Endangered Animals News Reports

To finish our unit on Endangered Animals, we made short films that included lots of facts about our chosen animal. We learned how to use a green screen to add interesting backgrounds and an app called 'Morfo' to animate a character.

Take a look...

Sun Safety

In Science, we have been learning about 'Light'.

This week, we thought about sun safety and how the sun can be dangerous to our skin and eyes.

We made a short video telling people why the sun is dangerous and how we can protect our eyes from being damaged by sunlight.

English Homework 15.06.18

This week's English homework is a reading comprehension. It is a report containing facts about whales.

Read the following text and answer the questions underneath.

1. Where do whales live?
2. For how long can whales hold their breath?
3. Which is the largest animal in the world?
4. What do most whales eat?
5. What do whales have to help them swim?
6. Whales use their flippers to swim around. Think of two ways we use our legs to move around. 
7. Which fact tells you that the blue whale is heavy?
8. Why do you think we should protect whales?
9. This report contains many facts, such as Whales live in seas and oceans. Can you find two other facts about whales?

Spellings 15.6.18

This week's spellings all contain an 'ay' sound that is either spelt ei, eigh or ey.

1. reign
2. vein
3. eight
4. eighteen
5. neighbour
6. weigh
7. weight 
8. obeyed
9. prey
10. they

Times Tables Challenge

Congratulations to the following children who have completed their Times Tables Challenge this week:

• Rifatur
• Lithuli
• Byron
• Miley
• Maheera
• Keira
• Fayaz
• Jay

This week saw our highest number of children complete their Times Tables Challenge so far - eight!

Year 3 truly are becoming Times Tables Champions! 

Well done to you all 

Maths Homework 15.06.18

Click on the link below to play a game where you need to read and measure using scales. You will need to help Hutch make different cakes following a recipe.

Try and play all three games:

1. Choose the Measure
2. Use a measuring scale
3. Calculate and measure

Alien Cookbook

Times Tables Challenge

Congratulations to the following children who completed their Times Tables Challenge last week:

• Charlotte
• Imogen
• Jasmin
• Keira
• Maheera
• Miley
• Jay

English Homework 25.05.18

Next half term, we will be writing a non-chronological report all about endangered animals.

In order to help you write your report, please do some research on an endangered animal listed below:

• tiger
• African Rhino
• Asian elephant
• sea turtle
• polar bear
• giant panda
• snow leopard
• orang-utan
• gorilla

If you wish to choose an animal of your own, you may do so but make sure that it is endangered!

Sounds

We learned a new poem in Music this week, and put actions and sounds to it.

Counting Cars

We are starting our new Maths passport this week all about Statistics.

We worked in small groups to decide what colour cars we wanted to find. Then, we all went outside the school gates and counted how many cars we saw in ten minutes.

It was a lovely chance to enjoy some Maths learning in the warm sunshine!

Instruction Writing

We have written our final set of instructions for how to plant a seed.

Here are some of our pieces of writing:

Araya

Jay 

Imogen 

Maryum 

Miley 

Ismaeel 

Keira 

Iyla 

Maheera

Congratulations goes to Byron, Keira, Maheera, Sharmy and Imogen for earning their pen licenses too this week.

Gymnastics

We have been working with Mr. McMahon on gymnastics this term.

So far, we have learned different types of jumps, rolls and balances. We are now beginning to put them together in sequences and using apparatus.

Times Tables Challenge

Congratulations to the following children for completing their Times Tables Challenge this week:

• Jasmin
• Jay

Seed planting

In English, we have been learning about how to write a set of instructions.

We linked them to our Science learning and wrote a set of instructions for planting a seed.

Yesterday, we planted our own seeds in class to help us plan our method.

We hope they start to grow very soon.

Working on a building site

This week, in Music, Year 3 learned a song about working on a building site.

They had to think about the types of tools and sounds that they would see and hear while on a building site and then these got put into a song.

Here are some videos showing us performing the song once we had learned it.

We have now added the use of musical instruments and actions to our song. Have a look and see what you think.

Times Tables Challenge

Congratulations to these Year 3 children for completing their Times Tables Challenges last week:

• Imogen
• Sharmy
• Fayaz
• Jasmin
• Jay
• Ismaeel

Another week where we have beaten our class target.

Keep up the good work Year 3!

Times Tables Challenge

Well done so far to these children who have completed their Times Tables Challenge:

• Jay
• Ismaeel
• Fayaz
• Jasmin
• Keira
• Miley
• Maheera

Keep practicing at home everyone.

Roadtrip to USA Homework

Next term, we will be starting our new topic of 'Roadtrip to USA'.

