Those children who braved the cold had great fun exploring the snow; snowballs, fun and footprints!
The snow felt so cold on our hands.
Ivy spotted the patterns our boots made. Violet thought hers was like a maze.
Category : Math
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This week F1 have been busy making ‘bear’ biscuits, inspired by our Bear Hunt story.
Click on the link below to see how the children got on…
In this Jigsaw Piece, the children in Years 3 are exploring the concept of making healthier choices…
In Year 3 we began by discussing the importance of exercise and the benificial effects it has on our bodies, our hearts and lungs. Before participating in star jumps, burpees, boxing moves, dancing and a little jogging on the spot we felt and measured our resting heart rate then compared it with our elevated heart rate after we had exerted ourselves! We found that whilst exercising our heart beats faster to pump the blood around our bodies and that our lungs work harder to take in more oxygen. In addition we identified that exercising, whilst tiring, actually makes us feel good!
We then explored the suggested statement ‘Children need to be active for at least 1 hour a day’ and recorded/calculated the typical average timings of the regular activities we all participate in throughout the school day every day:
Walk to school – 10 minutes
Walk up and down the stairs at school throughout the day – 5 minutes in total
Playtime – 15 minutes
Lunchtime – 1 hour
Walking home from school – 10 minutes
Our findings found that we certainly excel the suggested 1 hour of activity from the activities we undertake in a typical school day but as this is only a suggestion we can go on to do more if we so wish.
We then went on to explore the concept of calories, fats and sugars within the food that we eat and how these can affect our health. Firstly, we identified how we can make healthier choices by swapping out certain foods with something considered to be healthier:
Chocolate – Fruit
Icecream – Plain Yogurt
Crisps – Rice Cake
Muffin – Plain Popcorn
We explored a range of food packaging to identify the calorific values (energy) fats and sugars of some food types and noticed that the traffic light coding on packages makes these easier to identify…
We then played the ‘How Much Sugar Game?’ and tried to match a specified amount of sugar with one of the food items presented…it was not easy!
Once the amounts were revealed we were amazed to find that there are…
35g of sugar in an energy drink
22g of sugar in a bowl of chocolate icecream
17g of sugar in a flavoured yoghurt
8g of sugar in a plain biscuit
We all agreed that whilst we find lots of food items rather yummy, that we can try to make healthier choices and keep some of those foods which have lots of sugar, fats and calories in as a sometimes treat. Great work Year 3!
We made great use of our tools this week to develop our understanding of division. As were were working so well, we were able to move on to learn how to calculate division with remainders. We worked practically for a few days before applying our skills to questions in our books, our teacher was really proud of the resilience that we demonstrated to ‘crack’ this mathematical skill. Here are some images of our fabulous calculation skills….
F1 have been busy baking scones. They weren’t just any type of scone though, they were ‘crazy creature’ scones!
Click on the link below to see what went on…
Cheese and Chive Crazy Creature Scones
This week Year 3 have started our length unit in math.
We have been looking at different units of measure including millimeters, centimeters and meters.
We have used rulers and meter sticks to measure objects around our classroom and we have been concerting these measurements into equivalent measurements.
We are able to measure objects in centimeters and convert its size into millimeters.
We know there are 10 millimeters in each centimeter and that there are 100 centimeters in each meter.
This knowledge has helped us measure our objects accurately
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Year 2 have started a new unit in Maths this week; Multiplication and Division. First of all we recapped our knowledge on the vocabulary equal and unequal. Equal means that all groups have to be the same. Then we learned to recognise equal groups. Today we have learned how to make equal groups! Here we are making equal groups in class:
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- Making sure our groups are equal!
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- We have 3 equal groups of 5!
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- We have 2 equal groups of 5.
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- I have 2 equal groups of 5!
Tomorrow we will learn to add equal groups!