Autumn 1 - Surviving the Stone Age
Week 3
Well done to our Golden Book winners of the week. You are all super stars and we are extremely proud of you!
What a fantastic day 'Stone Age Day' was. We learned so much and had a great time! We are all now Stone Age experts! Thank you to all the efforts made with costumes. The children looked amazing!
We started off in our cave classrooms grinding chalk to create Stone Age drawings for our cave walls. We then created our own shell necklaces.
We then did different activities in the hall to help us ,earn how to hunt, gather and survive in the Palaeolithic era of the Stone Age.
We then moved to the Mesolithic period where we learned how to join materials together to make spears and become more efficient hunters.
Finally we travelled to the Neolithic period and learned about the first forms of farming. We built early shelters, used traditional cooking methods and had a go at milking the sheep.
In citizenship we worked together to create our ‘Class Agreement’. We thought about the values that we important to us as a class community and then made a promise to try and follow them by signing our names.
Week 2
We also had a very exciting assembly with Mr Wallis and the Walkley Sorting Hat where the children found out which of our four houses (Porter, Rivelin, Loxley and Sheaf) they were in
In English, we have been looking in detail at our class book, The Borrowers, and thinking about how Borrowers might use everyday objects to create useful household appliances. We have worked creatively and collaboratively to design and make 'Borrower' contraptions.
In maths we have been using part part whole models and base 10 to partition numbers to 100.
In art this week, we travelled back in time to the discovery of the prehistoric art of Lascaux cave. We imagined how it would feel to discover such an incredible sight and discussed how we thought the art might have been produced and which prehistoric animals were represented in the cave. We are looking forward to creating our own cave art over the next few weeks.
In PE we have been practising our skipping skills. We practiced balancing and jumping and then put these together to work on skipping.
In History, we have been thinking about our own timelines, to help us to understand how time is measured . We thought about significant events in our lives and chronicled these.
Week 1
Welcome to Year 3! What a fantastic first week the Borrowers have had. We started our year by reading The Day You Begin and talking about all the different emotions we might be feeling on the first day of school. We then drew self portraits and celebrated what makes us unique and individually amazing!
