Another busy week in Year 3.

In Religion, we made a class Advent calendar. Behind each door is a prayer written by the children. The children painted pictures after reading the story of Mary visiting Elizabeth and they wrote their own litany. We have been practising our songs for the Advent service.  Children’s readings have been sent home so please practise them.

In Science, we planned and did an investigation to find out the best surface to move a plastic tub across. The children predicted, observed and recorded their results.

I have been impressed with the children’s newspaper reports this week. They have written their first two paragraphs using speech, conjunctions and prepositions. I look forward to reading their final reports.

In Maths, we have been explaining how some number facts can help us to solve others. The children have been developing their explaining and reasoning skills.

In History, we have continued our learning on Stone Age. The children used a picture and a story to describe what they have learn from it.

In PE, we took part in karate and building our skills for tag rugby.

Thank you to all the parents that supported their children making the rainforests, the class looks fantastic! If your child has not made one, please complete as we would like to add a photo to their topic books.

Home Learning

Learn readings and songs for the Advent service. Song words attached – Advent Service 2021 – lyric sheet

Spellings – taller, smaller, rougher, smoother, fitter, hotter, bigger, madder, angrier, earlier, hairier, dirtier

Have a wonderful weekend.

Mrs Carey

Another busy week of learning in Year 3. Thank you to the parents who came to look at the children’s learning.
This week was Anti-bullying week. Following on from the workshop last week, the children have been listening to different scenarios and explaining how they could show courage and kindness. The theme this year is one kind word. The children have been nominating other children who have been kind during the week. They wrote letters to each other to spread kindness. We made the word kind with our bodies.

In Maths, we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. They have been drawing rounding mountains to show what multiples of 10 the numbers are between. We played a game where they had to add numbers to the rounding mountains and round them to the nearest ten.

In English, we read The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and have been writing news reports on the story. The children have been learning to use inverted commas correctly when writing direct speech. We acted out different scenes from the story. The children made excellent freeze frames.

In Religion, we have made a class Advent calendars with a prayer inside each door. Then they retold the story of the Annunciation as a diary recount.

In PE the children have been learning skills to support them when playing tag rugby. They learnt a game called Shadow Shaker to develop their dogging ad marking skills.

Thank you for the creative rainforests! The children were delighted to show their art work to the class and they all look wonderful on display.

Home Learning

Read Theory – complete 2 activities.
Mathletics – activities set
Hit the button – 3 times tables and division facts  www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Have a lovely weekend
Mrs Carey

It was lovely to meet most of you for parent’s consultations this week.

In Maths we have been learning about the magnitude of number. The children have to add different numbers to an empty number line using their halving and estimating skills. Please practising halving numbers.

In English we have been listening and reading newspaper reports. After that, we thought of the main parts, what, where, when, why, who and how. Then we used this information to write a summary the report.

In PE, the children have been using the skills they learnt last half term to play netball. Each time they play they are improving their footwork skills.

In Geography, we have continued to learn about climate change and how important the Amazon Rainforest is to the whole world. We had a meeting online with a farmer who spoke to the children about how climate change is affecting his job.

In Computing, we played the game hit the button to practise times tables and division facts.

On Friday, we had a practise of the recorders where the children played hot cross buns beautifully.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Home Learning

Complete 2 read theories.

Play hit the button for the 2 and 5 timetables, division facts and halving.

Our Geography topic is looking at rainforests over the next few weeks. Please make a rainforest using lots of different materials in a shoe/cupboard box.  See some examples attached. Please send in by Wednesday 17th November.

Rainforest

Year 3 were fantastic today at their class assembly! They read their lines clearly, acted well and their singing was beautiful.

In Maths, we have been adding and subtracting 1, 10 and 100 to and from a 3-digit number. We have been using equipment and drawing pictures to regroup when we cross a hundred.

We have continued our learning on play scripts. The children have been reading poems and rewriting them as play scripts. Next week the children will plan and write a play script from a story.

In Geography, the children looked at climate graphs and explained what information the graphs were giving them.

In PE, we focused on the bounce catch and thought of sports we would use it in. The children played a game using the skill that they had learnt.

In Science, we have been looking at skeletons and the functions of a skeleton. The children were excellent at explaining what we would be like without a skeleton.

In Religion, we have been learning about the trinity. We made triangles and wrote God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit on each side.

In Art, we used our observational drawing skills to draw a plant.

Today we said goodbye to Mr Reid. We will miss him lots and wish him well in his new job.

Home Learning

Spellings – tale, tail, prey, pray, weight, wait, which, witch, waste, waist, son, sun

Read Theory – Complete two read theory activities.

Mathletics activities.

Science – Make a picture of a skeleton. How creative can you be? I have given the children black paper. Can they make a skeleton using white paper cut up, pictures of bones or other types of materials?

Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Carey