Year 3 Friday Blog - 10.01.25

Date: 10th Jan 2025 @ 2:20pm

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.

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 the 4 times table.

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 started to read a new story called Gregory Cool. This story is set in Tobago, and this week we used the iPads to research Tobago. We found lots of interesting information about the island, which has helped us to gain more of an understanding of the story.

Maths

This week, we have been using our place value knowledge to add and subtract. We have used different methods to do this including using base 10 to help us with exchanges and compensation when we have numbers that are close to a 10.

PE

In PE, we have started to learn about net and wall games and some of the skills and strategies needed to play these games. Yesterday, we played a game that helped us to think about strategies we could use to outwit an opponent such as faking a throw one way before throwing another way.

Have a look at our gallery to see what we have been up to in English.

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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