Year 3 Friday Blog 24th January 2025

Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:24pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog.

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 and bumper maths challenge to practise all our number learning so far. 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 8s.

Your home spellings this week all end with -ly. We will test the children on these on Friday.

comically dramatically frantically loudly crossly quickly kindly sleepily happily angrily simply slowly quietly gently humbly

This week in Year 3

This week in our Galilee to Jerusalem branch we have been learning about the Epiphany and how Jesus revealed himself. We read the scripture from Matthew about the Baptism of Jesus and learned about other times Jesus revealed himself to us.

In English we have been retelling the story of Orion and the Dark, planning the story and using sentence openers to move the story forwards. The children have been working extra hard on their presentation this week, making their writing look beautiful on the page. Well done Year 3!

In Maths this week we have been revisiting the grid method for multiplication and solving word problems. It is important that we all know our times tables fluently. Practise these on Sumdog. We have changed the answering system from multiple choice to typed answers. Have a go.

In Geography this week we explored North America and its physical and Human features. We revisited the definitions of these and learned lots of new facts.

In History this week we were learning the differences between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. We found out that bronze was an alloy made from tin and copper and was much stronger than Stone Age weaponry.

In Science we have been looking at reflections and how these differ from sources of light. We also found out that light travels in straight lines.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team