The Year 3 Den Project

The children have been learning about woodland habitats this half term. As part of this topic they have been asked to think about how they might survive in a woodland. After a trip to our local woodland, Heaton's Common, the children are asked to make a den without planning or finding out how to make one:

The children had a great go at their den making but they all realised that they need to find out more about dens and plan what they were going to do to be more successful. So the children reflected upon this experienced, did some product research on the internet, designed their own den using what they had learnt and planned how they were to make their den using a flow chart. They then had a final attempt at making a den:

They presented their dens to the rest of the class.

After it had rained heavily the children went back to their dens to check how effective they were.

The children reflected upon their experience in their topic books. It is clear the children have really enjoyed and learnt a lot from this experience!

An Artist Visits Year 3

On Wednesday 2nd May Lisa, an artist, came to visit Year 3. They had the opportunity to look at her sketch books and ask her questions about her work and how she thinks of an idea for a piece of art work. The children found out about how Lisa develops an idea over time. The children learnt a lot and were very excited her Lisa's work.

Habitat Presentations

The children have been learning about woodland habitats. They had to research an animal that lived in the habitat in order to understand what their habitat was like. The children then made the habitat and presented it to the class along with a presentation they made about the animal and it's habitat on PowerPoint.

The Rat's habitat

The Owl's Habitat

The Badger's Habitat

The Toad's habitat

The Mole's Habitat

Money Project

Year 3 had a bake sale on Wednesday 24th April. This was the end of a project that the children had worked extremely hard on. The children were given £50 to spend as a class. After a long discussion the children decided to spend some of the money on ingredients to make biscuits to sell in the hope of making a profit. The children then had to work out what ingredients they needed, how much of each item was needed, how much each ingredient would cost and how much this would come to altogether. Once they had found this out in groups they then had to decide how much to sell each biscuit for. They had to take into account how much they were going to spend on ingredients and how much they thought the biscuits were worth. The children decided on 85p per biscuit. This was motivated by how much profit they would receive. The children did discuss whether their parents would want to pay this much for a biscuit. The children got the classroom ready for the sale by making signs, invitations and posters. The bake sale was a huge success. After the bake sale the children decided, after much research on how much the items they wanted to buy were, to buy a tropical fish task and tropical fish. We will keep you updated with what they choose. Here are some pictures from the bake sale: