Year 3 Friday 26th April 2024

Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 8:09am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

This week we have started our new novel, The Deathwood letters by Hazel Townson and enjoyed creating some animated drawings.

Home Practice

Continue to read regularly, 10-15 minutes every day.

Practise you number facts regularly too. Knowing these inside out will help your children succeed in their future maths learning. We have been using the White Rose Maths - 1 minute maths app in class this week. You can download this from the Appstore or the Google Playstore.

Please also practise counting in 10's from 10 to 120 and back again.

This week we have been learning about spelling patterns that sound the same but look different. Wh/w is a pattern that is still proving difficult. Here are your spellings for this week. 

wheels   everywhere    wheelchair    whirlwind    meanwhile    whack    whistled    somewhere    whispered     whenever

On Sumdog you will find 3 challenges. Times tables, Fractions and Wh spellings. Good luck!

This week in Year 3

We are really enjoying The Deathwood Letters. The story is written entirely in letter format, following the correspondence between Damien Drake and Frankie, We explored these characters and found lots of differences between them.

In maths we have been learning about equivalent fractions and how to spot them. We will be learning about fractions all next week, so make sure to refresh your memory by completing the Sumdog challenge.

In Art we created some brilliant moving pictures. We will be creating puppets and other animations in the coming weeks.

In PE we have been working on throwing and catching as part of our striking and fielding topic. We have also been learning to play cricket and rounders to apply our skills.

Check out our galleries.

Miss Whiting was very impressed with our Science learning this week. We planned an investigation on how to find out what plants need to grow. We also went outside to see the changes in our wild areas and what plants are growing on our school grounds.

Have a fantastic weekend

The Year 3 Team