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Give your year three curriculum a fun and imaginative boost with these hands-on activities that will have kids learning, moving, and creating. Arts and crafts activities, construction projects, science experiments, tasty recipes, and interactive games help bring maths, reading, and other lessons to life as kids learn and apply new concepts and skillsets.

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Five-Finger Relaxation

Five-Finger Relaxation

Tracing is a great technique for clearing your mind and relaxing. Help your students learn how to calm themselves down and clear their minds with by tracing their hands.

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Make a Cat in the Hat-Inspired Hat

Make a Cat in the Hat-Inspired Hat

Let your second grader channel a famous Dr. Seuss character--the Cat in the Hat--with this hat-making activity inspired by the main character.

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Be Present with Mindful Movement

Be Present with Mindful Movement

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

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Create an Internal Weather Report

Create an Internal Weather Report

This activity creatively guides students in reflecting on and understanding what's happening inside of themselves at any given point.

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Back-to-Back Breathing

Back-to-Back Breathing

Back-to-back breathing is a great way to practise self-calming while also creating connection and developing trust.

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Hand Print Family Treasure

Hand Print Family Treasure

With this activity, you'll create a family treasure...and reinforce social studies basics while you're at it!

Year 3

Social studies

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Rewrite the Fairy Tale Ending

Rewrite the Fairy Tale Ending

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Year 3

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Three Crafts for Beginning Birders

Three Crafts for Beginning Birders

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

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Create a Fossil!

Create a Fossil!

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

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Fruit Crisp

Crisps are the hidden gem of the homemade dessert world.

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Learn Where Wind Comes From

Learn Where Wind Comes From

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

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Science

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Make Your Own Rainbow

Make Your Own Rainbow

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

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Science

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Create a Treasure Candle

Create a Treasure Candle

Home made candles make for great home made gifts at Christmas, Mother's Day, birthdays. Great presents for any special occasion!

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Pinball Machine Game

Pinball Machine Game

The next time you're trapped indoors on a dreary day, try this take on dodgeball. All you need are a group of kids, an open area and a soft, spongy ball.

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Plan Stories with The Five-Finger Technique

Plan Stories with The Five-Finger Technique

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

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Reading & writing

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Understanding Headers and Subheaders

Understanding Headers and Subheaders

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

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Reading & writing

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Make a Dialogue Journal!

Make a Dialogue Journal!

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

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Reading & writing

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Minute maths: How to Estimate Time

Minute maths: How to Estimate Time

This fun game helps children learn to estimate the most basic unit of time--a minute--without a clock.

Year 3

Maths

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Count 'N Catch: A Skip Counting Game

Count 'N Catch: A Skip Counting Game

Encourage your child to practise skip counting by turning number patterns into this fun and interactive game of catch.

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Spark a Story

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Year 3

Reading & writing

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Make a Reading Bookmark!

Make a Reading Bookmark!

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

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Reading & writing

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Make a Family History Fanfold Timeline!

Make a Family History Fanfold Timeline!

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organise information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

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Reading & writing

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Guess My Word: A Vocab Game

Guess My Word: A Vocab Game

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

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Dad's Life

With this activity, you child will get an opportunity to apply skills she's learning in year three maths, and maybe learn something new about Dad.

Year 3

Maths

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Patriotic Poem

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

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