Year 3 Friday Blog - 25.04.25

Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 3:00pm

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 a mixture of 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 started a new unit all about playscripts. We started the week by reading the script of a play called 'The Wonderful Smells' by Julia Donaldson. The children acted out scene 1 of the play in groups. We have also described the setting and characters from the play. 

Maths

This week, we have been working on our column addition and subtraction, including finding missing numbers.

Here is a tricky subtraction problem to have a go at.

Computing

In Computing this week, we have started learning about branching databases. A branching database is sorted by asking yes or no questions to filter data. 

What questions could you ask to sort these items? Try to split them in half each time you ask a question until there is only one item left.

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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