Amazing expanded noun phrases and clay iron men!

We have all been super impressed with the children's Literacy work this week! They have been focussing on expanded noun phrases linked to The Great Kapok Tree. We watched a catchy song that helped the children to remember what the rules are when writing an expanded noun phrase. Here is the link for you all to enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFJP1FNUEVY

Here are some of the examples from todays work:

The strong, hairy sloth slowly clambered down the tree to the logger. "Senor you can not chop down this tree, it is my home and I would not have anywhere to live". 

The fierce, spotty jaguar ran up to the logger and growled "Senor you can not chop down this tree. We need these trees to live". 

This afternoon the children used clay to make the main character from Ted Hughes book 'The Iron Man'. We were really impressed with their concentration, creativity and attention to detail when using the clay. Year 3 are really enjoying the story, we have just finished chapter 2 and are eagerly awaiting to start the next chapter to see what happens next! 

It's great to see so many children reading at home and completing AR quizzes. We have a number of books now in our room which the children can access. They are are then left for 72 hours before being placed back in our library. 

The Year 3 team 

Times Table Rockstars - The Big Launch - 21st September 2020

 Welcome to :

At the Prince of Wales School we recognise the importance of children being fluent and flexible with their known number facts including times tables.  Times Tables Rockstars offers a fun and motivating way of becoming faster at recalling times table facts as multiplication and division calculations.  All children in years 2, 3 and 4 have access to this resource.

If you are not already familiar with this learning platform, here's some information to get you going:

Tables will be set either by the class teacher or by AI, and you can access the set tables by playing on either the Garage or in the Arena.  Other games will include a wider range of times table facts if you fancy a challenge.

Each week years 3 and 4 will be competing in a battle of the bands.  This works on the number of correct answers given by the whole class in the timeframe.  Well done year 4 for winning the first battle, year 3 are hot on your heels this week!  Year 2, once you've had a little practice you can join in too!

And finally, if you want to get even speedier at home it might be worth investing in a number key pad that you can plug into your computer via USB.  We use these in school and the children love to see how fast they can get!

Numeric-Jelly-Comb-Keyboard

For those Mathletes out there, we are still subscribing to Mathletics as well for years 1 to 4, so keep earning those certificates too!  

Week 4: Year 3 learning for the week ahead...

 This week in Literacy we will be learning about expanded noun phrases

We will be using these and the skills the children learnt last week about speech marks to write their own part of 'The Great Kapok Tree'. 

In Power Maths we will be comparing and ordering numbers to 1000. The children will be using < > and = to compare the numbers. 

In Science we will be planning an experiment, carrying it out and evaluating it. More information on this to follow! 

Tomorrow the children will be learning the different between Great Britain, United Kingdom and the British isles using an atlas and online map apps. 

We look forward to seeing you all in the morning 

The Year 3 team 

Home Learning and Spelling - 17th September 2020

                                                          Year 3 Home learning,

17th September 2020

To be completed by 24th September 2020.

Times Table Rockstars

When it comes to times tables speed and accuracy are important.  The more facts your child remembers, the easier it is for them to do harder calculations.  Times table rockstars is a fun challenging programme designed to help students master their times tables.  

The battle of the bands has commenced!

Each week this term year 3 and year 4 are in hot competition to be the champions of battle of the bands.  The class with the most correct answers each week will be victorious.  All you have to do is answer as many questions as you can on the Times Table Rockstars platform.  In doing so you will earn coins to spend in the rockstars shop and improve your times table recall speed.  The faster you go the higher your rockstar status.  See if you can work up from being a Wanabe up to achieving full Rock Star Status!

There is a choice between single and multiplayer games.  If you stick with the games that have “Teacher Set” tables, they will test the tables in a specific order to make things easier!

The children should know their login details and a handy card will follow shortly.  In the meantime if you have any problems please email for password details.

