As we come to the end of week 2 back at school, Year 3 have certainly got straight back into the swing of things. We have had our first music lesson back with Mr Redwood, Sports Slam and we have also started our French learning.
Maths
This week we have been learning how to add on a blank number line, we used our knowledge of partitioning from last week to help us. Next week, we will be continuing to develop our knowledge of addition and look at adding 2 digit numbers without regrouping.
TTRS – this week we have sent home usernames and the new passwords for TTRS (these are the same for Accelerated Reader). Ideally, children should aim to play for 5-10 minutes each day, the expectation is that by the end of Year 3 children will know the 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8 times tables. TTRS is designed to be a fun way of learning times tables. TTRS is broken down into 8 game types.
Gig – this creates a heatmap to show times tables knowledge up to 12x12
Garage – this is a teacher set times tables game. Please complete this at home.
Jamming – a game to develop times tables confidence
Studio - games the are aimed at motivating (how many can you do in a set time etc) after 10 games this will give a rock status.
Festival and Arena – you can compete against other children from other schools
Rock Slam – you can choose to challenge anyone from within the school (adults and children)
English
In English this week, we have looked at different sentences types and how to punctuate them, we have explored statement, question and exclamation sentence. To help us write our exclamation sentences we created our own cave painting, we went under our tables so it felt like we were in a cave. We created some great work. Next week, we will be writing our own Non-fiction text about food in the Stone Age.
Thematic
This week, we have started to learn about the Stone Age, we have learnt that because the Stone Age lasted for millions of years, it was broken into 3 main parts the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic eras and we also found out that all that we know about the Stone Age is based on the clues that have been found. Next week we will begin to explore the science of our Prehistory Rocks topic, we will learn about how to group different types of rock, how fossils are formed and what soil is made up of.
Home Learning
This week we would like you to create a tool like that of the Stone Age, remember they mainly used natural materials like wood and stone.
Some spellings to practice – floor, door, because, poor and find
Term 1 Dates for the Diary
16th September – Year 3 special visitor
17th September – Meet and greet for years 3 and 4 from 8.45am-9am in your child’s classroom. This is an opportunity to meet your child’s teaching team and get to hear about what to expect in the year ahead
25th September – Chilton School’s 50th Birthday (please see separate letters for details on how we will be celebrating this)
26th September – Thrive coffee morning 9am-10.30am in the studio – a chance to meet our well-being team
6th October – Year 3 trip to Pegwell (more information to follow)
7th October –2.45pm Year 3 Harvest assembly
17th October – Final day of term
