Year 3 2020-2021

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

Read Write Inc groups

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.

Links for week beginning 11th January 2021:  

Monday: 

Monday Maths Video: 

https://vimeo.com/488108584

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

Tuesday:

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: 

Wednesday Maths 

https://vimeo.com/488111269

Koo Koo Kangaroo exercise page

https://www.youtube.com/user/kookookangaroo

Thursday:

Thursday Maths 

https://vimeo.com/490417143

Koo Koo Kangaroo exercise page

https://www.youtube.com/user/kookookangaroo

Friday:

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://play.ttrockstars.com/

https://www.reachoutreporter.com/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn

Reading Fluency

We have been learning to read and recite poems based on the book 'Rumble in the Jungle'.

Home Learning Workbooks

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/

Art with Mrs Martin

Classroom Secrets Kids

Spanish

Mrs Menzano has sent this link to work she has put on for Spanish.

We hope you'll take a look.

Hasta luego

Daily Lessons

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.

Science

Twig Science Reporter

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?

How Do Volcanoes Work?

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.

Meet the Scientist

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.

Fun Science Activities 

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.

Forest Fields Growing Garden

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/

Potatoes May 2020

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.

Literacy/English websites

Maths websites

PE

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!

Indoor Activities

Other websites you might find useful

Art and Creativity

Music

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

Art

Spanish

Keep up to speed with what you have learned so far in Spanish.