Year 3 Friday Blog - 13th December 2024

Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 2:54pm

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.

Christingle

On Monday, we will be visiting church to celebrate the Christingle service, which will be led by Years 5 and 6. During the afternoon, we are going to reflect on the meaning of the Christingle and will make our own. Please send your child to school with one orange as the basis for their Christingle (we will provide the other items).

Carol Singing

Thank you to everyone who came to see our carol singing on the playground this week. It was lovely to see so many people there.

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 - This week, we will be looking at the next set of Year 3/4 common exception words in our spelling lessons. Our spelling words to learn are listed below and these will be tested on Thursday. As homework, each child should 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 division facts related to 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 writing our discussion texts about whether people should live near volcanoes. 

Maths

This week has been assessment week throughout school and we have completed arithmetic and reasoning assessments in maths.

PE

This week, we used some of the apparatus in the hall to practice some of our gymnastics skills on different surfaces.

Have a look at our gallery to see what we have been up to in PE.

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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