I this lesson the children used Chromebooks to research specific information about their chosen topic (earthquakes, volcanoes or fossils). This will then help them plan and write their explanation text final touchdown.
Category : Mrs Pearson’s Class
After looking at the fossils we made in class the other day we then set off to learn the specific steps involved in how they are formed. The children found this very interesting and did some lovely writing about the different steps involved. Well done guys.
Today we made our own working clocks to support our learning of time telling using an analogue clocks. Including key vocabulary, how a clock moves and what the different hands tell us.
Well done
It was great to meet Jeffery this morning. I’m not sure he will be staying with us for very long though…..
Great work girls!
In maths again today we dashed around in teams to answer a series of time related questions, recognising that also day if the week and months of the year are linked to learning about time.
Today, the children took charge of their own learning today and followed a set of instructions with some guiding questions to generate discussion. They managed to figure out that our next section of learning was going to be about fossils! Sharing that the layers of bread represented the layers in sedimentary rock and the sweets are the dead animal remains trapped and then imprinted into the rock. What an amazing lesson and so simple ☺️.
To make our standard blast off lesson a little more interesting today we added a small game of dash in at the end to see what the children knew about time already. And if I’m being honest I was pretty impressed overall. 
So a small group of our year 3 children today embraced the snow and our expedition learning and combined them together, in a pretty impressive way I might add.
Forgetting the traditional snowman fun they opted for building Mount Vesuvius erupting with its very own ash cloud!
AMAZING!
I was genuinely amazed (after we got over the excitement of having some science equipment out) and very proud of the children in class 11 today. I didn’t at all believe we could sit for so long together and investigate ROCKS but we did and the children loved it and had such a buzz. There was great vocabulary, prediction, asking lots of scientific questions and sharing lots of answers and thoughts together as well as recoding and comparing. Who knew rocks could be this interesting, but they are!! Well done my little rock stars it was great and I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
(PS we had more rocks than this to look at but we just didn’t put them all in the water)
The children had a great time with their snowman competition at lunch time today.
