English: We started off the week with some creative writing where the children were imagining they were astronauts travelling into space. We spent some time watching video clips and discussing what it would be like to go to space, ensuring we were using lots of powerful description to explain our experience. We then spent some time improving our work by choosing a sentence we thought we could edit and improve to sound even better.

For the rest of the week the Year 3 children have been learning what paragraphs are and the Year 2 children have been practising using the conjunctions ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘or’ and ‘so’.

Maths: We have continued our work on multiplication and division.

The Year 2 children have been learning how multiplication is commutative, so when you see an array that is 2 x 4 you can also see 4 x 2. We have spent some time recognising this within pictures and practising writing the sums to show what we can see.

The Year 3 children have been learning about multiplication and the related division facts. They have used arrays to help them find these and then towards the end of the week they have been challenged to use their times table knowledge to help them and therefore work mentally.

Science/Art: The children have really enjoyed carrying out our investigation which we started last week. The children completed their wax crayon drawings and this week were told to cover the whole thing with watered down paint to see what happened. They were good at explaining how ‘the wax is waterproof so acts as a barrier to the watered down paint, making it sit on top instead of sinking in. ‘

History: The children were given a scenario to imagine they were explorers going on an expedition. They had to choose the items they would take with them and explain why they had chosen them. This will link into next week’s work on looking at the expeditions of Columbus and Armstrong.

RE: The children have continued with our incarnation unit and have been deepening their understanding of the different characters within the story, the part they played and why they are important.

PE: The children completed their NSPCC challenge this week (photos to follow) and had a football lesson too. Please can children ensure they are collecting sponsorship over the weekend. Thank you!

Well done for another great week Class 3!