Wow! Year 3 have been doing some writing to be proud of this week! We continued with our recount learning and imagined we had experienced a volcanic eruption! Our R2S were, fronted adverbials, conjunctions and expanded noun phrases.
I’m sure you will agree the results were impressive!
Next week, we will be looking at adding the ly suffix to a root word.
busily
happily
ordinarily
completely
naturally
certainly
continually
famously
importantly
Last week, we took our geography learning to Magna in Sheffield. It was a great way to kick start our Natural Disasters topic and got us all excited to find out more about the world around us.
We started by creating our very own erupting volcanos. Check out how we got on…
In the afternoon, we explored the different pavilions, water, ice and fire. We watched The Big Melt which showed us how steel is melted. Sparks were flying everywhere!
It was amazing! 
Next week, Year 3 will be learning and tested on alternative graphemes for the ue sound.
argue
Tuesday
popular
peculiar
regular
continue
statue
This week, year 3 have been learning about fronted adverbials (sounds tricky)!
We started by recapping adverbs. These tell us how, when or where a verb is done. We then moved the adverbs to the front of our sentence. This creates a fronted adverbial!
The children thought of some of their own sentences using fronted adverbials. We had to be careful to make sure we changed the capital letters and used a comma after the fronted adverbial.
Check our some of out ideas- we tried to link some sentences to our recount about a volcanic explosion!
Quickly, the boy ran to the park.
Frantically, Miss Gledhill marked the Year 3 books.
Suddenly, a cloud of toxic black smoke shot from the boiling volcano.
Outside the magnificent temple, people were shouting at each other.
Watch this video about fronted adverbials.
Word classes can be tricky to remember. When reading with your child, why not see if they can identify nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs?
Next week, we will be looking at adding the prefixes un and dis to change the meaning of a root word.
unkind
uncertain
unemployed
unclear
unfriendly
unstable
unclear
disappear
discontinue
disbelief
This week’s spellings are going to be very useful to us as they are some of the time connectives we will use in our recount writing.
They will be tested on Friday 13th February.
first
meanwhile
suddenly
finally
morning
afternoon
o’clock
after
Science in Year 3 and 4 will quite literally rock this half term! Our new topic is rocks, soils and minerals.
In this week’s science lesson, we grouped (sorted) a variety of rocks based on their characteristics and physical properties. We have become familiar with using a Venn Diagram and this allowed us to identify different ways to sort the rocks.
Why not ask your child about their observations of rocks? It would also be great to ask them if they can recall any of our new science vocabulary for this term.
Merry Christmas to my wonderful Year 3 class and their families.
We have our next class member on the Wall Of Stars as she earned the most raffle tickets this half term.
We have been enjoying all things festive at school and finished with a super Christmas party this week.
I can’t wait to see you all in the new year!
Addresses
Answers
Centuries
Potatoes
Boxes
Churches
Wolves
Calves