Class 3

We had an Ancient Egyptian day to finish our topic. We made our own Egyptian bracelets with different coloured beads, then had a Maths competition to see who could build the best pyramid from different materials. They were tested on strength, design and height. We played team PE games such as ‘The…

Today we talked about the meaning behind the different colours of poppies worn during November. We created our own poppy pictures to display at church during our remembrance service after half term. 
 

To start our Poetry week we listened to 4 pieces of music then sketched and described the imagery they created in our minds. They were all quite different! 
 

During PE we completed some team relay races. The leader of each team had to pick their favourite food and the number of laps each team had to do were determined by that, for example pizza was 1 lap whereas McDonalds was 3! We repeated for our favourite pudding and drink. We then realised the more…

This afternoon we all designed a poster for the Colwich Parish Council Christmas lights switch on next month. 
 

We have been investigating shadows in Science. We went outside at different times of the day and measured the length of our shadows. At one point, we thought that we were shrinking! We now know that our shadows are bigger at the start of the day and smaller in the middle of the day. When the sun…

We have started our computing sessions by learning about online safety. We began by watching a video about the ‘spaghetti tree’ in Switzerland that had a bumper crop! We were intrigued to learn more about this but then discovered it was a prank! It highlighted how easy it is to spread fake news…

In our History lesson, we learnt more about the Ancient Egyptian mummification process. We used a tomato to represent the human body and scooped out the seeds (which represented internal organs), before covering the inside of the tomato in salt to preserve it, just like the Egyptians did to…

We have been investigating shadows in Science. We positioned the torch at different distances from a whiteboard and marked where the shadow reached. We drew conclusions from our investigation that the further away the torch was, the bigger the shadow.  We will continue to investigate shadows next…

This morning we learnt a Harvest poem and creating art work to share at the Harvest service as we read the poem next week in church. 

 

We have enjoyed reading newspapers today! Not just to keep up to date with the latest world news, but to see how the layout is different to a fiction book. Next week we will study this further, before becoming reporters ourselves and writing a newspaper article from the 1922 discovery of…

In Science we have been discussing how the sun is a natural light source. We created an investigation to explore how we can be protected from UV Rays. We had UV beads which started off as white in the classroom. When we went outside, they changed to pink, purple or yellow due…