Year 3 Weekly News 27.1.23
We have had a brilliant week in Year 3 and really enjoyed doing some cooking! Here is what we've been up to...
Maths
This week in maths we have been adding. We began using mental maths to add 2 and 3-digit numbers. Then we used the diennes blocks to make sure we thoroughly understood what we were doing when we regroup a ten (if the ones add up to more than 9). There are some pictures of us doing this below. We finished the week using the written column method with regrouping in the ones column. Next week in maths, we will be covering mental and written methods for subtracting with regrouping.
English
In English this week we have planned and written our own suspense writing. The children have tried to use all of the skills we learnt last week that help to build suspense:
- Certain fronted adverbials e.g. without warning, in the blink of an eye, suddenly, barely able to breath, trembling with fear. Fronted adverbials start sentences and the children should place a comma after them.
- Short snappy sentences
- Exclamation marks and ellipsis (...)
- Choosing powerful verbs that help build the suspense e.g. glared, stared, crept, tiptoed, dashed, sprinted, whooshed
The children have done extremely well at using these and have produced some incredible writing this week. Next week, we will be learning about describing and inferring character and reading a new Anthony Browne booked called 'Gorilla'.
Thematic learning
In our unit called 'How our body works', this week we have been completing our Technology learning. We learnt in more detail about why we need to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables. The children then prepared apples and went to the school kitchen to stew their apples with mixed berries and sugar. We then mixed the stewed fruit with yoghurt (and oats and raisins if the children chose to) to make a delicious fruity yoghurt. Here we are making our yoghurts.
