Year 3 Home Learning 1.7.22

Spellings

  1. library

2. actual

3. actually

4. complete

5. completely

6. opposite

7. fruit

8. heard

9. heart

10. height

Maths

IXL - Time

This week please complete these IXL strands based on time: W.13, W.14 and W.15

English

This week we have introduced “The Spider and the fly,” the poem that we will be focused on during our final weeks. We have been thinking about the different spider characters that we are familiar with from previous stories, poems, films and songs. We found that spiders are not always fearful characters!

In your homework book can you write a top trumps card to share facts about a particular spider. This could be a particular species or a spider from a story, song or poem. When writing your card, don’t forget to showcase your wonderful writing skills. What different punctuation can you include? Can you use exciting vocabulary? What about different sentence structures?

Year 6 Weekly Blog 'Everything is possible, even the impossible' Mary Poppins

The sun has been shining all week this week and so has our enthusiasm! The children are working tirelessly on their play and on their work in class, and although it has been very hot during rehearsals this has not held us back! Mary Poppins is coming along perfectly (of course, in every way), we completed the very famous ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ this week and loved every minute of it. Keep going with learning and practicing lines at home, as all of their hard work is paying off. We now just need to work on our volume and intonation as we say our lines.

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What a week......

It seems that every week is getting more and more busy. This week it has been hot so we have had to keep ourselves cool with lots of water activities. The children have instinctively looked for shade underneath our canopy of trees….how sensible!

To relax and try and find our ‘cool’ we did Rainbow Relaxation. See if you can remember how to do it! Click here.

Friday saw us hold our Gym Jam Jog sponsored event ( the first one in two years!). It was so lovely to see all our families back together having fun. Well done everyone and thank you for your wonderful support.

Key person blog

Wow….God has truly blessed us with the sunshine this week and there has been so much work to do!             We began the week by making sure that everything in the garden was still ‘rosy’ and we planted some new poppy and bluebell seeds.  So far, the existing flowers are ‘blooming’ marvellously, the tadpoles are still swimming (no sign of any legs yet but we are still hopeful) and there continues to be a plentiful supply of minibeasts to spot (according to our team of explorers!) The children are now the proud owners of some ‘Super Pupas’ as our greedy caterpillars have eaten all of their special food and have turned themselves in to Chrysalises. We will continue to watch them very closely!

This week we have enjoyed looking after our lovely plants in the garden—it has been so warm and sunny that we have had to give them lots of water to continue to grow! We have experimented in different ways to fill up our buckets and watering cans and moved around the garden to get to all the flowers. We also used the syringes to strengthen our muscles in our fingers—we hung the umbrellas upside down and tried to aim the water into them. We also them into a cascading waterfall. As well as practising our number skills aiming the water at the gingerbread numbers hanging on the wall. This was both great for strengthening the muscles in our hands and also cooling us down as the water fell back down onto us! There were lots of happy faces during this activity!

There was a successful trip to the beach where the children had made some sand art including a sand man using some seaweed. Sadly our Wednesday trip to the library had to be postponed due to a road closure but on a positive note a very helpful Police lady allowed us to inspect the Police van. It was fantastic!

There has been some popcorn making (we are still finding the evidence) and some excellent joke telling and some obstacle courses.

 Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Barbara, Michelle, Colette, Justine, Frances and Stephanie.

Worship

Created to Live in Community explores our relationship with the wider world. Here we explore how human beings are relational by nature and are called to love others in the wider community through service, through dialogue and through working for the Common Good. Living in the Wider World helps children to extend their understanding of communities from Unit 1, as they learn about the responsibilities they have to people, places and the planet now and increasingly as they get older.

Religious Understanding introduces in a very simple way the concept of the Trinity, where God is three-in-one and each part loves the others and loves us. The children will come to understand that as we are made in the image of God, we are designed to love God and love one another in our wider communities too. Through the story of Jesus feeding the 5000 with just the humble offering of a small boy, children will learn that our loving actions can be used by God to do incredible things.

We began our worship by singing a new song called ‘My hands are yours’, we are still learning it but we think its going to become of our favourites! It helps us remember how we can be more like Jesus by using our hands, feet and voices for good.

Home learning

We are doing so well with our phonics. Here’s a game you can play at home to practice! Click here to play!

We have been looking at pattern and symmetry on mini beast we can fine in the garden. It was a bit tricky at first but now we are looking for symmetry everywhere! Here is game to play at home …good luck!

As always we love our Numberblocks, especially Octoblock! Eight is great….click here

Also, watch out for some fun learning activity sheets being sent home today!

Finally…

It’s hard to believe we only have four weeks left to the end of the year. The nursery ladies are already feeling sad. That means we have to make the time we have left together count, so we have been planning a Pirate Leavers Party!! Keep a look out for child’s party invitation.

Have a great weekend!

Barbara

Year 3 Blog 24.6 - "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall

Well what a week! Today we started the day with our Gym Jam Jog and my, what fun we had! …

In class the children have worked really hard with their Iron Bird stories this week and have been very focused and innovative. We have enjoyed sharing them too. Maths has been packed with telling the time and problem solving using the additive relationship, In RE we have thought about what it is like to be a Christian and how we should behave. PE has been packed with ball skills and fabulous co-operation. Yesterday the children were amazing, We have also done lots of reading and have been practising out tables facts too. A very busy week from us all. Keep up the good work children.

We hope that you enjoys these photos of the Gym Jam Jog this morning.

