Year 3 Farm Trip

The children in Year Three enjoyed an interesting visit to Maiden Castle Farm yesterday.

Our thanks to Farmer Hazel again for providing this exciting opportunity.

#InspiredToLearn 

 

Year 3: Farm trip tomorrow reminder

Please remember it is the farm trip tomorrow (as long as the rain isn't too heavy). Children to wear normal school tops but can wear home trousers. Please can all children bring wellies and waterproof coats (trousers if you have any). Also, please provide another pair of shoes for them to change into after the trip. They are there all morning so will carry their own drinks and a small snack that can fit in their pocket. 

Many thanks, any questions please see Mr MacBean in the morning or contact him via email. 

Can you help?

Reminder - The children in Year Three are visiting Maiden Castle Farm this Thursday (28/09/23) morning. We would welcome any parents/carers who would like to come along to support us on this outing. 

We plan to leave school at 9:15 and be back to school at around 12:00. 

Please let me know if you would like to come along -

d.macbean@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk

Mr MacBean

Class Teacher

Year 3: End of week 3 and home learning

 Well the end of the week in Year 3 has been full of exciting learning opportunities. In DT the children have been learning about seasonal fruits and vegetables. We collected apples from our school grounds and made apple crumble. The children learnt about rubbing the butter, flour and sugar together to form the crumble and how to form a bridge to cut safely. These have now been frozen and will be on offer during our Harvest food tasting session. 

In Art we have been learning about printing. After our successful printing session earlier in the week we asked Edith's Mum Rebecca in to show us how to print professionally. All of the children were so engaged and listened brilliantly. Rebecca's work was amazing to see and the children got to help to make two prints. They learnt how to mix the different ink colours, how to roll out the ink and press it using the blocks she had made. Thank you so much Rebecca! 

Home learning this week is to look at this picture and write about it. Where could it be? Could you write a story about it? 

We hope you all have an enjoyable weekend. See you on Monday for the start of our Food, Faith and Farming Fortnight. As always, expect the unexpected on Monday morning when the children arrive. If feel your child needs to know more about this please do email me.

Mrs Thorpe, Mrs Scott, Mrs McConnell

Mr MacBean + Mrs Thomas

Year 3: Week 3 learning so far

 This week we have been working really hard on our routines in Year 3. The children are now getting used to doing handwriting practice everyday and have got the AR buzz. It has been fantastic to see how excited the children are to do AR quizzes. They can do these at home also. All the children know how to get on AR from the pupil links (on the website) they need to click on the orange AR square and type in the number or title of the book. 

The reading magnifying glass in the top right will take you to where the children search for the books they have read to take the quizzes. The progress takes them to this page showing their AR points (the rocket). If the children get 80% or more that is a pass and they will put a quaffle in their pouch. The children can use the book to answer the questions. Along the tabs on the page where the rocket is, if you click on my completed work then you can see which books the children have read and passed. 

This week in English the children have carried on their writing on fronted adverbials and today they wrote noun phrases linked to our story book The Stone Age Boy. 

This afternoon we had a brilliant History lesson where the children learnt about the different types of humans. I wonder if they could tell you any of the names? 

Unfortunately due to the high winds, it was not safe to be in the Forest School areas. So instead we did Art which the children loved. In Art we developed our skills in printing and used block prints to print a pattern. 

You will get to see the finished product soon as this will be on show during the Harvest Celebration on the 6th October. 

Apologies for my spelling group that have only just bought their spellings home. Our spelling checks are actually every fortnight now and so these will be checked on the 29th September. Sentence work linked to the spelling rule will be sent home this week for my group. 

If anyone has any questions or concerns, please do feel free to email me. 

Mrs Thorpe, Mrs Scott, Mrs McConnell

   Mr MacBean and Mrs Thomas

Year 3: Home learning

 

Year 3: Week 2 so far...

 This week we have carried on looking at the story of The Stone Age Boy. 

The children have been writing simple and compound sentences about the characters and yesterday we worked on fronted adverbials. 

In Power Maths we have been partitioning numbers using a whole part model. The children have been partitioning in hundreds, tens and ones but also by splitting up the number in different ways, as shown below. 

In our outdoor learning session this week we split into two groups. Half of the class looked at printing with leaves whilst the rest of the class learnt how to use a flint and steel. We have been talking about fire safety and how they should never do this without adult supervision. The children were intrigued how the people from the Stone Age would have lit fires so we had a go! Next week we will swap over so that everyone has a go. Thank you for sending in different shoes/wellies, it's just so their new shoes don't get ruined. 

In Computing, the children worked together through a flowchart to set a timer command. They had to make a rabbit disappear and the sky turn a different colour after a certain amount of time. If your child wants to carry this on then they can access this in their '2Dos' in Purple Mash. 

On Friday we will be sending home the children's new reading record, spellings and home learning. In their reading record is a copy of all of their passwords for the websites you can access for free at home. I will try to blog these each week so that their is a record of this online. Please can we have the home learning folders back with the reading record and anything completed every Friday. 

Just a reminder that it is my parent information session tomorrow morning at 9am in the staff room. 

🌞The Year 3 Team 🌞

Year 3: Science, DT and computing at the end of the week.

 At the end of this week we have started our new Science topic on plants. Today we were looking at a zoomed in picture. Using our Scientific skills of questioning and reasoning the children made guesses to what they thought this was. Can you guess it? 

That's right, it's roots! We then spent some time looking at the roots system of a number of different plants. 

In DT this afternoon we learnt about seasonal foods and made a Japanese fruit skewer (minus the Lychee). 

In Computing we followed the instructions in a flowchart to make our sprite move on a page by pressing a button. 

This afternoon your child should have come home with a plastic folder with their name on. This is their home learning folder. Every week we will put home learning, spellings and their reading records in there. Please can these be completed and returned by the following Friday. This week there is no home learning just spellings. Next week the children will receive their new reading records, AR numbers along with books from the library. If your child is in a RWI group they should have come home with a book today. RWI spelling groups have spellings in their home learning folders. 

We hope you have an amazing weekend.

The Year 3 team 

Year 3: Proud artists and more!

Wow, we have had a brilliant start to Year 3! The children are getting used to the routines of Year 3 and have worked together to make our class charter. 

Today in Art we looked at the Artists Andy Goldsworthy and Richard Shilling who both use the natural environment to make their sculptures. We looked at their art work and how they use colour and shape to make sculptures. We then went outside and made 2D pictures and how amazing they were! 

We have also used our audio headsets to become immersed in our new topic of the Stone Age. 

In English the children have been learning about nouns and pronouns. In Maths we have been working on partitioning using a part part whole model. Understanding that for example 47 is made up of 40 + 7. 

I look forward to hopefully seeing many of you at the parent information session next week. In the meantime if there is anything that you want to discuss with me then please do come and see me on the door in the morning or email me. 

Just a reminder that children should have hats in school please and suncream applied before school. 

Mrs Thorpe, Mrs Scott, Mrs McConnell

Mr MacBean and Mrs Thomas