Year 3 Friday Blog - 22nd November 2024
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 4:14pm
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.
School Council Elections
Thank you to every child who gave a speech this morning as part of our school council elections. We all enjoyed going to our school polling station to vote for our new school councillors. Votes are now being counted and if your child has been elected as a school councillor, you will be notified next week and invited to our celebration worship on Friday 6th December to watch them being presented with their badge.
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Playtime
This week, Year 3 have had lots of fun collecting in the leaves to keep our school playground tidy. They have shown excellent teamwork, working together to bnuild this leaf tower! Mrs Ash and Mr Westwell were so impressed with how nicely the children were playing together that every team got a gold team point and every child got their name on the wow wall!
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NO PENS DAY - Wednesday 27th November
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 - This week, we will be looking at words ending with ing and ed in our spelling lessons. Our spelling words to learn are listed below and these will be tested on Thursday. As homework, each child should log into SpellingFrame and complete this weeks test using the link below.
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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 3 times table.
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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 planned our class folk tale based on The Lancashire Giant. We shared our ideas and changed some of the details from the original story. We have used this plan to start writing our own versions of the story. So far, we have used expanded noun phrases to describe the setting and inverted commas for direct speech when characters are having a conversation.
Maths
In maths this week, we have been working on division. We have used bead strings to help us divide a number into groups and count how many groups there are.
Science
This week, we have been learning how to stay safe in the sun in our science lesson. We used our new knowledge to design sun safety posters.
Have a look at our gallery to see what we have been up to in our school council elections.
Have a fantastic weekend!
The Year 3 team
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