Certificates

For being a such an enthusiastic Bobby Bee and a co-operative Roger Robin too. Thank you Esther. You are always so focused, ready to work and willing to share your ideas, You are such a kind and thoughtful partner too. You are like a little ray of sunshine in the classroom.and such a delight to teach. Keep up the good work Esther. Well done.

For being a Creative Kiki Chameleon this week during our story writing. You were very enthusiastic and very creative and it was lovely to see your enthusiasm too. You really enjoyed being innovative and changing the story to make it your own. Well done Archie I know you had so much fun when you were writing this week. Keep up the good work.

Here are some photos of the children who went bowling this morning. What fun they had and what wonderful ambassidors of our school they were. Thank you children.

Reminders

  • PE Days will now be on a Monday and a Thursday. Please make sure that the children are wearing or have access to a PE it on these days.

  • Next Wednesday we are going to Church to celebrate Mass on the feast of Sts Peter and Paul. If you would like to walk to Church with us, we are leaving at 9:30am. and would be grateful of walkers to help us when walking. Many thanks in anticipation, (Please let us know if you are able to walk with us.)

We hope that you all have a lovely weekend and a good rest (especially after all of that running this morning.

Take care and God Bless

The Year 3 Team

Year 3 Home Learning 24.6.22

Spellings

1.accident

2.accidentally

3.breath

4.breathe

5.early

6.busy

7.image

8.second

9.minute

10.hour

Geography

Please complete the job questionnaire sheet that you have taken home from school. Please try to ask at least 10 different people and find out what job they do and where they work. How do they travel to work? Please bring this sheet back to school so that we can use it in the geography lesson next week.

Read Read Read.

Read as often as you can this week so that you can quiz and try to reach your target. (Are you getting close yet?)

Tables

Practise your table facts for 2, 5, 10,. 4 and 8 times tables. Can you say them in order and out of order? How fast can you do them? Keep practising your tables facts on TT Rockstars please.

Sports Day extravaganza!!!!

First of all, apologies to everyone for making you wait till Monday for our blog, but I just ran out of time!

We kick started Health and Happiness week with Nursery and Reception Sports Day and what a fabulous time we all had! Thank you for coming and supporting us, didn’t we look good in our bespoke t- shirts? Everyone worked so hard at all the activities, it was such good fun. We had lots of Bobby Bees, Sadie Spiders and Tommy Turtles.

Key person blog

Wow- what a wonderful week we had last week. we have been so busy with Sports day, trips to the library and the beach.

Sports Day was so much fun! It was so lovely to have so many grown ups join us to cheer us along. We all enjoyed moving around the different stations and trying out different activities with our team. Moving our bodies in different ways gave us the chance to try new things and ‘have a go’ like Tommy Turtle! There were lots of smiling faces all afternoon especially when we ended the day with a yummy rocket ice lolly! Lots of ideas here for active fun- Click here

Wednesday was also very exciting - some of us went on adventures outside of the nursery and into the community! We will all get a chance to do this over the coming weeks. In the morning 6 of us went to the library. We had a look at all the books and joined in with their story time session. It was all about Winnie the Pooh, we coloured some pictures and joined in with a game of indoor pooh sticks. The nursery ladies were very intrigued by this game—we will definitely be playing this one again with the children in nursery! In the afternoon another 6 children went to the beach. This was great fun—we looked for shells and pebbles and even buried some of the nursery ladies legs in the sand! The trips gave us a great opportunity to practise our listening skills, making sure we were very careful crossing the roads and walking nicely with our friends. We made lots of people smile along the way and we had a great time. Don’t worry if your child was not in one of the groups, as we will be making sure that all the children will get an opportunity to go on a walk over the next few weeks. All the children were very well behaved and had lots of fun.

Some ideas to try at the beach here

We have continued to care for our garden and this week we have had to measure the sunflowers as they are growing so tall. We are also so excited to see the strawberries are starting to ripen and our potatoes are coming into flower. Our wildflower meadow is attracting so many insects. Click here to find out how you can do the same.

The children have enjoyed exploring symmetry using the paint to make beautiful butterflies. We had fun getting messy making the paint go splat onto the paper! We painted one side of the paper, folded it in half, pressed the paint down then unfolded it to see the magic happen! The children were amazed to see their patterns had been repeated on the other side of the paper.

The tadpoles are getting bigger everyday but as yet, have not grown any legs. Our snails had lots of races in the garden before we released them back to the wild and our caterpillars are so big now, we think they will be making their cocoons soon, ready for their metamorphosis- this is one of our wow words we have learnt, we love to learn new words and use them in our conversations. We also discovered some new facts about ladybirds. Did you know ladybirds don’t have ears or a nose? Our investigations and discoveries continue daily.

Tips here to encourage minibeasts in your garden or outdoor space- Click here

We have continued to learn all about number 8 and we have explored how number 8 can be made in lots of ways- ask your child to show you number 8 with their fingers.

Our funky fingers have had lots of exercise this week as we practised our pre-writing skills by squashing and squeezing the clay and making swirly patterns in the shaving foam- great for developing those muscles we will need at school for writing.

We have lots more learning planned for this week.

Until Friday!

Barbara, Michelle, Colette, Stephanie, Justine and Frances

As you can see we have been very busy. This week we are hoping to go to the library and the beach again so watch this space!!

As you are aware Ofsted joined us for the day on Friday. A big thank you to everyone who took the time to speak to the Ofsted inspector. We will share with you the outcome of the inspection when the report is published, unfortunately until then we have to keep it top secret! As soon as I receive the final copy I will send you all your own copy to read.

Barbara