Year 3 blog

Today we have made simple, compound and complex sentences. We thought of an example of each and had to guess who was the conjunction, noun and verb in each sentence. I was a narrator who told the whole sentence to the rest of the class. We stuck postit notes on each other. It was sooooo fun!

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On World Book Day we dressed up as our favourite book character. We had fun drawing and colouring book covers and book marks for a competion.The whole day was magnificent!!!! We went around the school listening to stories and doing activities based on the story, each teacher picked a different…

Today we have been looking at how rocks change over time. We were shaking bottles of water with rocks in to show weathering and erosion. Some of the pieces broke off.

By Josie

We have been learning about fossils. We found out that fossils can be insects trapped in tree sap, they can be leftover waste from animals and they can be created when animals get trapped under the pressure of layers of Earth. We used salt dough to create our own dinosaur fossils. These could be…

Today we have been looking at pictures of cave art. We have used pastels to draw our own cave art. We  needed to concentrate and work hard. We spray painted our hand prints to show the work belonged to us. Here is my picture of a fox. 

By Megan

This week we have been learning about muscles. We know that they work in pairs. When one contracts the other relaxes. They always pull and never push. We made models of our arms to show this.

By Molly and Anesha

This week is national anti-bullying week. We have been looking at how glitter is just like our words. We had a competition to see if we could pass glitter along a line of people without any of it going on the floor or getting stuck to our hands. None of us managed to achieve this! We thought about…

We have been learning all about Remberance Day and why we wear poppies. We have made a poppy wreath and written our own poem inside each wreath. They are very impressive! 

Here is an example of just one of the fantastic poems created by the children: 

'Millions of people join…

Today we were making 3D shapes out of playdoh. We learned new names of different 3D shapes. We also learned about edges,vertices and faces. IT WAS DOH MUCH FUN!!! 

By Callum and Sadie.

During our Skelmersdale topic we went on to the field and thought about where a sculpture would fit and how it would stand out. We looked at different patterns and lines and designed a sculpture for our town. We built our sculptures with different materials. We used papier mache and then painted…

We have been making human features in our local area and we have had lots of fun making them.  We had to make it look like the real place.  It was a bit hard.

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Olivia , Olivia and Grace

Today we made some medicines from the book George's Marvellous Medicine. We were learning about Roald Dahl. We put some strange ingredents into a bowl and wrote instructions to make granny better.

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Nieve