A Year 3/4 classroom
Juniper Classroom
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More working walls. We all know where to look for information!
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Our reading corner and class library.
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Just some of our maths resources.
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Literacy working wall.
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Maths working wall.
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Building our working wall.
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Welcome!
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Emotional heath and well-being is important to us.
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PE in the hall
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A Literacy Sequence
To begin our year of literacy learning we are using the poem "Beachcomber" by George Mackay Brown. We are so lucky to live in a location where we can go and explore the beach. We have been incorporating grammar and expanding our vocabulary in order to create distinctive and creative descriptive writing. We have just started planning our own poems, "Moorcomber" based on an amazing collection of natural things found on Dartmoor and things we have found and seen when we've been exploring the moors ourselves.
We are reading and learning about the poem Beachcomber by George Mackay Brown. We have looked up vocabulary we didn't understand.
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We have drawn story maps to help us to learn the poem and memorised parts of it.
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We have used adventurous vocabulary to create expanded noun phrases about amazing things washed up on beaches.
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We have built on this knowledge by including prepositions.
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We have been thinking about alliteration and onomatopoeia to help to give the reader what it's like to be by the sea.
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Now we are planning our own poems, "Moorcomber" based on a collection of things found on our local Dartmoor. Barn owl feathers.
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A fox's skull.
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A mossy bird's nest.
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A ram's skull.
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A wasp nest.
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Having chosen what we wanted to fins we planned our own poem "Moorcomber"
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We have written our first drafts and edited our work.
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We have written our poem up as a neat copy and read them aloud to our class.
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Science - Sound Explorations!
In Science this half term Year 3/4 classes are exploring Sound - How it is made, how we hear it and what ways we can alter pitch and volume, including soundproofing. We started the topic off with a noisy, but very fun, afternoon exploring different ways we can make and hear sound. We also discovered we can feel sound!
Art
In art in Year 3/4 we explore sketching skills, shade and tone, clay, printing and collage.
The Song of St Francis Workshop
We had a really creative morning with a member of the local community. They told us the story of St Francis, we learnt a song and dance to retell the tale and then did some artwork, using elements of the story and our own ideas.