Year 3 Friday Blog - 14/03/25

Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 3:45pm

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.

Germany

Each half term we will be learning about a different country. You will find a new fact about that country on our blog each week. This half term, we are learning about Germany.

This week, we have found out that the longest river in Germany is the Rhine. The Rhine has two main tributaries called the Neckar and the Main.

Whilst the Rhine flows through Germany, it actually starts and ends in other countries. Can you work out which countries they are from this map?

 

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 division facts related to the 8 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 carried on reading The Iron Man. We have used the Iron Man story to practise some of our grammar skills such as inverted commas for direct speech and fronted adverbials. We have also raised some questions about the story whilst we have been reading.

Maths

This week, we have been presenting data using bar charts and pictograms. We have been thinking about different scales that we could use and choosing the most appropriate for a set of data.

Here is one of the questions we answered. Which scale do you think should be used for each set of data?

RE

In RE, we have continued learning about the Easter story.

Our big question this half term is 'Is the cross a symbol of sadness or joy?'

This week, we focused on Jesus entering the temple. We answered some questions about how Jesus must have felt and what he did.

Science

In science this week, we have been exploring magnets. We noticed lots about the way magnets interact with each other and with different materials.

What do you think would happen with these two magnets?

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

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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