November 2014

This term we have been learning our times tables, especially our 3s and 4s.  Our new topic is ‘Eat Up’ and we have been learning about how the body digests food.  In the playground we all joined together to pretend we were a piece of meat.  Then we were swallowed by a giant who digested us in his mouth, then his stomach and finally his small intestine.  On the way we began to split up and the nutrients were carried into the blood vessels and travelled around the body.   In Computing we have been solving problems and have become bug fixers.  In Geography we have been learning about where the cities, mountains and rivers are in the United Kingdom.  Birch Class have been busy writing some instructions and poems this term.  We have really enjoyed reading and watching Michael Rosen’s poems especially ‘Chocolate Cake’.  We wrote poems about animals and we wrote a class rhyming poem but it wasn’t quite as funny as Michael Rosen’s ones.  We have been trying to learn how to tell the time; sometimes we have tried to do this in Roman Numerals!  In Art we have painted some pictures about an autumn path. 

By Birch Class.

October 2014

Our topic is ‘Yabba Dabba Doo!’, which is about the Stone Age and Iron Age.  We have been learning about history and have made a Toilet Paper Timeline.  The Stone Age was 78 sheets ago (1 sheet equals 100 years) and the dinosaurs became extinct 2,166 rolls ago.  In Computing we have been learning how to program in Scratch and have made some animations.  We have been learning about volcanoes in Science.  We have researched why they erupt and how hot they are.  We have also learnt that the centre of the earth is 60 times hotter than boiling water.  In Maths we have been learning about 2D shapes and 3D shapes.  A 19 faced 3D shape is a nonadecahedron.  In Art we created caves and drew on the ceiling (it was really the underside of our desks!).  For English we are writing a story and it is based on ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’.  In all our learning we are trying to show a Growth Mindset.

 

Written by Year 3 - Oct 2014

Summer - Week 8

This term we had a trip to Cuffley Camp.  The first thing we did was the green man mask. We had a piece of paper each and a crayon. We put our paper on the bark and rubbed with the crayon and stuck leaves on. Our next task was to build a den out of trees. It had to be water proof and stable before we could go inside it. Our 3^rd task was the up and down challenge or you can call it under and over.  We had a great day and got very muddy.  Our topic this term is the World Cup and we are having a tournament with Year 4.  We are using the numbers from the World Cup in our Maths and writing World Cup poems in Literacy.

By Freddie and Jessica P

Summer - Week 5

We have been learning about rainforests as our topic. This has included the layers of the rainforest, which are the Emergent layer, canopy, understory and forest floor. We have been drawing pictures of rainforests and finding out about the animals and plants. In Maths we have been learning about the grid method and column subtraction.  In Literacy we have learnt about play scripts and we have written our class assembly.

By Kerry and Daniel

Spring - Week 10

On Monday and Tuesday we did maths on Time and then on Wednesday we played the time game.

http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/
In literacy we changed sentences from 1^st to 3^rd person sentences and planned our mythical adventure stories.

Then we did science we went on the mammal maker game
Mammal Maker game
 http://pearl.tvb.com/lifeofmammals/challenges/flash/maker.swf
Skeleton Jigsaw
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/games/skeleton_jigsaw/

Thursday we did some more of our story plan. On Friday we had Sports Relief and finally did are mythical stories and had movie night, which was amazing!

Jessica P and Tom

Spring - Week 9

In Literacy we have been learning about myths and legends. We have been looking at the myths of Daedalus and Icarus, Theseus and the Minotaur and Perseus. In Numeracy we are learning the compact method of column addition, however on Thursday we looked at a number problem. As our topic is Ancient Greece we have recently been looking at the ancient Olympics. In science we have been investigating the human body, we even learnt a song called ‘Name those Bones’.

By Eliza and William  

Spring - Weeks 7,8

We have been learning about myths and Folk tales. One of those was a story called Rama and Sita. We all acted it out and used signs and actions to remember the myths.

In topic we have been trying to think that Harpenden as a country (Harpendonia.)

In Numeracy we have been subtracting a 1 digit number from a 3 digit number.

On Tuesday we went to Wardown Park Museum and Mr Edney dressed up as a Hoplite (Greek soldier.)

By Jack and Amelie

Spring - Week 6

Last week we did fractions in Numeracy.  In Topic we had a debate about if we should go to war or not.

In Literacy we made a leaflet about Harry Potter Studios.  In Science last week we did our conclusion for our light experiment.  In Topic we did our posters about the UK.

By Neel and Ali

Spring - Week 5

On Monday we did Numeracy and we learnt about fractions. In Literacy we were learning about raps and Reports, it was great fun. After lunch we typed the raps out on the computer. On Tuesday we did guided reading .Next half the class went to the playground to do scooter training the other half of the class did numeracy, then it swapped around. Scooter training was about safety on scooters. After that we had lunch. When we came into the classroom we did Art, we drew posters that made people want to come to the UK. After that Mr Edney gave out letters and sent us home.

By Martha and Oliver

Spring - Week 4

On Tuesday we started with Numeracy , we were doing things we found difficult . Some people did rounding, some people did subtraction and some people did number problems.  After break we did Literacy.  In Literacy we were doing rap like poems and they were really fun to listen to. In the afternoon we were making our hall display, it was a map of Britain and Ireland.  You could choose from ,map drawing, making one of the five flags ,finding out about the highest mountains  in each region and other people got to find out about major cities or find out about the rivers. That was the best lesson this week by far! At the end of the day people got tired and just wanted to go home quickly.
                                       Written by Ben and Willow

Spring - Week 3

On Tuesday in Topic, because our Topic in literacy is the United Kingdom, we drew the flags the Union Jack, the flag of St Patrick, St Andrew and St George.  We drew them on a sheet of paper with the flags as landscape rectangles. We also learnt about how the Union Jack is made from the flag of St Patrick, St Andrew and St George. This week we have also started to do column addition in maths which was really fun.  We have been listening to poems and understanding what formal and informal   language means.  On Thursday, Jack’s dad came in to talk about Scotland and the Loch Ness monster called Nessie.   Mr Edney tried on a Scottish kilt.

                                                        Written by Tako and Erin

Spring - Week 2

This Monday we learnt are new topic which is light and shadow.  In light and shadow we wrote in one colour the things we knew and in another colour the questions we want to find out. In art we  were drawing pictures of sunsets.  In literacy we have been doing are own diary but the diary is an  animals.

Written by Will and Freya.

Spring - Week 1

This Tuesday we came back to school from the Christmas holidays and talked to each other about what we did. The rest of the week in maths we learnt about how to use number lines in different situations and we played some partitioning games. In literacy this Wednesday we were acting out a book about swapping. Our topic in literacy is recounts we wrote some in our lesson on Thursday.

This term our topic is the United Kingdom. We have done quizzes and coloured in maps all about our country. All the class work really hard in all their subjects.

Written by Lorenzo and Anastasia.