Year 3: Blog items

Year 3 Home Learning 13th November 2020

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 7:57am

Friday 13^th November 2020

Good morning Year 3. Today is Children in Need Day, so wear something spotty if you have anything. I am going to spend the day in my Pudsey Onesie.

Well done to everybody who completed yesterday’s Home Learning. So far 15 of you have started the Sumdog challenge which was set yesterday – well done and keep it up.

Please keep all of the work that you complete during these 2 weeks and bring it into school when we go back on 24^th November.

Get active

This year, BBC Children in Need have made children’s mental wellbeing their number one priority. Watch this video where Joe Wicks helps us to get active in order to feel good.

https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/schools/primary-school/five-to-thrive-hub/be-active/

Afterwards, spend some time being active. You could do some of Joe Wicks’ exercises.

Another idea is to ‘act your age.’ This means, take your age (or the age of people you live with) and use it in your activity – it might be that you do something for 7 or 8 minutes, or you repeat an exercise 7 or 8 times, or you jog 7 or 8 laps of your garden.

Reading

It is SO IMPORTANT to keep up with your reading EVERY DAY over the next 2 weeks.

Please read out loud to somebody at home today for 20 minutes. After each page or chapter, tell them what has happened in your own words.

Spelling

Your spellings for this week all end in ‘–il’

pencil, fossil, nostril pupil, April, gerbil, lentil, evil, basil, stencil

Make a word search with your spellings in and ask somebody at home to find them.

Here is a grid you could copy, trace or print. Or you can create your own.

Times tables

Ask somebody to time you writing out your x tables.

Repeat again throughout the day trying to get quicker each time.

Writing

Write 5 sentences about what we have read so far in Mr Stink.

Start each sentence with a conjunction:

Even though, because, while, when, after, before, so, despite.

Remember to use a comma.

Here is an example:

Because she loved to use her imagination, Chloe’s Maths book was full of stories she had made up.

Maths

Attached to this blog are some Children in Need maths sheets. Choose one to complete – you don’t have to print it, you can write your answers on paper and if you need to, draw your own pictures to colour in.

Science

I would like you to find out how fossils are made and then make something to show what you have found out – it could be a poster, leaflet, video, PowerPoint.  

Here are some useful videos.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9bbkqt/articles/z2ym2p3 - If you scroll to the bottom of the page, there is a quiz and more videos.

Year 3 Home Learning 12th November 2020

Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 11:05am

Thursday 12^th November 2020

Good morning Year 3. I hope you are all feeling happy and well. I miss you all already but we know we will be back together in 2 weeks.

Please complete the work set over the next 2 weeks so that when we are back together in 2 weeks we can carry on with all of our amazing learning in school.

Reading

It is SO IMPORTANT to keep up with your reading EVERY DAY over the next 2 weeks.

Please read out loud to somebody at home today for 20 minutes. After each page or chapter, tell them what has happened in your own words.

Spelling

Today in school you would have been tested on your spellings, so ask somebody to test you on the spellings you were given last week.

medal, petal, capital, hospital, animal, equal, final, pedal, magical, local

If there are any that you get wrong, practise them and then ask somebody to test you again.

If anybody wants an extra challenge, ask somebody to test you on some of the spellings from previous weeks. They are all on the school website on the Home Practice sheets under Year 3 Blog Items.

Times tables

Today in school you would have been tested on your x tables, so ask somebody to test you on your x tables. You all know which x table you are focussing on.

Remember in class, the questions are read out twice and in a mixed up order.

It might be fun if you then swap and you can test people at home.

Writing

In class we have been talking a lot about being positive. I really want you to stay happy and positive over the next 2 weeks.

For your writing today I want you to set yourself a small goal for each day – when we achieve our goals it makes us feel happy.

Copy and complete the table, fill in your goals, and then tick them off when you have done them.

Focus – joined up handwriting, capital letters, perfect spelling.

Here are some ideas if you struggle:

• Do 20 minutes of mindfulness or yoga from Youtube
• Read 20 pages of my book
• Write a diary
• Stay off screen all day (phone, TV, computer, IPad)
• Get up early
• Write down 5 things I am grateful for
• Clean my bedroom
• Exercise for 10 minutes
• Eat more fruit and vegetables
• Create my own workout
• Try a new type of exercise
• Go to bed early
• Learn something new
• Speak to a friend

Maths

Complete today’s Sumdog challenge.

