What happened to the summer?! It’s week one… Year 3 are go!

Yup! 6 weeks have flown by. Welcome back year 3. We had a fairly gentle introduction back to school. We learned where our PE lessons will take place, had our first Spanish lesson, reminded ourselves about writing in sentences and practising our basic numbers and got stuck back into handwriting. A full week next week… how will we cope!

This won’t be a particularly long blog this week although it feels like it has been a busy few days. We introduced our history for this half term which is looking at the Stone Age and why people decided that farming was a good idea. We started with trying to get our heads around just how long ago it was. Using the time honoured loo roll time line (handily, one sheet is 10cm). We took each sheet as 100 years or a century. This meant that 10 sheets was a thousand years, or a millennium. As you can see, a lot of things happened over the last couple of hundred years. 10 thousand years ago is right at the end of the corridor. We will need to go over the timeline again. It really is hard to get your head around.

The weather has been frankly rubbish so there have been a couple of wet playtimes. Cue constructor straws and lots of drawing. Oh, and lots of number bond practise using Hit the Button.

The straws also came in handy when practising our partitioning of 2 and 3 digit numbers - our focus in maths this week.

Our first Spanish lesson!

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