Gardening Year 3 Blog Year 3 Blog 2018 - 19 |
Today we went outside to do some gardening. We planted sunflowers, pumpkins, marigolds and sweet peppers. We dug up potatoes, beetroot and carrots so that we could clear an area for new plants. We also added more mushroom compost to the raspberry plants. Lily, Kody and Krzysztof
Today Dolphin class had great fun learning to do a Bollywood dance. First Tina taught us the lotus hand movements. Then she taught us how to use our whole body to do the dance. We learnt that Bollywood contains 3 types of dance: classical Indian, contemporary and Bhangra. Once we had learnt the dance routine […]
Today year 3 went on a trip to Norwich Millennium Library to visit the Norfolk Heritage Centre. We walked to and from the library. Each class had the opportunity to spend some time in the 8+ children’s library area. Year 3 had story time then explored the books. Some children signed up to the library […]
Today year 3 made Moroccan Vegetable curry using spices they had seen at the market. All of the children had the opportunity to peel/cut vegetables, add spices and stock. After cooking the curry came the fun part of eating it. Year 3 loved the curry and many children had second servings.
On Friday afternoon we used the spices brought on our trip to Norwich Market to create our own art. We used turmeric, paprika, garam masala and five spice.
As part of year 3’s working as historians romance event we went on a walk to Earlham Cemetery. The children focused on what they could see and how they thought the area could have changed over time. The children looked at head stones and focused on finding the earliest date they could see, clues as […]
Today Year 3 were visited by Kenetic Science. They took part in 3 workshops focusing on digestion, skeleton and lungs. They had the opportunity to make poo, identify broken bones in x-rays, make a set of lungs and look at the vital organs of pig. This introduced our topic of the human body for the […]
Children from Year 3 and 5 catch up with their Eco Champs counterparts in Durban. Once we had overcome the inevitable technical difficulties the children presented an overview of the work they had been doing in their project and they heard back from the work the champs are doing in South Africa.
What a great atmosphere at our showcase! On Wednesday, the year 3 children finally got to share their geography learning with their families. They took their families on a tour of Anderson’s Meadow, showing off their hand-drawn maps, and worked together with their adults to identify the different creatures we found in the bushes and […]
We were invited to attend a short ceremony at City Hall on Tuesday hosted by the Lord Mayor and Sheriff of Norwich. They were marking the end of another successful celebration weekend, presenting certificates to participants and prizes for the winners of the parade.