Outdoor Classroom day - Thursday 23rd May

Today Year 3 have taken their learning outside so they could take part in Outdoor Classroom day! 

The first challenge was to make 3D shapes using sticks and clay! The children heading into the copse to gather some sticks and then began constructing different shapes.  How many can you name?

In the afternoon, each class choose a tree to decorate.  The children completed a wish for the tree and then used these and other materials to decorate their tree. 

Clay creatures under the special tree...

Other Outdoor Learning

This half term our topic is Fantastic Beasts, so we decided to see what fantastic creatures we could find in our school grounds.  We started off by trying to charm worms out of the ground! We used a range of methods including tapping the ground and pouring water onto it.  We managed to find four worms! Did you know a worm has five hearts? 

For our second outdoor lesson we continued our study of worms!   We headed down to the allotment area to find some worms, it was much easier than trying to find them on the field.  We then took our worms inside to observe them.
Worms have small hairs or bristles on their bodies.  We placed the worms on paper and listened to them as they moved, we could hear a scratching sound.  We also looked inside the worms by placing them on top of a torch.  

To get to know our school grounds better we decided to sketch a landscape.  We set off with iPads so we could photograph different locations, then we returned to class to sketch our favourite view using sketching pencils.

Following on from our sketching, this week we took our watercolours outside and tried painting different views around the playground area.