Year Three Learning Together

We have been reading Morning by Grace Nicholls, and have used this lovely poem as a frame to write our own class poem, about what morning brings to us…

Morning comes with the sun rising,

Morning comes with Miya crying.

Morning comes dragging me out of bed,

Morning comes with an angry rush.

Morning comes with Hollie Laughing,

Morning comes with Lilly jiggling.

Morning comes with the toaster popping,

Morning comes with us just listening.

How does morning arrive in your house. What does she bring with her?

We have been finding out about Tudor Houses this week.  J asked a really good question.  How did the Tudors make fires because they didn’t have matches?  They didn’t have electricity, so fire was really important,   because if they had no fire they couldn’t cook their meat,  warm the house up  or keep it light. 

We found out that they used tinder boxes, with a special stone called flint in it.  They used to hit the box with the stone, to make a spark, and this was what lit wool or hair to get the fire going. 

 The Tudor houses were not made of very strong material.  They used things like, lime, poo, animal hair and sand.  Only a few houses have survived and these belonged to rich people.  Their houses were made of stone. Stone was very expensive.

 Fire could also be dangerous to Tudor homes….. why do you think this might be?   

 J and R were this weeks bloggers. 

This is T and C, and we are writing about what we have been doing in class this week.

We have been using Espresso and found out that Henry VIII had football boots and 6 wives. Henry the VIII had the heads chopped off two of his queens. Henry VIII died in Whitehall in London.

We used pictures to talk about what life was like for ordinary Tudor people. The women used do the washing in the street. They didn’t have electricity or washing machines. We think they used to iron their clothes with wooden bats to make the cloth flat.

Some people shaved the sheep with special scissors called shears. They used to do a lot of weaving.

One of the pictures we looked at was a party, and the people were dancing to music. There was a man playing an instrument. We thought it was a guitar, but it was called a lute.

This is E and K from year 3.  During our holidays, E went to the West Mildland Safari Park and it was fun on the rides.  K went to Cricket Saint  Thomas and there was camels, zebras, wallabys, deers, wild dogs she had a really good time.

 This is our first week back at school. We have been making Tudor time lines.  We put the Tudor kings and queens in order.  We have been looking at the 3 bees and writing our class contracts.  We have had a really good week.