Class 3

Class 3

In RE the children looked at the celebration of Divali and the Rangoli patterns that are made for this event. The children used glitter, coloured salt and felt tip pens to create their own Rangoli patterns. They enjoyed all the different colours and textures created by the different media. They were very pleased to take their patterns home. One child even went home and made her own Rangoli pattern using a fruit bowl and fruit. 

In Design Technology they were challenged to design and build a raft suitable for keeping 20 plastic teddy bears safe. The children had to make sure that the raft had a sail and seats for the bears. They learnt to cut and stick a variety of materials together effectively. They worked as a team in making a raft, giving it a name before testing it out. Most of the rafts were successful in floating and the bears stayed dry!  

In Science they have been developing their knowledge of the properties of materials and learning the scientific vocabulary to describe them. They learnt vocabulary such as dull and shiny, transparent and opaque, rough and smooth, flexible and rigid, waterproof and absorbent. Following on from this, the children were challenged to find a suitable material to repair a rip in an umbrella. They thought about how they could test to find a material that was waterproof. They then made a prediction before testing their materials. The materials were placed over the top of a plastic tumbler which had a bear in it. They used a pipette to drop water on to each material to see if it absorbed and made the bear wet or whether it puddled on the top and kept the bear dry. The children found the best material to be plastic. It is flexible and waterproof.  

In History the children learnt about Mary Anning and her discoveries of fossils, including the first full Ichthyosaurus fossil. They learnt how fossils are made and then had a go at becoming archaeologists, digging in sand to find items. The children had to identify whether these were fossils or not. They used a toothbrush to gently brush off the sand and proudly showed each other their findings. 

In Art the children worked in pairs to draw portraits of one another. They looked carefully at the shape of our friend’s face and their features. Using charcoal they drew the outline and then shaded in the hair. They learnt to smudge the charcoal to add texture to the hair.