Blog Author: Miss Brown

Book Hedgehogs

How cute are our book hedgehogs?! Class 3 have made some amazing book hedgehogs today, they are going to watch over and support our reading. Once we have read a book, we are going to write the name of it on a leave and place it under the hedgehog! By the end of the year, it will…

Christmas Already?

Class 3 spent the afternoon making our Christmas cards so they can be sent home to families and orders can be collected! Here's a sneak peak ...

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Research on the Romans

In English, the children collected research from a range of different sources. We used books, the internet and fact files. Our research will help us create fact files on how the Romans lived. 

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Meet Dino

"Hello!!

Lovely to meet you, my name is Dino! Most Dinosaurs are scaly and tough, but I'm the softest stegosaurus you've ever snuggled. I like to stomp around so my squishy spines wobble and I love practising my scary ROAAR!! I have a weekend diary and I go home with someone from…

Roman Roads

This afternoon in History, we looked at why the Romans built new roads in Britain and created a model to show the cross-section of a Roman road.

Before the Romans arrived, Britain had no proper roads. The Celts rode horses, walked and traveled in carts pulled by oxen along paths…

The Big Book of Questions

Class 3 have loved their new 'Big Book'! Since coming back to school, the children of Class 3 have been writing down thought-provoking questions and posting them in the book. As a class, we have explored the questions and tried our best to answer them. We have used our…

Animal Classification

Mammals

• are warm-blooded
• have lungs and need air to breathe
• have ears that stick out
• mothers nurse their young with milk
• give birth to live young
• have fur or hair

Birds

• have ear holes instead of ears
• have feathers and wings
• have webbed…

Animal Classification

Class 3 thoroughly enjoyed their first science lesson of the term, they began their 'Animal Classification' topic. They worked a team to organise facts and pictures into 6 different categories. 

- Mammals

- Fish

- Birds

- Reptiles

-Amphibians

-…

The Romans 

Today we started our new History topic, the Romans, by looking at the Roman Invasion! 

We began by re-enacting scenes from 55BC. The Romans already ruled the country that we know today as France; they called it Gallia and were just across the English Channel.

The Roman…

'Teamwork makes the dream work!'

In Class 3 we are a team - and a fantastic team at that! This morning Miss Brown challenged us to work as a team to construct the tallest lone standing spaghetti and marshmallow tower we could. Due to our excellent listening skills, patience, encouragement and…

Research

In English today we used the laptop to conduct research on different areas of the Stone Age. In pairs, the children researched;

• Cave paintings
• Hunting
• The importance of fire
• Daily life
• Weapons
• Eating habits
• Stonehenge
• Burials

In their English books, they…

Art - Stonehenge 

Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous monuments. It stands on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, and its giant stones can be seen from miles around. Stonehenge was built over many hundreds of years. Work began in the late Neolithic Age, around 3000BC. Class 3 researched the…