Oak Class emailing Zeus 3.2.20
Oak Class have had sometime today to email Zeus as part of their Gods and Mortal topic. The children were very keen to explain to Zeus everything they had learnt so far and ask him some questions about his unusual family!
Fantastic mathematical reasoning going on in Year 3 today with children exploring multiplication using the bar model and the area model to make connections.
Year 3 have spent some time this morning using different representations of multiplication and division to explore their understanding. Amazing explanations of how to using models has developed their understanding!
Straight back to school and amazing investigations have been going on in Year 3. Children have been using manipulatives to explain the connections between the 2 times table and the 4 times table.
Cherry class have been working really hard over the Autumn term learning to play the plastic trombones. 
The children were so proud of their achievements that they invited their parents in for a full performance to see their progress. The class performed amazingly!! The parents were then invited to have a go…… it’s not as easy as it looks is it?!!!
Special thanks to Mrs Price.
Year 3 have been working really hard on their fantastic learning journey “SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS”. 
All the children were invited to their celebration event with a special golden ticket inside a chocolate bar wrapper. The year group (including the teachers) then came dressed as their favourite characters from the class reading book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, to show-case their learning to their parents. All involved had an amazing time creating their own smoothies, making peppermint creams and decorating various Christmas gingerbread shapes, amongst other activities!!!!! Mmmmmmm delicious!!
Today, Year 3 had an exciting afternoon thanks to the generosity of Sharon from the Creation Station. The children enjoyed creating Play-Dough sweets for their class sweet shop.
Today, Year 3 participated in an exciting quiz using Plickers (digital media resource). They worked in teams to answer questions on rivers which has been a key part of the learning journey, Flow.
This afternoon Year 3 have been harnessing the power of water! The children had to choose to either create water powered paddle boats or water wheels.
We will be testing them later in the week!
This morning, Year 3 visited a river to see all the features they have been learning about in school.
The children took part in a variety of activities to further their growing knowledge of rivers. The activities included: kick sampling to find creatures that live in the river; taking water and soil samples for further experiments back at school; sensory observations to help with their future poetry writing and finding features like meanders, waterfalls and oxbow lakes.
We had a fantastic morning and all the children were very excited during the activities. They were also very successful find: water boatman, pond skaters, fresh water shrimps and even a mayfly nymph!
Today Year 3 have been investigating how rivers are formed. They used sand, rocks, pebbles and water to create the different features of a river.
| Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 13th September 2019
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 2nd October 2019.) |
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| Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
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| Spellings
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn! |
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| Home Learning Menu
Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 20 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do one fifteen and a five-point activity or you could do two ten points; you could also choose to do four five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below. |
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| 15 points | 10 points | 5 points |
| River Nile Study
We will be studying rivers- both here and around the world. We will be thinking of the importance, and impact, rivers have on human populations as well as wildlife. |
Make a river fact file
Use the website below to discover amazing facts about rivers |
Art work Have a go at drawing, painting or sketching your own river. There are some very good tutorials on line |
| Times tables 1 hour (split into at least three chunks) each of TT Rockstars. Or try place value basketball https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball | ||
| Visit a river.
Find out facts about it- include source of the river and outflow (what does the mouth of the river flow into). You can choose how to present your research. |
Research river dolphins
https://kidzfeed.com/pink-river-dolphin-facts/ Present your findings in a form of your choosing- ready to share your new learning in school. |
Vocabulary
Choose 5 words from our river vocabulary list and practise spelling them and apply into a sentence: Flow, meandering, channel, valley, ocean, spring, source, sediment, erode, river bank. |
This week the whole school have been focusing on their Super North Stars. The children have worked extremely hard on mapping out their future aspirations. These have included their values, strengths, the team around them and magnets (barriers to achieving their goal). This has also been linked to Growth Mindset and Inspirational Maths.
In literacy, Year 3 have been writing stories based on the traditional tale of The Little Red Hen. We listened to the story and then wrote our own versions. Today we shared our stories with Year 1 – they enjoyed our stories!
Today Year 3 said goodbye to the butterflies we have been looking after for the past four weeks. When they arrived they were caterpillars, just 8mm long. We fed them and watched them grow until they were ready to become cocoons. In total, five of our cocoons hatched and today we released our five Painted Lady butterflies beside the Butterfly Bush on the school field.
Year 3 had a fabulous time at Camp Wild, Escot last week. They took part in a swamp walk, spent time as Anglo Saxons and learnt some new bushcraft skills. 
Year Three have had a fantastic time over the last two days taking part in Forest School activities on our wonderful school field. We have hunted for treasure, played hide and seek, learnt about fire safety, lit a fire and baked damper bread and smores! How lucky we are to have these wonderful school grounds to learn in!
