The boys and girls in Katie’s third class have been very creative this month. Mother’s Day was celebrated on the 11^th of March. We designed and created beautiful pop up cards for all of our mothers. Everyone put a lot of effort into their card and were very excited to give them to their mothers on this special day.

As March 17^th was St. Patrick’s Day, we learned about St. Patrick and discussed how the day is celebrated not only in Ireland, but all over the world. To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, we made hats using different construction joins. The boys and girls were very excited to model their creations!

We were busy in science this month learning about light. We investigated different types of mirrors and completed experiments about reflections and how mirrors work. We also learned why the word ‘ambulance’ is written backwards and wrote our own names backwards to see how they looked in the mirror.

In geography this month we completed our lessons about Africa. We learned about African masks and talked about the purpose of these masks. We looked at the different types of materials used to make the masks. The boys and girls made colourful masks of their own using card.

We have had a very busy month in third class. We learned all about the Chinese New Year through different subjects. We completed lots of activities based on the Chinese New Year. In drama we learned the story of the Nian. The class then created still images based on the villagers trying to defeat the terrifying monster!

In art we spoke about this year being the Chinese New Year of the Dog. The boys and girls were very keen to find out what animal was celebrated in the year they were born. They were born in either the year of the ox or the year of the rat! The children made lovely bookmarks to represent the Year of the Dog.

The boys and girls had lots of fun completing different activities during Friendship Week this month. Each child had a secret friend for the week. They made ‘pass the compliment’ pictures, created beautiful friendship bracelets and played co-operative games in P.E. The children had a lot of fun and hoped that every week would be like friendship week!

We have been very busy in Katie’s third class this month. We have been learning all about Ancient Rome in history. The boys and girls have been working on group projects, making constructions of Ancient Roman buildings, designing Roman inspired mosaics and putting together a book about Ancient Rome.

We began learning about ‘chance’ in maths this week. We talked about the ‘chance’ of different scenarios occurring and made predictions about the weather. We completed dice activities to investigate the likelihood of different numbers appearing!

Science has been very exciting this month as we have been learning all about heat. We did lots of different experiments to investigate conduction, insulation and convection. Today we completed an experiment to investigate how heat causes molecules to move faster.