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Group Reading

This half term, some children will spend our “Book Club” sessions reading in a shared group. Year 3 love this time and it’s brilliant to see them sharing a love of reading together.

I have been so impressed with how they organise themselves in their reading groups and decide on a realistic amount of reading that should be done at home before the next session.

In order for group reading to work properly, the children need to make sure they are reading at home so they can keep up with their group.

What’s the time?

This week, Year 3 have been learning how to tell the time on an analogue clock.

We recapped o’clock and half past and familiarised ourselves with the minute and hour hands.

After this, we looked at telling the time past the hour and to the next hour.

We notice that the numbers on the clock represent 5 minutes, so knowing our 5 times tables is very important.

We also tried to solve some word problems such as:

Year 3 leave for their trip at five past 9 and arrived at half past 9.

How long does it take them to travel there?

Help at home: 

Use this virtual analogue clock with your child and ask them to make different times looking carefully at the hands.

Interactive clock | analog clock | digital | movable | teaching clock | visnos

Improving our knowledge of world religions

To start this week’s R.E lesson, we recapped what we already knew about some of the world’s major religions.

We also learnt new facts about religions that may have been less familiar to us.

Each week, we will keep looking at these facts and building on our learning of other faiths.

Help at home: Ask your child what facts they can remember about some world religions. Can they name the places of worship and holy books?

Spellings 19th May 2023

though

through

thought

straight

special

strange

strength

separate

remember

Spellings 05.05.23

This week, our spellings will be the months of the year: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

Learn your spellings by using the months of the year in a silly story!

Finding Fractions Of Amounts

Year 3 have been using counters to find fractions of numbers.

We used the counters to split the whole into equal parts and looked at how many counters were in one of the parts.

We also learnt that if we want to find 1/3 of a number, we can just divide the number by 3. Finding 1/4 means we divide the number by 4.

The children were really enthusiastic about this learning and loved the rare opportunity to draw on the tables!

City Artwork

Check out our beautiful artwork we produced this week with Mrs Bald.

Year 3 listened to Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin and imagined a bustling city. They then drew a busy city.

When they showed me, I was blown away and wanted to share all of it!

Listen to Rhapsody In Blue again. Do you think it sounds like a bustling city?

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Fantastic Forces!

Our new science topic is forces and magnets.

We started the topic by learning that a force is a push, pull or twist. We went out onto the play equipment and thought about which forces we were applying as we moved.

We observed how the more force we use the further and faster the movements.

Here is the vocabulary we will be improving our understanding of this half term.

Help at home: When exercising, ask your child to consider which forces they are applying.

Spellings 21.04.23

I have been so impressed with our learning this week! Are you ready for a new week of spellings?

Our spellings this week will be words with different spelling patterns that we’ve been learning about: fraction, station, fiction, hospital, metal, camel, tunnel, apple, bottle, nice

Look at our homework sheet for our super spelling strategy!

Working Scientifically: How Much Liquid Can A Nappy Absorb?

 This week in our science lesson, we continued asking scientific questions. We were presented with a question, “How much water can a nappy hold?” We thought about how we could make this more scientific and came up with, “How much liquid can a nappy absorb?”

We made predictions first. In groups, we then started our experiment. First, we felt and weighed the nappy. It was only 19g and felt very light!

We put red food colouring into the water to make it clearer to see the liquid being absorbed into the nappy.

We then started pouring 100ml of water on the nappy. We continued feel the weight of the nappy and found out that it got heavier as we increased the amount of water.

Although no liquid came through the nappy, after we had poured 1000 ml (or 1 litre) onto water, it started to sit on the top of the nappy. We decided it was no longer absorbing the water.

Following this, we weighed the nappy again; it was 763g. We couldn’t  believe how much liquid a nappy can actually absorb!

Help at home by asking your child about our experiment. Can they tell you why a nappy can absorb so much liquid?