To help you prepare for this, please do some research into the USA. 

You may present your research in any way you like (poster, powerpoint, non-chronological report, leaflet, poster, etc) but try to be as creative as possible!

Here are some ideas that you might like to research (but you may come up with some of your own if you wish):

• Largest/important cities
• Famous landmarks
• Famous people
• Rivers and lakes
• Mountains and forests (National Parks)
• Animals

Below are some websites and video clips you may find useful.

Science Kids website

Oddizzi website

I look forward to seeing them after the Easter break.

Mrs Ceairns

Science Films

To finish our Science topic of 'Rocks', we have made short films in groups to share what we have learned.

We hope you like them.

Igneous Rocks

Fossils

Mary Anning

Soil

Shape Poems

Take a look at our fantastic Year 3 display covered in bright and colourful shape poems. The children chose what their poem would be about (linked to our Science topic of Rocks).

We have some dinosaur poems, fossil poems and volcano poems.

It looks great and certainly brightens up the corridor. 

Well done Year 3!

The Great Outdoors

This week, we are learning about Geometry in Maths. 

On Tuesday, we went out onto the playground to see what 2D shapes we could find. 

We also looked for examples of horizontal, vertical, parallel and perpendicular lines.

Topic Debate

This afternoon, Mrs Ceairns worked with another group debating the motion 'Should children be required to wear a uniform in school?'

Here are some of the points made during the debate.

Topic Debate

Today, Mrs Ceairns worked with some Year 3 and 4 children in Topic and we discussed what the government did and how laws are made in the UK.

We then held our own debate around:

Should children be required to wear a uniform to school?

Take a look and see some short clips of a few of our arguments both for and against.

Maths Homework 26.1.18

This week we have learned about Multiplication and Division.

Here are some games that we used to help us with our learning. 

Remember, year 3 children need to know their 3, 4 and 8 times tables by the end of the year so you may want to practise using these when playing the games.

Monty's Maths Wall

Grid Method

Here are some other games you might want to play:

Maths Race

Maths Raider

Tommy's Trek

Maths Homework 19.1.18

Click on the link for any of the following websites. Choose one of the games to play to help you with your understanding of addition and subtraction that we have been learning this week in class.
Remember to add a comment after you have played it and include your name.

Mathsframe website is great for games and activities to play at home to help you with your learning.

Mathsframe Games      (Choose any of the games that have a FREE sign written on them.)


Snappy Maths website also has lots of games available to play. You can also download worksheets to help you practice your written methods.

Adding / Subtracting multiples of 100 (3-digit)

Adding / Subtracting multiples of 10 (3-Digit)

Adding / Subtracting multiples of 10 (2-digit)


Top Marks website covers different areas of the curriculum - meaning it's a great way to support your learning in English and Maths.

Addition and Subtraction Mission

Column Subtraction and Addition

We have been doing addition and subtraction this week in Maths.

We have been using counters and a place value grid to show how to subtract with exchanging. We also show how to set out subtraction using column method.

We have also looked at using counters to help us understand why we carry tens across when adding in column addition.

The dinosaurs are here!

A quick update on our hatching dinosaurs.

All three have now hatched and have grown considerably since they emerged from the water.

They seem quite friendly (hopefully they're herbivores)!

Dinosaur Research Homework

For homework this week, choose one dinosaur and do some research about it. You might want to think about finding out:

1. What it looked like
2. What it would eat
3. How it moved or behaved
4. Any other interesting facts

As a class, we came up with a list of dinosaurs that we knew. You might want to choose one of these to research.

• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Pterodactyl
• Brachiosaurus
• Stegosaurus
• Triceratops
• Velociraptor

DINOSAUR UPDATE!

Just a quick update on our other two eggs that we were waiting to hatch...

Another one has hatched today and revealed another species of dinosaur! So that's two dinosaurs that have completely hatched from their eggs now.

The third egg is hatching and we are just waiting for our final little friend to come and surprise us.

Keep watching this space...

THEY'RE HATCHING!

The eggs have begun to hatch.

We already have one that is fully opened and it turned out to be ...

...a DINOSAUR!

Another egg has just started to hatch. Can you see what's inside?

A Strange delivery - Update!

This morning, when Mrs Ceairns arrived into class, she found one of the eggs was starting to hatch.

What could it be?
Where did it come from?

Watch this space for more info.

A strange delivery!

Yesterday, Mrs Ceairns had an anonymous delivery in class. When she opened the box, she found 3 eggs and a note which said:

"Dear Mrs Ceairns,

Please take care of these three eggs. They are extremely valuable and rare. Place them in water so they are completely covered. Thank you."

It's all a mystery.