Year 3 Friday Blog 15th November 2024

Date: 15th Nov 2024 @ 2:21pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

This week we have been working hard to explain and and summarise what we have read. Everyone has improved with these reading skills. Keep up the great home reading, 15 minutes every night!

On Sumdog we have set two maths challenges. One is a number competition that will challenge your children in all aspects of their number learning at their level. This is a good opportunity to practise all those number facts we neeed to know for all our maths learning!

We have also set a x3 and x4 multiplication practice. 

Your spellings this week are from the year 3/4 statutory word list. We looked at these today and spotted that using our syllables would help us spell some of these tricky words. We also said that we should look for patterns to remember parts of the word, like the -eme in extreme.

consider   continue   decide   describe   different   difficult   disappear   early   earth   eight   eighth   enough   exercise   experience   experiment   extreme   forward   famous

Keep counting, look back at our counting songs and have a go on some games from www.ictgames.com.

This week in Year 3

This week we completed our second week of My Happy Mind. You will have received a letter today with the newsletter showing you how to access the parent resources. We learned about how our amygdala can override the other parts of our brain and make us panic, worry or feel strange. We learned how to do 'Happy breathing' to help wake up the other parts of the brain and calm ourselves down.

In English we have loved reading Stone Age Boy. This week we looked at retelling the exciting hunt and how we can order our ideas. We also looked at building suspense and talked about how different sentences make the reader feel. Everyone also edited their work, correcting any mistakes and improving their word choices.

In maths this week we have learned the partition and the grid methods for multiplication, We used these to multiply 2 digit numbers. Everyone listened brilliantly to the explanations and could explain the method to a friend.

In PE we had a visit from Freddie Fit as well as continuing with our invasion games - hockey toplc. Check out our galleries.

In forest school, we had a great time in our nature area learning how to use tools safely. We raked up leaves and we also had all the shelter building resources out. We used the Kelly Kettle to boil water and made a drink of hot juice to warm us up.

In RE we have been learning all about the day of rest and created some lovely collages showing nature. Next week we will look at the Liturgy of the word and read some lovely scripture from Isaiah and Matthew.

In History we have been enjoying our Stone Age Topic. You can find an overview of the learning on the History page and some facts we will be learning below.

Have a brilliant weekend!

The Year 3 Team