3I

Welcome to 3I

Welcome to year 3!  It's very exciting to see all the children back in school and ready for a new year of learning.  

All the children now have their basic knowledge wallets with spellings and times tables.  Please encourage your child to practice them at home regularly.  Your child also has a reading book and we encourage them to read at least 3 times a week.  Children are able to complete ARA tests at home and at school.  If they are completing a test at home, please record the score in their reading records so we can see how well they are progressing.  

We have started our Science topic of our bodies and we have been looking at our skeletons and how they protect our organs.  We completed an experiment to show how we needed to protect our brains.  

We used tea cakes and created a skull to see if when we dropped them, our skulls would protect our brains.  We had great fun and it was fun to watch the children's faces as their skulls fell to the floor and smashed!  

We have also been reminding ourselves of healthy eating and how the food groups help us to grow.  We have looked at how we can use the packaging on food to help us decide of the food is healthy for us to eat.  We will be moving on to creating our own healthy sandwich.