Year 3 have been learning all about the tricky concept of time! As you can imagine, it is very difficult and so the children need as many opportunities as possible to tell the time both in school and at home. We are focusing on the 12 hour clock and how to read the time to the nearest 5 minutes e.g. 25 minutes past twelve.
Mrs Toms
Year 3 are really enjoying learning about the Stone Age.
We have learned about the Palaeolithic era (2.6 million years ago), through to the Mesolithic era (after the glaciers and ice!, also known as the middle of the Stone Age) up to the Neolithic era which lasted until approximately 12000 years ago.
We have made fruit stews as the Stone Age humans would have done and today we found out about the different types of homes.
We discovered that Palaeolithic humans made use of caves to escape the harsh weathers. Why make a home when there is already a home available?!
We then discovered that Mesolithic homes were more advanced than caves as they began using their tools to build these teepee- shaped houses. They would have used animal skins to cover the wooden structures and placed turf on the floors inside.
The two images below are from the Neolithic era. Both used more advanced tools and required more intelligence to create. Some followed the round style, where others became rectangular. They used thatching for the roofs or wattle and daub.
We will use the information we discovered in groups to write paragraphs comparing the different dwellings to our homes nowadays.
Mrs Toms xx
Year 3 watched a video to help them recreate an impressionist painting by Claude Monet of the Waterlily Pond.
They were only allowed to use finger painting to recreate the blurred scenes. Their perseverance was incredible!
Wow Year 3!
What an amazing job you did of taking and editing interesting photos!
You worked really hard to use the correct lighting, use the shadows to your advantage, adjust the light and focus and on top of that you edited really well! You added filters and cropped your images to improve and enhance them.
Mrs Toms was REALLY impressed!