Today I would like you to practise telling the time.

Watch the BBC video and complete the quiz at the end https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zm4k7ty/articles/zbjbbdm

After, have a look at the different clocks you can find in your house. Talk about them with somebody at home, try to tell the time at different points throughout the day – ask somebody at home to help you.

Here is a game you can have a go at; there are different levels to choose from.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time

RE and Art

This week in school is Judaism Week, where every class is learning something different about Judaism. In Year 3 our learning focus is the Jewish place of worship – the synagogue.

The synagogue is a special building where the Jewish community meet to pray, study and celebrate. If possible, synagogues are built facing in the direction of where the Temple was in Jerusalem. Jewish people often call the synagogue the shul which is a Yiddish word for school.

The outside of the synagogue might be decorated with a design of a menorah, or a six sided star, and the name of the synagogue in Hebrew letters. There are no statues or representations of the faces of people because for the Jewish people that would be going against the second of The Ten Commandments which says you must not worship images you have made.

When boys and men go into the synagogue must cover their heads. The little round hat they wear is called a kippah. Often women covered their heads too. The men often wear a tallit that is a prayer shawl over their shoulders. These are worn as a sign of respect and as a reminder of God’s presence.

Design the outside of a synagogue, remembering what you have seen and learnt.

Year 3 Home Practice 6th November 2020

Date: 5th Nov 2020 @ 7:27pm

We have had a great week back at school after Half Term. So lovely so see everybody safe and happy. 

We have started reading Mr Stink in English, we are really enjoying getting to know the characters in the book. In Maths we have been doing lots of counting and times tables. We have also been drawing base 10 symbols to help us add numbers together.

Each day we have had ‘Time To Talk.’ We have focussed on positive things and have thought about ourselves, how we see things and how we can overcome any challenges we may face.

On Thursday we enjoyed ‘Outdoor Classroom day.’ We did some orienteering by looking at symbols and a key and then using them to make silly faces out of PE equipment. We are looking forward to trying this again next week (hopefully minus the rain).

Home Practice for 6^th November – 13^th November

1. Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read. Retell it in your own words.

2. Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

Number and Addition Challenge: 6^th November – 13^th November - target 100 questions.

x tables challenge: 6^th November – 13^th November - target 100 questions.

3. Practise your x tables – you will be tested on them on Thursday 12^th November. You need to know them quickly and confidently without having to count on.

4. Spellings - you will be tested on them on Thursday 12^th November. You need to practise them every night. It is also a good idea to practise spellings from previous weeks.

The /l/ or /ul/ sound spelled ‘-al’ at the end of words.

medal, petal, capital, hospital, animal, equal, final, pedal, magical, local

The Secret Garden Competition

Date: 2nd Nov 2020 @ 3:28pm

 A new film version of  The Sectret Garden has been released. To celebrate this a competition is being run by the RHS Campaign for School Gardening and Sky. You can draw, paint, create a collage or model or even plant up a minature garden. If you would like your child to be in the competition the entry needs to be on a single sheet of A4 paper. The entry needs to include the design elements and why they have chosen them.

Please send your child's entry into school by Monday 16th November and we will send them off. 

Good luck!

Click here to find out more.

Year 3 Home Practice 23rd October 2020

Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 7:36pm

What an amazing first half term in the juniors. We have had a fantastic time and grown up so much already. We have worked hard and are ready for a well-deserved week off to rest, reflect on our learning and spend time with our families.

This week we have absolutely LOVED reading the instruction book ‘How to Wash your Woolly Mammoth.’ We wrote our own instructions and used our sense of humour to make them funny – like paint the woolly mammoth’s tusks pink and give it a foot massage.

We have been looking at 2-D shapes in Maths and have been measuring accurately using our rulers. As always, we have counted and practised our times tables every day!

We have done lots of art to make spooky pictures which we used to decorate our classroom for Friday’s Halloween themed day. We practised mixing different colours of paint, sketching and cutting out. We also got in the spirit of Halloween in our French lesson where we looked at Halloween traditions in France, read a story in French about Halloween and wrote our own sentences using the text as a model.

