AFTER 1/2 TERM

When you come back from, what I hope was a lovely weeks holiday we have lots to do.

TOPIC - Straight away, we are going to get really stuck into our Mayan topic, to improve our history knowledge and skills. We will find out when they lived, what they created and what they believed in. After that, we will have a science focus with a a new topic called 'The Animal Kingdom'.

ENGLISH - We are going to study the stories of an author called Michael Foreman (have a look on our literacy blog page, for more information), he's great. We will also have another poetry day and look at letter writing, with some fun links to our topic.


MATHS - We will continue to develop our skills in mental addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will also do some work on measuring and data collection and have a concentrated look at working with fractions.

PE  We have the all important dance to create for our school production 'Around the world in 80 days' but we are very lucky to be having a PE specialist coming in once a week to work on your football skills with you. Don't forget your trainers and PE kit.

We will of course continue with our computer programming, French, RE and PSHE,

TOPIC - THE MAYANS

We are going to stay in South America for our new topic, the Mayans. The Mayan people were an ancient civilization who were just amazing. They invented all sorts of things. This video clip will explain more.

Literacy - Persuasive Posters

In year 3, we have been looking at the importance of the rainforest both to the native inhabitants and globally. Here are some of our posters about it.

           

LITERACY - NATIONAL POETRY DAY

On Thursday, as it was National Poetry Day, we dedicated our learning to the love of poetry, listening to it and writing our own poems.
We drew inspiration from the Amazon rainforest, with a focus on the Tarantula. To help us, we went exploring in the school grounds to find spiders to study carefully, within their natural habitat. This really helped us. Here we are rummaging in the undergrowth!

The tarantula's furry, pointy legs scattered across the floor like tingling fingers

It's dark, beady eyes shine and look like a demon flying in the dark sky

                                                 It's warm, furry body is as soft as                                                    a feather.

                                                by Deago, Lucas & Alfie