Year 3 - Autumn 1 - Week 1
Date: 9th Sep 2022 @ 3:34pm
Welcome back! It has been wonderful having everyone back together again. We have had an amazing week settling back into school. This week we have been focusing on our SHINE school values through the stimulus ‘Encanto’. The children have been exploring how the characters in the film demonstrate our school’s vision and values. We have focused lots of our work on our gifts and how each and every one of us is special and has hidden gifts that make the world a better place. The children thought of wonderful ideas such as being friendly, being a good listener, being able to cheer others up and being good at inventing games on the playground.
With Mrs McCrae the children have enjoyed PSHE, reading and art activities linked to our school's visions and values—and, to the ‘Encanto’ film. Everyone enjoyed crafting their family trees and choosing unique adjectives for each special person in their family. We also discussed the text ‘The Little Engine that Could’. With the repeated phrase, "I think I can," we were inspired to create our own messages of encouragement which we wrote inside a lift-the-flap style card. These cards will be available to all students throughout the year to access when they find themselves in the 'Learning Curve.' For our reading tasks, everyone was asked questions of how characters and themes in the film could help us to better understand our SHINE message. They showed great maturity and consideration while listening to others' ideas and took time to reflect upon the group's responses.
With Miss Lucas, the children were introduced to their first Spanish lesson of the year where we learnt key vocabulary for the names of people in our family. The children were able to form sentences to identify family members. We also produced some creative writing based on Antonio’s gift. We imagined walking through Antonio’s door and described the room using our senses. In PE, we tried out some yoga poses and focused on our breathing.
‘It has truly been a pleasure to meet all of the Year 3 students this week. All of the children are kind, well-mannered and thoughtful. I am so happy to be able to help Miss Lucas teach this year! Lastly, I would like to say that the children have all shown resiliency and determination in all of their tasks and I am excited to see what the next few weeks will bring!’ - Mrs McRae
A poster containing 100 recommended reads for Year 3 children has been attached to this blog. By providing 100 quality texts at an age appropriate level, this list may be useful when choosing your child's next book. We hope it inspires the children to continue on in their reading journeys whilst further encouraging a lifelong love of books and stories.
We hope you have a lovely weekend. See you on Monday!
Reminder:
-Please remember to provide a healthy snack each day for your child.
-PE days are Monday and Friday
- Reading books and spellings will go home next week