Well done Year 3 and thank you for such a super first half term!!! JJJ

Home Practice for 23^rd October – 6^th November

If you do the home practice for 10 minutes every day and read each night, you will really see a difference in your learning.

1. Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read. Retell it in your own words.

2. Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

Spelling Challenge: 23^rd October – 6^th November - target 250 questions.

Maths Challenge: 23^rd October – 6^th November - target 250 questions.

x tables challenge: 23^rd October – 6^th November - target 250 questions.

3. Practise your x tables – you will be tested on them on Thursday 5^th November. You need to know them quickly and confidently without having to count on.

4. Spellings - you will be tested on them on Thursday 5^th November:

The /l/ or /ul/ sound spelt ‘-el’ at the end of words.

This spelling is usually used after m, n, r, s, v, w and commonly s.

camel, tunnel, squirrel, travel, towel, tinsel, hazel, vowel, angel, jewel

5. If you want to do some writing during Half Term, you could keep a diary. Focus on capital letters, full stops, spelling, and handwriting.

Year 3 Home Practice 16th October 2020

Date: 15th Oct 2020 @ 7:38pm

We have had a wonderful week in Year 3. We have finished reading The Twits – we really enjoyed it and are excited to find out what our next books will be (it is top secret for now)!

We have been using our imagination lots in our writing to write about astronauts, glowing keys, jungles and more. Our imagination is unbeatable – so many fantastic ideas. The stories everybody wrote at home with their spellings in were amazing!

We are still focussing on counting, times tables and number facts in Maths. We have also started to look at 2-D shapes and their properties.

We combined Art with RE this week and made beautiful collages all about ourselves – which groups we belong to and promises we have made. We were amazed to realise how many different groups and clubs we are actually part of.

In PE we have been perfecting our throwing and catching skills and using different techniques to beat a defender in a game. We are really good at working together as a team, encouraging and helping each other.

In French we had our first attempt at using phonic sounds to write French words.

Home Practice for 16^th October – 23^rd October

1. Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read. Discuss the characters and what has happened to them. Predict what you think will happen next.

2. Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

Spelling Challenge: 16^th October – 23^rd October - target 100 questions.

Number and Shape Challenge: 16^th October – 23^rd October - target 150 questions.

3. Spellings:

The /l/ or /ul/ sound spelled –le at the end of words.

table, apple, bottle, little, middle, bubble, cable, uncle, ankle, circle

Use look, cover, write, check to practise.

Make a list of any other words you can think of which end with the /l/ or /l/ sound spelled -le.

Year 3 Home Practice 9th October 2020

Date: 8th Oct 2020 @ 6:33pm

Thank you for all of your amazing rock posters. We have put them up on display in our classroom and they look great. I have learnt lots of new things.

We have done a lot of hands on learning this week. We used charcoal and sand to create Stone Age cave paintings (we worked so well as a team to clean the classroom afterwards). We also did an investigation in Science where we looked at different qualities of rocks to choose which would be best for a Stone Age cutting stone (again great team work and sharing).

In Maths we have been using number lines to find missing numbers and to add numbers together. In English we have been hearing all about the monkeys and the Roly-Poly Bird in The Twits.

Friday was ‘Let’s Brighten Up a School Day.’ We focussed on all of the positive things – things we are good at and things we have in our lives that we are grateful for. It was really nice to hear how proud we all of ourselves and each other.

Home Practice for 9^th October – 16^th October

1. Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes.

2. Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

Number Challenge: 9^th October – 16^th October - target 100 questions.

X2 and x5 tables challenge: 9^th October – 16^th October – target 100 questions.

3. If you are confident enough, teach somebody at home how to use a number line to find numbers which total 100.

4. Spellings:

These are words that have an /s/ sound spelled with a ‘c’, they have an ‘e’, ‘i’ or ‘y’ after the /s/ sound.

race, ice, cell, city, fancy, lace, space, circle, circus, rice

Make up a story using all of your spellings words. It can be as silly as you like. I would love to see when you have finished.

Year 3 Home Practice 2nd October 2020

Date: 1st Oct 2020 @ 9:01pm

We have had a very creative and exciting week in Year 3.

Thursday was National Poetry Day so we read some poems with actions and lots of expression. We chose our favourite which was ‘How to Turn Your Teacher Purple’ by James Carter. We performed this poem together and made a video – this is on the school website.

