This week.

We were looking on eggshels in chocolate,tea, pepsi, diet pepsi and  hot chocolate to see wich is the most dangerus for your teeth. We were making songs about chocolate. We were doung perimeter at maths and reading about panda-bears and wrote reports.We were making snowmans and making graphs about if you eat chocolate how long does it take to burn it away.


By Adrian



Year 3 making 'music'!!!

Here they are the most sensational amazing and creative songs since The Beatles...

 

 

 

Aron, Matyas, Amir and Filip

Harune, Ye-Eun and Rumin

 

Zuzi, Eva and Joury

 

Dimi, Albert, Patrick and Matej

 

 

Tonca, Amanda, Chris and Ishan

 

Adrian, Richard and Eun-Mok

 

 

 

Sophie, Adela, Liza and Marianka by jamieben

Giant Panda - report

Hello Year 3 to help us with the work we have been doing on reports, read this report about Pandas and then talk about the features of a report it has.

 

The Giant Panda

                         

 

 

The Giant Panda originates from all over Asia but mostly China. The scientific name for a Giant Panda is (Ailorupoda Melanoleuca). The Giant Panda is a Mammal which means it’s warm-blooded, it is also a omnivore which means it eats both vegetables and meat .Average life span for a Giant Panda in the wild is up to 20 years. There are only about 1,000 Pandas left in the wild and perhaps 100 Pandas live in a zoo!.

 

Appearance

 

The Giant Panda is about 1.2-1.5 meters in length and weighs 300lb (136kg). They have a thick coat of black and white hair and are probably one of the most recognizable animals with a white body and head. After the Sloth Bear the Giant Panda has the longest tail in the Bear family measuring at 4-6 inches long.

 

Diet

 

Wild Giant Panda’s diet is almost exclusively (99%) bamboo. The balance consists of other grasses and occasional small rodents or musk deer fawns. In zoos, Giant Pandas eat bamboo, sugar cane, rich gruel, a special high-fiber biscuit, carrots, apples and sweet potatoes.

 

Habitat

 

Giant Pandas are found only  in the bamboo forests in the mountains of central Peoples Republic of China, including the provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi, and Sichuan. Pandas are usually found in the mountains at about 3000 meters above sea level. In the winter they sometimes make their way down to about 800 meters. They do not make a permanent den, but take shelter in any suitable cavity in trees or rock crevices. They do not hibernate, but instead come down to lower elevations where it is warmer and more food is available. Pandas live mainly on the ground, but are able to climb. They feed mainly on bamboo, but also eat other plants and small animals.

 

BEHAVIOUR

Giant pandas sleep hidden away inside caves and dens which may be a hollow at the bottom of a large tree trunk.

Giant Pandas are solitary animals; they spend their lives alone, except during mating seasons or when females rear their young. Giant Pandas live in well defined territories.

Giant pandas will urinate or scent mark on trees to warn others of their presence in the territory. They will also vocalize, producing sounds such as roaring or bleating (a similar to that of a domestic goat), to convey to the others their intentions. Panda cubs produce high pitched wailing to attract their mothers' attention for care and nursing. Giant Pandas are very vocal during mating seasons to attract each other. The females will produce sounds that are not heard at other time of the year.

Over all the species of a Giant Panda is an endangered creature.

The Aztecs on video!!!

Aztecs by jamieben
aztecs 3 by jamieben
Aztecs 2 by jamieben

Picmonkeys!!!

 

Hello Year 3 here is a selection of your creative work on Picmonkey!!!

 

 

 

In this week by Adela and Zuzi

Hello we are going to tell you all of the fun thingswe have been doing at school this week!

 

This week we had lots of fun.We was on pic monkey we choose pictures and changed them.

We did the Aztec alphabet and it was quite hard

On maths we  did angles and obtuce and acute.

It was a busy week

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Hernando Cortés

 

 

Hello Year 3 here is a picture and some information about the famous Hernando Cortés read the information and then answer the questions at the bottom of the page.

 

The Spanish went to the Aztecs in 1519 because they were looking for land, gold, and to make people believe in the Christian religion.   Cortés had about 600 men and a few horses. On their way to see the Aztecs the Spanish made friends with a group of people called the Tlaxcalans, who were enemies of the Aztecs.

