Year 3 Friday Blog - 02/05/25

Date: 1st May 2025 @ 2:21pm

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.

VE Day

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 a mixture of division facts related to the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

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 been analysing the playscript 'The Wonderful Smells' by Julia Donaldson. We have looked at some of the words and phrases used and chosen our favourites. We have also looked at the punctuation and how that affects the way we read the script, as well as looking at some of the different sentence structures used.

Maths

This week, we have continued working on addition and subtraction, learning new methods including adding and subtracting by bridging and subtracting by counting on.

Which method would you use to solve this question?

RE

In RE this half term, our big question is 'How does Jesus change lives?'. This week, we have learned about Matthew; a tax collector who became one of Jesus' disciples. We considered how Matthew's life changed after meeting Jesus and why these changes occured.

PE

This week in PE, we started our swimming lessons. The children had a great time and showed their excellent swimming abilities.

Please remember to send your child with a swimming costume/trunks, a swimming cap and a towel in a large bag for life each Monday. Please also remember that if your child wears earrings, these must be removed prior to the swimming lesson. If your child can not remove them themselves, please do not send them with them in on a Monday.

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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