Year 3 2018 to 2019
Welcome to Year 3 Teacher: Miss Cull TA: Mrs Millington
Summer 2 Newsletter
Dear Parents/Carers,
Wow! We are in the final half term of this year! How quickly the time seems to have gone. This half term is a very busy one with sports days, our school trip , the express event and transition week.
I am excited to see all the RE challenge home learning that has been completed over the break!
Dates for your diary
Year 3 School Trip to Danelaw Monday 17th June
Express Event Wednesday 26th June AM
Sports Day Thursday 4th July
Transition Week Monday 8th July
This half term we will complete our learning around the topic Tribal Tales, we are moving a little further along the historical timeline and learning about the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Well done to the lucky winner of the Term 5 Reading challenge, James, who picked a fantastic new book to take home. In the run up to Summer it would be nice to see children taking responsibility for filling in their reading records, but this needs your support in order to get them into a good routine.
In Maths this half term we continue building on our understanding of Time and then finish the term off by exploring capacity and mass. The Key Instant Recall facts for this term are facts based on the 8 times table. Please remember to support your children in accessing times tables rock stars in order to practice their instant recall.
In English, we will be writing adventure narratives based on our learning of the Stone Age and focusing on using target grammar and ambitious vocabulary to engage our readers.
As during the previous term, PE is on Mondays. Please make sure that children bring their kit on Monday and take it home at the weekend. As well as this we will be continuing the Daily Mile every afternoon.
Miss Cull and Mrs Millington
Year 3 Homelearning
Homelearning will be issued on Thursdays.
Children will be expected to complete:
- Spelling Shed activity https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login
- Times Tables Rockstar activity https://ttrockstars.com/login
- Read to an adult at least three times a week- Remember to log this and bring your sheet back on Thursdays.
- Continue to learn the Key Instant Recall Facts for Summer 2 which are based on the 8 times tables.
26/06/19 Thank you for everyone who came to support our express event! We really enjoyed teaching you all about Prehistoric times!
17/06/19 our trip to Murton Park for a Prehistoric Day
12/06/19 For Healthy Living week we made healthy blueberry teacakes, combining this with our maths topic, learning about mass
24/05/19 OUTDOOR LEARNING DAY- We used natural materials in Walt's Wood to create sun dials to explore Time using roman numerals
23/05/19 OUTDOOR LEARNING DAY -We combined PE skills and maths to practice estimating and timing activities using seconds
14/05/19 We used our imaginations and geographical skills to re-create a Stone Age dig. Can you guess what we found?
01/05/19 Art and Design- We created cave art using pastilles, charcoal and chalk to represent hunters and animals from the Neolithic period
Tribal Tales Topic Home Learning- Look at the fantastic projects we did with our grownups at home to engage in our new topic
11/04/19 Innovate: We created our own decorated Pandora's boxes and filled them with good intentions. We also designed and made Greek theater masks and made still frames from the Pandora's Box Legend.
09/04/19 DMBC Big Litter Pick- Learning about contributing to society in a positive way
03/04/19 Thank you to all of the grown ups who came to support us at the Express Event, we had a lovely morning and there were lots of fantastic presentations by the children.
Our learning for Spring Topic
We asked children from Karori West Normal School in Wellington, New Zealand, some of our questions about earthquakes, they were kind enough to send us videos of their answers
21/03/19 Active Travel's Tom came in to do an art session with us. We designed posters and squished, rolled, folded and pressed coloured clay into fantastic hub caps for our bikes!
15/03/19 To celebrate Red Nose Day we learned how to say different colours in Spanish!
12/03/19
Shaheed Sayed from the local Islamic centre visited Year 3. We enjoyed learning about 'Hajj' and being a Muslim.
07/03/19 World Book Day- We visited Reception children to read with them
06/03/19 Celebrating Shrove Tuesday...On Ash Wednesday! Just in time for Lent
04/03/19 RE Home Learning Challenges
07/02/19 Today we used our Identifying, Classifying and Grouping science enquiry skills while looking at different types of rocks
06/02/19 These last two weeks we have been learning about money in Maths and about Ancient Roman Coins!
5/02/19 Happy New Year: 新年快乐 (xīn nián kuài lè)
This is some of the brilliant home learning that we did over the christmas holidays to support our new topic!
30/01/19 As Golden Time reward for 100% attendence last week; Year 3 chose to do baking. They made some delicious-looking shortbread cookies. I hope they shared them with everyone at home!
22/01/19 This week our ENGAGE activity was following some tricky instructions to assemble paper models of volcanos to learn all about their insides.
21/01/19 Year 3 had a fantastic and inspiring session with author Peter Murray
15/01/19 This week our ENGAGE activity was constructing and making volcanos that we then watch erupt! Everybody worked really well together!
14/01/19 In RE this morning we discovered luggage of all shapes and sizes in the classroom...But who does it belong to?!
5/12/18 Thank you to all the adults who came to support us at our Express Event!
30/11/18 We dissected lillies to learn about the different parts and how they function
Lest We Forget
06/11/18 Well Done to everyone who took on the RE learning challenges for over the half term!
22/10/18 Today we did some super outdoor science learning! We observed and recorded our findings from looking at owl pellets.
15/10/18 Wow listen to our Spanish!
