Year 3 Blog 14th January 2022

Date: 14th Jan 2022 @ 2:10pm

We have had another great week in Year 3! 

In English, we have been reading Toro Toro. We are really enjoying this book and are learning lots of new exciting words, for example mesmerizing and entranced. We have been using these words in our writing. Our focus this week has been conjunctions and how to use them accurately. Conjunctions join two or more parts of a sentence together. They can go at the beginning or in the middle of a sentence. 

Here are some examples of conjunctions:
      after          although          as long as           because          before          even though       when       whenever       since                  unless               so                 while

We have linked our English learning to our new topic in geography which is Andalucia in Spain. Toro Toro is set in Andalucia which is a region in Spain. We have been using atlases and maps to locate and learn about Andalucia and Spain.  

Our new PSHE topic is 'What are families like?' We have been talking about our own families and have realised that there are lots of different types of families. Everybody has found it fascinating to learn about different types of families that exist in our class and around the world. 

This week we also had a session on online safety, looking at online gaming platforms and online chat.  We talked about how we shouldn't talk to people we don't know in real life and to speak to an adult if anything worries or upsets us. We know a lot of your children are accessing the chat features of Fortnite, Minecraft and Roblox. Below we have attached 3 guides for  the three mentioned platforms.

Home Practice 

Read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes, tell them all about the different characters. 

Spellings

Practise your spellings every night. This week, your spellings have the /u/ sound spelled ou. 

Here are your spellings:

touch          double          country          trouble          young          cousin          enough              encourage      flourish         couple 

Counting

Count out loud in 10s from 81 to 181.

Count out loud in 4s from 0 to 48.

Count out loud in 2s from 40 to 20. 

Times Tables 

Practise your 3 and 4 times tables this week. Go on Hit the button, Sumdog and times tables videos we have added in past blogs.

Sumdog

Access the Sumdog challenges and training. These are essential to practise what we have been learning in school. 

You will be tested on your spelling and times tables on Tuesday 18th January. 

Have a lovely weekend.

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