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Author: Miss Gledhill
What’s that sound? Does sound get louder or quieter the further away it is?
Year 3 investigated sound this week to see whether they could hear the same sound equally well the further away they moved from its source.
Mrs Neal blew her whistle and we moved further away from her down the path!
Sir Christopher Wren
Year 3 and 4 have been learning about Architects in their Topic lessons. This week Year 4 looked at Christopher Wren’s designs for St Paul’s Cathedral. They looked closely at 3 designs and decided which one was used for the final building.
They designed their own Cathedral and then constructed it using Lego or cardboard boxes. I hope you will agree they are really fantastic!
Year 3 Spellings 25th November 2022
We have been learning homophones this week (in bold)
The witch had a black hat.
Which football team do you support?
Where are you going on holiday?
She likes to wear her red shoes.
We were all having fun at the party.
They wrote their list for Santa.
Please put your bike over there.
They’re coming to our house to play.
Topic: Commenting on the work of famous architects.
We have been looking at the work of the famous architect Sir Christopher Wren today. He won the commission to design St. Paul’s Cathedral after it was destroyed in the Great Fire of London. His design was chosen by King Charles II. We have looked at Christopher Wren’s designs and compared them to a photo of the actual cathedral and made observations about both.
We then designed our own Cathedral.
Maths in Year 3
We have enjoyed working together in a group to solve number problems in maths this week.
We have been learning about place value and adding and subtracting ones, tens and hundreds. Sometimes we have had to exchange and using the number frames really helps.
What’s that Sound?
We have been investigating pitch in Year 3 Science today.
We used different sizes and shapes of container to see whether the pitch was different when we plucked the elastic bands.
Pitch is how high or low a sound is.
Volume is how loud a sound is.
It was great fun playing our elastic band guitars!
Spellings for Friday 18th November
continue
regular
popular
knew
rescue
would
really
with
Practice spellings with the ‘ue’ phoneme. Try writing some sentences using ‘ue’ words.
What’s that Sound? Science in Year 3
Year 3 have been physicists this half term. We have been exploring sound and this week we thought about vibration and how sound is produced.
We made music with our bodies and felt our voice boxes vibrate as we hummed and spoke.
In groups we experimented with vibration on drums. We could see the rice moving on top of the drum as we banged loudly, quietly, hard and softly.
Living and Learning: Anti-Bullying week in Year 3
On Monday we came to school in odd socks to start our week thinking about how we are all unique and different.
We discussed our school Junior Leadership Team’s definition of bullying and also what to do if we are being bullied. We used the acronym STOP
STOP
Bullying is: Several Times On Purpose
If you feel you are being bullied you should: Start Telling Other People
We looked at different scenarios and thought about whether the behaviour should be defined as bullying. We made some posters to display in the classroom to remind us all of what STOP means and we designed our own odd socks.
Year 3 were very thoughtful and respectful during these Living and Learning activities.