If you have a Year 3 child can you please answer a question?

[Ivyleagueunderthesea]

I’m going to be teaching year 3 next year and I’ve not been out of EYFS for years.

I’m looking forward to it but I have a slight problem. In EYFS I have a stack of books I can read or tv programs I can put on in the case of a spare 5 minutes.

My question is, what books and TV programs does your Year 3 child like? Something on iplayer or short story books that I can grab.

thank you.

Many of the above suggestions plus Art Hub on YouTube.

My DS is in a year 3/4 split class, they watch newsround, Blue Peter or any relevant BBC school show Horrible Histories etc.
Also they put on just dance songs on YouTube and have a dance.
Book wise they have read Roland Dahl, Iron man as a class.

Thank you to those who are being helpful.

And to those who are throwing their hands up in horror at watching something, I’m literally talking about 5 minutes while I deal with a problem/have to talk to another teacher/tidying up was quicker than expected/as an end of the week treat.

I love my junior school kids watching Newsround each day - gives them so many conversation topics at the dinner table. During Covid they watched it while they all took turns to wash their hands but I think the hand washing schedule has diminished now (?).

books - my DC loved her teacher reading The Christmasaurus at Xmas in Y3!

Silent reading

My year 3 child loves scratch garden videos on youtube kids. They watch them at school occasionally and at home. I hate youtube kids and I'm always complaining that it's full of awful obnoxious junk 😳 but even I think they're quite funny and entertaining.

Newsround if you've got a spare 10 minutes

Or books being read to them on screen at pick up time as you hand them over to parents

• Newsround

• Operation Ouch

• Odd Squad

@DirtyteaCup at the school I volunteer in they have a 30 minute silent reading session every single day. In that time the teacher and myself listen to children read their books to us. Each child gets listened to once a week, twice if they are FSM.

TV wise is usually because a lesson has gone quicker than anticipated. Slow Mo guys are fun, times table songs, newsround but vetted before shown. We play times table corner game, heads down, thumbs up, or a little wake up shake up dance or jumping jacks if the classroom is warm and we need to reanimate them a bit.

I’m a Y3 TA. How it’s made on YouTube is a bit hit for the last five minutes of lunchtime once they’ve finished eating. Looney tunes also goes down well.

Books wise, this year we have read The Worst Witch, The Butterfly Lion and The Twits as class readers, and The Giants and the Joneses, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, Fortunately the Milk, Jeremy James and The Mizadventures of Miz Wiz as end of the day readers, as well as several picture books (Y3 still love picture books). We’ve also watched a couple of episodes of the Worst Witch on CBBC whilst half of the class are waiting for the minibus to come back for a trip.

Mine like The Worst Witch and anything David Attenborough or Deadly 60 if it's a wet play/lunch.

I also use Just Dance if I've got a spare 5 minutes (which is rare!).

Hey You What If?

Mine seem to play word or maths games or a quick round of beans to shake off excess energy

I used to work in yr 3.

Class reading
Just Dance
Times table bingo (or any appropriate maths type bingo)
Newsround
How many whatevers can you write on a whiteboard in a minute
Heads Down Thumbs up
Silent reading
'Wet play books' (basically doodle books)
Go Noodle
Various maths games on the interactive whiteboard

My kids had:-
Book kept on their desk (they read until whole class was in first thing), read it between sessions (so if they complete their task ahead of others), or if the teacher needed 5mins silence.

They watch Newsround most days (then tell me all about it afterwards)

Dds teacher did a tray of sodukus /wordsearches etc they could grab if time allowed.

They all do a class reading book where the teacher reads to them (at least 3 times a week).

My kids school have ipads for these situations.

For a quick CBBC educational programme my son loves Hey You What If, Deadly 60, Operation Ouch, HH, Shaun the Sheep. Reading, he mainly just loves the Wimpy Kid books at the moment. Roald Dahl.

He enjoys it but I don't understand why you'd put on something like Odd Squad in a classroom. At least with Shaun the Sheep you can talk about animation and model making.

My DDs teacher read Land of Roar to the class in yr3- she loved it we read the second and third books at home- the chapters are very short so perfect if you only have 5 minutes. She had a Chromebook in class and a spare 5 minutes would be TT rockstar/numbots/purple mash/spelling shed. There was also a tray of wordsearches and a tray of colouring sheets.
They also seem to fairly regularly stop and do action songs which they call 'brain breaks' (from YouTube).

Favourite 5 minute programmes/channels they have watched at school: BBC Earth Kids, How it's made, Shaun the sheep, Ted-Ed, national geographic kids.
Favourite longer programmes from school: odd squad, Hetty feather, deadly60, walking with dinosaurs, blue planet,