Welcome to 3/ 4 Blue where we share photos, videos and information of the exciting and fun things we have been learning about in school.

Please see our photo gallery for albums of recent pictures, including forest school!

Christmas crafting

At Christmas, we were lucky enough to receive a visit from Mrs Smith who taught us how to make Christmas angels. We were really pleased with the results and think they would look really good on top of our Christmas trees at home! Thank you for all of your help Mrs Smith! We are very grateful!

Pedestrian training

We learnt how to cross the road safely, how to recognise hazards and how important it is to be visible by wearing bright or reflective clothing, especially at night.   

Howard Carter and Tutankhamun

Today we turned our classroom into Tutankhamun's tomb and pretended we were Howard Carter exploring the Valley of the Kings when all of a sudden we stumbled upon the famous pharaoh's burial chamber! We imagined how excited Howard Carter would have felt at that moment and discussed what an amazing discovery it was! We ventured inside with a partner and a torch and wrote down all the wonderful treasures we found inside.

We looked at some real photographs taken from 1922 when the discovery took place and matched the photographs with the appropriate, matching caption in groups.

 

Egyptian salt dough amulet making

In our topic lessons this week, we enjoyed getting messy when making salt dough, which we learnt was a mixture of salt, flour and water to form the dough.  We first rolled out the dough, then moulded it into the desired shape. For example, a scarab beetle or the eye of Horus. Finally, once the salt dough had baked in the oven, we painted and decorated our amulets using bright and metallic colours.

Computing

In computing, we drew an Egyptian picture with felt tip colours and then recreated the same images using a digital device! We then compared and contrasted the two approaches. We discussed how, at times, it is better to use a non-digital tool rather than a digital device because sometimes it can take even longer! 

 

Congratulations to the children who have gained their house point certificates this week!

Our finished Egyptian death masks inspired by Tutankhamun, Ra The Sun God, Anubis, Egyptian amulets and so much more!

 

Decorating our Egyptian death masks!

 

A French Christmas:

Singing French carols in 3/ 4 Blue. We even had small conversations in French. Thank you for teaching us, Madame Ramsden!

 

Christmas party day!

 

Super Sixties Day:
We had so much fun dressing up for our Super Sixties day! Here we are showing off our fabulous outfits!

L.S Lowry watercolour paintings:

We learnt about the industrial revolution and studied the famous 20th century artist L.S. Lowry. We listened to the song Matchstick Men and Matchstick Cats and Dogs, which was written as a tribute to him. We looked carefully at the style of Lowry's paintings and talked about perspective, including the foreground, middle ground and background. We used watercolour and recreated some of his most famous works of art. We are very proud of our paintings! 

 

The Samba:

We learnt where in the world cacao trees are grown and Brazil is the world's fifth largest chocolate producing country! We learnt about the Samba and composed our own piece of music using percussion instruments!

 

From Bean to Bar:

Our topic this term is Chocolate! Here we are learning about the process of 'Bean to Bar.'

 

The Digestive System:

In science this term, we learnt all about the digestive system and we had lots of fun practically demonstrating the process of how your food turns into poo!

1. First, we used scissors and chopped pieces of bread into small parts to represent our teeth cutting up our food.

2. Next, we mixed the bread with water (representing the saliva in our mouth) in a sandwich bag to create our 'bolus.' 

3. After that, we poured in some coke to represent how stomach acid breaks our food down and splits up the proteins from our food.

4. We used tights to demonstrate how your food travels first through the small intestine which absorbs the nutrients and then through the large intestine that absorbs the water.

5. Finally, we squeezed out our poo through our 'anus!'

 

Chocolate topic display board:

We are very proud of our Topic display. Feeling inspired by our whole class reader 'Charlie and the Chocolate factory,' we studied the illustrator Quentin Blake. We discussed his cartoon like drawings and we practised our observational drawing skills by copying some of his illustrations from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

 

Quentin Blake Charlie and the Chocolate Factory illustrations: