We have had another busy week in Year 3 and everyone has been working extremely hard.

In English, we focused on two of our main tool kits for this unit of work on Characterisation. The first toolkit at the start of the week, enabled us to explore how we could record the dialogue in a story through using inverted commas (speech marks), a reported clause (how the character said it) and the actions they were doing at the point of the story.  From Wednesday, we moved onto our second toolkit that focuses on similes, and we started to work on appropriate compassions for these types of sentences. We will continue with this next week.

In Maths, we have been working on hundreds, tens and ones, this will continue into the start of next week, with a further focus on calculations involving 100, 10 or 1 more or less than a given 3-digit number.

For our foundation subjects we have looked at biological, chemical and physical weathering in Science, and the impact this has on different types of rock.

In Art, we practised cross-hatching to shade our sketches of a mammoth skeleton, and in History, we shone a light on the prehistoric settlement of Skara Brae, which dates back over 5000 years and is located on the Orkney Islands in Scotland.

Home Learning

Doodle - Please continue to support your child’s learning by accessing the Doodle Learning platform and remaining in the green zone.  It is checked every Friday.

Reading - Your child’s book changing day is written on the front of their reading records, and this is when we will be checking to see if they have had these signed and dated at least five times to earn their star stamp for the week.  Please could you support this by encouraging your child to read at least five times during the week, and make sure they bring their reading books and records into school each day.  

To complement the work we are doing in English, if your child spots a simile sentence in their reading book, please could this be written down on post it note and brought into school next week.  I would love to celebrate their finds and skilled detective work at spotting one of our focus toolkits!

Spellings - For the next few weeks, we will be recapping a number of the Year 2 spelling rules to ensure these are fully embedded.  This week’s focus will be on suffix endings and the words to practise with your child, both in isolation as well as writing them in a sentence, are as follows:

 cried,  waved,  rising,  helping,  walking,  slower,  oldest,  fastest

Next Week:

On Wednesday 1^st October, we have our Harvest Festival at St. Mary's church.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Mrs Collett