It has been another great week in Year 3, and we have really enjoyed delving further into our foundation subjects, as well as exploring other elements of our writing tool kit.

In English, the children were challenged to combine three of the main toolkits into a one paragraph. They were required to combine the following elements:  dialogue ensuring they used inverted commas (speech marks), a reported clause (how the character said it) and the actions the character was doing, a simile, and ‘show don’t tell’, which involves using vocabulary to indicate how the character is feeling without naming the emotion.  We will continue to work on the remainder of our toolkits and extending our creative writing skills next week.

In Maths, we have been working on calculations involving 100, 10 or 1 more or less than a given 3-digit number. We then moved onto looking at intervals of 20, 50 and 100 on a number line up to 1000; either identifying the missing numbers or estimating what these could be based on their position on the line. Next week we will be completing our unit on Place Value and moving onto Addition & Subtraction.

For our foundation subjects we have looked at erosion in Science, carrying out our own experiment to test the permeability of 3 types of rock.

In Art, we continued exploring our topic on cave art and took the opportunity to reflect on our own work in our sketchbooks, and the techniques we have learnt so far.

In History, we examined the Bronze Age and how it brought significant advancements that improved life for people in prehistoric times.

Home Learning

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

Please do let me know if you are having any issues with accessing this program at home.

Reading -   Please continue hear your child read at least five times during the week, and sign and date when you listen to them in their reading records, so that they can earn their next star stamp.

Spellings -  This week’s focus will continue to be on suffix endings.  Below are words to practise with your child, both in isolation as well as writing them in a sentence:

friendly,  hopeful,  amazement,  fearless,  thoughtful,  replied,  brightly,  cleverly

Change maker project -  We are really looking forward to seeing the wonderful activities your child has been working on from the ‘Friendship’ value section.

Please continue supporting them as they collect and record evidence of their chosen activity.

There is still just over a week left to complete the challenge, and we will be awarding special stickers for completed activities during the week before half term.  

Finally, please could I kindly ask for donations of boxes of tissues; we have a number of runny noses as we enter the autumn season – Many thanks!

Wishing you all a lovely weekend

Mrs Collett