Hare Class Y3
Welcome to Hare Class!
A place where we are; friendly , respected, explorers, scientists, mathematicians, artists, authors and so much more!
Important Websites:
Purple Mash website: https://www.purplemash.com/sch/northpetherton
EdShed website: https://play.edshed.com/login
Weekly spellings now live on Spelling Shed.
Accelerated Reader: https://ukhosted53.renlearn.co.uk/1894260/
Times Tables Rockstars:https://ttrockstars.com/
Prodigy Maths game: https://www.prodigygame.com/
David Walliams is releasing a free audio book every day for a month listen here
- https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/
North Petherton Animal and Bronze Spelling challenges (Sorry for the poor quality, I will be able to get better copies once I have been in school by the end of the week): https://app.classkick.com/#/login/QETG35
Home Learning
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Daily Home Learning |
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English - Friday 3rd April
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On Purple Mash, look at the 2 do ‘Easter Story’. Watch the video.
Design and make an Easter card for someone in your family.
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There are lots of templates and ideas on Twinkl if you need some help! Alternatively have a look at the videos below – https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/cbeebies-house-easter-card?collection=spring
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Maths activity – Friday 3rd April
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https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/ Clink on the link for White Rose Maths above. Watch the video on week 1, lesson 3 – tenths.
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Next to the video there is an activity box. Please complete the activity. Please discuss the answers with someone at home. |
Other activities – Friday 3rd April
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Some mindfulness… Can you design your own egg? Have a look at the example below.
We have also prepared an additional activity for you today, it’s time to have some fun! Look in the Home Learning Folder and find the instructions for the Easter Egg Hunt. You can try both the KS1 and KS2 hunts – they are both a lot of fun! Even better, if you have a younger brother or sister, you could help read each clue so they can have fun too!
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| Monday | Music lessons |
| Tuesday |
PE Forest School (children will change every half term) |
| Wednesday | Music lessons |
| Thursday | PE Maths homework due in Spelling homework due in |
| Friday | Maths homework handed out Spelling homework handed out |
Iron Age Day - We re-created life in the Iron Age by making names and flags for our tribe, gathering our supplies of iron ore, grain and livestock and battling for more. We also talked about why the Celts would trade and what jobs they would have had.
World book day 2020. Well done to everyone who helped make today fantastic. We had some creative words and clever costumes. We celebrated our words with a vocabulary parade, playing group games by finding our word classes, making human nonsense sentences and much more. We even made word family board games and played each others. Who knew you could have so much fun with words?
This is us trying to re-create our class novel ‘Stone Age Boy’ through cave paintings. It was surprisingly difficult!
Wow, what a fun day we had yesterday in Cheddar Gorge. We were very lucky with the weather!
We looked at the rock formation of a cave. In it we saw the cave was made from sedimentary rock which we know are layers of crumbled rock and dead animals compressed over time. We discussed the Calcite which forms the ‘font’ and ‘Paul’s cathedral’ in Gough’s cave. We also learnt a little about stalactites and stalagmites as we ventured further into the cave. Many of us found it strange how the cheddar man was found in the cave and tried to imagine his life in the cave.
In the museum we handled skulls of various animals including a badger and a cow. We learnt how Neolithic people would have fished and even got to try on some of the animal skins so we looked the part. Petra explained how they would have made fire using King Edward cakes and an interesting tool.
After lunch we had one more activity which meant climbing Jacob's ladder and the observation tower. There were so many steps that most of us gave up counting. Once up on the gorge we could see a reservoir and Coombe quarry. We wondered if this is where they may have started to mine copper ore and tin at the start of the Bronze age.
It was dark in Cox's cave and a little scary at times but we watched the story of the Stone age in different parts of the cave. We enjoyed listening to the stories of our ancestors and experiencing how they lived. It was a great trip!
In our class we have been learning about the pebble in my pocket and drew our own volcanoes. We are also going on a school trip to Cheddar Gorge on Wednesday the12th of February.
Good luck to these 4 runners representing Hare class in the cross country today. Good luck from all of us.
We are using the fantastic book ‘a pebble in my pocket’ this fortnight in English. Through poetry, art, drama and science we are exploring the journey of a pebble
We have been learning about fossils in science. Could you find a fossil along the Jurassic coast? Take a family trip to Lyme Regis and pretend to be Mary Anning and her father searching for fossils.
