Year 3 Friday Blog - 13th September 2024
Date: 13th Sep 2024 @ 4:05pm
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.
Meet the Teacher
Thursday 19th September will be our meet the teacher session in the classroom from 9:00-9:20. This is an opportunity for you to get to know a bit more about what we will be doing in Year 3 and meet some of the team who work with your children each day. Once you have dropped your child off, please wait on the playground and you will be welcomed in to the classroom when the children have gone in to worship. I look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible.
PE
Our PE lessons are currently taking place on a Tuesday and Thursday each week. Could you please ensure full PE kit is in school every day as we may have to change our sessions every so often. If your child wears ear rings, they must be able to take them out themselves, if they are not able to do this, could you please ensure they are not worn on PE days
Courageous Advocacy
Thank you to Poppy for bringing in her poster all about planting trees to help wildlife and the environment. If you have been busy at home making posters or researching other ides of how we can be 'agents of change', please bring them in on Tuesday so that we can share them in class worship.
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 words containing all and al 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.
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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 10 times table.
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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 reading the ant and the grasshopper as part of our fables unit. The children have innovated this fable by choosing a new character to write about. Next week, each child will write their own innovated version of the fable.
Maths
In Maths, we have continued our work on place value by rounding numbers to the nearest 10 as well as adding and subtracting multiples of 10 and 100. Whilst some of this work has been quite tricky, the class have persevered really well to try their best in each lesson.
Science
We have started a new science topic this week - animals including humans. We have started by learning about the different types of nutrition humans need and where they can get it from.
Gallery
Unfortunately I have had to remove last week's gallery, but I hope to have a new gallery up next week so you can continue to see pictures of your children's learning each week.
Have a fantastic weekend!
The Year 3 team
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