Year 3 Blog Friday 13th January 2023

Date: 12th Jan 2023 @ 4:06pm

We have had another great week in Year 3! 

In English, we have started reading The Butterfly Lion By Michael Morpurgo. We are really enjoying this book and are learning lots of new ways to write our sentences. We have been using ideas from the story and stealing some fantastic vocabulary. Well done Year 3!

In Maths we have been exploring 3D Shape. We have been lusing our mathematical vocabulary to describe our shapes (faces, edges and vertices) and used artstraws to make prisms, cubes, pyramids and lots more. We also started our new topic on place value and number this week. We have set two challenges on Sumdog, one to recap on our shape learning and one to prepare for next week's lessons on place value and subtraction.

We also started our new RE topic on Journeys. We discussed what our journey through the year looks like and what special events we look forward to. We also linked this to our PSHE learning on families. The children came up with some really thoughtful ideas about family and special times.

In Geography we started our new topic on Africa. In this topic we will be looking at three countries. Egypt, Ghana and South Africa. This week we used our atlases to locate these countries on the map and described their location using the points on the compass. We also created some new bookmarks using african prints as inspiration.

Home Practice 

Read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes, tell them all about the different characters and places in your stories.

Spellings

Practise your spellings every night. This week, your spellings have the -ness and -ment suffixes.

happiness     loudness    sloppiness     darkness    sadness    enjoyment    disappointment    excitement    improvement

Counting

Counting out loud is a great way to embed number fluency. 

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 

This week we have told the children their times table focus this week. You can use the times tables training on Sumdog and this will also pinpoint weaker areas.

In class we are continuing to practice the 8 times table. Here is a song we have been learning, with a little help from Adele.

Sumdog

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

You will be tested on your spelling and times tables next Friday. 

Have a lovely weekend.