Year 3 Friday Blog 6th January 2023

Date: 6th Jan 2023 @ 12:21pm

Welcome back to your Friday Blog and a Happy New Year!

This week everyone has settled back into school really well, ready for a busy term of exciting learning.

In our English this week, we finished the Post Box Mystery by Robert Swindells. It had a very exciting ending and we wrote our own newspaper article, reporting on the alien incident. On Friday we had a go at word processing these and publishing them onto our proud wall. Well done Year 3! Next week we will start our new novel, The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo.

In Maths we have continued learning about telling the time, this time in one minute intervals. This is always a tricky concept to learn and it takes a lot of practice to get it right. Here is the online resource we used this week if you want to have a look at home.

In our PSHE we started our families topic. We read the classic story Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and discussed what makes a family special.

We also continued our Geography topic, looking at physical geography of the North West of England. We used digital maps to explore the region and found lakes, rivers, hills, forests and much more.

Home Practice

Continue to read every night for at least 15 minutes. The regular reading you have been doing is showing in the progress your children have been making in all areas of the curriculum!

This week we have been learning how to use adverbs in our writing. Your spellings this week are

loudly    quietly      carefully     sadly       quickly       slowly      

  happily      bravely       slowly    clearly              

We have sent home some times tables practise booklets to have a go at as well as the Sumdog challenges. Do what you can. Regular practice will help your children achieve fluency in their number facts.

Have a lovely weekend!

The Year 3 Team