Spring 1, Week 2

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I was extremely impressed with the children’s volcano home learning this week. We have continued to immerse ourselves in this geography topic by learning a volcano themed dance in PE and writing about visiting an active volcano in English. In maths we have continued our work on arrays.

Home learning:

Spelling – adding the prefix bi and re

bicycle, bilingual,  reappear, redecorate, reapply, repay, replay, rebuild.

Reading for 10 minutes daily.

SPAG.com activities set.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Pringle

  Spring 1

Spring 1, Week 1

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Happy New Year,

It has been wonderful welcoming Nathalie and the rest of year 3, back to school this week.

We have celebrated Epiphany throughout the week;  making crowns and cards and exploring the meaning of the gifts given to Jesus by the Magi.

In science we have predicted and tested the permeability of soil, which was a lot of fun. Next week we will be start the topic ‘light’, investigating shadow and how light travels.

During geography, we have learnt what volcanoes are and where they can be found in the world. We have begun to learn a volcano dance in P.E. and are reading The Firework Makers Daughter in English, where the main character has to travel into a volcano!

Home learning

Spelling: Homophones and near homophones.

scent, sent, vain, vein, rode, road, steel, steal, waist, waste.

Reading – 10 minutes daily. The children can now record their independent reading too.

Geography: Please research a particular volcano or volcanoes in general and create a fact file, poster or PowerPoint about it/them. Bbc bitesize has some wonderful clips and shttps://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/volcanoes has lots of information to support you.

Any writing should be completed in pencil or a blue handwriting pen please.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Pringle

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Have a wonderful Christmas and a restful New Year.

Love Miss Pringle

 

Autumn 2, week 6

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I would like to start by saying very well done to all the children for their wonderful singing, reading and acting at the KS2 Advent Service on Tuesday. You were a credit to the school and Parish.

I would also like to say thank you for your generous donations to our class hamper for Caritas Charity.

We have written synonym poems in English and worked on our timetable recall this week in maths.

During RE we have compared the differences, similarities and the common theme of Luke and Matthew’s account of Jesus’ birth. I have challenged the children to check their Christmas cards and see which account they depict.

Home Learning:

Spelling –

believe, appear, often, group, breath, continue, arrive, women, describe, height.

These are tricky words that don’t have a rule. To help you remember them try and think of any little rhymes or words within words that will help you to remember these spellings. For example appear has the word ear in it;  appear and height has the word eight in it; height.

Reading –  read for 10 minutes each day and sign reading records. Please return library books next week in order to choose a book to take home for the Christmas holiday’s. Our class author after Christmas is Michael Morpurgo.

Mathletics – has been set. Please also log onto hit the button and practise multiplication and division facts.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Pringle

Autumn 2, Week 4.

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We have been busy preparing for the start of Advent this week. This involved making Advent promises and a Jesse Tree. We have also created recycled Christmas cards to sell at the Fair. Please support us in caring for our common home and visit the Laudato Si’ stall, where our cards,  runner beans and homemade Advent angels can purchased.

As part of National Tree week we have researched and made careful observations about the Silver Willow Tree in the KS2 playground. Did you know the Silver Willow can live for up to 300 years! In P.E. (gymnastics) we have focused on points, patches, mirroring and matching – we have a very talented class!

Home Learning: 

Spelling – creating adverbs using ly – exceptions to the rules learnt previously.

truly, duly, wholly, fully, daily, publicly, dryly, slyly, shyly, coyly.

Reading – 10 minutes daily – please sign reading records.

Advent Service – to prepare for our Advent service the children must know the words to the hymn Think of a world without any flowers,

Have a restful weekend

Miss Pringle

 

Autumn 2, Week 3.

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It was lovely to see so many of you in assembly this morning to celebrate Father Shaun’s 25th anniversary of priesthood – what an achievement.

Our week has been fun filled and packed with new learning opportunities. In maths we have continued to add mentally and by using regrouping to think 10 and think 100. We have also enjoyed finishing our Willow Pattern Plate Fables and sharing them with Y1. Mrs Joyce and the Y1 pupils were very impressed with the quality of writing and reading! Well done.

