Year 3 Friday 8th November 2024

Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 2:49pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

It has been lovely having everyone back ready for an exciting half term of learning.

Home Practice

Continue with the fantastic home reading. 15 minutes a night!

We have set 3 Sumdog challenges for you to complete. Make sure you go on. The regular spelling and maths practise make a huge difference for your children.

Your spellings this week revisit some trickier words from Key Stage 1.

would  could   should   hear   here   night   father   where   mother   because   were    beautiful   said    people   water   friend   knight   children

Practise your counting regularly too. This will help your children become familiar with the number system and finding patterns in number.

This week practise counting up in 3s from any number and back again. 

This week in Year 3

On Friday, we had a special visit from Mr Turner from the Royal British Legion to talk to us about Rememberance Day and the poppy. He told us about his family and how his dad served during the war. The children listened brilliantly and asked some thoughtful questions.

This week we started our new My Happy Mind programme. Our first topic is all about meeting our brains. We learned some new vocabulary and talked about how our brain can grow (Neuroplastcity) and what the Hypocampus, Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex do! You can find more information on our My Happy Mind page on the parents area of the website.

We have been loving our new story Stone Age Boy. We have been adding in dialogue to the story and learning how to write speech sentences. Everyone has done brilliantly with this!

In maths we have been learning new ways to use our times tables to solve trickier number problems. We will be learning lots of new strategies linked to miltiplication over the next few weeks.

In art we started our new topic on collage and 'painting with scissors'. We looked at lots of different collage artists and created some of our own. 

In computing we created some fab animated characters. This was to kick off our animation topic where we will be learning some new skills in creating stop frame animation. Check out our gallery.

In forest school, we looked at some art by a Scottish environmental artist called Laurence Winram. We used his ideas to make our own leaf art by sticking leaves on tree trunks using honey as glue.

Have a great weekend

The Year 3 Team