Year Three, Autumn 2006 - Class Teacher Ms H Bishop
Term 1 was all about ourselves for Year 3. We did self-portraits to send to French schoolchildren and wrote letters of introduction to tell them about ourselves. You can see some of the portraits on the website. We learnt about healthy diets and how to look after our teeth in Science. We put all that information to use when we designed healthy sandwiches for a picnic in Design Technology.
Now it is Term 2 and our topic is Children in the Second World War. Someone has brought in real gas mask for our display. We're listening to 1940's music and have prepared questions for a visitor who was bombed out of her house during an air raid when she was a child. We're hoping to talk to someone who was an evacuee in this area.
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As part of our work all about ourselves we painted self-portraits. This work was sent to our French partner school along with letters about ourselves as an introduction.
We looked at a portrait by Matisse, a French painter, and then we did our own portraits in a similar style.
We had photos of ourselves and traced the most important lines that make our faces look the way they do.
We learned how to mix colours so that they were just the way we wanted them.
We were really pleased with the results. Here are a few for you to look at.
