Year 3: End of the week and information for next week

 At the end of last week we started to use our new Science books. Our focus this half term is on plants so we have observed if the plants that we have already planted have sprouted yet and then went on the hunt in our school grounds for the different stages of a dandelion. 

In PE we had basketball with coach Luca outside in the sunshine. We had the RNLI come in and give an assembly about how to stay safe by the coast. The children learnt about what the different flags mean and what to do if they were caught in a rip current. 

Thank you to everyone that bought in their reading records and PE kits this week. We are still missing quite a few of these. 

I held the parent information session on Friday, thank you to the parents that were able to make this. A recording of the session will be shared with you. 

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend, the strike day means that we will see the majority of the children in school on Wednesday. Please note that Friday afternoon (5th) is our Coronation celebration on the field. You should have received your invite for this (in a brown envelope that went home on Wednesday). If no one is available to come in for your child I (Mrs Thorpe) will be there. Children will be able to go home with their adult from 2.30pm . 

🌻The Year 3 team 🌻

Year 3: Home learning week 2

 

Year 3: Bugfest visit today

 Wow what an amazing visit we had from Nick from Bugfest! We learnt all about some of the creatures found in the rainforest and the desert. The children got to stroke or hold a number of creatures such as: stick insects, beetles, hissing cockroaches, giant snails, millipedes and saw from a distance scorpions, centipedes and tarantulas. 

Here is a selection of pictures from the morning. A massive thank you to Nick from Bugfest for teaching the children so many facts about the creatures and making learning so interesting. I especially found the skin of the bird eating tarantula amazing to look at! The teachers were even brave enough to hold one (the smaller of the two!). 

Year 3: Home learning and spellings week 1.

 

Year 3: Our bodies, sketching, germination and more!

 This week the children have been learning about our new topic- The Rainforest. In Geography they explored where the rainforests are in the world by looking at the map of the world. We then took this knowledge into our English writing where we were using the conjunctions because, as and such as to write about rainforests and in particular the Amazon rainforest. 

In Maths we have been adding and subtracting lengths where the children have had to convert lengths first. For example 1m35cm + 245cm. We would convert 1m35cm- 135cm to make the addition easier. 

We had a visit from Harold and his friends from the Life Education in our SCARF lesson. We learnt about what was happening in our body and got to use an amazing interactive T shirt that showed the working organs inside our body. 

In Art we were developing our skills in using pencils and sketching. We were learning about the art of John Dyer and the Yawanawa tribe of the Amazon. 

In Science we were investigating what seeds need to grow and what plants need to survive. We revisited an investigation which we carried out in the Autumn term on how water is transported through plants. 

Thank you so much to Sarah for donating a whole set of Tom Gates books for our class library. They have already all been borrowed and the children are loving reading them! 

In praise assembly today the children were introduced to our Choose Kindness focus. We will be using this slogan and linking this with our Therapeutic Thinking approach to work on how we should be treating others. 

Next week we have a visit from the bugman (Tuesday morning). Please can we have PE kits and reading records in on Friday. We had a very low number of these in this week. 

Have a lovely weekend

🌻Mrs Thorpe, Mr MacBean, Miss Alston, Mrs Hall and Mrs Scott🌻