Year 3 - Lighthouse Keeper & The Borrowers
As readers:
We will be reading ‘Stone Age Boy’. As part of this we will be exploring vocabulary, discussing the meaning of characters’ actions and inferring meaning from events implied in the text. We will be making predictions based on what has already happened and what we know of characters’ motivations as well as summarising what we have read.
Our whole class reading sessions will be linked to our history topic of Ancient Britian - the Stone Age to the Iron Age. We will be focussing on developing fluency, retrieving information and making links to our history learning about Ancient Britain alongside developing our inference and vocabulary skills.
Key vocabulary: retrieval, vocabulary, inference, summarise, Stone Age, Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, bronze
As writers:
We will be exploring how to write an effective letter, recounting information about events in order to answer the Big Question: “What did Stone Age Boy see in Om’s camp?” We will also be creating a chronological report linked to our history topic of Ancient Britian – the Stone Age to the Iron Age to answer the Big Question “How did mankind progress from the Stone Age to the Iron Age?” and developing our use and understanding of cohesive devices such as conjunctions, adverbials of time, manner and frequency.
Key vocabulary: expanded noun phrase, fronted adverbial, heading, subheading, paragraph
As mathematicians:
We will be developing our understanding of fractions, mass and capacity. We will be looking at ordering unit fractions, using fractions to help interpret scales, and what equivalent fractions are. We will also be looking at litres and millilitres and comparing capacity and volume.
Key vocabulary: fraction, numerator, denominator, part, whole, capacity, volume, equivalent
As scientists:
We will be learning about different types of rock, their properties and how they are formed. We will be looking at classifying and comparing rocks and their uses. We will be looking at how soil is formed and whether it is all the same. We will also be looking at fossils, what they are and how they are formed.
Key vocabulary: rock, igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic, soil, fossil
As historians:
We will be studying Ancient Britian, specifically looking at the Stone and Iron Ages. We will also be learning about archaeologists, what they are and what they do. We will be looking at how and when people first came to Britain. We will then be looking at Stonehenge and what it tells us about people in the Neolithic era.
Key vocabulary: Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Ancient, Stonehenge, Stone Age, Iron Age, bronze
As artists:
We will be creating our own interpretations of Stone Age art, looking at cave paintings and jewellery specifically.
Key vocabulary: minerals, cave art, painting, hand stencils
