Year 3 Friday Blog 28th January 2022

Date: 28th Jan 2022 @ 1:06pm

We have had an excellent week in Year 3.

A highlight for all of us was our school trip, we absolutely loved it!

We went to The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. We loved learning about forces and loved spending time experimenting and learning lots of new and exciting things! Everybody represented St Oswald's brilliantly and should feel proud of their impecible manners and behaviour. 

On Friday we wrote about our school trip in English and used persuasive language to persuade people to visit the museum. In English we have also finished reading Toro Toro, we really enjoyed this book and learnt lots of new vocabulary. We will be starting our next class novel on Monday, but it is a secret for now. 

In maths we have been learning about division, we have been using counters and drawings to help us group and share. We have also started to practise counting in 8s. We have been listening to a song to help us do this. 

Counting by Eights Song

In geography we did some map work. We used atlases to locate and talk about Scotland, the UK and Australia. We focused on these places to celebrate Burn's Night and Australia Day. We are getting really good at using an atlas. 

We also continued our mechanisms learning in DT. We are very impressed with the great listening and perseverance everyone is showing with what is some very tricky new concepts.

Here is some of our new vocabulary we have met: fixed pivot, loose pivot, lever, mechanism, input, output.

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud to somebody every night for 20 minutes. Talk about your favourite parts and why you like them.

Spellings

Your spellings this week are some of the words you need to know by the end of year 3. 

Make sure you practise a little bit every day. 

eight      caught       centre       century        heart       breath       busy        early         different         favourite

Counting

Count out loud in 4s from 0 to 48 and back again.

Count out loud in 10s from 57 to 157. 

Count back in 10s from 899 to 799. 

Times Tables

Listen to the 8x tables song on YouTube and practise counting in 8s every day. 

Sumdog

Go onto Sumdog and complete the challenges and training. 

You will be tested on your spellings and times tables on Tuesday 1st February.

Have an amazing and happy weekend!