Year 3 Friday Blog - 14.02.25

Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 1:50pm

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.

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 - There will not be a list of spellings sent home to learn over half term, however we are still encouraging all children to log in to spelling frame and practise some of the rules we have learned before.

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.

There will not be a specific times table to learn over half term, but all children should still log in to TT Rockstars and practise a range of times tables.

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.

Our learning this week in Year 3

English

This week in English, we have written our biographies about Mary Anning. the class have loved learning about her life and discoveries and have written some amazing biographies using the new information they have learned.

Maths

This week, we have been learning about volume, capacity and mass. The children have been able to estimate the capacity of different containers and add two volumes together. We have also been estimating and measuring the mass of different objects.

RE

In RE, we have finished our learning about different people who have been called by God. Having learned about Moses and Eric Liddell, we have now thought about people who are called by God in the present day such as vicars and bishops.

PE

In PE this week, we have been playing target games. This was a lot of fun and hopefully the children will be able to use some of the games we have played on the playground after half term.