Week Beginning 7/12/15

The Year 3 class blog this week is brought to you by Mia, Lucia and Ella; with a little help from Miss Palmer!
 
 
Maths
In maths this week, we have been measuring the perimeter  of 2D shapes. We also learnt
to use a ruler accurately by putting the ruler straight up against the object or line and making sure it starts at 0.  Also, we learnt to measure using decimal points. It looks like  a full stop. Miss Palmer taught us some actions to help remember the units we measure in. A mm is really small, a cm is small, a metre is quite big and a km is very long. We learnt to do adding with calculators which we enjoyed.

 

 

Literacy

We have been extending and adding description to sentences this week. We have been learning how to improve boring sentences. Our advice would be to:
1) Find a boring sentence.
2) Swap any words in the sentence with more powerful ones.
3) Then put in adjectives and adverbs.
4) Finally, if possible, add connectives and verbs to add more detail. 

We have been watching short animations like 'The Bear and the Hare' to inspire us with our work. We have also been learning the different uses for commas.

Geography

This week we learnt about physical and man-made features and how different areas have different features. We matched pictures of some famous features of the UK , like the Angel of the North and the Forest of Dean, with their names and then located them on a map using Google Earth.

 

Music

 

Music this week was very exciting as we got out our bows for the very first time. We learnt to hold them correctly by practising on a pencil. We could show you our holding technique at home! 

 

In other news...

The wring competition has been extended for an extra week, so get writing Year 3! We have had lots of story writing practice this half term. I hope to see some fantastic Year 3 entries.

Also, next week is shaping up to be an exciting week in the run up to Christmas. We are looking forward to watching the Early Years and Key Stage 1 Christmas performance next week and our school Christmas dinner on Wednesday. Also, we will be visiting the church on Thursday, so make sure you are wrapped up nice and warm for the walk down the road.