Year 3 Friday Blog - 17.01.25

Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 2:09pm

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 - 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 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 continued reading Gregory Cool and thinking about the important events. Today we acted out the story as a class by thinking about one part of the story each.

Maths

This week, we have been learning about multiplication. We started to use multiplication triangles to find multiplication and division facts and we have now learned how to times any number by 10.

History

On Tuesday, we had a visitor from widget workshops who came to teach us all about the stone age. There were lots of activities to do including using a VR headset to look around some stone age buildings and caves. We also learned about how stone age people made clothes and had a go at carding, spinning and weaving.

Have a look at our gallery to see what we got up to in our History workshop.

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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