Year Three Learning Together

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

What you need;

1] compost

2] plant

3] water

4] pot

5] paper

What to do

1] put paper down on the table

2] separate the pots.

3] get a pot.

4] get a plant.

5]take the plant out of the old pot.

6] put your plant in a new pot.

7] put compost in the gaps

8] tuck it in.

9]water the plant.

10] take good care of it.

By J and S

We have also used PhotoStory3 to make a vodcast of our class instructions. You can use it see how to pot your plants and hear the instructions read to you. You can download our vodcast from this website, our podcast space.

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.

During Term One and Two, the students in Year 3 will begin using Think.com and the Internet to help them learn together about their topic ”Life in Tudor Bristol.” 

Our view of Internet use is like going on a school visit, and like school visits your permission is needed before we can take the students out. Think.com as part of student internet use is slightly different as it is like an online classroom, and as such has other rules and guidelines which must be agreed to before we can allow our students to use it.  

The Internet Three Bees

We have written up our Internet guidelines and student/parent agreement statements in a very familiar way, to help you understand how importantly we take Internet and e Safety.  Our Internet Three Bees can be read or downloaded by following this link .  On this page you will also find other links to really useful sites, that will help you explore and reinforce the ideas you need to remember in helping you to keep your child safe on the Internet.  E Safety we believe is largely common sense, and about teaching good working habits, we hope in reading our material that you agree, and will help us to help your children as we learn together using the Internat as a learning tool.

This term your child will bring home agreement forms, that we would like you to share and talk through with them.  Attached to these will be a copy of the “Internet Three Bees”, that you should keep and perhaps display by your home computer, and two forms that we would like you to sign and return to school as soon as possible.

Thank you for your time.

Mr Mills and Miss Clover