Inspired to be our best.....
September 2020
Ancient Egypt - Topic Web for Term 2
Letter Formation Activity Sheets
Cursive Alphabet Letter Formation
Times Tables Practice
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables
https://www.timestables.co.uk/
17/12/2020
Merry Christmas from Year 3!
15/12/2020
14/12/2020
Last week the children enjoyed mummifying a tomato. They cut the top off their tomato and scooped out the insides, just as the Egyptians would cut and take out organs. They then helped to weigh out and mix salt and baking soda to form natron, which was poured in and around their tomato. We have been checking in on our tomatoes to see what has happened to them and if our predictions were correct. So far our control tomato has gone mouldy, but our mummified tomatoes have not. Maybe you could ask your child to describe their tomato to you?
07/12/2020
Year 3 have been getting very creative AGAIN in our Ancient Egyptians topic. We are so proud of our creations that we just had to share them with you. Canopic jars were used by the ancient Egyptians during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife. We created our own canopic jar heads. For this we used newspaper, masking tape and then we sprayed them gold.
We also made cartouches using clay and painted them. A cartouche is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic name plate. It's shaped like an oval with a horizontal bar at the base of the oval and a king's name written inside of the oval.
We are sure you will agree that they are just AMAZING!!! Thank you to all Year 3 parents for your support with bringing in materials for this. We hope you like our creations!
01/12/2020
16/11/2020
Year 3 have 'kick started' the term during our football lessons. All the children have been really enthusiastic during our sessions and it has been great to get outside whilst the weather is still being kind to us!
The children have been learning lots of different skills, including; trapping a ball and cushioning it when receiving it from a partner, how to move into a space after passing a ball to a partner and how to retain possession once we have received the ball. The children will continue to develop their skills whilst learning new ones throughout the term and they are looking forward to their first match!
13/11/2020
This week in Year 3 we had great fun making our own cartouches, which we learnt is an Ancient Egyptian name plate that would be placed on a sarcophagus. The children looked at some hieroglyphics and worked out what their name would look like using them. They planned and designed their cartouche before making it using clay. We rolled, cut and scored our clay in order to recreate our designs. I'm sure you'll agree they did an amazing job!
15/10/2020
Year 3 have had a great week of learning – we have been finding out lots of geographical facts about Egypt. We enjoyed taking part in some excellent role play based on the story ‘The Egyptian Cinderella’. Tomorrow we will begin planning our own stories based around this. We also had a very interesting debate about the story and we then sorted parts of the story into arguments for and against it being a happy tale for Rhodopis.
Year 3 were very lucky this week as we received some beautiful new books. Thank you so much to The Friends of St Joseph for our books.
One series of books we received were called ‘Flying Fergus’ and these were written by Olympic champion Chris Hoy and award winning author Joanna Nadin, they were illustrated by Clare Elsom. Clare heard all about our new books…. and she wrote Year 3 an email (please see below).
Hello Year 3 at St Joseph's!
My name is Clare Elsom, and I'm an author and illustrator. I've worked
on lots and lots of books, including drawing all the pictures for the
Flying Fergus series. A fun fact - I drew over 700 pictures for the
Flying Fergus books... that's a LOT of bicycles!
I hope you enjoy your reading, Miss Ogden has told me that you're such
a great class and how much you love your books.
Please see below for a picture of me with the rest of the Flying
Fergus team when we went on Blue Peter.
If you're interested, you can see more of my work on my website at
www.elsomillustration.co.uk
Very best wishes,
Clare Elsom
09/10/2020
25/09/2020
Year 3 have been very busy looking at different sacraments in R.E lessons. This week we researched what happens during a Baptism ceremony and the order in which the events of the ceremony happen. We also learnt about the roles and responsibilities of the people that attend the ceremony. We then enjoyed using drama to act out the different parts of the ceremony, in the correct order.
Here are some photos of our ceremonies: