St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 3 Friday Blog 13th September 2024
Date: 13th Sep 2024 @ 3:41pm
Welcome to your Year 3 Blog
We have had a great first week in Year 3! We have been very impressed! Everyone has settled into the juniors and remembered all our new routines.
Home Practice
Everyone has been given a reading book this week. Read a little every night, 10-15minutes. The regular routines for home practice will set your children up well for all future learning they meet. Little and often is the key!
We have set three Sumdog challenges, two maths and one spelling. Have a go at these. Try and do a little every night.
Do a little counting practise at home too. A little counting everyday has a big impact on your child's knowledge and understanding of the number system. This can be done with counting games such as counting tennis where you take turns, 1,2,3, where you say 1,2 or 3 numbers in a sequence and the winner reaches a target or just by singing some of our counting songs. Here is one we sang this week to practise your 3's.
Your spellings have also been sent home with some suggestions for practice and an activity to have a go with. This doesn't need to be handed in.
Your spellings this week are
house, glass, letter, skipped, puppet, door, duck, monkey, who, write, toy, tube, nurse, hair, eight, cakes, night, fruit, should, picture
This week in Year 3
In English this week we have started reading our class novel, The Twits by Roald Dahl. We read all about men with hairy faces, met Mr and Mrs Twit and read all about how they play pranks on each other. Everyone wrote some great pieces, describing the Twits and retelling their horrid tricks.
In Maths, we have been learning about the place value of three digit numbers. Everyone showed good understanding and asked great questions in our lessons.
We also continued our Art learning this week. We explored shape and space using charcoal and responded to different musical pieces to create our work. Have a look in our gallery to see some of our creations.
In our new Science topic we are exploring skeletons in animals and humans. We looked at a human skeleton and learned the scientific names for some of the bones in our body. We also learned that the human body has 206 bones and a newborn baby has more than 300! Here is some of the vocabulary we will meet in the coming weeks.
In PE we started our invasion games topic with some throwing and catching practice and some 4v4 netball games. Mrs Cookson was very impressed with out teamwork. Well done Year 3!
In Forest School this week we explored around the log circle. We discussed why some of the trees had been cut down. We found many creatures including slugs, frogs and spiders. Some of us invented our own games which showed great imagination. Obstacle courses were constructed and the best performers (decided by the course builders!) were presented with a trophy made from natural materials.
Thank you to all who attended the Meet the Teacher meeting on Tuesday. You will find the slides from the presentation attached below.
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team