Congratulations to this weeks Year 3 and 4 Pride of Plovers!
Mrs Graves
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Family learning in Crew Brown
On the final day of Hook Week, we spent some of the morning in our crews designing a Crew robot. We combined our ideas to design a robot that makes healthy snacks/drinks and encourages different physical activities to keep people fit and healthy. I would like to say a huge shoutout to all of the adults who came in to support the children with creating the robot in our family learning event in the afternoon. Everyone worked well together to make our amazing design a reality and should be super proud of the end product.
Miss Brown
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Expert visitor in 3B
Last week, we were super impressed with our expert visitor, Phil Sheppard, who came to school to teach us how to draw The Iron Man from our key text: The Iron Man. Everyone listened carefully to follow the steps of how to draw it and should be so proud of the beautiful work produced!
Miss Brown
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All about animals in 3B
We’ve had some fun, active lessons learning all about animals in Hook Week. First, we played an active food chain game to learn about the flow of energy within a food chain between grass, deer and wolves. Then, we worked in teams to classify different types in animals as either a mammal, reptile, amphibian, insect, fish, bird or arachnid based on their different features. Everyone took part and had lots of fun while learning.
Miss Brown
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Classification or chaos?
A bit of both if I’m honest!
Grouping animals using scientific terms such as vertebrate, mammal, reptile (and many more) was more tricky than many of us first thought it would be. However, we quickly discovered that it was our understanding of the terms that we were struggling with, not the grouping of the animals. So, we followed our HoWL of Get Smart and used a range of information sheets, as well as some great videos, to help us with our understanding of the key vocabulary.
Now we are able to group animals using their classification group with a lot more accuracy.
Keep using the information around you to Get Smart 3H; and the progress in your knowledge and understanding will be great!
Mrs Haycock
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Expert visitor workshop with Phil Sheppard
Everyone absolutely loved our expert visitor, Phil Sheppard, who came to school to tell us more about our key text: The Iron Man, written by Ted Hughes. Not only did we learn more about the author and the book, but we were also told about The Mexborough Iron Man Trail. This wasn’t all…he also taught us all how to drawn our own Iron Man. We are so proud of the beautiful work we produced!
Who’d have thought it’d be so easy to draw The Iron Man? Thank you, Phil, for coming. We all learnt so much and are going to design our own robots using the skills you taught us later this week!
Mrs Haycock
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Active Scientific Learning in Year 3
Year 3 have played food chain tag today. Some of us pretended to be grass, which was eaten by those of us who were deer. Then in turn, the deer were eaten by the wolves. Seeing the visual effect of this food chain made us realise that the wolves were the apex predators in this example. The children had fun, got active and learnt lots all at the same time.
Mrs Haycock
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Marvellous manipulatives!
In Year 3, we have been using manipulatives to deepen our understanding of equal grouping as our first step into Multiplication and division. Children have successfully used cubes to represent requests such as 6 equal groups of 5 and 5 equal groups of 6, making links that they have the same total value. Well done everyone, you worked really hard; used the cubes to get smart; were kind to others by helping out when needed; and produced some beautiful work too! Thank you Year 3…you rock!
Mrs Haycock
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First day back in 3B
Happy New Year! 3B have had an amazing start to first week back.
Shoutout to those children who made a special effort to dress up as a robot for the occasion. We spent the morning in our crews completing some activities to hook the children into the learning for our new expedition this term. These activities included investigating the internal organs, skeleton and muscles using AI and interactive games; classifying robots; making electronic circuits and cutting and sticking robots and skeletons.
Children were given a word at the end of each workshop to workout our new guiding question: The power of life: What makes us human?
As reward for solving the puzzle and in preparation for Friday’s learning, we spent the afternoon watching the film Robots.
The children are all hooked in and excited to learn more.
Miss Brown
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We are problem solvers!
Years 3 and 4 have worked with each of the six crew leads today to carry out a range of activities that link to our new learning. If successful, they were given a word from the crew leader. Then they had to shuffle these words around so they made sense as a title and question. We finally worked it out…
The power of life: What makes us human?
Well done to everyone who managed to complete Mrs Haycock’s challenge of beat the buzzer. Everyone successfully built their wire buzzer (or in our case light) game! Extra shout out to the 6 children who managed to complete the game without setting the buzzer off.
I hope you all had fun in my session guys; I know I had lots of fun and that I am very proud of you all!
Mrs Haycock
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