Home learning - Easter Holiday

Easter Holiday   - Year 3 Home Learning

What can you find out about The Vikings?
Their homes, when/where they lived, their family life, customs, religion, wars, longboats
It would be great if you could present some of your findings:
Maybe a short piece of writing, or diagrams, or pictures.
Have a great holiday!
DM

Wrong Shoes

Earlier in the week, one of the boys went home with the wrong shoes and his own shoes are now missing. Please can you check that your son has not brought home the wrong shoes by mistake. The shoes we are looking for have "flashing lights" on the sides that can be turned on.

Many thanks,

DM

Torches - Successful lesson

Thank you for all of the torches that came to school today.
These were a real help for our Science lesson.
Perhaps you could "test" your child on the meaning of the following:
transparent
opaque
translucent

DM

Interesting Farm Visit

We had a very interesting time at Maiden Castle Farm this morning. There was lots going on! The cows were as interested in meeting the children as the children were in meeting the cows. We particularly enjoyed watching the shepherds in action and, as well as seeing dozens of lambs,  we watched Lee assisting a ewe in the birth of a lamb. - A very special experience which the children found fascinating!
Many thanks to Hazel for her sharing her knowledge and expertise.

DM

Farm visit - Tuesday

Dear Parents,
Tomorrow we are spending the morning at Maiden Castle Farm. Hazel will be showing us around the lambing pens
Please make sure that your child brings appropriate outdoor footwear to change into, and plenty of warm layers. We will be back in time to keep the usual arrangements for lunch.

DM

Today's visit to St. George's Church, Fordington

Dear Parents,
Today's visit to St. George's Church was a great success. We spent some time looking at the special features that you find in a church - such as the font, lectern, pulpit, altar, pews. And also looked at some of special details of St. George's - such as the Norman arch over the entrance depicting St. George in battle.
The children enjoyed their visit and were very well behaved indeed; a real credit to the school.
Well done Year 3!

DM

Torches

Dear Parents,
It would be very useful to have a large number of torches available for our Science activity on Wednesday afternoon. We will be looking at materials to see whether they are transparent, translucent or opaque.
If you could possibly allow your child to bring in a torch from home on Wednesday I would be very grateful. ("Named Torches" would be even better.)

Many Thanks,

Mr. MacBean

Home Learning Year 3 - Friday 20th March

Home Learning Year 3 Friday 20^th March

1.    – I would like you to do some thinking!

Next week in class you will each be making an Anglo-Saxon/Viking Board Game.
The year is 1000 A.D….. The place is the South Dorset Ridgeway….. Anglo-Saxon settlements are being threatened by “Danes” from the across the North Sea.
The children will be creating a dice-board game that is set in this “scenario”.

Things to think about:

What are the rules?
How do the players use the “Chance” cards?
What “pieces” will the players use to move across the board?

You need not start to make your board game because will be doing this in class. However, you can start to plan some ideas and perhaps have a chat about your ideas with your family.

 2.    Spellings (Choosing from 4 lists as usual)

3.    Multiplication. Practise your “times tables” for the “test” next week. Are you choosing to do the test of the “2s and 10s” or the “3s and 5s”, or the “4s and 8s”?

4.    Growing a Bean. We are providing the children with a bean and a plastic cup. They will need to get some cotton wool, or blotting paper (+water). Watch your bean grow.

Year 3 Maths - Patterns in Number Sequences

In our Maths lessons this week, we have been looking at sequences of numbers and trying to find the patterns, in order to continue the sequence.
Here are some for you to try at home:

6    8    10    -    -

36    32     28     -     -

3   6   9   -   -

120   100   80   -    -

360    180     90

3    9    27    -     -

4    9    19    39     -     -         (tricky)

319    159    79    -      -        (very tricky)

Perhaps you could write some tricky number sequence for us to work out in class?

DM

Two Year 3 visits next week. - St. George's Church on Monday, Maiden Castle Farm on Tuesday

Next week the children in Year 3 are going on two trips:

• St. Georges Church on Monday morning.
• Maiden Castle Farm on Tuesday morning.

I will be driving the minibus with half of the class to the church. This will be repeated for the second half of the class later in the morning. Those children that use wheelchairs will be going to the church using a special taxi-minibus. We will looking at the special features of this lovely local church.

