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🌻

Year 3 Home learning over the Easter break- please access EdShed

 I hope you're having a lovely break. For home learning over the Easter holidays I'd like you to have a go at designing a Science Mascot. This was in the brown envelope that was sent home with the mastermind cards in.  

During the last week of term all of the children completed a spell check of 20-30 spellings. I've marked these and inputted each child's individual spelling lists with the words they got incorrect into spelling shed. These will go live first thing in the morning. Please do get your child to access this over the holidays along with TTRS. Every child has had their logins sent home but if you have not got these anymore then please do email and ask for them.

Have a great rest of your Easter break

Mrs Thorpe 

Year 3 farm trip tomorrow

Just a quick reminder about the farm trip tomorrow. Children to wear school tops but home trousers. Please come into school in shoes and have wellingtons to change into. They will need shoes to change back into when they get back to school. Coats will be needed please. 

Thank you