Creating Dream Jars and writing an adapted extract from the BFG

Over the past few weeks the Year 3 children have created their own Dream Jars, inspired by the BFG. The children experienced a range of materials to stimulate their senses and used their positive feeling influences to decide what ingredients were needed to make a phizzwizard (positive dream).  The children collaborated and created a recipe of positive ideas that their dream jar should contain.

With their fantastic ideas and dream jars as inspiration, the children independently wrote their adapted version of the extract from the BFG where Sophie and the BFG created a dream for the Queen. This time, they made it a positive dream. A PHIZZWIZARD! The children worked hard to use creative writing ideas and to include the correct grammar and punctuation we have been practising in Year 3.

We have made their creative extract into a mini story booklet with a front cover and a blurb which they are excited to take home to share with their family.

During Number Day this year, we questioned why do we need to learn about Number and Mathematics? So, Year 3 investigated how Mathematics is used in different careers.

We learnt that over 70% of jobs have an element of Mathematics involved and even if you don’t have a job you still need Mathematics to calculate your personal finances to budget and pay your bills.

The children investigated how many different Maths skills different careers used, the time it takes to train in a specific career, the average hours you would need to work per week and the salary you would receive for a specific job role.

With the information, the children created ‘Job Role Top Trump cards’ and were challenged to investigate other job roles that they aspired to do when they are older.