousehole Class
had great fun exploring the patterns that are created with multiplications.
Using a circle that
had been divided into 10 equal spaces, we connected the digits based on the ones
number in a given times table i.e. 3, 6, 9 the 2 of 12, the 5 of 15, the 8 of
18 etc, until we returned to 0 (our starting point). Once we had completed the
2, 3 and 4 times tables and examined the shapes we had made, we then predicted
which pattern the 6 times table would match. We thought the 6s would match the
3s as we had learnt in previous maths lessons that the 6 times table is double
the 3. It turns out the 6s match the 4s. This puzzled us for a while until we
had completed the 7s (which matched the 3s) and the 8s (which matched the 2s).
We had a theory that the number bonds to 10 had the same patterns, so we completed
the 9s and 1s to see if they matched. They did. Mathematical magic!
Have a look at some of our fabulous entries for the Fowey Festival that we created this week. We took our learning of Haiku poems a step further by creating some new Haikus with the competition topic of 'Beaches'. We will be sending off our entries soon!
Mousehole class have been super when multiplying and dividing by 3 and 4 this week. Keep rehearsing at home! 'Hit the Button' is a great free online game to help repeat times tables at home!
It has been
a super start to the Spring term. We have started our new topic-‘What’s so
amazing about the Ancient Greeks?’ by constructing a timeline as a class about
the different eras within it. The children worked hard in groups to do this and
then presented the facts about their era.
In English,
we have starting our learning about Japanese Haiku poems-can your child tell
you how many lines and syllables they have? We have started our multiplication and
division unit in maths and will have a particular focus around multiplying and
dividing by 3, 4 and 8 over the next week.
We have
started to learn about the Hindu faith in RE and in art we are began our learning
by looking at who the sculpture Antoni Gaudi was.
We have
started our machines topic dance and there were some great robotic moves this
week!
Please see the document attached which shows our learning for this term.
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We have been full of festive cheer these last couple of weeks.
We decorated the classroom with the wonderful winter paintings and cards as well as the very sparkly pharaoh heads that the children all worked so hard on. They bring smiles and joy to all who visit the classroom (and to lucky us who have them decorating our walls).
Hunt the Issy, singing carols at St Anne's, visiting our Brunel Christmas tree decorations at the festival, Christmas lunch and of course the Christingle have packed our timetables with joy.
We have also been working hard on our adapted Aladdin stories and enjoying finishing our learning about the Ancient Egyptians. On the final days we shall put our DT plans into action by creating a working Shaduf with mechanisms.
To all of year 3: What a fantastic first term we have had. Enjoy the break and we will look forward to seeing you in the new year.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Look who has earnt their pen Licenses!!! Super work ethic and resilience has ensured that these 5 children have been the first to earn theirs this year.
Another fabulous week in Mousehole class. We enjoyed planting this week, Christmas crafts and continuing to rehearse our songs for the Christingle. We have continued to learn and recap column addition and subtraction in maths. In English, we have been learning how to write a traditional tale-with an Aladdin theme. In DT, we have learnt all about mechanisms and the Ancient Egyptian Shaduf. We have of course been learning lots more too!
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