7 January 2015

World War 2

We have looked at some of the events leading to the start of World War 2. Here, Germany is bullying and invading Poland.

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15 December 2014

PARTY!

Christmas Party Time in Year 3!

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5 December 2014

Egyptian Death Masks

We have designed our own Egyptian Death Masks inspired by ones we have been studying from Ancient Egpyt.

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1 December 2014

dare I say it...CHRISTMAS!

After taking out the decorations, the children where given the chance to Christmas-fy the classroom. This is the resulting tree!

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28 November 2014

Chocolate Rocks!

Igneous rocks are formed when molten rocks cool to leave a glassy or shiny surface. As we couldn't heat rocks to 1200 degrees, the chocolate went into some hot water followed by cool water to create the effect.

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28 November 2014

Chocolate Rocks!

By holding the chocolate and squeezing it, we were able to create metamorphic rock. Typically by adding heat and pressure, metamorphic rocks have crystals or ribbon-like layers.

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28 November 2014

Chocolate Rocks!

We have talked about how rocks are formed and by grating milk and white chocolate, we were able tried all three ways! 

Sedimentary rocks are formed when layers of sediment are compacted together. 

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14 November 2014

Marvellous Medicine

We added a number of ingredients to make a marvellous medicine - inspired by Roald Dahl's story. Ingredients included baking soda, tomato sauce, jelly crystals, honey, mud, leaves, carrots, salt, vinegar and many more. As you can see, it did have a strange smell...

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12 November 2014

Printing

We have been using classroom objects to print pictures. The choice was a robot, car or house. Which is this?

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17 October 2014

Density!

We threw different objects into our cylinder. The three liquids we used were Sunflower Oil, Water and Honey. Here you can see lentils have already passed through the oil and are on their way down through the water.

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10 October 2014

Shape Sorting

Year 3 have been looking at shape properties and sorting accordingly. Can you work out where a square would go?

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1 October 2014

Year 3 Skateboarding afternoon!

Balance, skill, ollies, races...We had it all as we got to grips with a plank of wood with wheels!

Check out 'Year 3 Skateboarding' in the Photo Gallery for more pictures!

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