Year 3
Welcome to our final term in Year 3!
This half term we will be learning all about our local history and seeing a very important building. We are covering gymnastics in PE which I know some of you will really enjoy. Our Science this half term is all about light and shadows and we will be carrying our some interesting experiments to go with that.
We have a slight change of timetable to note:
On Thursday morning Mr Mulock will be doing your PE first thing in the morning and then you'll be doing Science after that, so you'll need to make sure you have your PE kit with you for that first session.
I hope you've all had a lovely Easter break and are looking forward to more learning this half term.
Landmark of the Week Summer 1 Week 3- you should recognise this church......
Landmark of the Week Summer 1 Week 1. All the landmarks this half term will be focussed on local buildings you should hopefully recognise. This week we're not going very far at all for this beautiful building........Vincent correctly identified Ashton Town Hall, but it took a while:)
Welcome back Year 3!
I hope you all had a restful half term because we've got lots of new learning for this half term. We will be writing stories in English and continuing our leaning in multiplication and division in maths. Our Geography topic this half term in Our World which should be exciting as we'll be making some interesting things to go with it. Please remember to check on Purple Mash for your homework as you know it earns you merits for completion.
Let's get started!
Landmark of the Week Spring 2 Week 6. This very famous fountain can be found in Rome.........
Landmark of the week Spring 2 week 5. We have a natural landmark this week that is very famous in song as well as in life..........Amy got the White Cliffs of Dover this week.
Landmark of the Week Spring 2 Week 4. This week we're much closer to home and just across the Irish Sea.........We had three people got this landmark this week and it is the Laxey Wheel in the Isle of Man. It is also the largest working water wheel in the world!
Landmark of the Week Spring 2 Week 3. This week we're going much further away to Peru and a quite recently discovered, hidden village..... this was a tough one but Vincent got there in the end and discovered that this is Machu Pichu in Peru.
Landmark of the Week Spring 2 Week 2. This week we're off around the world to a very famous landmark which I'm hoping you'll all recognise, so the first to come to me with the name and the place will get the pompoms.......Abbygail very quickly recognise the Eiffel tower in Paris.
Landmark of the week Spring 1 Week 7. This week we're off to Rome........ so nobody correctly identified this very famous building in Rome- it is of course St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City in Rome. This was first first site of the very first Christian church.
Landmark of the Week Spring 1 Week 6. This week we're off to Paris and an extremely famous museum. To get this one I'll need its French name.......Vincent again got that this very famous structure is the entrance to the equally famous Louvre in Paris.
Landmark of the Week Spring 1 Week 5. This week we're off to Brazil for a very famous statue...... This week 3 people came to me at the same time with the answer as Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro Brazil and the three people were Amy- Leigh, Chloe and Vincent.
Landmark of the Week Spring 1 Week 4. This landmark is in France but has a twin in England.......Vincent got this one and it's Mont Saint Michel in France the twin of St Michael's Mount in Cornwall.
Landmark of the Week Spring 1 Week 3. This one is a famous church inside the Arctic circle and took over 20 years to build! Nobody got this week's landmark so I'll tell you it's Hallgrimskirkja which is in Reykjavik the capital city in Iceland.
Landmark of the Week Spring 1 Week 2. This famous building is all the way down under....... Vincent got the Sydney Opera House in Sydney Australia.
Happy New Year everyone!
I hope you had a very happy and restful Christmas and New Year and are all ready for a brand new year and a brand new term.
This half term we will be learning all about how to write newspapers and how the climate affects us and the world. We will also be learning about climate change and how it affects people and animals around the world.
Our maths is going to focus on all our basic skills of addition and subtraction alongside learning times tables to make doing maths a lot easier.
You will, of course be continuing all your hard work reading at home and completing homework especially the additional learning for our topic, spellings and making sure you go on TTRockstars every day.
Our landmarks will be based around famous building worldwide so you'll need to look carefully at all the clues given to you here on the website.
