What is air?

My Movie-science experiment from BVS on Vimeo.

We were conducting an investigation about the propertis of air. These were the experiments were carried out :

• Folding a plastic bag into 1/4 of its size. What do you notice?
• Scrunch a piece of A4 paper Place at the bottm of an empty beaker. Turn the beaker upside dow in a bowl of water. Why does the paper stay dry?
• Blow over the top of a thin strip of paper. Why does the paper lift?
• Put two thick books on a table with a space between them. Place a sheet of paper across the top of the books. Blow under the paper. Why does the paper sink in the middle?
• Run with a big piece of cardboard in front of your chest. What does it feel like?
• Drop objects of different weights and sizes. Which fall quickly? Why?
• Drop two pieces of A4 paper- screw up one and leave one flat. Which falls fasterand why?

Cave painting with our parents during Creative Fortnight

My Movie – cave painting from BVS on Vimeo.

During Creative fortnight parents are invited to work with their children. Our topic this term is ‘Inventions that changed the World.’ We have been looking at early forms of communication and decided to create some cave paintings with our parents. These will be displayed in our awesome cave – look out for it!

Lets fly a kite

Lets fly a kite from BVS on Vimeo.

We were experimenting the effects of air resistance on flight. We had to select the most suitable materials and aerodynamic design for our kites to ensure lift off.

Christmas Homework

Year 3 Christmas Homework from BVS on Vimeo.

Science Investigation

We were investigating which materials were the best suited to keep chocolate from melting. The materials we used were paper, plastic, felt, tin foil and  tisssue. We conducted a FAIR TEST- we had to keep the size of the chocolate and where we placed it the same. We had also used a timer and observed the chocolate after 15 minutes. We have included some photos of the results and have some recordings as well.

Which material do you think would be the best suited to keep chocolate from melting?

 

                                       

Year 3 homework – children had to use adjectives in their sentences. For Numeracy homework Year 3 had to work at some logic puzzles.

hwk for blog from BVS on Vimeo.

Year 3 Activity Packs

As part of our topic, ‘Gateway to the World’ – Year 3’s have been designing on- board activity packs for an airline. Children had to think about what an activity pack for kids should contain.

Have a look and let us know what you think. 

Year 3 Trip to the City Discovery Centre

You need to write something here explaining the audio clips and just ignore all the writing below!!!

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Learning Objective Detectives!

Today in Miss Coe’s numeracy group, we were detectives and did an investigation to find out our Learning Objective. We worked as a team to find doubles and halves of numbers. In our groups we discussed the pattern we found when doubling a number and then halving it again. In our groups we wrote what we thought our Learning Objective was. Red table got the closest with “To know how to double a number and half it again.”. Our actual learning objective was “To know that halving ‘undoes’ doubling’. Now we know that halving and doubling are inverses!

The end of the year…

So we have come to the end of our year in year 3, we have had lots of fun (some of which can be seen on this blog) and have many memories to share with you!

If you find yourself with some extra time over the summer holidays, feel free to share any projects you might do (this could be a presentation on a topic, finding out about a place you’re going to visit on holiday or working on something we’ve looked at this year). If you read a good book over the holidays you could also tell us about that!

Don’t forget if you’re looking for some maths challenges you can look at the puzzle 7 blog here: http://7puzzleblog.com/category/medium/ Remember to use the levels of difficult on the side to choose questions that are not too tricky!

You could also use the very interesting BrainPOP website http://www.brainpop.co.uk/

• Can you become experts and tell me all about a topic? I’d love to know.
• Can you show me everything you have learned through looking on the BrainPOP site – perhaps you could use photographs to show me all the different things.
• Share your summer adventures with me.
• Write your own BrainPOP script on a topic, if you have the equipment you might try and make your own!