We will be walking to Maiden Castle Farm to look particularly at the lambing. Please make sure that your child brings appropriate outdoor footwear to change into, and plenty of warm layers. We will be back in time to keep the usual arrangements for lunch.

DM

Light - Year 3 Science Topic

We will be learning about "Light" during our next series of Science lesson.
Today we found out about different sources of light:
We learned that the Sun is our most significant source of light and that the Stars we see at night are also "Suns" that are millions of kilometres away.
We thought about lights that are made by humans; often powered by electrical energy.
And we saw an enchanting BBC video about glow worms and the way they produce light with their bodies.
Next session : Thinking about how shadows are formed, - and considering whether materials/objects are transparent, translucent or opaque.
DM

Fantastically Funny Costumes

Well done Year 3 for your fantastically funny costumes!
Red Nose Day was lots of fun!
We did manage to get work done too - Honestly!
DM

Home Learning : Our Birthdays- Bar Chart

Dear Parents,
For their "Home learning" this week, I have asked the Year 3 children to make a bar chart to show the birthday months of the children in the class.
We have given them all a piece of squared paper to help with this.

We have also given out "Spelling Lists" as usual.

Many Thanks,

DM

And this month's Year 3 "Wow Writer" is.....

And this month's Year 3 "Wow Writer" is Jay !

Well done Jay for your fantastic writing which retold the story of "Yeh Chen". This was the focus of our drama day with Mr. Simon Stone.
There was lots more fantastic work produced too, - some of which is displayed in the corridor.

DM

Great fence building today!

I think Year 3 would make fantastic Anglo-Saxon builders considering the way they tackled the repair of our hazel wattle fence today. They showed great confidence and co-operation as they worked in small teams to weave our new fence. Unfortunately, we ran out of cut hazel and have only done a quarter of the fence, so we will have to get some more hazel and spend some more time completing it!

Friday- Comic Relief

This Friday is Comic Relief. Just a quick reminder that we are asking the children to dress funny for money!

 

In assembly on Friday we will be sharing favourite jokes.  Also after school on Friday we will be having a cake sale. Each class will be baking and decorating cakes. However if you are baking this week or would like to donate some cakes for our sale please hand them to the children's class teacher on Friday.

 

All of the school have been learning the 2015 Comic Relief Song 'Put on a funny face'. It is a brilliant song and very catchy.  

Fence Building Year 3 Wednesday

Dear Parents,
The children in Year 3 will be going outside on Wednesday to help Mr. Farrington to build a wattle fence (hazel). They will be going outside in groups of 6 children for about half an hour at a time. Please can you provide your child with "outdoor footwear" (to change into) on Wednesday. We do not think that they require a change of clothing, - but a coat will be necessary.

Thank you,

DM

Writing to St. Thomas' School, Bolton

Today we wrote letters to the children at St. Thomas' School, Bolton. Mr. Farrington used to live near to this school and visited quite recently.
The children in Year Three enjoyed telling the children in Bolton all about our school and what it is like living in Dorset.

DM

Home Learning - Months of the Year - and Poetry (Friday 6th March)

For our Year 3 "Home learning" this week, I have asked the children to learn the names for all of the months of the year - in order.

 I have also encouraged the children to learn this poem:

"Thirty Days Hath September"  - Poem

30 days hath September,
April, June and November.
All the rest have 31,
Except February alone,
Which only has 28 days clear
And 29 in each leap year.

This ticks two boxes in the new National Curriculum:
-Learning poetry
and
- Knowing how many days there are in each month.

DM

data handling

Maths
This week in our Maths sessions we have been learning about ways of representing data and information using charts, graphs and tables

Our Learning Objectives:
-Interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables.
-Solve one-step and two-step questions [for example, 'How many more?' and 'How many fewer?'] using information presented in scaled bar charts and pictograms and tables.
(Charts/Tables to include - Bar Charts, Pictograms, Line Graphs,Venn Diagrams,Carroll diagrams and Pie Charts)

We will be following this up with three more sessions next week.

DM

THANK YOU

DEAR MRS. DAVENPORT,
THANK YOU FOR MY LOVELY NEW SANDALS.
LOTS OF LOVE AND KISSES,
BROTHER ELVIS
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