Welcome to Year 3

Over the past 2 weeks, the children have hit the ground running and have been super busy in class. 
In maths, the children have been understanding commutative law and have demonstrated this understanding through multiplication and the use of arrays. The children can confidently give the equations to match a given array and can create an array to match a given equation.

In science, the children are learning about rocks and soils. This week, the children have explored the properties of different types of rocks and have learned their names. They have also sorted the rocks according to their properties. Next lesson, they will be investigating which rock types would be most suitable for different purposes. 

In art, the children have been looking at cave paintings. They are already familiar with what cave paintings are as we are learning about the Stone Age in our history lessons. The children have studied cave paintings and have then tried to recreate some of the drawings that they have seen by thinking carefully about the shapes they can see. The children used pencil to draw these designs and thought carefully about how to space them on their page. The next stage is for the children to use a variety of mediums such as paint, charcoal and pastels and think about what brushes and techniques to use. 

All of the children have leanred how to successfully log on to a computer and login to TTRockstars! I know that many of them are also logging on at home and becoming experts at their times tables. By the end of this half term, we will all be amazing at our 2, 5 and 10 times table!