The last week of this term and Year Three have not stopped!
Our work this week has been divided between not one but two projects! As well as continuing our dinosaur project books we have been examining different ways to show and explain Halloween. We've used art and storytelling to really try to understand our fascination with the scary, spooky and unknown.
We wrote our stories that are now on our board by writing one sentence and then passing it to another member of our class who then wrote another sentence until we finally had a fully fledged scary story!
If you would like to spend time writing with your child this holiday week this is a good resource: 5 Writing Games Your Kids Will Love.
We were also drawn to understand more about bats and how they fly. We found out that because bats do not receive enough calcium and can not process it as well as other animals. We also know, through our extensive work on dinosaurs, that this is called an adaptation. If you would like to know more about how bats fly please have a look at this video: How Do Bats Fly?
Our work this week has been divided between not one but two projects! As well as continuing our dinosaur project books we have been examining different ways to show and explain Halloween. We've used art and storytelling to really try to understand our fascination with the scary, spooky and unknown.
We wrote our stories that are now on our board by writing one sentence and then passing it to another member of our class who then wrote another sentence until we finally had a fully fledged scary story!
If you would like to spend time writing with your child this holiday week this is a good resource: 5 Writing Games Your Kids Will Love.
We were also drawn to understand more about bats and how they fly. We found out that because bats do not receive enough calcium and can not process it as well as other animals. We also know, through our extensive work on dinosaurs, that this is called an adaptation. If you would like to know more about how bats fly please have a look at this video: How Do Bats Fly?
In other news we have finished our dinosaur project books! We have come on leaps and bounds since we made the transition from Year Two to juniors in Year Three and this is in particular evidence by these books. We have been examining the dinosaurs mentioned in the previous blog posts as well as the primitive creature the dreaded Megalodon. Because of this creature and the Griffin Fly we have had to make sure that our project books have the subtitle: And Other Prehistoric Creatures.
We've been using our maths skills for comparing different dinosaurs's heights and lengths, art for our dynamic book covers, science for both the biology of dinosaurs and the natural sciences of the world that the dinosaurs inhabited and english which we have been using constantly to give our own voice to explain dinosaurs to the wider world who will read our books. Here are some of our covers:
Mr Ieuan and Mr Chris wish you a happy week off!
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