Year 3 have had a fantastic time on the farm today, learning all about where their food comes from and what goes in to making it grow. We met cows, pigs and sheep and had a good look at all the produce grown there. Thank you to West Town Farm for making us feel so welcomed and to all the parents with came with us.
This afternoon, Year 3 took to the field for a Mega Measures Maths session! We enjoyed running, jumping and throwing, while putting our measuring skills to practical use. Next up – data handling!
Today, Year 3 had a special visitor as part of the school’s ongoing celebrations leading up to World Book Day this Thursday. Alina Constantine, a bilingual story teller, read to the children an exciting story in Romanian and English.
The children also learnt some Romanian key words and took part in freeze frame activities to show case their new learning- linked to the MFL curriculum.
As part of PSHE “Respecting Differences” the children were also given insight into aspects of Romanian life and culture.
Every morning in Oak class we really enjoy our reading and quizzing time. We enjoy discussing the new books we have chosen and we are all beginning to identify what we particularly like about specific genres, but also what we don’t like.
Year 3 and 4 had the most amazing time sampling a wide range of foods connected to China. The teachers were especially impressed by all of the lovely sharing that took place (as well as children being very daring with trying new things!).
Please have a look at this short video we made to remember the event:
This morning in Oak class we edited and re-drafted sections of our last big writes. We made lots of progress with our purple progress pens using our headlines and collaborative learning.
This afternoon, Oak class ventured to the library to choose our next reading books. We refreshed our memories of what our ranges are and chose appropriate books. Some of us have even decided to start a book club!
In team 2 we have been making Viking jewellery! Year 3 even had some help from some year 4 SOLE superstars who gave us tutorials on what to do.
We have applied our previous learning of instruction writing to write instructions of what YOU need to do to make some beautiful Viking jewellery at home!
We wrote our very own Non-chronological reports about a dragon of our choice! We responded to marking with our purple progress pens before setting up our writing stations ready to become authors of our very own reports! We proof read each other’s and were critical friends offering positive and constructive feedback. Some reports have even been published ready for our Viking museum!
The dragons have been assembled and are looking fantastic ready for our celebration! We have worked hard within our groups to collaborate and discuss and share our ideas!
Our designated brick collectors chose bricks from the ones available after discussion in our groups!
This afternoon we have started evaluating our finished products thinking about what we like about them but also what we would do differently next time.
This morning in Oak class we got ourselves into groups of 5 ready to design, build and then finally evaluate a dragon model we will make out of lego!
We allocated roles within our teams; a project manager, a designer, a brick collector and 2 main constructors who will focus on the stability and structure of the dragon!
We looked at Lego dragons that already exist to gather our own ideas within our groups! Once we have finished our design, the building shall commence!
Spelling Group
Autumn Term – Focus: Suffix –ation
Handed out on Monday 26thNovember; Tested on Monday 3rdDecember
- nation
- location
- donation
- station
- relaxation
- invitation
- plantation
- mind
- treasure
- imagine
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Group B and C Spelling Group
Autumn Term – Week 9 Focus: Suffix -ful
Handed out on Monday 19thNovember; Tested on Monday 26thNovember
- hopeful
- careful
- powerful
- wonderful
- deceitful
- beautiful
- hurtful
- everybody
- whole
- usual
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 word list.
To finish the end of our learning journey ” Into The Woods” Year 3 and 4 organised a Teddy Bear’s picnic.
In particular, Cherry Class made teddy bear biscuits, then wrote up the recipe to consolidate their new learning on instructional texts. They then played games such as Pass the Paddington and Pin The Nose on Pudsey. Last but not least, they then shared a picnic with their favourite teddy they brought from home.
What a great day!
| Year 3 Home Learning- Friday 9th November |
| Reading
Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes. |
| Spelling
Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday. Remember to play on Spellodrome and TTrockstars |
| Maths/Literacy
Please can you create a 2D shape robot! If you would like a challenge, can you include an octagon and hexagon somewhere on your robot? Can you explain how many different shapes you have used? E.g.: Miss Tickell’s robot I have used 6 circles and 4 squares. For my robots mouth I used a triangle with no right angles to make it look like the shape of a happy smile! |
Mrs Tierney’s Spelling Group B Week 7
Handed out on Monday 5thNovember 2018
- race
- face
- mice
- slice
- fancy
- city
- cell
- pencil
- because
- child
Note: Spellings 1 to 7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8 to 10 are from the Year 3 word list.
Year 3 and 4 had lots of fun at Stover Woods today. We looked for clues on the ground to find out what sort of trees we would find in the forest; hunted for bugs in the woodland and built a shelter for our class bears! 
