What a jam-packed week we have had in Year 3! We have created fossils, invited visitors from Monkton Nature Reserve into our classrooms and so much more!

Guided Reading

This week we have been continuing looking at the book ‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura. We have focused on answering questions about the text, clarified information that was in the text, acted out scene from the book and answered questions on a poem linked to the Stone Age. In Reading for Pleasure this week, we read Stone Age recipes!

English

Using the book ‘Stone Age Boy’, we focused this week on writing different sentence types to create an information text. This week we have looked at writing compound sentences using conjunctions such as so, and, but, because. We later looked at complex sentences. We learnt about a main clause and a minor clause. We used this sentence learning to writing information sentences about the Stone Age.

Maths

In Maths this week we have been focus on Addition by using the column method. We reminded ourselves of our Year 2 learning ensuring we kept the correct digits in the correct column. We practised column method and then used this learning to solve tricky addition problems.

Next week in Maths we will be beginning to look at subtraction using a number line to find the difference.

Fact of the week

Next week, the fact of the week is 5X2=10 and 2X5=10.

 

 

Thematic

We have had an exciting week this week in Thematic learning all about fossils! We started the week by inviting a visitor into our classrooms to tell us all about a variety of fossils, how they are created, where we find them and how precious they are.

We then used this learning to investigate the process of fossils in more detail. We created our own storyboard to show this process.

Home Learning

For this week home learning, we would like you to focus on number bonds!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button this link will take you to a game called Hit The Button!

Challenge 1 – Number bonds to 10

Challenge 2 – Number bonds to 20

Challenge 3 – Number bonds to 100

Harvest information

Later this term, we will be celebrating Harvest. As part of this, we would like to invite families in to watch our Harvest Assembly. These will take place in the school hall on the following dates:

Tuesday 1st October: 9am Year R and 1 and 2.45pm Year 2 and 3

Wednesday 2nd October: 9am Year 4 and 5 and 2.45pm Year 6

Please enter the school via the main school office.

As part of the celebrations, we will also be collecting food that we will be donating to Thanet Food Bank. We will be taking donations between Wednesday 25th September and Monday 30th September. If you are able to donate, the food bank accepts any tinned, jarred or packet foods that are in date. As a celebration of the donations all children will be entered into a draw to win last years' celebration teddy bears, Kenneth and Susan.

Other News

- Year 3 children should be reading 4x weekly. Please ensure you are reading with your child as much as possible to support them in their reading progress and make a note of this in their Reading Record.

- AR and TTRS information should be with you by the end of this week. AR and TTRS now have matching logins, you children will be provided with these shortly.

- Read at 3 will be happening every Friday in the Year 3 classrooms.

Dates to remember

Friday 27th September – Reading and Writing in Reception parents meeting at 2.45pm in school hall

Tuesday 1st October – 2.45pm Year 2 and 3 Harvest assembly for parents

Saturday 5th October – Cross Country

Tuesday 8th October – Flu vaccines

Friday 11th October – Fancy dress Disco Year 1, 2 and 3 from 3.15-4.15pm and Year 4, 5 and 6 4.30pm-5.30pm (Reception do not join us for this disco, as they can find it a little overwhelming)

Thursday 24th October – Parents invited into look at children’s books at 3.15pm

Friday 25th October – Inset day – School closed to children