Year 3 Friday 15th October 2021

Date: 13th Oct 2021 @ 9:12am

Year 3 Friday Blog

This week we have chosen our School Councillors, Digital Leaders and Eco Team. Henry and Eleanor will represent our class on the School Council, Zofia and Elliott will be our Digital leaders for this term and our Eco Team is made up of Tom, Daenerys and Joshua. Well done and thank you to everyone who showed an interest.

In our English we have continued reading Mr Stink and used the text to create some fantastic pieces of writing. We also explored techniques in poetry and wrote some amazing poems.

In our maths learning we have been learning geometry, length and measurement. We met some new vocabulary and had a good go at accurately drawing a range of shapes and measuring. 

millimetre    centimetre   metre     right angle     quadrilateral     height       width

In science, we excavated our bones and examined the fossils left behind. We discussed how they were formed and similarities and differences with real fossils.

On Friday we explored our grounds in our woodland learning. We created some leave prints and used natural materials to create our own contructions, making links to our Stone Age learning.

Home Practice

First of all we'd like to say a huge well done to everyone for all their practising last week. We are seeing huge improvements in both our spellings and times tables and increasing numbers on our Sumdog challenges. Continue to access your challenges and look out for rewards in your Sumdog bank.

We are also seeing great progress in all our reading groups. You are clearly reading lots at home. Keep it up!

Below we have added some question stems we use in school to promote reading comprehension.

Continue to access the challenges and competitions on Sumdog. Do a little everyday to build up number and spelling accuracy. 

The spelling pattern we are learning this week is the -el ending.

tunnel

squirrel

travel

towel

tinsel

hazel

vowel

angel

jewel

parallel

Your Sumdog spelling challenge will include words with both -le and -el endings. 

Our maths focus this week has been on shape and measure. You have two competitions this week. One on the x2 and x5 times tables and one on shape and measure. Over 70% of the class have practised on Sumdog for over an hour. Well done!

An hour a week = less than 10 minutes a day!

Play Hit the Button to improve speed and fluency in times tables and number facts.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 team

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