Welcome to Year 3 - Roe Deer Class
Our teacher is Mrs Morris and our teaching assistant is Mrs Martin
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There are several parts to our homework, and this is set on Thursday and should be completed by the following the Wednesday. We have practised logging in to these sites in class this week, details are located in the back of your child's reading diary.
Homework includes;
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Wow, What a week! Year 3 continue to amaze me!
What a fantastic second week in Year 3, all the children continue to show great independence, resilience and perseverance in their learning.
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Welcome Back Year 3 :-)
School Production
Thank you for all your hard work at home in the children learning the words to the songs. They are bellowing out the music. The school production will be on the 11th and 13th July in the evenings. We will have a dress rehearsal on the 8th of July.
Sports Day
Sports day is getting nearer, we have been practising the events. Parents are welcome to join for a picnic at 12:00 on the school field.
This Week
In Maths, we have been comparing fractions using the symbols greater than and less than.
In English, we have been looking at the layout of a report in preparation to write our bee reports.
School Production
On the 11th and 13th July, we will be performing our school production in the evenings. Timings will be confirmed later. Your child needs to bring £2, which is for a white t-shirt that we will be using as costumes and black trousers/leggings from home.
The link to the song is below.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=let+the+games+begin+monopoly
School Sports Day
The date has been changed for School Sports Day to the 7th July. We are sorry for any disruptions this has caused.
English + Art
In English and art we have been looking at the artist and writer Piotra Socha. He has written the books 'Bees'. In Art, we have been trying to recreate his pictures, by changing the proportions of body and limb shapes and adding in oval eyes. We have also written posters about dangers to bees.
In Maths, we have been learning about equivalent fractions.
Key Stage 2 will be performing the school play 'Let the Games Begin'.
Year 3 will be learning the song Monopoly. The lyrics are in the link below and there is a link to the musical soundtrack. We will need to dress in white t-shirts and black trousers. We would like to ask that all children bring in £2 so that we can buy matching t-shirts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaiOUBIRy5g
Blog
This wrekin Maths we have been learning how to interpret information from a bar chart and a table. We even completed one of the biggest addition sums this year.
In English, we have continued our work with speech, possessive apostrophes and similes, but we moved onto the animation short film, Planets. It is a very entertaining video, and we even designed our own planet with accompanying aliens.
Art: this term we have been focusing on the artist Henri Matisse. There are some examples in the download box of Matisse style collages.
English: in English this week we are getting tehnical. The children have been learning about how to write speech correctly, and (take a breath) plural apostrophies. They have picked these skills up very quickly. We are still studying about our book The Iron Man.
Maths: we have finished our topic on multiplication and division and are moving onto graphs next week.
This Term
English
We will be focusing on the Iron Man for the next three weeks.
Spellings: we will be repeating spellings from the year to ensure that all of them have been learnt.
Maths
We will be focusing on the 6 and 8 timetables in class, if you have a different sheet at home, please practice that one.
Our current topic is multiplication which will shortly be followed by division.
History
In history, our topic will be the Bronze Age and it will be starting with a trip to Butser Farm.
Butser Farm Trip Reminder
The purpose of this visit is to enhance the children’s learning in their History topics of Bronze Age and Vikings. It will enable them to experience archaeological reconstructions of ancient buildings from the different periods in History and to take part in practical activities from this era. We leave and arrive back at school at normal time.
Your child will need:
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Reminders
> Isle of Wight Trip 6th April
> Butser Ancient Farm 28th April
> Last Week of Swimming is this Thursday
> Reading Book Change every Friday
Blog
Our Wolves' leaflets have finally finished! Some are pretty terrifying. The aim of the leaflet was to warn rabbits about the dangers that wolves pose. Our work was inspired by the wonderful book by Emily Gravett, 'Wolves'.
We have also started our new book, The Promise. Which is a beautifully written and illustrated story about a girls journey from being mean and hard, to being kind and considerate.
In Maths, we have been adding and subtracting 3 digits.
These are some of our finished coin purses. They were challenging, but the children were determined to get them finished.
This Week
Maths: we have been adding and subtracting tens and hundreds. These lessons have been practical, using place value coins and denies.
English: we have understood the importance of verbs in sentences.
Guided Reading: We have been reading the comic, Hilda and the Troll. The children have unpicked some tricky words by reading around them in the sentences.
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