Year 3 Friday 18th October 2024

Date: 18th Oct 2024 @ 8:21am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a great week in Year 3! We have learned lots of new maths strategies and finished our Charcoal topic in art, using our skills to create some fantastic self portraits.

Home Practice

It was lovely hearing about all the fantastic reading you do at home on parents evening. The children are all making fantastic progress and improving all their reading skills. Keep it up!

In maths this week, we have been learning the formal written method for addition and subtraction. Even though everyone picked up the method really quickly, a lot of us were making mistakes with our number facts. Fluency in these will give your children the best chance to succeed when they meet trickier learning as well as boost their confidence! We have set some number fact Sumdog challenges on Sumdog this week. Accuracy + Speed = Fluency.

Counting Practice - X3 

Your spellings this week all have the same spelling rule. Try and practice a little every night.

crystal   pyramid   bicycle   oxygen   gym   symbol   cymbals   crypt   hymn   syrup   cylinder   lyrics   mystery   typical    gymnast   lynx   myth   Egypt   gymnastics   syrup

This week in Year 3

In English, we started reading the wordless book, Journey by Aaron Becker. We have ben exploring the scenes and learning how to use different sentence openers to improve our writing. Next week, we will be writing the story and visiting Year 2 with our published work.

Year 2 came to visit us with their non-chronological reports about Owls. We were very impressed with their writing!

In PE, we have almost finished our invasion games unit. We have seen amazing improvement in everyone's tactics and ball skills. Next week, will be playing some games and evaluating our team's performances.

To finish our art topic we have created some fabulous charcoal self portraits. We looked at light and shade to create some 3d effects. Well done Year 3!

In Music this week, we have been composing our own version of The Carnival of The Animals. We worked in teams and will perform for Year 4 next week.

In Science, we learned about the skeletons of different animals and whether they had a back bone or not. We sorted these into invertebrates and vertebrates, and talked about how we knew which was which!

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 team.