St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 3 7th January 2022
Date: 7th Jan 2022 @ 12:54pm
Happy New Year!
It has been lovely seeing everyone back at school this week.
In our English we have started our new novel, Toro!Toro!, written by Michael Morpurgo. We have read the blurb and a letter from the author. Before starting the story, we have been finding out about some of the topics which will come up in the book including Spain, bullfighting, and The Spanish Civil War. We have written non-chronological reports including this information and are now ready and excited to start reading the story an Monday.
In Maths this week we have been learning all about multiplication and how to use our times tables to solve complex calculations. We have set some Sumdog competitions and challlenges to help improve fluency in your tables.
On Friday, we continued our Science topic on light. We explored light sources and talked about how we know something is luminous or non-luminous. Here is some of the vocabulary we will meet this half term.
luminous, reflective, transparent, translucent, opaque, source, dim, artificial, natural
Home Practice
Please read out loud to somebody every night for 20 minutes and talk about what you have read.
Spellings
Practise your spellings every night by writing them down and saying the letters out loud.
Your spellings this week all have the /ow/ sound spelled ou.
mouth around spout ouch sprout hound trout outside found sound
Practise the following skills for maths – even if you already know them, you need to be quick.
- Number facts, click on doubles – doubles to 20.
- Times tables and counting. Click on times tables – x3 and x4
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Well done to everyone who is accessing the Sumdog Learning platform. The training feature is still available to practise those skills your child finds tricky.
You will be tested on your spellings and times tables on Tuesday 11th January.
Have a great weekend!
The Year 3 team