Welcome to Year 3
Last week in literacy we wrote letters to Mrs Baron to try and persuade her for a trip to the cinema to see a film based on one of our favourite films.
This was a great task for the children and really enhanced their informative letter and persuasive writing skills.
Mrs Baron was extremely impressed with the children’s writing.
In literacy this week we will be writing persuasive speeches and at the end of the week we will use them for an in class debate!
In numeracy we will be learning about the duration of time e.g. how many minutes in one hour, hours in a day etc.
However it won’t be as simple as that, we will be working out 1/4 of an hour, how many hours in 3/4 of a day etc.
Please practise duration of time at home.
In RE we are learning about how rules help us to live together and get along.
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This week in literacy we will be learning about different uses of persuasive language.
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In maths we will be adding and subtracting length, mass and capacity using different methods including column method and mental methods.
Please remember homework is due every Wednesday.
Kind regards,
Year 3 team.
This week in literacy we will be composing shape poems! We are excited to see what the children can come up with.
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In maths we will be learning about equivalent fractions and how to order fractions in size.
This can be a difficult concept as if the denominator is larger, then the fraction is smaller.
However if the denominator is the same, you order by the numerator. Please practise this at home.
I would just like to say how fantastic Spetses class were on the school trip. We were definitely the best behaved school there and the children were able to answer so many questions in our session about earthquakes and volcanoes. They made Mrs Cini and myself very proud.
Have a lovely week,
Year 3 team.
Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely Easter!
This week in literacy we will be learning about calligrams and writing some of our own.
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In numeracy we will be interpreting data and statistics from different sources such as bar charts.
Please do not forget the school trip for Zakynthos is on Tuesday and for Spetses it is on Friday.
The children need to arrive in school on time and please do not forget their packed lunch.
Have a lovely week,
Miss Sandberg and Mr Beverloo.
This week we will be covering the days of Holy Week leading up to Easter.
The children will be making booklets about Holy Week and learning a different story every day.
In numeracy we will be doing numeracy challenges to see how well the children have done this term.
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These will be the last spellings given this term.
Have a lovely week.
This week in literacy we will be basing our learning around our guided reading story, ‘How to train a dragon’.
For our literacy learning, we will be focusing on writing instructions, therefore we will be writing instructions on how to catch a dragon and how to look after a pet dragon.
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In numeracy we will be focusing on dividing 2 digit numbers by one digit numbers. Please practise the division facts for the times tables learnt so far. This is a hard concept to understand so the more support the better.
In RE we will be learning about Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday to start our learning for Easter.
Please ensure all home learning is returned every Wednesday and that reading books are changed often.
Kind regards,
Miss Sandberg and Mr Beverloo.
This week in literacy we will be writing our own stories based around the Trojan horse. We will be focusing on using dialogue in story writing and therefore using inverted commas.
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In numeracy we will be focusing on multiplication and also creating bar charts.
Please ensure you are practising times tables daily at home as it really does support their learning in numeracy. We have a weekly times table challenge in class and the children that do well get a real boost in their confidence.
Please remember home learning is due every Wednesday and books should be changed daily unless they are a long story.
Kind regards,
Miss Sandberg and Mr Beverloo.
This week in literacy we will be writing stories based around the legend of the Trojan Horse, inspired by our new outside equipment.
We will also be starting a new story, ‘How to train a dragon your dragon’ for our guided reading lessons. The children are very excited about this.
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In numeracy this week we will be multiplying one digit numbers by two digit numbers and we will be using different methods such as column method to do so.
Have a fantastic week!
Miss Sandberg and Mr Beverloo
Welcome back!
We hope you had a lovely half term.
This week in literacy we will be finishing our narrative poems and we will be learning how to correctly use inverted commas.
In numeracy we will be learning how to double numbers to 100 and we will be learning how to use a Venn diagram.
In RE will will be learning about Clean Monday and the children will fly their kites.
Please click the following link for the spellings.
Have a fantastic week!
Mr Beverloo and Miss Sandberg.
This week in literacy we will be comparing legends to fairy tales and myths, looking at the similarities and differences.
In numeracy we will be learning how to identify horizontal, vertical, parallel and perpendicular lines.
We will also be finding unit fractions of a number e.g. what is 1/4 of 20.
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Please revise these at home with your children, it is a real boost in confidence for them if they get 10 out of 10.
Our times table challenge will now be every Monday afternoon. Please ask your children what tables they will be tested on.
Remember, swimming is every Wednesday so please be punctual and on time to school.
Have a fantastic week!
Miss Sandberg and Mr Beverloo.