Mrs Tierney’s Spelling Group B Week 6 Focus: -ge
Handed out on Monday 15 October 2018. Tested Monday 29thOctober
- age
- cage
- rage
- huge
- fringe
- large
- village
- change
- climb
- brother
Note: Spellings 1 to 7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8 to 10 are from the Year 3 word list.
Year 3 have had lots of fun today learning actions to help them retell the story of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. 
Mrs Tierney’s Spelling Group Week 4 Focus: -le words
Handed out on Monday 1st October 2018. Tested Monday 8thOctober
- middle
- visible
- brittle
- little
- sizzle
- needle
- bottle
- quiet
- world
- clothes
Note: Spellings 1 to 7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8 to 10 are from the Year 3 word list.
| Year 3 Home Learning- Friday 28th September |
| Reading and Spelling
Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday. Remember to use spellodrome. Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes. |
| SOLE
The children are recording all their new learning in their SOLE book. We would like each book to be personalised in order to make them very special so we would like the children to collect pictures/photos etc to decorate the cover of the book. Things that are important to them in their life and also show them with a growth mind-set or warrior spirit, would be ideal. Please don’t use sequins/ raised decorations as the books will be covered in plastic backing. |
| Maths
The children will be coming home with their new logins for rock star times tables- an interactive and engaging way of learning times tables. The children need to get started as soon as possible. I will check in with them by the end of the week. Below is the website. The children need to sign in and insert their new user name and password. Good luck and have fun! |
On Thursday Year 3 had lots of fun searching with clues around our wonderful school grounds. 
Mrs Tierney’s Spelling Group Week 2 Focus: suffix –ed and –ing
Handed out on Friday 17th September; Tested on Friday 24th September 2018
- cleaned
- dropped
- Married
- walked
- taking
- smiling
- stopping
- magic
- race
- change
Note: Spellings 1 to 7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8 to 10 are from the Year 3 word list.
| Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 7thSeptember 2018 |
| Reading
Ideally, please encourage your child to read every day. The minimum expectation is that your child should be reading for 15 minutes five times a week. This reading should be a mixture of independent reading / reading alongside an adult. |
| Literacy
Design and make a motivational bookmark for your ‘My compass for life’ learning journey. This will be to put in your SOLE books. Here are some ideas to get you started! You will have 2 weeks to complete this task.
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| Maths
In maths we are looking at number sense particularly focusing on place value. We have been looking at partitioning numbers into hundreds, tens and ones. Could you have a go at completing the questions below.
Eg. 425 = 400 + 20 + 5
1) 49 = 40 + ___
2) 125 =_____ + 20 + 5
3) 567 = 500 + ___ + 7
4) 632 = 600 + ____ + ___
Greater Depth Challenge: Try partitioning a 3 or 4- digit number in different ways: e.g. 457 = 300 + 107+ 50 Also, if you feel confident write a short explanation of how you work out this type of question. |
| Spellings
Please note the following change. Spellings to be given out on a MONDAY and tested the following Monday. This is in line with the new on line Spellodrome programme that we are introducing. Your child will bring home a lspellodrome login(username and password) tonight to be kept safe at home. More details to follow next week. |
This morning, year 3 have been out on the field having a go at a carousel of athletics activities. We had a go at javelin, hurdles and a ground hog race.
As part of our World Cup topic, we had to solve the clues to find out what Cristiano Ronaldo was going to have in his salad, using our knowledge of fractions.
| Year 3 Home Learning- Friday 29th June |
| Reading
Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes. |
| Maths
Next week, we will be revisiting fractions. Please have a go at these games to refresh your knowledge of fractions. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/number/fractions/play/ https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/fraction-matcher/latest/fraction-matcher_en.html |
| Literacy/SOLE
Following on from our trip to Escot, we will be writing a diary entry about our trip. For home learning this week, we would like you to choose your favourite part of the residential and write a few sentences to describe it. Think about these questions: 1. What did you do? 2. What did you see? 3. How did you feel when you were doing this activity? 4. Why was it your favourite part? |
One of our highlights of the trip – the swamp walk! Lots of fun was had by all the children – and adults too! It definitely cooled us down after a hot day!
Wow, year 3 have had a fantastic couple of days at Escot. We have seen lots of different animals including otters, wild cats, owls and wolves. We also completed the swamp walk showing great resilience to keep going! In the evening, we toasted marshmallows and sang songs around the campfire. On our second day, we got lost in the maze, went down the drop slide and tried out lots of different activities in the Saxon village.
LOST PROPERTY: There are lots of items of clothing, hats, towels etc. that have been collected from Escot and from outside of school when the coach dropped us back. Please have a look outside of Cherry Class if you have forgotten/lost anything.
Year 3 have been working hard on using metaphors to describe parts of a penguin. Today, we have collaborated in groups to describe the tummy, flippers and feet using metaphors.
Can you remember what a metaphor is?
