You’ve all had a great year and I’ve really enjoyed teaching you. Thank you all for your hard work this year and for contributing so much to our class blog. Here are the final statistics!
With the end of year just around the corner and Year 4 looming, I thought it would be nice for us to collect our memories of Year 3. Write down what things you can remember or what you enjoyed doing this year.
We produced these pieces of artwork as part of our super hero writing week. We used a real photo of ourselves and collaged over it to create a costume. We then added text in the style of comic books.
Some children from our class were lucky enough to do a poetry workshop with Brian Moses. Afterwards, they taught us how to write an exaggerated simile poem.
Here is an example of one line.
My glorious gorilla is as talented as a singer doing backflips on a trampoline.
Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know about a free viking show which is taking place this weekend in Timperley (this is very close to Chorlton and South Manchester).
The show is part of the Altrincham Festival and takes place at the Timperley showgrounds on Saturday 2nd July. The Viking display starts at 1:30pm but there are other events beforehand.
I thought this might be a fun chance for you to see some ‘real life’ (of course it is people just pretending) vikings battling and there is even a chance for you to join in!
For more information about the Altrincham Festival, visit this website.
Today we created a chalk bug hunt on the paving outside our classroom. We drew lots of invertebrates, grass, leaves, flowers and other woodland features. Then, we left questions up for other people to answer about our work.
It was a nice opportunity to work outside of the classroom again and I was really impressed by the level of teamwork and communication on show.
Can you think of any other questions which we could ask people?
We began our lesson by looking at the shapes of tree. We decided that certain parts of trees looked like faces and we looked for interesting faces to share with our partners.
Then, we used clay to make face sculptures on the trees themselves. We added natural materials which we had found on the floor to give them more detail and character.
Madame Utting has informed me that there is a video of you all singing a French song on our French blog! Go and watch it, and leave a comment for Madame Utting!
You can follow the link at the side of the page or simply click here
Well done to our Stars of the Week this week;
Adam and Shaan for some excellent effort when writing their myths!
This week in Year 3
This week in Year 3 we have been writing myths. We looked at some examples of classic myths from Ancient Greece and from the Viking era, and used these as inspiration for our own stories.
We structured our stories by starting with a problem and ending with a solution. We drew story maps to help us plan our ideas and we developed them by adding notes.
Finally, after writing our myths, we shared them with our friends. We gave each other feedback, making sure we let our partner know what was good about their myth and also what could make it better next time.
As part of our viking topic we also made viking necklaces out of clay and Miss Anita made a fabulous Viking display for our classroom.