Our classrooms have become a little more festive this week, with Christmas decorations.
This week in English, we have been continuing to look at the Pied Piper book. We have enjoyed reading the book, discussing its vocabulary, and making inferences about the characters. This then led to a class debate over whether the Pied Piper should be paid. Both sides made convincing arguments and were able to debate the ideas they had previously written about in their books. We did conclude that he should be paid as ‘he was working really hard’ and the mayor ‘has enough money’.
In maths, we have moved on to shapes, starting with polygons. We discovered that they were 2D shapes with straight edges. Then we looked at the difference between parallel and perpendicular lines and identified them within shapes. We also looked at the names of shapes and their properties (vertices and interior angles). We also had a go at accurately drawing 2D shapes with a ruler, and it turned out that holding it straight was the most challenging part of the week.
Within RE this half term, we have been looking at Christianity and some of the sacred stories in the Bible. We have begun to compare Christianity with our previous unit on Islam. In science, we have continued looking at the human body. Our primary focus this week was the functions of the skeleton, structure, protection and movement. Alongside this, we have been combining our Iron Age history topic with our art lessons.
We have our recorder concert on Monday, 15 December, so if the children could bring their recorders into school for the next week, we can practise together as a class. Please let us know if there are any issues locating your recorders.
The homework and spellings are on Google Classroom as usual. If you would like a paper copy, there will be some on the tables outside the classrooms.
We hope you have a lovely weekend.
From the Year 3 team.
