Year 3 Friday Blog 20th September 2024

Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 5:33pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

We have had a brilliant week in Year 3 with lots of learning in the sun!

Home Practice

Continue with your daily reading. The children are really enjoying picking their own books and changing them lots. 10 minutes every night will make all the difference.

On Sumdog this week we have set a times table challenge on the 3 times tables. A little practice with these every day will help your children become fluent in their number facts.

Continue to practise your counting. This week, try counting forwards and backwards in 5s from any 2 digit number. Can you spot a pattern?

We have also set an addition and subtraction challenge. This is to practise the learning we have done in school over the past few weeks.

Your home spellings this week are the days of the week and months of the year. We will test the children on these on Friday.

This week in Year 3

In English this week we have been really working on our think pinks. These are the individual writing skills your children are working on to improve their writing. We have loved reading The Twits. We have written in character this week and acted out some scenes from the story.

In maths we have learning new strategies to add and subtract within 100. We learned how to use partitioning and a number line to solve our problems. Super maths Year 3!

In Forest school we explored our nature area and noticed the changes that have happened since July. We played some fantastic games which showed super creativity and imagination. Mrs Marshall is our Forest School helper, and it was her first session with us this week. Some of us had a go at lighting a fire with the flint and steel. It's harder than it looks but quite a few children managed it and were pleased with their achievements- great determination was shown.

In Geography this week we learned how to use atlases to find settlements in the UK. Everyone showed great place knowledge and talked about some of the places they have visited. Check out our gallery.

In music this week we were sorting our musical instruments. We also listened to the carnival of the animals and tried to spot the animals from their instruments.

In Science we were looking at the human body. We learned the names of a lot of bones and we learned what the bones are for, support, protection and movement. 

In swimming we used our noodles to help us to swim all around the pool by ourselves. Simon was very impresssed!

Have a lovely weekend 

The Year 3 team