Quick Quiz:

Can you write down three reasons why the rainforest should not be cut down? Use full sentences.

1. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Year 3 Spellings FLITWICK - 17th September 2020, to be checked 24th September 2020.

This week the spellings are linked to your RWI group.  On this sheet you can Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check your spellings  (That means to look at the word, say it aloud, cover it with your finger or a piece of paper, have a go at writing it (no peeking!) and then check to see if you got it right) - if you return it completed you will earn a Marvellous Me!

Flitwick Group:  Spelling Pattern -  suffix ous

Word	Practice 1	Practice 2	Practice 3
dangerous
enormous
fabulous
generous
ridiculous
mountainous
nervous
poisonous
venomous
believe
breath
breathe

The orange words are common words that do not follow the given spelling pattern.  There will be a few of these each week to practice.

Looking for some extra practice?  Try playing hangman without looking at the words, can you remember all of the sounds?

Year 3 Spellings MCGONAGALL - 17th September 2020, to be checked 24th September 2020.

This week the spellings are linked to your RWI group.  On this sheet you can Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check your spellings  (That means to look at the word, say it aloud, cover it with your finger or a piece of paper, have a go at writing it (no peeking!) and then check to see if you got it right) - if you return it completed you will earn a Marvellous Me!

McGonagall Group:  Spelling Pattern -  words ending in y with suffix er and est.

Word	Practice 1	Practice 2	Practice 3
funny
funnier
funniest
happy
happier
happiest
lucky
luckier
luckiest
again
all
any

The red words are common words that do not follow the given spelling pattern.  There will be a few of these each week to practice.

Looking for some extra practice?  Try playing hangman without looking at the words, can you remember all of the sounds?

Non School Uniform and Dress Up Day - 17/09/20

Don't forget this Friday 18/09/20 is Non-School Uniform:

Week 3: Science experiments and drama!

 This week we have been looking at the story of The Great Kapok Tree. It tells the story of a logger who falls asleep at the bottom of a Kapok tree. A number of animals then visit the man and tell him why we should save the Rainforest. We have been acting like the characters from the story and using drama to help us remember what the animals said to the logger. 

Today the children had to use the speech from the different animals and write this in to speech bubbles. 

In Power Maths this week we have had to use our BLP especially the resilient tortoise. We have been putting numbers to 1000 on a numberline which has no numbers on the intervals. This is an example of one of the questions we have looked at today

In Science this week we have finished off making our terrariums. We will be observing these over the next few weeks to see if there are any changes to the containers. 

We have also been looking at how water travels through plants. We used the coloured water experiment and recorded over time how the water travelled through the tubes in celery. In this terms knowledge organiser you can see definitions of these processes. 

This afternoon we have travelled to an orangutan clinic in Borneo, and we saw loggers in action in the Amazon. 

Week 3: Year 3 learning for the week ahead...

 

This week in Year 3 we are going to look at the story 'The Great Kapok Tree' by Lynne Cherry. I don't want to give too much of the story away but this will start our study of finding out why the Rainforest is so important and the reasons why it needs to be saved! We will be using drama and drawings to help us retell the story. We will also look at the speech in the story. We will also try again with the VR headsets this week and visit an orangutan sanctuary in Borneo. 

In Power Maths this week we will be using a number line to 1000. The children need to recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number (hundreds, tens, ones). They will be placing numbers on empty number lines and using their reasoning skills to answers questions. They will also be finding 1, 10 and 100 more or less than a number. It's fantastic to see how well Year 3 have settled in to the routine of Year 3 Power Maths. They have been using base ten equipment, hundreds tens and ones grids and whole part models to aid with their understanding of place value to 1000. 

In Science this week we will be continuing looking at plants and will be finishing off our terrariums as well as starting a new experiment. 

By the end of this week your child will have a new AR number and a book that correlates to this number. 

Please do contact us if you have any questions about the week ahead or anything you would like to discuss with us. 

The Year 3 team