Blog by Category: Giant

This week, we have had a brilliant time starting our new IPC topic by visiting the Wetlands Centre. 

We spent the whole day outside enjoying being so close to the water and to all the animals living there; we even saw otters and many birds!
In the morning, we also took part in a Wild Walk and…

The end of the half term is fast approaching and it is time to reflect on our start of the year in Giant class.
In maths, we have learnt about place values and how to represent numbers in different ways as well as add and subtract 3 digit numbers. We will carry on working on that over the year…

This week, we visited the Natural History Museum. We had so much fun exploring the dinosaur section and loved seeing the enormous skeletons, we were amazed! 

Plenty of investigating in Giant Class this week

This week, we investigated the current seven continents and found out that over 175 million years ago  there used to only be one 'super' continent called Pangea. 

What a fantastic start to Year 3 we've had in Giant class! 
We started off our new topic called 'Footprints from the Past' and had so much fun pretending to be palaeontologists digging up real fossils.

It's here........our review of the year. 

What an amazing year we have had. We have enjoyed learning about materials, natural disasters and light sources.

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In Literacy, We have being looking at our core text 'Matilda' by Roald Dahl. This week, we have looked at using adverbs to describe a verb, giving more detail on how a character is feeling, what a character is doing and how they are doing the action e.g. carefully, surprisingly, suspiciously.…

Giant Class have been so busy!

This week in Maths we have being measuring using a variety of units such as milliliter, liter, kilograms and grams to weigh objects, estimate and observe the capacity and volume of water in a container. The children have focused on solving word problems in which…

In IPC, the children have been introduced to their new topic on 'Scavengers and Settles' this half term. For homework the children explored and created settlements that people lived in thousands of years ago. For Giant's class Entry Point the children created wall art based on art discovered in…

 In Literacy, the children have been planning and writing monologues based on a clip of a volcano. The children had to write from the view point of the volcano using feelings, what was happening and description of the setting. 

In IPC, the children did a science experiment based based on lava…

Maths

In Maths, this half term we are learning about multiplication and division. This week we solved multiplication and division problems using different strategies. We learned how to multiply and divide using strategies such as partitioning, place value chart, expanded column method and…

Maths

In Maths, this half term we are learning about multiplication and division. This week we solved multiplication problems using 10 times greater.  The children focused on using concrete materials to support their learning such as Cuisenaire rods, bead strings, number lines and drawing…