Year 3A also did some baking!

What a hectic week!!! We now have the photos taken during the cookies making session in Year 3A.

Mixing sugar, flour and butter.

We all collaborated

Great shapes!

Wow!! The best bit: decorating!

Making cookies in Year 3

As we are studying changes matter, we decided to have some kitchen fun and make some cookies this week.  It was a great session and the biscuits were delicious!!!  Yummy, Yummy in my tummy!!!  Thanks a million to the mums that came to help and took the cookies home to bake and decorate them!

Como estamos estudiando los cambios de materia debido a la temperatura, decidimos tener un poquito de diversión en la cocina del cole e hicimos unas galletas esta semana.  Todo fue estupendamente y las galletas estaban deliciosas.  Muchas gracias a aquellas mamás que colaboraron y se llevaron las galletas a casa para hornearlas.

We all collaborated in groups.

Everyone wanted the big spoon!

We beat the egg and mixed it with melted butter. 

We stirred in the flour and sugar.

We placed the cookies in the baking trays.

Done!!

Decorated with white ... 

and  black chocolate.

Year 3: Weight & Mass

This week we have been exploring concepts of mass and volume in our science class.  Today we weighed solid objects using four different scales.  We found out that balance scales were more accurate when measuring the weight of small objects.  We used little weights in order to get a balance.   Spring scales were useful for heavier objects.  We also took notes of all our measurements making sure we indicated grams and kilograms.

Esta semana hemos explorado los conceptos de masa y volumen en nuestra clase de ciencias.  Hoy hemos pesado objetos sólidos en cuatro balanzas distintas.  Hemos comprobado que las balanzas de platillo eran más precisas cuando pesábamos objetos pequeños.  Para pesar hemos utilizado pequeñas pesas de plástico de 10g, 5g, 2g y 1g.  Las balanzas de resorte eran mejores para comprobar el peso de objetos más pesados.  Hemos tomado nota siempre indicando el peso en gramos y/o kilos.

Weighing a pencil case on a spring scale 

Weighing on the balance scales

We recorded the weight of the objects in our notebooks.

Investigation about salt water lakes

Jesus in year 3A shared his lovely poster of salt water lakes.  It's quite complete and he did a great job!  We learnt a lot with it!

Jesús de 3ºA compartió con nosotros su poster sobre lagos de agua salada.  Es muy completo e hizo un buen trabajo.  ¡Hemos aprendido mucho!

Animals posters (Year 3)

Your investigations about animals, mainly penguins, are absolutely wonderful! I've already seen some examples of good investigations about salt water lakes and I'm sure I'll see many more!! Tomorrow we will be making a wall display with our findings.

Vuestras investigaciones sobre animales, especialmente pingüinos, son estupendas.  Ya he visto algunos ejemplos de buenas investigaciones sobre los lagos de agua salada y estoy segura de que mañana veremos más!  Empezaremos a hacer un muro en el pasillo del cole con lo que traigáis.

Investigation Year 3: Salt water lakes

Lakes usually have fresh water so, do you know if there are any salt water lakes in the world???
You have until Friday 4th March to find out.

Cuando pensamos en un lago, solemos asumir que tiene agua dulce.   ¿Existen lagos de agua salada en alguna parte del mundo? Tenéis hasta el viernes 4 de marzo para averiguarlo.

Water Cycle model

Amparo in Year 3A made a model of the water cycle last weekend. I'm sure she has learnt a lot and had a lot of fun making it with her family.  The model has also been very useful in class because I have been able to explain the cycle in a more visual way.

Fantastic work, Amparo! Thank you! And congratulations!

Amparo de 3ºA nos ha traído una maqueta del Ciclo del Agua.  Estoy segura de que ha aprendido bastante haciéndola y además se habrá divertido mucho con su familia.  La maqueta además ha sido muy útil en clase porque me ha servido para explicar el ciclo de una forma más visual.

¡Fantástico, Amparo! ¡Enhorabuena y GRACIAS!

Project WATER!

Hello everyone!
We will all be working on a new Social Science about WATER very soon.   It's a fun project and we will link it to landscapes and ecosystems.  Please, watch this video!  You may not understand it all, but the images are beautiful and they show how important water is for life in our planet.  Are you ready to know more about it?

