Year 3 spellings & home learning

Hello everyone,

We really hope that your child is enjoying their time in Year 3 so far. What stands out so far is what a kind and caring group of children this Year 3 class are. They really do embody Choose Kindness, which is wonderful to experience.

This week, we will continue to develop our skills in naming our emotions and practising breathing exercises, which can be helpful when we have big emotions. ‘Five-finger breathing’ and ‘smell the roses, blow out the candle’ are popular, but there are plenty of other techniques that your child may prefer.

In English, the children will be writing a setting for a ‘magical place’, based on the book Leon and the Place Between. They will be using adjectives to describe their locations and experimenting with prepositions to describe where different features of their magical place are located.

Forest School will be on Wednesday, and children are asked to bring in Forest School clothes and shoes that they can change into.

PE is on Fridays, and children should come to school wearing their PE kits, please.

We were really impressed with the number of children who returned their French and English home learning last week – well done, Year 3! This week’s home learning is based on maths and their DT learning. The children should have come home with a paper homework sheet, but here is an electronic link: Home learning sheet 

The children were also given their spellings on Friday. Electronic copies can be found here: Group 2 , Group 3 Children may also like to use EdShed to practise their spellings via the Spelling Shed games. I will put together a post this week showing how parents can support their child in logging on to this, as well as Times Tables Rock Stars.

Have a lovely week everyone, and thank you for your continued support!

Kind Regards,

Ms Browne & the Year 3 Team

 

Bonjour from Year 3

 

Bonjour from Year 3!

We have had a lovely first week back and have been really pleased with how well the children have settled into school.

Here’s a brief update on what we have covered this week and what the children will be learning next week.

English, Reading & Spellings

In English, the children have been revising the different types of sentences: statements, commands, questions and exclamations. They have also been experimenting with adding adjectives to sentences to create detail and interest when describing settings.

The children have completed their first AR tests of Year 3. It isn’t uncommon for AR numbers to be slightly lower after the summer holidays than they were before the break. We will aim to assess them again before half term.

RWI and spelling groups will all start this week. For those children in spelling groups, spelling activities will normally come home on Fridays. Children can also use EdShed to practise their spellings.

Maths

Last week in Power Maths, the children revised 2-digit numbers and were introduced to hundreds. They then began learning to count, read and write multiples of 100 up to 1,000 in both numerals and words (for example, 300 = three hundred).

This week, they will learn how to represent and partition numbers to 1,000. They will build 3-digit numbers using concrete resources such as Base 10 equipment (place value blocks) and place value counters.

They will explore how numbers are composed of Hundreds, Tens and Ones, for example understanding that 235 = 200 + 30 + 5.

Finally, using number lines to 1,000, they will learn how to place 3-digit numbers accurately.

This video might be helpful for more information about what the children are learning.

French

In French, the children enjoyed learning about France, including understanding where it is in the world and what France is famous for. They even had the opportunity to taste some croissants and pain au chocolat!

They will continue to become familiar with saying Bonjour (hello/good morning) and Salut (hello), and will start saying Je m'appelle (my name is).

Home Learning

This week, the children have been asked to write a statement about France and a question they would like to know the answer to about France.

Paper copies should have come home on Friday, but electronic copies can be found here.

A few reminders

• Please send the children into school with a named rain jacket.

• No toys should be brought into school.

• Please bring in Forest School kit every Wednesday.

• Children should come to school in their PE kits every Friday.

• Monday 28th September – School Photos (individual)

• Friday 9th October, 5pm–7pm – AutumnFest

• Friday 23rd October, 2.50pm – Harvest Celebration

Forest School & PE kit reminders

 

Hello everyone,

We've been having a lovely week so far. I will blog in more detail later in the week but just a quick reminder for clothes this week. 

On Wednesday, please can children bring forest school clothes to get changed into. 

On Friday, please can the children come to school in their PE kits. 

Also, as the weather looks as though it has turned please can the children bring a named rain jacket into school. If it is slightly drizzly, we do still like to get them outside for some fresh air and movement. 

If you have a parents' message group, I would be really grateful if someone could share this reminder. Thank you 🙏 

Kind regards,

Ms Browne & the year 3 team 😊

Optional Year 3 Home Learning Activity

 

Today, we started drawing our own cartoon self portraits for our class display. We followed a video 'Draw with Rob' and drew the outlines of our portraits on A5 paper. We will finish these by colouring them in next week. 

Some of the children were very keen to draw more and so if they would like to draw themselves again or draw someone else, the link is below: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCDta3CQ9Ak&t=2s   

I will start sending home learning sheets home from next week.  

Welcome Back to School Year 3

 

Hello everyone,

Myself and the rest of the year 3 team were so impressed with the super focus and positive attitude they had today.

I hope your child had a good day - I'm sure they are tired, but I hope full of greater confidence - as they absolutely smashed their first day! 

Today, we talked a lot about recognising our feelings and beginning to identify what we can do when we have any uncomfortable feelings. We also practised some  sensory break activities and learnt how to do some regulatory breaths. 

We developed some great ideas for our Class Charter which will help give the children guidelines as to how to treat each other, how to approach their learning and how to look after their classroom and wider environment. The children had some fantastic suggestions which I will weave into a whole Class Charter over the next week. 

From next week, the normal timetable will begin and there are some key activities to be aware of:

The children will have Forest School on Wednesday afternoons. Please could you send a change of suitable clothes and shoes in with them for this activity  (please see the flier below for more details). 

The children will have PE on Fridays. From this academic year onwards, in line with the Dorchester middle schools in years 5 & 6, the children should come into school in their PE kits. This will hopefully reduce lost property in school and will maximise PE lesson time. Please could children come into school wearing PE kits every Friday from Friday 11th September.    

The year 3 Knowledge Organisers will be available later in September. I will post additional information on the blog shortly but for now, please thank your child for such a wonderful first day in Year 3. 

We were very proud of each and everyone of them. 

Kind regards,

Ms Browne & the year 3 team. 😊

 

Happy Holidays Year 3

As another school year comes to an end, we just wanted to say a huge thank you to you and our amazing Year 3 children.

We can't believe how much the children have grown this year. Looking back to September and seeing them now, they are so much more confident, independent and ready for the next step. It's been such a pleasure to watch them grow, not just academically but as young people too.

Every single child has brought something different to our classroom. They've certainly kept us busy with their energy, enthusiasm and brilliant personalities, but we wouldn't have wanted it any other way. 

One of the biggest highlights has to be the Tenner Challenge. The children absolutely amazed us with their ideas, determination and teamwork. They should all be so proud of what they achieved. It really showed what they can do when they work together and believe in themselves.

We'd also like to say a heartfelt thank you to all of our parents and carers for your support throughout the year. It really does make such a difference. Thank you as well for the lovely cards and thoughtful gifts for the Year 3 team. Your kindness and generosity are so appreciated, and we're very grateful.

To our Year 3 children, thank you for making every day different. Thank you for making us laugh, for working so hard and for being yourselves. We are so proud of each and every one of you, and we know you'll all go on to do amazing things in Year 4.

Have a wonderful, well-deserved summer break. We'll see you all again soon! 

The Year 3 Team.xx

Bring a bag / return a book Monday

 

Dear Parents and Carers,

Please could you send your child to school with a plastic bag on Monday, as we will be sending this year's exercise books home.

If you have any library books or RWI books at home, please could you return them by Monday.

Thank you,

The Year 3 Team