Year 3 Friday Blog - 21.03.25

Date: 20th Mar 2025 @ 10:37am

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 Germany's tallest mountain is Zugspitze. It is 2962m tall and is located in the Bavarian Alps.

 

Homework

Wellbeing 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 the 3 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 finished reading The Iron Man and identified the key points from each chapter in the story. We then used these key points to help us plan our own versions of the first three chapters.

Maths

This week, we have been learning all about fractions. We started by learning about equivalent fractions and have now learned how to add and subtract fractions within a whole.

Here is one of the questions we answered. What fraction of this bar is shaded?

 

Easter Worship

This week, we have started practising our Easter Worship. Each child has been given a part which involves some acting at some point in the story.

We have also learned a new song, which we will perform during the worship. The song is linked below so you can practise singing the chorus at home.

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

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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