Art: This week we have been making sculptures. These are inspired by the sculpture Alberto Giacometti (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alberto-giacometti-1159) and our topic on the Stone Age. 

English: this week we have been focussing on noun phrases and adverbials and use these to describe a setting. 

Maths: We have been adding and subtracting crossing over the hundred barrier by exchanging. In times table we have started revising our 3s. Here is a catchy song to aid learning: 

Reminders:

Book Change: will now be on a Friday

PE: Thursday and Fridays

This Week:

Firstly, this is a wonderful class, with caring, kind students, and they are  becoming a joy to teach. 

In English, the children have been studying the book Stone Age Boy, and roll played, sketched and wrote about scenes from the book. 

In Maths: we have started investigating missing numbers on number lines, and estimating when we do not have intervals.  

Welcome to the Year 3 blog. This is where we relate all the fun activities that the children have been learning and give reminders to up and  coming activities. 

Reminders

PE will be on Thursdays and Fridays

Reading book changes will be on Mondays

Library book changes will be on Fridays

This Week

We have started out topic on The Stone Age and children have learnt myths about some of the facts that were reported about them.

We have started learning our 3 timetables  

We have learnt some basic greetings in Spanish

This week, we have been completing our reading and writing tests. The class are in full preparation for Sports Day and excitement is high. We have started our new book, which is a nonfiction book about bees. In Maths, we have been learning about time and time differences. 

Reminders:

Book change will take place on Monday for this week only and Friday as usual. 

Library change is Thursday

PE Tuesday and Thursday. 

It's hard to image that the children have been absent for 8 weeks of this term, as they have settled back like summer flip flops on the beach. 

Poetry! That's all we have been doing (in English). The children have been engaged, they have performed, written and performed again. On our Google Classroom page you can see the first set of poems that I have managed to film. If you want to leave supportive comments then please do. 

In Maths, we have started looking at place value again. Just to refresh our memories.

Art - we focussed on Rembrandt and his obsession with noses. We created a scribbled pencil page then sketched portraits of our classmates using only erasers. 

Homework

Mathletics - there are 2 new tasks due for Tuesday

Spelling Shed - Due Tuesday

TT Rockstars - we are focussing on the 6 timetables. 

Reminders

PE - Tuesday and Thursday

Library change - Thursday

Reading books changed Wednesday and Friday

This week

A busy week in English, we have learnt: what an imperative verb is and how to use it! When we should use exclamation marks, we have looked at some of the problems with plastic pollution in our reading and finally, we have planned letters to write to Julian Lewis to ask him to petition Boris Johnson to ban single use plastics. 

In Mathematics, we have taken small steps into understanding how fractions are created. We firstly looked at Europe as our whole and countries within Europe as our parts of our whole. We have moved onto understanding how to write fractions and what a unit fraction is. 

In geography, we looked at wind turbines and solar farms and asked why they are becoming more popular. 

In PE we rolled around on mats a lot. This was part of our movements in gymnastics topic. Outdoor PE, we looked at sidestepping and pivoting, which we then used to play a game of piggy-in-the-middle. 

The photo above is from last.