Year 3 Friday Blog - 07.02.25

Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 3:55pm

Dear parents,

Welcome to the Year 3 Friday blog!

Each week you will find out what we have been doing in class, weekly spellings and times tables and lots more.

Team Points

Homework

Reading - Reading is one of the most important skills for children to master as it unlocks their imagination and allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Please read with your child every night. Remember to ask questions as this will improve key reading skills, such as retrieval and inference. Children should also have their school reading books in school every day so that an adult can read with them.

 

Spellings - For our spelling quizzes this half term, there will be a list of 12 words sent home to learn. These words will all follow a spelling rule that we are learning in class that week. Our spelling quiz each Thursday will then consist of 8 of these words as well as 2 words the children have previously learned. As homework, each child should still log into SpellingFrame and complete this weeks test using the link below.

          Times tables - Times tables are a vital skill, which will be used throughout the year and through the rest of the childrens school journeys and lives. In order to prepare every child as well as we can, we ask that children log in to times table rockstars as many days as possible each week. On there, the children can practise all of their times tables by playing different games.

We will also have a times tables quiz each week. Next week, we will test the 4 times table.

I will be keeping track of all children logging into both Spelling Frame and TT Rockstars. I recommend 10 minutes on both, as many nights as possible. If you are struggling to find time to log in to SpellingFrame or TT Rockstars on a device, please find alternative ways of practising our weekly spellings and times tables, such as verbal tests/chanting in the car, or using one of the attached spelling strategies.

An overview for spellings and times tables can be found at the bottom of the blog. 

 

Our learning this week in Year 3

English

This week in English, we have been learning all about Mary Anning. We have done lots of research about her early life and some of her greatest achievements and next week, each child will be writing a biography using the information they have found.

Maths

This week, we have been working on division. We have used number lines to find the most efficient way of subtracting groups.

Have a look at this example of one of the questions we have answered. Which way do you think is more efficient?

RE

In RE, we have been thinking about people who have been called by God. This week, we continued to think about Moses, who God called by talking to him through a burning bush. We also learned about Eric Liddell, who was called by God more recently than Moses. We then thought about the similarities and differences between the two stories.

History

In History this week, we continued our work on the stone age by looking at some examples of cave paintings. We noticed that there were lots of animals in these paintings and thought about why this was the case. We also looked at the way they were drawn and which colours were used. We then had a go at sketching our own.

Have a look at our gallery to see what we have been up to in English this week.

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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