¡Hola a tod@s!
Pronto comenzaremos un nuevo proyecto sobre el AGUA en Ciencias sociales.  Es divertido y estará conectado con los paisajes y los ecosistemas.  Por favor, mirad este video sobre el agua.  Puede que no lo entendáis todo pero las imágenes son de una gran belleza y nos hace tomar conciencia de lo importante que es el agua para la vida en nuestro planeta.  ¿Estáis preparados para aprender más?

Play insect games

http://www.primarygames.com/science/insects/games.htm

What is an insect?

Insects are invertebrate animals with six legs.  Most of them have wings and they can fly.  They also have antennae or feelers so they can smell.  Ladybirds, butterflies, bumblebees and beetles are insects.  Spiders have eight legs so they are not insects.

Frog's life Cycle

Frogs are oviparous.  They lay eggs in the water.  When they are born, they don´t look like frogs at all.  They look more like little fish with a big head.  These are called tadpoles.  They breath through gills in the water.  Later tadpoles grow legs and their tail disappear.  They have lungs to breathe.  They are ready to live on land. 

Funciones vitales de los animales

Reptiles, amphibians and fish

Watch these videos this coming weekend to help you learn about this groups of vertebrate animals.

More videos about vertebrate and invertebrate animals in Spanish

Animal Classification: Vertebrates and Invertebrates

Here we have a few videos in English about vertebrate and invertebrate animals.  Vertebrate animals have an internal skeleton and a spine and invertebrate animals do not have them.  The videos are great fun and you will learn a lot at home watching them with your family.

Aquí tienes tres videos en inglés sobre animales vertebrados e invertebrados.  Los animales vertebrados tienen un esqueleto interno y columna vertebral, mientras que los invertebrados no.  Los videos son divertidos y aprenderás un montón si los ves en casa con tu familia.

The composition of air

This video teaches us about the gases that make up air.  It also tells us about the layers of the atmosphere.

Funny videos about the WEATHER

In Year 3 we are studying weather and climate.  These two videos are great fun!

Homework Year 3

Hi there Year 3 kiddies!

Glad to have finished another week of great work with you!  Constitution Weekend is special and there's not a lot of homework.   However, you should revise a little bit for your test on Friday 11th.
Make sure you:

Marian's food diary

• Finish your food diary.
• Draw pictures in your unit summary.
• Revise your exercises.
• Listen to your CD.
• Finish exercises 1 & 2 about leisure activities and the use of electronic games.
• Play and enjoy life with your family.

Enjoy your Constitution Break!

Blood Donation Drawing Competition

 

Our Year 3 classses participated in the competition that Ubeda's Blood Donors Association runs every year.  Here are some of the entries.  It would be nice to get a prize but the most important thing is to participate.  It's all for a good cause!

Amparo Yr3A

Ana Yr3A

Celia Yr3A

Marian Yr3B

Pedro Yr3B

Silvia Yr3A

Year 3 Natural Science homework

A big hello to my Year 3 kiddies!
This weekend you will be working on several things:
1. Finish the exercises 2 and 3 about food.
2. Revision worksheet about nutrients.  You should do it on the worksheet itself so there is no need to copy the whole thing in your notebook.
3. Keep up with your food diary.  By Monday you should have completed day 4.
4. Do the Healthy and Unhealthy food quiz with your family.  We did it in class and it's published in this blog.
5. Dance to the song "Food groups are rockin' tonight" and practice the lyrics.

Apart from that, don't forget to eat healthy food, rest, play and be happy!
See you on Monday!


¡Hola a mis chic@s de 3º!
Este fin de semana trabajaréis en varias cosas:
1. Acabar los ejercicios 2 y 3 sobre la conservación de los alimentos.
2. Hacer la ficha de repaso sobre los nutrientes.  Hacedla en la ficha mismo sin copiar todo en el cuaderno.
3. Diario de comidas.  Para el lunes debéis de tener completos los primeros cuatro días.
4. Haced el quiz sobre comidas saludables en inglés con vuestras familias.  Los hicimos en clase en el ordenador y está publicado en este blog en la misma entrada del video sobre La dieta saludable.
5. Bailad la canción de los alimentos practicando la letra.

Aparte de eso, ¡no os olvidéis de comer sano, descansar, jugar y ser felices! 
¡Nos vemos el lunes!