Today year 3 had a lovely day out at the Roald Dahl Museum at Great Missenden. We heard all about Roald Dahl’s life and about how he wrote his stories. We enjoyed looking at all the exhibits, dressing up as some of the characters, designing our own characters, making mini films, creating our own poems, and much more. After the museum we made our way up to the chuchyard to see Roald Dahl’s grave, and as we walked along the High Street we looked at some of the places that inspired his stories. Finally we spent a happy half hour at the local park, despite the snow!
Thanks to the kind parents who gave up their time to accompany us on our trip!
We have been working hard this term at lots of different activities.
In Literacy we have been reading The Twits by Roald Dahl and writing our own chapters; we have also written book reviews. We have now started reading Charlie and the Chocolate factory, which we are finding very exciting!
In Maths we have been learning about rounding and ordering numbers, about odd and even numbers and numbers that add up to 10, 100 and 1000. We also have a new shop in the classroom where we can practise using money.
In PE we have been doing gymnastics, working out different shapes and balances. In geography we are looking at the local area; we have used ICT to edit text and to copy and paste pictures and maps of the area into a word document. With our year 5 buddies we are designing our own banners to highlight the local community for the Olympics.
Happy New Year to all year 3 families!
Please read the attached newsletter to find out what we will be doing this term.
Spring Term Newsletter
This morning we enjoyed a sports session led by Phil from Apex Sports. We played lots of exciting team games!
This week in Buddy time, Year 5 started teaching Year 3 the art of speed stacking! Year 5 planned their first lesson together and then gave their buddy an introduction to speed stacking with rules and handy hints, then they progressed onto the first activity. Year 5 were working on their leadership skills and needed to show team work, communication skills and patience!
For homework this week, children in year 3 were asked to make a pyramid. They could use paper, card, clay … or anything else they could think of that was suitable. The children produced a fabulous variety of structures. Some of the pyramids were indeed made of card, paper or clay, while others were made of lego, saltdough, playdough…and even sugar! Well done to all the children!
In our topic on Ancient Egypt we have been learning about the different ways in which dead bodies were preserved. We carried out an experiment to find out the best way to preserve a piece of apple. We left slices of apple in four places to see what would happen:
1. In an open pot. 2. In a closed pot. 3. In a pot of sand. 4. In a pot of salt.
We watched for 2 weeks to see what changes would take place and we found that the apple in the closed pot was the best preserved, although the apple in the pot of salt was the best colour!
We were totally overwhelmed by the very creative entries for our Olympic dish homework competition! It gave the teachers a very tough job deciding on an overall winner! We had some class winners who recieved a 2012 pin badge, 4 highly commended entries and an overall winner, whose entry has gone through to represent our school in the competition.
Highly commended – Sasha T YR, Ryan B Y3, Chelsea H Y4 and Kim B Y6
Overall winner – Owen P Y5
Well done to everyone who entered, all of the entries are displayed in our library, so come in and have a look!
We have been looking at patterns around the home. Some of us have drawn or photographed a great variety of different patterns.
This morning year 3 children travelled back in time to visit the tomb of Tutenkhamen. They had to crawl through long, dark tunnels before arriving in the chamber of the king, which was full of gold , jewels and other treasures. In groups the children then rehearsed and performed poems about their journey, each wearing their Ancient Egyptian jewelled collars.
