Year 3 - Lighthouse Keeper & The Borrowers
YEAR 3 - LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER & THE BORROWERS
LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS & THE BORROWERS CLASSES.
CURRICULUM FOR SPRING 2
As Readers
We will be reading the book, ‘The Stone Age Boy”. As part of this, we will infer meaning, explore vocabulary, make predictions, retrieve information and summarise what we have read.
Our whole class reading sessions will be linked to the Stone Age. We will be focussing on non-fiction texts and their features. There will be a focus on developing fluency and expression. In addition, we shall practise the skills of retrieval, skimming, scanning and dictionary work.
As writers
We will investigate changes from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age and write a non-fiction chronological report. Fiction: We will write an open writing with a quote: "Over the next few days I saw so much I'd never seen before". Pupils continue retelling the story. Finish with another quote.
As Mathematicians
We will learn about fractions, mass and capacity when we finish our length and perimeter module.
Key Vocabulary: Multiplication, division, recall, place value, properties, inverse operation, addition and subtraction, whole, fraction, full, heavier, lighter, half, quarter.
AS SCIENTISTS
Year 3 will learn about rocks. We will compare different rocks, we will classify rocks and we will run an experiment. We will learn about Mary Aning and how fossils were formed.
Key Vocabulary: Igneous, sedimentary, hard, layers, sediment, metamorphic, magma, sand, permeable, fossilisation, palaeontology. Fossil.
AS HISTORIANS
Learn about the course of events that led Stone-Age people to move from hunting and gathering to farming. Explore developments of technology and inventions from the Stone Age to the Iron Age and speculate why these changes occurred. Make replicas of inventions and try forging iron as an alternative to bronze-casting.
AS ARTISTS
We will be exploring the work from the Stone Age: cave painting. What does the oldest known art in the world tell us about the people who created it? Images painted, drawn or carved onto rocks and cave walls—which have been found across the globe—reflect one of humans' earliest forms of communication, with possible connections to language development.
Key Vocabulary: media, charcoal, line, tone, shade, pattern, texture, colour.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION:
Islam. Pupils are to investigate Islam and focus on some key elements of the Islamic religion, including key beliefs, holy books, places of worship and main celebration. Where do Muslims worship?
PSHE:
Healthy Me (Jigsaw). We will learn about being Fit and Healthy, being Fit and Healthy, What Do I Know About Drugs? Being Safe or unsafe. Amazing Body. Assessment Opportunity. And we will explore the RELATE during our MyHappyMind lessons. (MHM)