Remember you can all access Purple Mash and Big Club to help with your learning.
Our PE lessons will be on Wednesday and Thursday as usual and you will need to make sure all jewellery is removed ( especially earrings) and that you have full kit including footwear - either pumps or trainers.
I hope you enjoy all the great things planned over the next few weeks.
Happy Half Term to Christmas!
I hope you all had a restful half term and are now ready to continue learning. This term we are continuing to study all about the past and are looking at the Bronze Age and Iron Age and what changed at this time. We are also going to learn all about how our bodies move and are protected along with how to keep ourselves healthy for a long and happy life. Our Spanish this half term is all about counting to 15 and saying your age.
Our main books this half term are The Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura which will be our guide to writing our own Stone Age adventure. We will also be reading Charlotte's Web for our class novel.
I will also be setting homework which will be spelling, comprehension and maths and will be linked to your learning in class. Homework is set on Monday and Friday and is expected in on Friday and Monday.
Our PE this half term will be on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. It is advisable to bring PE kit in at the beginning of the half term and take it home for washing at the end of the half term.
Every week there will be a new landmark of the week that will appear here as well as in class. The landmarks are usually based on our history or geography topics and this half term all the landmarks are based in our history topic and so are ancient monuments.
If you have any queries you can email me at: year3@stmartinscofe.com.
Landmark of the Week Autumn 2 Week 6. This is another ancient stone ring in Orkney.....
Landmark of the Week Autumn 2 Week 5. This is another one on Orkney but you might need to do some research on this ring of stones.......Amy researched carefully and found out this is the Brodgar Ring of Stones in Orkney.
Landmark of the Week Autumn 2 Week 4. This week is a very famous village that you should all recognise........Vincent very quickly recognised the prehistoric village of Skara Brae in Orkney.
Landmark of the Week. Autumn 2 Week 3. This week we're off to Wales and a very famous King's table.......Amy correctly identified King Arthur's Table.
Landmark of the Week Autumn 2 Week 2. This week we're going back to ancient times again with an example of Stone Age ingenuity. This landmark is said to be thousands of years old and is carved out of the chalk rock.......Amy and Chloe both correctly identified the Uffington White horse carve out of the chalk lrock.
Landmark of the Week Autumn 2 Week 1. This week we are going way back in time to one of Britain's most famous ancient monuments......Stonehenge was correctly identified by Evianna this week.
Landmark of the Week Autumn 1 Week 7. This week we're still in London and another famous landmark.......Aurora correctly identified the National Gallery with a little help from her friends.
Landmark of the Week Autumn 1 Week 6. This week we're staying in London and going to another really famous building - Vincent got that this is Trafalgar Square but what is the large column and statue?
Landmark of the Week Autumn 1 Week 5. This week you're looking at a very famous cathedral............Vincent recognised St Paul's Cathedral almost straight away!
Landmark of the Week, Autumn 1 week 5. This week is another very famous historic London landmark which I'm hoping will be a very easy one...........Thomas recognised Tower Bridge this week.
Landmark of the Week Autumn 1 Week 4. This week you'll recognise this building but can you get the name right....... Think about last week's landmark. Vincent got this week's Westminster Palace which is commonly known as the Houses of Parliament.
Landmark of the week Autumn 1 Week 3. This week we have a very famous London landmark which is also very, very old and was built in 960 AD. Lots of royal marriages and some burials have taken place here. Unfortunately, nobody got this week's landmark so I'll have to tell you ..... It's Westminster Abbey where sixteen royal weddings have taken place along with being the burial site of over 3300 people including 16 monarchs, and 8 Prime Ministers.
Landmark of the Week Autumn 1 Week 2. This week is a very important and very old building built by one of our French kings and is a place where many royals had their heads' chopped off! Vincent correctly identified the Tower of London built by William the Conqueror in 1066.
Landmark of the Week Autumn 1 week 1. This is a very famous person's house which was immediately recognised by Thomas as Buckingham Palace where the Queen lives.
