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Year 3 – Team Macaws
Welcome to Year 3 - Team Macaw
Welcome to Team Macaw,
we will be updating the website regularly to keep you all informed about all the exciting things Team Macaw are doing! We will be uploading some of the children's fabulous work and adding on some photos, which will show some of the learning the children will be doing.
Keep checking! :)
Miss Urbacz and Mrs Radford.
Team letters - 2019-20
Class read - Friday 3rd April - read by Miss Urbacz
Class read - Thursday 2nd April - read by Miss Urbacz
Class read - Wednesday 1st April - read by Miss Urbacz
Class read - Tuesday 31st March - read by Miss Urbacz
Class read - Monday 30th March - read by Miss Urbacz
Class read - Friday 27th March - read by Miss Urbacz
Class read - Thursday 26th March - read by Miss Urbacz
What do you think Team Macaw?
Class read - Wednesday 25th March - read by Miss Urbacz
Team Macaw have impressed me with their independent attitude to their learning at home! Well done guys. Keep safe.
Class read - Tuesday 24th March 2020 - read by Miss Urbacz
Team Macaws' Class read - Monday 23rd March 2020 - read by Miss Urbacz
Team Macaw have been making different formations of mountains from play dough
We have been travelling back to Ancient Greece to look at the buildings made in 400BC
Ice Skating. Big Shout out to Jaylan and Riley F for being so brave this week!
World Book Day 2020 featuring Miss Urbacz's mum as the secret reader!
Team Macaw have been focusing on the book - You're a bad man, Mr Gum. We have been really enjoying laughing at the adventure that Mr Gum, Jake the Dog, Mrs Lovely, the angry fairy, Billy William, Polly and the rest of the characters have been up to! Here is a sneak peak of what the characters have been up to.
Polly, Mrs Lovely, Granny and the superhero of the story
The towns people of Lamonic Bibber love Jake the Dog and... pizza!
Jake The Dog
Jake the dog also came to Team Macaw. They have really been enjoying playing around in Mr Gum's greeniest, preetiest, gardinest garden in the whole of Lamonic Bibber!
The Angry Fairy!
We had a lot of angry fairies come to school on World Book Day. Maybe they are there to make sure Mr Gum keeps his garden tidy!
Mr Gum
The children have described and acted out the characters they came as for World Book Day. Mr Gum is looking particularly mean and scruffy today!
Our trip to Italy
Team Macaw have jetted off to Italy to explore the sights, the food and the language of the Italians.
Road Safety Quiz 2020
Our Trip to Paris
This half term, Team Macaw will be exploring the question. Are all European Countries the same?
Keep checking to see what the class will be getting up to!
Our final chocolate bars
Step 1 - Our Prototype
Team Macaw have been candidates in this years - Team Macaws Apprentice. They have all started by completing some market research on the best ingredients to put into their brand new chocolate bar invention. They have designed the wrapper, made a prototype, evaluated this and then used this to inform their final design!
Table Scarlet
Table Talons
Table Feathers
Team Macaw have been playing around with the green screen this week. They have planned and recorded their own video surrounding the imagination room in Charlie and the chocolate factory. They then did some spectacular story writing around their video clips.
Team Macaw have been testing different flavours of sweets to see whether our smell and sight will affect how our taste buds work.
Team Macaw have been using their senses to touch, smell and taste test lots of different foods. They have been discussing the flavours and textures of a variety of foods.
Some of Team Macaw have been using the ten frames to help them with making equal groups
We have been showing off our skipping skills with our skipping workshop. We have some real skipping superstars in Team Macaw!
Team Macaw have taken a trip to Morrisons to find out how food is stocked, stored and packaged in a supermarket.
Team Macaw have been getting dirty by making some mud pies. After making them, Team Macaw wrote some accurate and detailed instructions to explain to a year 1 how to make one!
Should we stop eating chocolate Team Macaw? Lets find out...
Team Macaws Viking museum!
Christmas disco!
Christingle making with Mr Palmer
WELCOME CANDY CANE! Our elf has arrived from Santa and is already up to some tricks :)
Team Macaw have made roman clay pots as part of their learning!
Elf day in Team Macaw
Reading with Buttons
Children in need 2019. The children read to their teddies and used them to help them with their work!
Team Macaw have been showing off their reading skills during VIPERS
Stonehenge biscuit building
Team Macaw have transported back 12,000 years to the time when caveman walked the earth. They have been researching all about the stone age and stonehenge. They have been building stonehenge using biscuits to represent the blocks.
Our two-page spread on how do we see? how do we hear?
Team Macaw are poets
Poets continued
Team Macaw have been investigating how to insulate sounds
Exploring sounds and vibrations
Team Macaw are using the maths resources to support their maths reasoning
Jayden and Sophie are showing off their maths skills
The children have become superheroes! Here are some screen grabs from the movie as a sneaky peek!
The opticians came to visit
Specsavers came to visit Team Macaw. They showed the children how the ear and the eye worked. They even brought in a big ear to show the children!
The Guide Dog Charity came to visit
Team Macaw met David and his beautiful guide dog called Bridie. The children were able to find out what life would be like if they didn't have the ability to see. The children asked insightful questions and got a better understanding of how amazing guide dogs are. Thank you so much to the charity for coming in and seeing us!
Team Macaw are enjoying some woodland treats
Team Macaw were finding out all about what macaws eat in the rainforest. They tried different nuts and a selection of tasty fruits.