Part of our topic work this week has been looking at what Yorkshire is famous for and the people, places and foods from Yorkshire. One of the most famous things from Yorkshire has to be the Yorkshire pudding!
We made the Yorkshire puddings in our table groups and looked at the recipe to follow whilst we made them. This also linked into our literacy work this week of writing instructions so we made sure we wrote the instructions up carefully to follow when making the Yorkshire puddings.
Take a look at us making our delicious Yorkshire puddings!
Jorja took several attempts to reach this masterpiece! She kept finding ways to strengthen and reinforce the structure. Well done Jorja! This is ace.
Check out this lovely design. That’s a pretty tall tower to say you used such slender materials and I understand that it passed all the tests…including you dancing around it like a lunatic! Well done!
Riley made this tough-looking castle to withstand an earthquake
Lewis used marshmallows to join his structure together. It looks fab AND passed all 3 tests. Well done!
Chloe was VERY frustrated building this masterpiece, BUT she didn’t give up! Great resilience Chloe. I love your choice of materials! I would say that earthquake you simulated would have topped the Richter scale too!!!
(Video to follow)
This is a very solid looking structure from blocks. Check back soon becasue there are 2 great TEST videos that go with it!
This one made me laught a lot! The message that came with it says, “we tried, we failed, we had a lot of fun!” The pictures say it all really! Fantastic effort guys!
We recreated the elegant masks used to cover the faces of the pharaohs when they died. Mr Baikley wouldn’t pay for us to use real gold but we did a good job of making them look convincing…
Well, I hope so as my classroom certainly wasn’t after whole-class bread making! We had lots of fun and the bread looked surprisingly delicious:
We used traditional ingredients such as pistachio nuts and honey but we left out the sand! (Ask your children why they used to use sand in their bread making and what problem it caused!) As always in my class, the children did all of the recipe reading, measuring ingredients and baking themselves…if they got the recipe wrong it got made wrong! But luckily, we all seemed to enjoy our creations…
I’m sure you all guessed correctly that our class model was intact a replica of the journey that the river Nile takes through Egypt…obviously!!!
We are using the model to map out where geographical features of Egypt belong, such as the Red Sea, the deserts, the mountains, human settlements and the archeological sites like the pyramids. (They will be added as we cover them)
However, our model has also allowed us to examine and show how the water cycle works in Egypt…
1. Evaporation. The water is turned to vapour in the heat of the sun and rises up into the air
2. Condensation. The vapour cools & collects into clouds. As soon as the cooling vapour touches something solid (such as sand or dust particles in the air) In turns back into water
3. Precipitation. When the water gets too heavy for the clouds to hold, it falls back to Earth as rain. This tends to happen in cooler places such as mountains as the colder air makes more vapour condense.
4. The rain runs into valleys, streams and rivers where it returns to the sea so the whole cycle can start again.
Ask your child to tell you about the different parts of the cycle, use the photos and terminology to help. Try to encourage them to use the correct vocabulary:
evaporation, condensation, precipitation
water vapour
rises/falls
clouds, sea, rivers
Here is a couple of links to help you discuss it (See if you can make your mind out which narrator has the most annoying voice, I’m struggling to decide!)
We have been very busy this morning making our own (extremely authentic-looking) Egyptian neck-piece. The children GOT THEIR OWN EQUIPMENT from our shelves, then COVERED THE TABLE THEMSELVES and finally, GOT THEIR OWN PAINTS AND CRAFT MATERIALS!
That’s how grown up we are in Year 3!
However, that is not the most impressive aspect of our lesson! We also tidied up ourselves! I didn’t help AT ALL! The kids put all of the resources away and tidied up the rubbish themselves. Take a look at our classroom after a full lesson of painting, sticking and glitter…
So, when they make one of these for their homework, they’ll be able to do the same at home!
…Don’t worry, we won’t blame you if you can’t tell just yet!
Year 3 are busy crafting something strange out of wood, card, tape and plaster! Can any of our grown ups guess what it is and leave their guess as a comment on here? (No cheating and asking your kids!)
This week’s topic challenge is to create your own Stone Age weapon! Below is a brilliant video covering the Stone Age era, can you pick out any important information about the weapons?
During the Stone Age, people used sharpened sticks for hunting and protection purposes, they were vital for survival in the Stone Age. They were also used to hunt certain animals like wolves, foxes, bears, deer, hyena and much more.
Check out the weapons that have already been made… maybe you could do something similar?
You could design your Stone Age weapon on paper first, labelling the key parts of it. Next, you could manufacture the weapon by using cardboard, sticks, string, rocks or any other household items – just get your parents permission first!
Cavemen decorated their caves and shelters with pictures of the animals they saw, the friends they lived with and hand-prints that can still be seen by us all of these thousands of years later.
I would like you guys to have a go at your own cave paintings. I have posted some links to sites online that have examples. There are lots of different ways of doing authentic-looking ones, including; working on old cardboard boxes, using hands in mud and painting with brushes. (So we don’t have to destroy your mum’s lovely wall paper!!!) As always, let me see what you get up to, I’ll be having a go at this with Syd today so I’ll do the same!
Household tips
I find cave painting so fascinating, there’s a special reason why the cavemen painted animals on the cave walls, can any of you find out why they did it?
Here’s a quick and easy tip that will make your cave art replicate the real thing…
Once you have drawn your picture, leave it to dry and spray over it with hairspray (don’t worry, you won’t use the full can so you’ll have plenty left to do your hair!)
After the hairspray has dried you need to cover it by using a tea bag. Here’s the trick – ASK A PARENT TO OVERSEE (I don’t want any burnt hands or tea stains in the house). Leave the teabag in hot water, let it cool down and then gently ‘pinch’ the teabag out and dab it over the artwork. Dip the teabag back into the water as it will start to dry when applying it to your artwork.
Leave the artwork to dry and you’ll have your very own cave art.
Yesterday, Andrew from the Leeds museum came to talk about the Romans. He brought so many different artefacts that his museum had found in Yorkshire and explained what each of them was used for. He even showed us some real Roman coins that were around 2000 years old!
We want to make our car really strong and well made so that it beats all of the other cars in the class. To do this, we had to learn some joining skills
We had to learn measuring skills to make sure we cut our wood correctly. You have to always start at zero on the ruler, not at the end.
We also learned how to make a strong and straight frame for our car by using joining triangles in the corners…
Take a look at some of our amazing Christmas decorations, these will be on sale next Friday at the Christmas market! Stop by our stall before they sell out!