Dear Parents and Carers,
Happy New Year. We hope that you have had a happy and healthy holidays.
As you will have seen on the news, schools are now closed and children will be working at home until after February half term. Obviously, we are very disappointed not to be in class with your children and we will miss them tremendously. We know the difference being in school makes to the children, but we will do our best to make sure that we cover what we had originally planned.
Please check your child's class email every morning for the daily timetable and the website for extra resources, especially if your child is in a Read Write Inc group. Your child should know if they have RWI, but please email us if you have any questions.
We hope that we will be back in school with the children as soon as possible.
Keep safe,
The Year 3 Team
If you are normally in a Read Write Inc group with Miss Araghchinchi, Miss Porter, Mrs Khan or Mr Saunders, we will be posting a daily video for you to practice your letters and sounds as well as the work in the workbook. There will be one daily video for Miss Araghchinchi's group and another for the remaining Read Write Inc groups.
Monday Maths Video:
Oak Academy Lesson - Hazards in the home
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/hazards-in-the-home-6mt68c?activity=video&step=1
Koo Koo Kangaroo - Dinosaur Stomp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imhi98dHa5w&safe=active
Watch a reading of the Lost Thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpak6ktsux4&safe=active
Tuesday Maths Video
https://vimeo.com/488110327
Koo Koo Kangaroo exercise page
https://www.youtube.com/user/kookookangaroo
Geography - Grace's Amazing Machines
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0009p04/graces-amazing-machines-series-1-3-helpful-machines
Wednesday Maths
https://vimeo.com/488111269
Koo Koo Kangaroo exercise page
https://www.youtube.com/user/kookookangaroo
Thursday Maths
https://vimeo.com/490417143
Koo Koo Kangaroo exercise page
https://www.youtube.com/user/kookookangaroo
Oak Academy - Which material should I use
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/which-material-should-i-use-61jkad
Koo Koo Kangaroo exercise page
https://www.youtube.com/user/kookookangaroo
Websites for Home Working
Here are some reminders of useful websites in case we have to work from home.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/year-groups/year-3
https://www.reachoutreporter.com/
We have been learning to read and recite poems based on the book 'Rumble in the Jungle'.
A message to you all from the staff
Click on the link below to see a message from all of us at Forest Fields
https://www.forestfieldsprimary.co.uk/a-message-for-the-children-1/
Mrs Menzano has sent this link to work she has put on for Spanish.
We hope you'll take a look.
Hasta luego
The BBC have launched daily lessons to support each year group. Have a look by following the link below
Oak national academy are also doing 3 lessons each day for each Year group which children can follow along with.
This week's report is all about renewable and non-renewable energy.
Watch the video and then think about the pros and cons of each.
Which do you think would be the best type of energy and why?
On this week's Twig Science Reporter you can find out about how volcanoes erupt.
Watch the video and then try drawing a labelled diagram to explain how volcanoes work.
Here is a website where you can meet scientists and engineers and ask them questions about the work they do.
https://pstt.org.uk/resources/curriculum-materials/Science-at-Work/Science-at-Work-Video
Some are people from history like:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - engineer
Florence Nightingale - nurse
Others are people who work in science or engineering today:
Doctors working during the current crisis
Engineers who have built structures in the UK
Space scientists
You might like to carry out your own research about a famous scientist and prepare a presentation to share with us in school.
Sphere Science have produced a pack of science activities that you might like to try.
Have fun and remember to take photos of your experiments to show us.
Just before the school closed, the children in Year 3 planted potatoes in the school garden.
We thought you would like to know how they are getting on so Mr Lee took some photos.
If you want to know more about how potatoes grow, follow this link and watch the film called Earthy Potatoes
.https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/7-11-years/where-food-comes-from/videos/
While briefly in school last week, I took photos of the potatoes. Look how they have grown!
Hopefully there are lots of tiny potatoes hiding under the soil getting bigger ready for us to dig up soon.
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Joe Wicks, (aka The Body Coach) is doing a PE session every day on his You Tube Channel at 9am.
We hope you'll be able to jump about and join in.
Have fun!
Other websites you might find useful
BBC Ten Pieces has launched a weekly music resource today which includes a Ten Pieces film to watch and enjoy, and a linked creative activity that can be completed by children without any special materials or preparation. A perfect, simple and easy way to keep listening, enjoying and creating music at this time!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/watch-this-do-this-weekly-activities/zjy3382
Spanish
Keep up to speed with what you have learned so far in Spanish.