Literacy: This week we have been learning about including new and exciting vocabulary in our sentences.  The children have learnt a new ‘type’ of sentences to use at home – the 2A sentence (2 adjective sentence). Each sentence has 2 adjectives before the first noun and then 2 adjectives before the second noun.  This type of sentence creates a vivid image in the readers minds!

Examples:  The tall, awkward giraffe meandered through the dense, fragrant forest.

There was a grumpy, motionless monkey hiding in the overgrown, mossy tree.

Maths: Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. The children have been using place value grids to move the places of the digits when multilpying and dividing.  Avoid language such as ‘adding or taking away a zero’ as this will cause confusion later on in their mathematical learning with decimals.

RE: We have talked this week about the differences between ‘hearing’ and ‘listening’.  How do we know we are listening to God?

Online – abacus, Mymaths and bugclub

It is not expected for children to do all of these activities by Friday; just some helpful pointers if required 🙂

Regards

Year 3 Team

Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you a happy new year.  All of the team in Year three were very spoilt by the children before christmas with all of the lovely gifts that we recieved.  We were very appreciative of your generosity. We hope the children enjoyed their hot chocolates drinks over the festive period.

We have been very impressed with the way the children have come back into school after the christmas break.  They all seem very keen to get started on the Rainforest topic for this half term.  Please see below a copy of the pyramid which will be coming out this week for the children to get started with. Don’t forget about bug club, abacus and my maths too 🙂

An addition point to note – Year three had the top attendance overall last term so well done Hippos and Lions!

Year Three team

This week Year Three have been asked to help Father Christmas with lots of different problems!

First of all Father Christmas had some issues with his reindeer pens and needed to work out the perimeter of them to fit into his field. Luckily the children were very good at working out the perimeter of the pens and were happy to help straight away.

Then Father Christmas asked us to help him measure out the liquids needed for his potions to give him invisibility and to help the reindeers fly! The children entered the potion making lab and again were more than happy to help Father Christmas out.

Well done Year Three, your super maths skills have really helped Father Christmas out!

Reminder: next Tuesday Year Three will be taking part in the Christmas Carol service at Sacred Heart Church in Waterlooville. The concert starts at 10:15 but we are still in need of parent helpers to walk us to the church. If you would like to help out, please write a note in your child’s diary and be at school on Tuesday to leave at 9am. Hope to see you there!

The Shadow Puppet Shows have been completed…Hurrah! Well done to all the children who worked so hard creating the playscripts and the puppets to go along with them.

Unfortunately, at the present time, we are having difficulty uploading examples onto the blog. We will, however, be watching these shows in class over the next couple of weeks!

We have moved on from the Playscripts in Literacy onto our Poetry unit. We are enjoying sharing a range of poetry and exploring language. This topic will continue for the next two weeks.  We have also started to explore the use of light and darkness through Art and thought about the symbolism of the use of Light and Dark in paintings of Religious scenes.

On Friday, Year 3 had a visit from Winchester Museum.  We were learning about what colours we can see in a shadow. We made predictions about which colours we thought might show up. Some of  us thought yellow or green or blue.  We made shadow puppets in groups and stuck the coloured paper on the front.  We realised that the coloured paper didn’t show up on the shadows created by the shadow puppets because the card blocked out all of the light.

Today we started to think about which materials to use to create our shadow puppets.  We discovered that coloured plastic did create a colour shadow and that we could create new colours by putting two pieces of coloured plastic together such as yellow and blue to create green.  We also decided that card was the best material to use for creating our shadow puppets because it gave a clear shadow and was a strong material so would not go floppy.

Could you please bring in any spare cardboard tomorrow so the children can create their shadow puppets this week.

Thank you

Year 3 team

Maths

Some children have already completed the abacus Maths game following on from the fraction work that the children have been completing in class.

We have been talkiing to the children about how the fraction needs to be split into equal parts.  Have a look at these websites to help the children consolidate this idea. 🙂

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=Fractionsv7

Spellings.

The children have been learning their words for this week using rainbow writing. I’m sure the children would love to share this experience with you at home.

Literacy

We are nearly ready to start writing our Playscript based on the story of the Gruffalo.  Over the next few weeks we will be changing this into a shadow puppet show for the Reception children to enjoy! We’re looking forward to this.

Topic

Don’t forget we have Intech visiting on Friday to teach us all about shadows and how they are formed!

Year 3 team

‘Top Marks Maths’ website is a great resource for playing online games with your children at home.

Try playing this game everyday for a couple of minutes to see if the children can improve their rapid recall of the times tables facts.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Year 3 and 6 had a lovely time at the church this morning.  The weather held off thankfully and we even had some sunshine as we walked. Father Kevin gave us a tour of the Church and talked about the different symbols in the Church.  Our Mass today was called ‘Prayers’. Well done to all of the readers today and to all of the children for their beautifully singing along to the hymns.

Another huge thank you to all of the parents who came along with us today. We hope you enjoyed our Mass as much as we did.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 3 Team

Thank you to all of the volunteers who have offered their services with walking to the church tomorrow morning.  If you are walking with the children in the morning, please arrive in school at 9:20am as we will be leaving the school at 9:30am.  You are welcome to wait at school after dropping off your child until this time.

If you are meeting us at the church for the service, it will be starting at 10:45am.  Please arrive at the church for this time.

We will be back to school by lunchtime and so lunch will continue as normal.

Year 3 team

Winchester Science Museum Visit for Year 3 and 4

Dear Parents/Carers,

On Friday 21^st November, the children will be lucky enough to have a visit from a specialist Science teacher from Winchester Science Museum.  She will be spending the morning with the Year 4 children who will be taking part in the ‘Sounds interesting’ workshop.  In the afternoon, she will be working with the Year 3 children on the ‘lights and shadows’ workshop.

In both workshops, the children will be able to have a hands on experience using the resources provided by Winchester Science Museum. The workshops are designed to be investigative and will support the curriculum covered this term in both Year groups.

We would be grateful for a contribution of £2.00 for your child’s workshop.  If you are able to pay online this would be greatly appreciated as this is a more secure way of paying.  If not, please send your contribution into your child’s class teacher in a named envelope.

Year 3