Author: Mrs Pelc
Exploring Capacity
Class 3 have had a fun but wet morning exploring capacity!
We had a range of different sized containers and were focusing on carefull pouring (this was tricky!) and accurate reading of the scale to find out the volume of each container.
Some of the larger containers proved challenging as…
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 16 March 2018
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
Class 3 SITE Project
This half term Class 3 have begun an exciting SITE project, they will learn all about forces and magnets in Science and use and apply this knowledge to designing and making a magnetic toy, drawing on DT and ICT skills along this journey.
Class 3 will be making their toys for children in Class…
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 8 March 2018
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
Class 3 - Learning Log Challenge!
Class 3 were given a learning log challenge of making a 3D map of the local area, showing both human and physical features.
The results were amazing and we wanted to share them.
Well done to everybody for the effort you put in at home with this project!
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 6 March 2018
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
Science and DT Project
In science this half term Class 3 are taking on an exciting challenge, we will be learning about magnets and using the new knowledge we gain to undertake a DT project in which each child will design a toy for reception class. These toys will be evaluated and carefully planned before we make them…
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 1 March 2018
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
Soil Investigation
Class 3 have enjoyed putting their knowledge of rocks and soils to the test and investigating the permeability of soil from around the school grounds. Working in groups, the children selected an area of the school grounds to investigate, gathered their samples and set up an investigation back in…
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 1 March 2018
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
Chinese New Year Celebrations
Class 3 were very busy celebrating Chinese New Year on Friday 23rd. The day began with the retelling of the Chinese New Year zodiac story, in which we had some fabulous acting for a reenactment, especially from our poor cat Sonny who did not make it to the finish line on time!
After listening…
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 1 March 2018
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
Class 3 Build our own skeletons!
The children have enjoyed building their own skeletons and labelling them. After addressing a few upside down ribs and some muddled up leg and arm bones we had one completed skeleton per group! We then went on a scientific name hunt and added them to our skeletons too.
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 3 December 2017
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
Class 3 - Stone age shelters
We brought our baskets back into the classroom and showed fantastic teamworking skills to build our stone age shelters.
We even brought some uninvited guests back into the classroom with us, thank goodnes Ben and Toby were there to return the woodlice and spiders to their actual…
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 19 November 2017
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
Class 3 gather materials for making stone age shelters!
On Friday we were set the challenge of building stone age shelters using only natural ,materials that we could find outside.
Our first task was to gather these materials, so we wrapped up and set out with baskets to fill!
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 19 November 2017
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
Class 3 made the digestive system!
In science we followed a set of instructions to make our own digestive system.
First we added a cream cracker, banana and orange juice (which represents stomach acid) into the
plastic sandwich bag which represented our stomach. Then we added water, which represented saliva.
We had to…
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 8 November 2017
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
Class 3 PE
As part of our dance unit this half term we have been learning some Halloween yoga poses.
We listened to a spooky story and used our bodies to make the shapes of the characters mentioned in the story.
Then we started to learn the Thriller dance rountine which we are quite brilliant at!
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Posted by Mrs Pelc on 20 October 2017
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
Class 3 Science
Class 3 enjoyed dissecting lily flowers in science. They matched each part up to the correct scientific name and enjoyed learning how to say them!
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 20 October 2017
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3