Welcome to Mars!

Welcome back Year 3!

I am very excited to be back to school and share the topic Blue Planet with you. I hope you had a fabulous summer break and are also looking forward to beginning not only our Year 3 journey but also your first year in KS2.

Blue Planet Topic Overview.pdf

What a fantastic first few days back we have had! I am not sure who enjoyed dressing up more - Miss Brown or Mr Davis!

We started our topic with an experiment to see how water moves in the ocean and how objects then move when dropped into the water. The children had some interesting predictions and even more interesting findings after flapping the card to act like the wind and to make the water move.

Reading books have been sent home and spellings will be sent once we have homework books in school. 

PE is on Monday

We have moved across into our daily timetable with great maturity from the children. We have a jampacked week just like in previous years but I wanted to mention how well the class have just come in and got on with their learning.

We have been investigating the warm and cold ocean currents this week and even used a clip from 'Finding Nemo' to help explain how currents can run through the water and move creatures and temperatures through invisible paths.  The children used previous knowledge of the worlds oceans and temperatures around the earth to support what we were looking at this week. We then mapped out the currents to show they way they move around the planet on a daily basis.

We are hoping to go and visit the Washpool in the coming weeks and see what gets washed up there from the connecting rivers and streams. The class have a keen interest in this terms topic and we are enjoying learning together.

Spellings

Spellings came home this week. We do not yet have our homework/spelling books but we still need to be practising pur weekly spellings.

Please find a copy of this weeks spellings below. All children have been taught these spellings but not all will have these to practise as discussed at the meet the teacher meeting on Wednesday.

This week we continued exploring Ocean Currents and the weather associated with them. We looked at live weather maps and predicted the weather for the next few days. We had our first recorder lesson where we looked at the instrument and played 2 notes. These are allowed home but must be back on a Friday ready for our next lesson.

This weeks spellings:

This week we enjoyed celebrating European Day of Languages on Friday where we travelled to Spain. We were very lucky to have a parent visit us and read to us in Spanish and then answered a barrage of questions from the children. 

The class are really enjoying our topic and were able to put their knowledge and enjoyment into our mystery box write in which we had a pair of shark patterned swimming shorts. Their writing really showcased what they have learnt so far this time and also how much they are enjoying the topic.

Please can I remind everyone of homework expectations: reading every night during the week and spellings three tines a week (they can do more if wish). No home work is expected to be completed over the weekend.

This week we had a great PE lesson where our throwing and catching skills are on fire - literally, as we played hot potato!

We began looking at shade as part of our Art curriculum and the class only used blue, white and black watercolours to recreate their own version of the 5 depths of the oceans. We had some beautiful washes and hopefully the children will draw the sea creatures next week.

The children also completed English and Maths assessments to support their learning journey through Year 3. The results will be shared with parents at Parents evening in the last week of term.

Sign up for Parents evenings are open from Monday 5th October via Compass. Please let me or the office know if you have any problems booking.