Willow (Year 3): Blog items
Willow Spring One, Week 2, by Miss Farrall
Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 3:29pm
This week we have been having fun in maths and learning through a story called 365 penguins. The children have really enjoyed solving problems linked to the story and needed to use their times tables knowledge to work out how to store all of the penguins in equal groups. They also worked out how many penguins there would be for christmas dinner, how many penguins there would be on their birthday as well as how many penguins there would be at the end of each month of the year.
We learned a rhyme to help us remember how many days each month has:
30 days has September, April, June and November...
In science, we have been keeping an eye on our plants daily to see how they have grown. We have been making some great statments about what our results have shown us. We have also looked at how water is transported through a plant using celery and coloured water, and disected a flower to examine its parts.
Next week, we will begin our new Geography topic: UK discovery. We also have a young author coming into school on Wednesday to tell us all about a book he has written!
Willow Spring 1 Week 1, by Miss Farrall
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 3:57pm
What an exciting and snowy first week back!
The children have all been super excited to share stories about their time off over the christmas holidays and have thrown themselves back into their learning.
In our reading and writing lessons, the children have began to read The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. They have really enjoyed the beginning of the story and are eager to find out what will happen next. We will continue reading this book over the half term and children have begun to write their own versions of the opening of the story. Some amazing decriptive work has been shared so far!
In Maths, we are focussing on methods of written division. Although this is a difficult topic (especailly for the first week back) I have been so proud of how determined the children have been to master this!
Afternoons this week have been filled with French (we are learning the numbers to 50), Science and PE.
In science, the childen have created their own investigation to discover if a seed will grow without one of its basic needs (air, water, nutrients, room to grow and sunlight). The children were very excited to plant their seeds and we will be obsvering them over the coming week to see if any of them grow into plants. Please have a look at some of the pictures below of the children planting their seeds!
Next week is maths week in school - we will be learning maths through a story called 365 penguins (imagine one penguin turned up at your house every single day for the next year! Where would you keep them all? How much food would you need to buy?). We will also be holding a TTRockstars battle to see who our times tables experts are and there will be a special homework task set on seesaw so please keep your eyes peeled for that.