Maths Olympics

This is a house sports events, where children run around an obstacle course to collect maths questions and return to their team to solve them. Year groups work together in their houses (Years 3+4). The skills that we worked on included perseverance, encouraging others, praising others and helping them. 

Winchester Science Centre Trip

Thank you to all those who have returned their reply slips. I'll let parents who have offered to help know as soon as I can. 

In Lessons

We have completed our 3, 4 and 8 timetables. But keep practising on TT Rock Stars.  We have started learning about unit fractions.  You can ask your children about numerators and denominators, and hopefully they will be able to reply with the correct part of the fraction they are.  

This Week

The children were in shock and Mr Wilcox and Mrs Cooper went on strike over the sharpness of pencils and the wonky sheets being stuck into books. This later led onto the introduction of the protest book, The Day the Crayons Quit.  This is a lovely book that we will be focussing on over the next few weeks. 

In Maths the children have been learning about adding money. 

In Geography, we started our new topic Sustainability. Thinking about how we can live better on our planet. 

Reminders

Monday - Library change

Thursday and Friday - PE

Friday - book change. 

Art: over the past 2 weeks we have been creating our very own Stone Age art pictures. This is based on the Lascaux Stone Age art found in French cave. 

History: We looked at why the Stone Age tribes were nomadic, and thought about what a tent in winter might have inside and outside to keep them safe. 

Maths: In Maths we have started adding 3-digit numbers and ones and 3-digit numbers and hundreds. 

English: we have finished our Stone Age stories and have learnt how to check our spellings using a dictionary. 

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
• Spelling Shed
• TT Rockstars
• Reading

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. 

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.

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.