Year 3 Friday 1st October 2021

Date: 1st Oct 2021 @ 1:09pm

Year 3

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had an amazing week of learning in Year 3. Everyone is showing a brilliant attitude to everything we do and we are very impressed!

We have finished reading The Twits now and can’t wait to start reading Mr Stink by David Walliams next week. We loved writing about The Twits and have been improving our writing by including inverted commas (speech marks) and by writing in paragraphs.

 Everyone is trying their best to improve their writing. Amazing effort everyone!

In our maths we looked at adding and subtracting 10s and 100s from three digit numbers. We found this tricky but nobody gave up. Super resilience Year 3! Check out Sumdog for your maths challenge to practise these skills. Well done to everyone for their practise last week. 

This week we have continued learning about The Stone Age and learnt some great facts about the Palaeolithic period and early human life. We had some great questions and had an interesting discussion on transport, food, shelter and clothes.

In computing, we learnt how to to debug algorithms to help Scrat find to his nut. Super problem solving and teamwork. 

• Algorithm - A list of steps to finish a task.
• Bug - Part of a program that does not work correctly.
• Debugging - Finding and fixing problems in an algorithm or program.

In Science we have been looking at different types of rocks and learning how fossils are made. We learnt that fossils can only be found in sedimentary rocks.

Fab Fact! - Sedimentary rocks are formed over millions of years from sediments (bits of other rocks and remains of plants or animals).

I wonder if we will be able to find any while we are out and about?

Home Practice

On Sumdog we have set three challenges. Well done to everyone who went on last week. We could see how all the practise is helping with understanding in our lessons.

The spellings this week all have the /j/ sound spelt –ge at the end of words.

 Carriage       Challenge        Change        Village       Arrange    

  Range      Orange      Courage    Stage

You can practise these spellings on Sumdog.

Continue to read to someone every night for at least 20 minutes.

Remember -  We will change the books whenever you need a new one.

Your maths challenges are on the 5 times table and adding and subtracting ones, tens and hundreds to/from a three digit number.

10 minutes Sumdog practise every night will improve number fluency and understanding.

You will be tested on your spellings and 5x times tables on Tuesday 5^th Make sure you practise every night.

You can also practise your number facts by playing Hit the button. Its a great game for improving speed and number fluency.

Have a fantastic weekend

The Year 3 Team