4 Mar 2016

Year 3 Update Wk 24

Green Week – Monday 14th March
International Food Fair – Friday 18th March
Junior Choir Easter Concert – Tuesday 23rd March
Year 3 Sharing day – Wednesday 23rd March
School finishes for Easter Break – 24th March at 12:00md
Term 3 Begins – Monday 11th April

Flour babies

Over the next two weeks the children in Year 3 will be responsible for taking care of some flour babies. Your child will get the opportunity to bring their group’s flour baby home for one evening.

As a responsible parent your child will need to make sure all their baby’s rights are met; these are listed in their baby book. Each child’s homework will be on the day they bring their baby home.

Children will need to take care and entertain their baby throughout the afternoon and evening and must bring them in the next day.

Please encourage your child to think about the different responsibilities. Silly as this seems, please help your child to treat the ‘flour baby’ as if it were alive, ie. not leaving it unattended, being gentle and calling it by it’s name.

Each child will need to fill in the reflection sheet in the Baby Book and support it with photos, drawings or recounts of the time spent with their baby. This will be shared with the class the next day.

Photos can be emailed to their class teacher if necessary.

All the Year 3 children now have a weekly Dance session led by Rosie Martin. This means that 3K children will need to wear PE kit on Wednesday and Thursday. 3D children will need to wear PE kit on Wednesday and Friday. 3H children will need to wear PE kit on a Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Sharing day will be on Wednesday 23rd March. It will run from approx. 9am-11am and every child will need an adult to share their learning with.

Raffle Tickets for our International Food Fair have been sent home please send them back as soon as possible.

Please ensure your child is dressed appropriately for the cold weather. It is a good idea to wear layers of clothing that can be taken off, rather than wearing many layers under their uniform. The children are getting very sweaty in the classroom and this effects their learning.

Well done to all the children in Year 3 who remember to bring fruit and vegetables to school for snack on ‘Fruity Friday’.

Please remember that we have a no nut policy at BHS due to some children having severe allergies. This includes peanut butter sandwiches and nuts in cookies or cakes.

Central Idea

Children have rights that are not always met

Lines of inquiry:

Difference between needs and wants (Perspective)
Children’s rights and responsibilities ( Responsibility)
How children’s rights are protected (Reflection)

The children are using their imagination and demonstrating their understanding of responsibility by looking after flour babies. It is very important that they are respectful to their group by returning their flour baby on time. Please discuss with your child the challenges this experience presents.

The children will continue to look at the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and think about the responsibilities they have. They will inquire deeper into the different rights and show their understanding through poetry and art.

The children will continue to explore why some children do not have their rights met.

Central Idea

Fractions are ways of representing equal parts of a whole

Lines of inquiry

Fractions of shapes
Fractions of amounts
Making and comparing simple fractions

The children will solve problems involving fractions of amounts.

Central Idea

Standard units allow us to have a common language to measure objects.

We will use standard measures to estimate, measure and compare mass and capacity. The children will be looking at mathematical tools to measure capacity and mass.

Please encourage your children to look at the packaging of various items in your kitchen and bathroom to see how they have been measured.

Please encourage your child to complete the Mathletics activities set.

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Narrative

To entertain, guide, teach and stimulate.

Children will be looking at the different features of narrative.

This includes:

Creating a title
Structure . . . Opening, Build-up, Complication, Resolution and Ending
Characters
Setting

The children will continue to break stories down into the different parts and develop their use of descriptive vocabulary by writing their own stories.