Year 3 4th November 2022

Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 4:02pm

Welcome back to your Friday blog. We have had a fantastic week back in school and started lots of new learning and exciting topics.

We have been writing our Quest adventure stories this week and on Friday afternoon we visited Reception and Year 1 to read our stories. Everyone made a huge effort all week to make their writing look beautiful on the page and used some fantastic sentences to excite the reader. We have been working hard on sentence structures this week and found out different ways to develop our ideas. 

This week we have started our Geography learning. We have been exploring maps and will be studying our local area and Lancashire. We looked at differntly scaled maps and talked about what human features we could find. We spotted cities, towns, villages, motorways, airports and much more! 

In maths we have been practising all our strategies and learned when we need to use formal written methods. We have sent home some times tables practice sheets as we will be focused on Multiplication and division from next week on. When practising times tables at home work on recall and speed as well as accuracy. The Sumdog times tables training is a great way to practice the individual times tables the children need to work on.

In French this week we have been learning the vern etre - to be. It was tricky but everyone gave it a good go. We finished with some spooky halloween songs.

We have also started our new computing topic on animation. Today your child will have brought home their first attempt at flip book animating. Everyone did very well at improving their designs as we struggled at first. Great perserverance Year 3! Next week we will be using the iPads to create our own stop frame animations!

Home Practice

Continue to read every night for at least 20 minutes. We have seen a huge improvement in everone's reading habits during silent reading time. Well done!

Spellings - This week we have been learning how to spell our homophones. A little practice every night does the trick. For these words, writing them in short sentences is a good way to remember them in the right context.

their   there     our     are    to  too   two   break    brake   were     where

Continue to access the Sumdog platform for a little time everyday. We are seeing huge improvements in accuracy across all maths skills. Keep it up!

We have set a 3 digit number challenge as well as a times table practice. Do your best!

Have a super weekend and enjoy the fireworks! And remember to keep safe.

The Year 3 team.