The leader of the Aztec Empire was called Montezuma II. The Aztec capital city was called Tenochtitlán.  Normally, the Spanish adventurers would have been captured and killed immediately, because that is what the Aztecs did to invaders.  The Aztecs did not do this when they first met the Spanish explorers.  They had never seen white people with beards and horses before so they thought that Cortés and the Spanish were like gods, and so they treated them like gods.  

Montezuma gave Cortés and his men gifts of gold and chocolatl (a chocolate drink). He thought that these gifts would keep Cortés from taking over the city, but they just made Cortés want more.

The Spanish thought the capital city of Tenochtitlan was amazing. Everything was clean. There were places to eat and hairdressers! You could buy medicines and all kinds of food. You could buy meat and there were streets that sold only pottery and mats. Painters could buy the paints they needed for their art.  Cortes wrote a letter to Spain telling them there were more than 60,000 people in the marketplace buying and selling things. No one used money. Everything was bought and sold using cocoa beans.

The Spanish felt very comfortable in the Aztec capital city.  As time went on, the Spanish felt that they might never leave.  However, the Aztecs became very suspicious of the Spanish. The Spanish did not act like gods. They did not do the things that gods did. They had no special powers.  They even didn’t go to the sacrifice ceremonies, which after all, were done for the gods.

Because the Spanish did not behave like gods the Aztecs told the Spanish to leave the city.  Cortes was angry and returned the next year with an army.  The Spanish used guns and illnesses from Spain to kill the Aztecs. The Spanish also had help from the other groups in the area like the Tlaxcalans who lived in the same area as the Aztecs. The Tlaxcalans didn’t like the Aztecs and so they wanted to kill them and take their land too.  By the mid-1500’s, the Aztec Empire had collapsed.

When Cortes had destroyed the Aztecs he changed the name of the capital city from Tenochtitlan to Mexico.

The Aztecs had many things the Spanish did not have.  They had chocolate, sugar, rubber, corn, and a sewage system.

After the Aztecs were destroyed Cortes started to take the cocoa beans and chocolate drink back home to Spain.  Cortes made the chocolate drink sweeter by adding sugar.  Because it was so expensive to bring the cocoa beans and sugar all the way from Mexico, chocolate was very expensive and only rich people could afford it.

People from Spain wanted the best land for growing cacao trees because they knew they could become rich from chocolate.  As there were not many cacao trees at this time the Spanish did not want to share chocolate with other countries.  For almost 100 years the Spanish kept chocolate a secret from the rest of the world!

Hernando Cortes quiz!

1. How many men did Cortes take to the Aztecs?

 

2. What was the capital city of the Aztecs called?

 

3. Who was the leader of the Aztec empire?

 

4. Why did the Aztecs give Cortes gifts of gold and chocolate?

 

5. How did the Spanish feel when they were staying with the Aztecs?

 

6. When Cortes had destroyed the Aztecs what did he change the name of the capital city to?

 

7. What did Cortes add to the chocolate drink?

 

8. Why did the Spanish keep the cocoa beans a secret from the rest of the world?

 

9. How many years did the Spanish keep cocoa beans a secret from the rest of the world?

 

10. What do you think about Cortes and the things he did?

All about the Aztecs!!!

  Hello Year 3 use the websites here; Aztecs and here; Aztecs 2 and the notes you made from the video to try and answer the questions below         Aztec Quiz

1. When did the Spanish invade Mexico? A- 1517 B- 1518 C- 1519

2. What was the name for the Spanish Soldiers?

3. Why did the Spanish man want to attack the capital city?

4. What 'weapon' killed a lot of the Aztecs? Why/how?

5. What was the Aztecs capital?
A- Hernado
B- Cortez
C- Tenochtitlan

6. Tell me two other interesting things you discovered about the Aztecs

7. At what age did Aztec boys join the warrior tribe?
A- 17
B- 18
C- 19

8. Who was the God of the night sky?
A- Quetzalcoatl
B- Tezcatlipoca
C- Tlaloc

9. How did the Aztecs write?
A- Letters
B- Models
C- Pictures