Year Three Learning Together

Over the course of this term we have been finding out about and researching the life of Henry VIII and his six wives. In ICT we have been using 2 create a story to write biographies about the king, and files made in the program can be saved in a format called flash. Mr Mills has published several of our stories to our community pages on the school website, but wanted to see whether we could use our blog to share the work we had done using this tool, and yes we can Here is one of the stories we made, our others can be found in our year group community gallery on our school website.

Now he knows how to do this, Mr Mills is looking forward to showing us how to do it, and to using 2 create to help us make slightly more complex stories.

We have just published our latest Podcast Episode.  A collection of acrostic poems, read aloud by students in our class.  We had great fun writing them, and were even more excited when we got to hear them.  Why not visit our podcast station, download them and listen for yourself.  Our Podcast Station is called the Buzz, and you can find it by following this link.

We went on a visit to Sandford Orcas Tudor Mansion.  This house belongs to a man named Sir Mervyn Medlycott.

This house was a big houseand it was really interesting.   We had a really good time at the beautiful Tudor House. We saw some big thick metal plates that the people who lived there used to eat with the metal they are made of is called pewter.  So do you want to go yet?

It was a long way to go but maybe not as far as it is from your house. It had an enormous garden.

One day Sir Mervyn said that he found some children’s leather shoes from the Tudor times behind the wall in the house.  He thinks that they might have been put there to bring good luck.  This house was the biggest house we have ever seen, well we are only 7.

We saw a four poster bed.  Did you know that the curtains were to make the bed like a little room?  People used to walk through your bedroom, so the curtains were to stop people seeing you when you were asleep.  They also helped keep you warm when you were in bed.

The toilet in the old house was a hole in the floor, it must have been very smelly.

On the wall in the church they had a statue that told the story about the people who built the house.  The picture was important because lots of people in Tudor times could not read.  They could use the picture to tell stories.

There is a fantastic stained glass picture of an elephant.  Well it doesn’t look like an elephant it was really funny.  Mr Mines told us it was because the person who made the picture, had never seen one, and he had to make it up from the things people had told him.  Do you want to visit now?
BYE BYE
See you again some time
C and K

This week’s Y3 Bloggers are J and C . This week we have Been learning about tudor people, what they looked like and what they wore .   We have been learning about this by looking at portraits.  We have made portraits of ourselves and our friends, and dressed them up as Tudors.  We have been learning how to use felt tip pens to colour them in.

We also made large portraits, by drawing around our friends.  We looked at images and painted them, putting tudor clothes on them, and giving our friends beards and mustashes.  It was fun.

In DT we are going to use wood to make picture frames so we can display our portraits for parents when they visit next term.  These two fantastic Portraits were made by J and L.  They are Amazing.

If you want to see some of the other portraits we made they will be published to our Podcast pages very soon

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.