Thank you Elsie for sharing your baking with us. The cookies were beautifully decorated and delicious! Hare class wish you good luck with your cooking badge in Brownies.
The children have been looking at M C Escher in Art. Here are some of Year 3’s tessellations.
After researching the different types of houses in the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic era we decided to recreate one.
A preview of some of our amazing ‘first hunt’ stories.
For the next fortnight in english, we will be a child in the Stone Age. We will experience how it feels to live out in the cold, sit around a fire telling stories and create our own weapons. All in preparation for our first hunt.
What an eventful week we have had! A visitor from the Stone Age, making woolly mammoths and writing creative instructions to wash our woolly mammoths.
Key question of the week...
Can you explain the Hanukkah story?
Key Vocabulary:
King Antiochus
Judah Maccabee
temple
oil
menorah
8 days and nights
Reminder: Year 3 and 4 parents are invited to the Key Stage 2 Carol service at St. Mary's Church for a 2.00pm start, Monday 9th December. We look forward to seeing you there.
Our last Hanukkah entry... noodle kugel
Next up in the great Hanukkah bake off... potato laksa
Today a group of us made Sufganiyot. (Jam Doughnuts!) We all agreed they were extremely tasty!!
We made Challah bread today. It was delicious!
Throughout this week the children will be cooking a traditional Jewish food for the Hanukkah celebrations. They will use the recipes to evaluate instruction writing and to help them edit other people's work for mistakes. Use the recipes below to aid discussions or even try to make some at home!
Key question of the week...
Can you bake one of our class recipes this week at home?
Key Vocabulary:
recipe
command
imperative verbs
second person
We evaluated a variety of different instructions today to see which features we would like to magpie for our recipes.
Who knew editing our work could be so much fun?! We used blu-tac to help us find missing punctuation, highlighters to make sure we had used conjunctions, spelling races and bubble writing to correct our spellings and thesauri to up-level our words.
Key question of the week...
How would you feel if you were treated differently just because of your gender?
Key Vocabulary:
gender
stereotype
male
female
equality
Our new class novel this week is Bill’s New Frock. We are discussing how boys and girls may be treated differently in school and how this may make us feel.
Monday morning blues were skipped away in our workshop this morning!
Key question of the week...
Can you explain how to use the column method for addition?
Key Vocabulary:
hundreds
tens
ones
How many senses does a dog have? This is one of the questions we discussed today with help from the dogs trust so we know how to stay safe around dogs and how to make a dog feel safe.
Wow, what an exciting day we have had today. Not only did we raise money for children in need by playing games, eating popcorn, and making a giant pudsey out of our coins. We also watched the amazing M and M productions version of Snow White!.
Today, we brought in our special items from home. We shared with others why they were special to us and who gave it to us. Some of us were very brave and shared our important item in front of the class.
Key question of the week...
What is the moral of the lost son parable?
Key Vocabulary:
youngest son
eldest son
father
forgiveness
To finish our topic ‘The willows and wetlands’ we built our own towns and flood defence. Some of the flood defences we tested were levees, dredging and afforestation. We had a lot of fun and most of our towns survived the flood!
We listened to the Good Samaritan story and retold it using classroom objects.
Key question of the week...
Can you retell the Good Samaritan story?
Key Vocabulary:
Samaritan
Levite
Priest
Robbers
Jerusalem
Do opposite poles attract? Will the magnetic field still work with different barriers? Does the distance affect the strength of the force? These were some of the questions the children investigated.
Key question of the week...
What do you know about a magnet?
Key Vocabulary:
Attract
Repel
North
South
Eco-awareness day. We looked at where our single use plastic ends up, discussed the impacts of our actions on wildlife and created some persuasive letters to Mr Hobbs.
We had fun at Robert Blake learning about the importance of fitness and healthy eating.
As a class we wrote a poem based on our class novel (Flood). We then performed the poem in small groups.
We have used the beautiful pictures of this book to help us understand the effects of flooding on a family. We have acted out the emotions of the family as they hear their house will be flooded, created some brilliant performance poetry to the pitter patter of the rain drops and created some fabulous stories.
We made Numicon robots to help us add our tens and ones. It was great fun!
