Morning Routine

Every day in Year Three, after breakfast, we like to start the day off with our morning routine. This begins by moving into the hall for our morning stretch. We start gently, making sure that we warm up our wrists, our fingers, our ankles and toes before we start with some more dynamic stretches, exercising our core and elongating our spines. We like to end these sessions with a minute’s meditation to remind ourselves why we are here today and what we can bring to the day to make it great.

We then go back into class to hear a chapter or two from our class book. This week we have started The B.F.G by Roald Dahl. 

We then we move into pairs and using our skills of self-assessment and independence we pick our morning challenge for that day. We have a chart on the wall where we can track what we have done and begin with something new for the week. We can choose from: the word game Boogle where we have to make as many words as possible from jumbled letters; the Tube Challenge where we are given two stations from the London Underground network and we have to first find them and then describe how we get from one station to the next; the Maths Game where with wooden tiles we solve problems, Chess; the History Challenge where we place dates in history in sequential order and the Globe Challenge where we are given countries to find.

Once we have done these morning challenges and have tidied up we go back on to the carpet to practise our phonics. Phonics gives us the ability to recognise words and sounds so that we may increase our vocabulary and progress with our reading so we may move to more challenging and longer books.

The morning routines in Year Three are important for your child’s learning and are a great stabiliser for the school day ahead.