Welcome to Year 3 - Roe Deer Class
Our teacher is Mrs Morris and our teaching assistant is Mrs Shilton.
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.
Homework in Year 3
There are 4 parts to our homework, and they are set on Tuesday and should be completed on Tuesday. We have practised logging in to these sites in class.
Mathletics
There will be 2 Mathletics tasks set per week . When you put in your Mathletics password, it is written in upper case but enter it in lowercase.
Spelling Shed
Spelling Shed is linked to what we teach them in class. Children have a minimum of 3 games to complete each week.
TT Rockstars
TT Rockstars focuses on the timetables that the children are working on in class, at the moment we are working on our 4s.
Reading
Try to read with your child for 15 minutes per day.
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
We will be having our Sports Day with Year 4 on Tuesday afternoon. Pupils should come in with their normal school uniforms, but go home in their PE kits. Please try to bring house colours. We will do our best to capture the events and post pictures and videos afterwards.
Eco Fair tomorrow at St Saviours.
The class have been working hard to create milk carton monsters. These will be on display at the Eco Fair tomorrow from 12:00 to 4:00.
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.
What we have been doing!
We have had scooter day and skateboard day. These days are fun, but they are trying to encourage children to actively travel to school. In English, we have been looking at the book 'Here We Are', by Oliver Jeffers. From this we decided to write letters to people we have not seen for a while, tell them about Lockdown and share a memory.
Things to remember:
> Homework should be completed for Tuesday. Mathletics there are 3 tasks and try to complete 3 spelling tasks.
>PE Tuesdays and Thursdays.
> Book change is now Tuesday and Fridays.
> Library changes are Thursdays
We are making kites in class, if you have any thin plastic that would be good for the sheets then please can you bring it in. No bigger than 60cm.
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
Reminders:
Changing books Wednesday and Friday
Library Change is Thursday
PE: Tuesday and Thursday.
This Week:
English, we have finally started our instructions, this has been made trickier by completing them on Google Docs. However the end result will look professional.
Maths: we have counted in tenths, and identified right angles until our brains hurt.
We've finally had to say goodbye to our Rubbish Tree, if you want to see it, it is on display at the CO OP.
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.
A lovely week!
This has been an active week in Year 3, but the children have taken to it with enthusiasm. We were lucky enough to be given a book each for free from Karen who owns the COOP. The book inspired us to create a tree from plastic waste (see results below).
In Maths, we have investigated the relationship between mm, cm and m. We have measured everything, from our noses to the ends of pencils. We have converted the units and found halves and quarters of them.
In English we started a new documentary unit, call The Majestic Plastic Bag. It showed a mockumentary of how a plastic bag ends up in the Pacific Ocean from a supermarket.
In art we had a model pose for us whilst we undertook drawing challenges, where we were not allowed to take our pencil off the paper until we had finished our picture. After, we were only allowed to use straight lines to draw the model.
Book changes: Wednesday and Friday
PE:
Indoors = Tuesday
Outdoors = Thursday
Library = Thursday.
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For next Wednesday ...
Could all children bring in plastic rubbish that has been washed. The plastic rubbish must be cuttable using the school scissors and not too sharp once it has been cut. Could they also bring plastic that can be wrapped, so that we can wrap it around a thick tube. All will become clearer next week.
This week
We have been writing our first drafts of our wolf leaflets. The aim was to convince Europeans that wolves should be given a place to stay in Europe.
In Maths we have continued with money. If you get a change to practice and play with coins, this would be useful as coins are becoming used less.
Our Geography topic is Sustainability for this half term. Students should develop an idea about what we can do to make our environment better and what the problems are.
For PE we are working on gymnastics and bench ball. The skills we are focussing on are challenging yourself understanding where we are with our learning.
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This Week
In English, we took on the mammoth task of understanding a compound sentence. They will need reminders for the next few weeks. We also took our keywords and created poems about Wolves.
In Maths, we looked at adding and subtracting money. The children found this very confusing as they are not recognising coins. So, as additional homework, I would like you to set up a role-play shop, where the children can explore adding and subtracting money.
Timetables
We have finished our 3s and have moved to our 4s. Here are some catchy songs to play to help you remember your timetables.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XzfQUXqiYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ue9Kux95H0
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