Year 3 Blog Friday 24th February 2023

Date: 24th Feb 2023 @ 1:34pm

Welcome back to your Friday Blog

Thank you all for coming to our parents evenings this week. The children have been very proud to show off all their amazing learning this year.

In our English this week we have been acting as characters in the story and writing some accounts of their experiences on the road to Jo'burg so far. Everyone is working hard to improve their writing. Well done Year 3!

In Maths we have finished our fractions learning and next week we will be learning new division strategies. We have been learning to find fractions of amounts and solve word problems with these. It has been tricky! This week we have set a Sumdog challenge to get ready for your learning next week.

In PE we have been learning how to play a new sport, handball.  We have used our skills from our invasion games learning earlier in the year and have enjoyed the new challenge. We have also started our gymnastics topic with Mrs Wood. This week we practiced some balances and animal travels. It was good fun. Over the next few weeks we will be perfecting our gymnastic skills and creating our own routines.

In our Geography learning we explored climate zones in Africa and used atlases to find out what the different climate zones were. We learned some great new vocabulary too!

temperate    tropical      desert       grassland / savannah

In Music we have been continuing learning our Egyptian songs, exploring rhythm with our percussion instruments and using glocks to improvise our own compositions. Have a look at our gallery here.

Home Practice

Continue to read your school books and have a go with your questioning. Practising these skills will ensure your children continue to improve as readers.

On your Sumdog challenges this week we arae looking at division to get ready for next week's learning. We have also shown the children how to access the training and tables practice features.

Another great app for practising your number facts is one minute maths by the White Rose Maths team. It is free to download from the AppStore and PlayStore. 

Your spellings this week are all homophones. Have a good go at learning them and using them in context.

there     their       they're       bury      berry        break      brake    to      too       two

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 team