On Monday we travelled back in time and did some Stone Age art (pictures to follow when we have finished). We realised how talented people were in the Stone Age using what they could find to survive and communicate.

In Maths we have been using equipment to add hundreds, tens and units, in English we are still enjoying reading The Twits and in French we have been counting to 20 focussing on the different sounds of the letters.

Home Practice for 2^nd October – 9^th October

1. Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes.

2. Practise the x2 tables –

• Play ‘Hit the button’  https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
• Ask somebody to test you on the way to and on the way back from school every day. You need to know them quickly without counting on.

3. Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenge:

Number Challenge: 2^nd October – 9^th October – target 100 questions.

4. Spellings:

gem, gym, giant, magic, giraffe, energy, digit, engine, religion, gentle

Make a word search with your spellings in, ask somebody at home to find the spellings.

5. Research and then create a poster about different types of rocks.

Visit - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9bbkqt

There are 4 learner guides and 7 class clips which you can look at.

The three types of rock you need to include are:

Igneous rock

Metamorphic rock

Sedimentary rock

Make your poster easy to read and colourful. See if you can find some really interesting facts to share with the class.

Year 3 Home Practice 25th September 2020

Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 4:51pm

Another amazing week in Year 3. 

We went outside and had our first ‘Time To Talk’ where we discussed how to be a good friend. Throughout the week we have really worked well together and have been great friends to each other. We read some more of the Twits and wrote news reports about a mysterious sighting in the sky (Mrs Twit attached to balloons). We used clues to find out what life was like in the Stone Age and sorted and compared different rocks in Science. You can see some pictures of this in the galleries. In Maths we have been using number lines to round to the nearest 10 and used equipment to make and compare numbers up to 1000. Mrs Quilliam is proud of Year 3 for their first attempt at using a French dictionary.

I am already looking forward to another great week next week!

Home Practice for 25^th September – 2^nd October

1. Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes.

2. Practise the x2 tables – listen to this song every night. Sing along and dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGWMPqh04o4&safe=active

3. Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

Number Challenge: 25^th September – 2^nd October – target 100 questions.

x2 tables: 25^th September – 2^nd October – target 50 questions.

Grammar Challenge: 25^th September – 2^nd October – target 50 questions.

4. Spellings:

age, huge, change, charge, bulge, village, range, orange, hinge, stage

Write out the spellings and stick them up somewhere you will see them every day. Use look, cover, write, check to practise your spellings.  

Year 3 Meet the Teacher

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:50pm

Year 3 Home Practice 18th September 2020

Date: 17th Sep 2020 @ 4:03pm

Happy Friday.

We have had a fantastic week in Year 3. We started reading the Twits this week and showed our cheeky side by coming up with our own prank ideas. We enjoyed some outdoor learning in the sunshine and loved painting Mr Twit’s beard. We have been trying really hard with our times tables and have been doing lots and lots of counting. We have been focussing on listening and following instructions so that we are always ready to learn J

Year 3 Home Practice

Year 3 home practice will be uploaded onto the school website every Friday. You will be tested every Thursday on the spellings and times tables.

The purpose of home learning is to practise the essential skills needed in reading, writing and maths.

Home Practice for 18^th September – 25^th September

1. Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes. Reading with an adult and discussing your reading will help you to become fluent, expressive and independent.

2. Practise the x2 tables – ask somebody at home to call out 10 questions each night in order and 10 questions each night mixed up. Hopefully by the end of the week you will be quick and won’t have to count on.

3. Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

Number Challenge - 18^th September- 25^th September – target 50 questions.

Grammar Challenge: 18^th September- 25^th September – target 50 questions.

Spelling Challenge: 18^th September- 25^th September – target 50 questions.

4. Spellings:

badge, edge, bridge, dodge, fudge, ridge, smudge, judge, wedge, lodge

Write out the spellings and stick them up somewhere you will see them every day. Practise splitting them up into chunks you can remember and writing them out in different colours each night e.g. badge, edge

Have a lovely weekend

Online Content - 10 tips to keep your children safe online

Date: 16th Sep 2020 @ 6:22pm

Monitor-Talk-Report

"In light of recent distressing content circulating on several popular social media platforms, we're reminding parents how important it is to monitor, support and talk to children about their online activities." - National Online Safety

Here are some top tips from National Online Safety on keeping children safe online when viewing content online.