Year 3 Blog Friday 18th March

Date: 17th Mar 2022 @ 4:44pm

We have had a wonderful week in Year 3. 

Our highlights this week have included watching the chicks grow and become cheeky :) and enjoying a workout with Freddy Fit! 

We have continued reading our class novel journey to Jo'burg. We are really loving the story and are learning some great new words to use in our writing. We have focused on using a range of conjunctions in our writing this week. Here are some:

before          in case          when          as          while          but          after          although

In maths we have been using different methods of multiplying. We have been multiplying some tricky number together like 19 x 4, 31 x 5, 48 x 8. We have done so well! It really helps us if we know our times tables well. 

In geography we did some work looking at the continents of the world, we ordered them by size and by how many countries they have. We were surprised that Africa has more countires than Asia even though Asia is bigger. We understood why when we spotted some of the big Asian countries like China and Russia. 

We did some sketching in art using different pencils. We were looking carefully at sunflowers and using a variety of sketching pencils to draw what we saw. We are going to do some more of this next week and also add some paint. 

On Friday we evaluated and improved our DT mechanisms and we had all had the chance to go outside and do some outdoor learning. We were building shelters, our focus was teamwork, resilience and problem solving. Please look at our photos on the galleries. 

DT - Mechanisms       Outdoor Learning

Home Practice 

Reading

Read out loud to somebody every night for 20 minutes. Talk about new words. 

Counting

Count in 3s from 0 to 36 and back again

Count in 4s from 0 to 48 and back again.

Count in 8s from 0 to 96 and back again.

Times Tables

Practise counting in 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8.

Listen to the songs on YouTube. 

Also complete the Sumdog challenges to practise the times tables.

Spellings

Your spellings this week all start with the prefix un-, mis- or dis-. A prefix goes at the beginning of a word changes its meaning.

mistake          disapppear          untrue          misspell          disagree          untidy                       unwell                   disobey         disbelieve        mistreat 

Complete the Sumdog challenges.

You will be tested on your spellings and times tables on Tuesday 22nd March.

HAVE AN AMAZING WEEKEND!!