Year 3 Friday 8th October 2021

Date: 8th Oct 2021 @ 1:14pm

Welcome to your Friday catch up.

We have had an amazing week in Year 3. We have seen everyone make a huge effort and on Friday the whole class got to GOLD! Mrs Wood even dropped by to award us a gold award. Well done Year 3!

We have started reading our new class novel in English. We are reading Mr Stink by David Walliams. We are really enjoying it so far and have been picking up some good vocabulary and writing techniques. We have loved creating our own character and writing our own story in the style of David Walliams. 

In our maths we have been using our number lines to add two 2-digit numbers and bridging through the next 10. It was a new strategy but everyone has enjoyed the challenge and made great progress!

All our counting practice has really helped the children with their maths learning this week.

Remember to practise counting often at home.

Counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s.

Counting forwards and backwards in 10s from any number.

We will add a counting challenge on Sumdog this week as well. Do as much as you can. Every little helps.

In PSHE we have been talking about how to be a good friend to everybody and also about persevering with our learning when things get tricky.

We learned that when things are tricky and we make mistakes, the neurons in our brain get stronger and make connections. We love a challenge.

We have finished our RE topic on Homes. We celebrated our learning by reflecting on the work we have done and thinking about our family and our homes. Some of the children did a fantastic job at planning this celebration. 

In our science we created our own fossils and talked about how fossils are formed over thousands of years. We had some fantastic questions. Super science Year 3!

We have loved seeing you bring in your books on Rocks and the Stone Age and showing such enthusiam for your learning. This week we were lucky enough to receive a library loan of books on our history and science topics. We can't wait to read them all! We are going to read these books during quiet reading time after lunch every day next week. We love our quiet reading time, everybody is loving their book and it is a nice relaxing time. 

Home Practice

Reading

Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read.

Maths

Please practise the following skills for Maths – even if you already know them, you need to be quick. Hit The Button

• Number facts, click on Doubles – Doubles to 10.
• 5x table, click on Times tables – x5.

On Sumdog we have set 3 maths competitions this week.

Number Facts

Counting

Addition and Subtraction

There is no limit on the amount of questions. Do as many you can on each challenge.

Spellings

The spellings this week all have the /ul/ sound spelled –le at the end of words.

Words ending in ‘le’ are usually pronounced /ul/ following a consonant.

This is the most common spelling of this sound at the end of words.

table     apple     bottle     little     middle   

bubble     uncle     horrible     possible     impossible

You will be tested on your spellings and 5x times tables on Tuesday 12th October. Make sure you practise every night.

Our spelling and tables tests are a check on how well the children are learning their spellings. It is still important to keep practising every night, even after the tests on Tuesday. It is wonderful when we use the spellings we have been learning in our writing. 

Have a great weekend!

The Year 3 team.