Welcome to Year 3!

Our learning last week:

We have had a brilliant first week back in Year 3! The children have loved our immersion days introducing our topic 'Under the Canopy'. They have amazed me with the knowledge they have learnt through our geography days and I'm sure they have lots of facts to share with you at home. Did you know, in some parts of the rainforest it can take up to 10 minutes for rain to reach the forest floor?

We have learnt lots about the Amazon rainforest and plotted different rainforests on a world map. We also found out about the climate in rainforests, as well as the different between temperate and tropical rainforests.

In art, we learnt to draw birds! We broke photos down into simple shapes and then tried to recreate these shapes to sketch different birds. Afterwards, we investigated different techniques and media to draw and colour feathers. Have a look at our photo gallery to see some wonderful examples. 

In science, we have begun our topic of states of matter. On Friday we went outside and learnt about the composition of solids, liquids and gases. We talked about whether they can move around, are fixed shapes or expand to fill containers. 

*Remember, when we come back we are immersing ourselves in our new topic 'Under the Canopy'. A few weeks into our topic we will be creating a diorama of the rainforest canopy. If you are buying new school shoes over the holidays or have anything arrive in a box, please may you hang onto it as children will need a box to make their diorama in. Thank you in advance!*