We have had a busy but lovely week in Year 3! It has been so nice to have the sun shining down upon us…we have managed to get outside lots and enjoy the weather. The children have worked really hard this week and it is nice to see the children maturing as we come closer towards the end of their Year 3 journey. I can’t believe we’re nearly in May! We continue to have lots of discussions together each week around kindness, respectfulness and maturity. In particular, we are focusing on kindness lots at the minute. I am trying to instill in the children how important it is to treat others how we want to be treated. If we can do this, we will not only be happier in ourselves but we will also make the people around us happier too.
What we have been up to this week
English - we have done some super writing this week! The children wrote two letters of application for the job of Chief Roman Investigator. They had some help from me with the first letter; however they completed the second letter independently. I was very impressed as the children remembered where to use conjunctions in their writing.
Maths - we have used our knowledge of multiplication and division facts to solve some problem solving questions.
Science - we carried out an investigation as to how water is transported through a plant. We also completed a Science test to mark the end of our Plants topic.
History - we took our Roman shields outside and created some Roman Army formations (see pictures below!).
R.E. - we started a new topic - The Eucharist. We began by learning about the events of The Last Supper.
Art - we learnt about the artist Romero Britto with Mrs Gibbons and created some artwork based on his style.
Music - we started our Music lessons with Miss Benson again. The children recapped their A and B notes ready to learn G next week!
Certificates
Here are our award winners for this week:
Golden - Joseph
Writing - Avie
Maths - the whole class!
Well done everyone!
Cape of Pride
Well done to Rion who had the opportunity to wear the cape of pride this week. There are lots of exciting privileges to be had for those children chosen to wear the cape so I will be keeping my eye out next week for some more children to wear it!
Headlice
Please continue to be vigilant and check your child’s hair regularly for any signs of lice.
Curiosity boxes
Most of the class have today brought home a Curiosity Box which were kindly donated to school. The boxes will either have a theme of ‘Amazing Earth’ or ‘Deadly Creatures’. They are filled with fantastic resources and investigations for your child to complete. I would love to see pictures of anything you do at home so please send these to me on Class Dojo! There were sadly a few children who missed out as we didn’t have a full class set (to make it fair I drew names out of a pot) but what was so lovely was other children in the class then donated their boxes to every one of the children who didn’t receive a box. I was blown away by this act of generosity! I have promised those children that when we next receive anything similar in to school they will be the first ones on the list to receive the treat.
Have a lovely and sunny weekend,
Miss Heim-Sarac