All of year 3 are very keen readers, who are extremely good at recommending and selecting books from the library. In class the children have been trying to read books written by our author of the month David Walliams or to read Miss Pringle’s recommended book lists – if you are a member of a Hertfordshire library please look out for these books https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-3

On Wednesday, we enjoyed an act of worship with Deacon Axl about the Lost Sheep – he has asked that the children draw a picture of the lost sheep and write a prayer about forgiveness for next Wednesday.

During RE we have been learning about The Gospel writer Matthew, about Advent and what the the Jesse Tree is – next week we will be making our own Jesse Tree. We have used our knowledge of Matthew/Advent and computing skills to create word clouds on the i-pads.

Home Learning 

Spelling 

basically

frantically

dramatically

magically

tragically

comically

actually

accidentally

occasionally

Reading – 10 minutes daily. 

Mathletics activities have been set too. 

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Pringle

 

 

Autumn 2, Week 2

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This week we have been learning about the Liturgical calendar and what the different times mean. We have also been using adverbs to extend our Willow Pattern stories. In maths we have been adding using our number bonds and regrouping strategies. As part of Anti-Bullying week we took part in a workshop called This Is Me, where we shared and celebrated our talents and difference.

Home Learning 

Mathletics, reading and  and Spelling.

Creating an adverb when the root word ends in le.

gently

simply

humbly

nobly

horribly

terribly

possibly

incredibly

comfortably

probably

 

 

Autumn 2, Week 1

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We have had a busy week, learning about and planning our our Willow Pattern fables in English. We have also completed online adverb activities using spag.com and explored when to use the words a or an. The children all did very well in their adverb spelling tests – thank you for supporting their learning at home.

In maths we have been estimating and exploring measurement and mass. We have been working hard to read and interpret scales. Next week, we will be regrouping using cherry models to add and subtract. Please click on the link below to see and example of the activities we will be doing.

year 3 maths

Year 5 visited us on Thursday to discuss parliament and the snap election that is taking place in December – next week we will be making information posters to share with year 5.

In science we have made our our fossils, using shells and clay. We also investigated how fossils are formed.

During art, we have learnt to use water colours and created remembrance day collages.

Home learning:

Mathletics and spag.com activities have been set.

Please read and sign reading records.

spelling: creating adverbs using the suffix ly. When the root word ends in y we change it to an i and add ly e.g. happy becomes happily

happily, angrily, lazily, easily, busily, greedily, messily, wearily, cheekily, clumsily.

 

Autumn 1, Week 6

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Firstly, I would like to congratulate all of Y3 on leading the assembly this morning about the extraordinary month of mission, you were fantastic!

They have worked very hard this week to master rounding and estimating 2 digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100 in maths. Next week we will be focusing on counting in 3s.

In English, the children have also been busy writing their final non-chronological reports about Joan Procter, well done, they are brilliant.

In art we have created Autumnal collages and used water colours to paint snakes.

During One World Week (next week) we are focusing on India – a whole school email has been sent out regarding this – if you have any pictures, artifacts or books about this country that your child might like to share please bring them in on either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.

Home Learning:

One World Week:

Please research the country India and create either an information poster, picture, painting or PowerPoint. Please ensure any handwriting is completed in a handwriting pencil.

No mathletics or spag.com activities have been set, due to the world world week home learning focus but please visit mathletics or hit the button and revise the 3 times tables.

Next weeks spelling lessons and test will be based around the revision and testing of this half terms spelling already learnt.

Have a restful weekend,

Miss Pringle

Autumn 1, Week 6

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This week we had a special visitor – Beardy – Alfie’s beaded dragon! We learnt that he loves spinach, crickets and sun bathing under his heat lamp. Thank you Alfie for teaching us about your wonderful cold blooded pet.

Mrs McNamara, has taught us to play hot cross bun on the recorder and we had an act of worship lead by Y6 based on the Wednesday word theme; being thankful.

We have been learning to round 2 and 3-digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100 in maths, please practise this with your child at home.

In P.E. we have been developing our invasion game knowledge and skills to create our own games. This afternoon, we had the pleasure of using the new KS2 climbing frame, which was great fun! Thank you FOPPS.

Home Learning

Spelling: berry, bury, brake, break, ball, bawl, fair, fare, meet, meat.

Mathletics – Place value test.

Spag.com – verb tenses