Welcome to Year 3 - Roe Deer Class
Our teacher is Mrs Morris and our teaching assistant is Mrs Shilton.
Do not forget swimming costumes and towels tomorrow. There is a slight change in that the Year 5 and 6s will be joining the Year 3s for their lessons and the Year 4s will be on their own for lessons.
Last week the children all showed great bravery as some of them had not been in the water for a couple of years. This week the lessons start and so does the fun.
Year 3 - Swimming Reminders
Reminders
Maths Olympics
This is a house sports events, where children run around an obstacle course to collect maths questions and return to their team to solve them. Year groups work together in their houses (Years 3+4). The skills that we worked on included perseverance, encouraging others, praising others and helping them.
Winchester Science Centre Trip
Thank you to all those who have returned their reply slips. I'll let parents who have offered to help know as soon as I can.
In Lessons
We have completed our 3, 4 and 8 timetables. But keep practising on TT Rock Stars. We have started learning about unit fractions. You can ask your children about numerators and denominators, and hopefully they will be able to reply with the correct part of the fraction they are.
This Week:
Art - We experimented with wax crayons and water colours. We have been inspired by Kerry Hyndman and her picture of goldfish. See pictures below Paolo, Joseph T, Britney, Nelson and on the blog cover Lois.
English - We have been learning skills to persuade. Our skills this week have been imperative verbs (bossy verbs) and rhetorical questions.
Maths - We have bee problem-solving using our 3 timetables.
Reminders
PE Thursday and Fridays.
Library change Monday.
Book change Friday.
This Week
The children were in shock and Mr Wilcox and Mrs Cooper went on strike over the sharpness of pencils and the wonky sheets being stuck into books. This later led onto the introduction of the protest book, The Day the Crayons Quit. This is a lovely book that we will be focussing on over the next few weeks.
In Maths the children have been learning about adding money.
In Geography, we started our new topic Sustainability. Thinking about how we can live better on our planet.
Reminders
Monday - Library change
Thursday and Friday - PE
Friday - book change.
Art: This week we have been making sculptures. These are inspired by the sculpture Alberto Giacometti (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alberto-giacometti-1159) and our topic on the Stone Age.
English: this week we have been focussing on noun phrases and adverbials and use these to describe a setting.
Maths: We have been adding and subtracting crossing over the hundred barrier by exchanging. In times table we have started revising our 3s. Here is a catchy song to aid learning:
Art: over the past 2 weeks we have been creating our very own Stone Age art pictures. This is based on the Lascaux Stone Age art found in French cave.
History: We looked at why the Stone Age tribes were nomadic, and thought about what a tent in winter might have inside and outside to keep them safe.
Maths: In Maths we have started adding 3-digit numbers and ones and 3-digit numbers and hundreds.
English: we have finished our Stone Age stories and have learnt how to check our spellings using a dictionary.
Reminders:
Book Change: will now be on a Friday
PE: Thursday and Fridays
This Week:
Firstly, this is a wonderful class, with caring, kind students, and they are becoming a joy to teach.
In English, the children have been studying the book Stone Age Boy, and roll played, sketched and wrote about scenes from the book.
In Maths: we have started investigating missing numbers on number lines, and estimating when we do not have intervals.
Homework in Year 3
There are 4 parts to our homework, and they are set on Tuesday and should be completed on Tuesday. We have practised logging in to these sites in class.
Mathletics
There will be 2 Mathletics tasks set per week . When you put in your Mathletics password, it is written in upper case but enter it in lowercase.
Spelling Shed
Spelling Shed is linked to what we teach them in class. Children have a minimum of 3 games to complete each week.
TT Rockstars
TT Rockstars focuses on the timetables that the children are working on in class, at the moment we are working on our 4s.
Reading
Try to read with your child for 15 minutes per day.
Welcome to the Year 3 blog. This is where we relate all the fun activities that the children have been learning and give reminders to up and coming activities.
Reminders
PE will be on Thursdays and Fridays
Reading book changes will be on Mondays
Library book changes will be on Fridays
This Week
We have started out topic on The Stone Age and children have learnt myths about some of the facts that were reported about them.
We have started learning our 3 timetables
We have learnt some basic greetings in Spanish
We will be having our Sports Day with Year 4 on Tuesday afternoon. Pupils should come in with their normal school uniforms, but go home in their PE kits. Please try to bring house colours. We will do our best to capture the events and post pictures and videos afterwards.
Eco Fair tomorrow at St Saviours.
The class have been working hard to create milk carton monsters. These will be on display at the Eco Fair tomorrow from 12:00 to 4:00.
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