Year 3: Home learning

The children have x3 pieces of card in their home learning folder

Year 3: Review of the week

 This week in Power Maths we have started Unit 5 on Multiplication and Division. 

We have been using multiplication facts to answer a series of questions. 

In Literacy the children wrote their bigwrite as one of the dogs of the Endurance. 

 

After I had marked their work, the children then used purple pens to make some improvements. We've decided that we will keep the big write as a focus for next week and look at fronted adverbials again as well as tense. 

In Science yesterday the children learnt about skeletons and the names of our bones. They then worked as teams to form a skeleton and label the bones. 

Our class library has turned out really well. All of the children have had some time this week in there and have chosen a book. These are allowed home but please can we have them back and in school as the children will be reading everyday. A lot of these books are on the AR system so I am encouraging the children to look on there once they have read them. I have got to say that I am really impressed with the children's enthusiasm with the library and how much they are really getting absorbed in their reading. Thank you so much to POWSA who funded the whole area 💜

Just a couple of reminders about next week:

*Tuesday: the children can wear their sporty clothes as it is the start of Fitness February. 

*Friday: Maths day (dress up in something that relates to Maths. It could be a person, a Maths object or even decorate a t-shirt with Maths symbols. 

2Email

Today in Computing, Mr Spracklen introduced '2Email' to Year Three.

2Email is a completely internal email system and your child cannot get email from outside of Purple Mash. It has been developed to provide a safe environment for children to learn about email. It has various settings that Mr Spracklen controls for safeguarding purposes.

Please see the below guide for more information -

We will be learning more about email in the weeks leading up to February half-term.

Year 3: Personal property vote

In class we have had a discussion about personal property, such as toys and special items, we discussed that not everyone might have the same access to such luxury items and that this can lead to jealousy. Not only that but toys can become damaged or lost if in school.

The children voted and a majority vote in favour of NOT bringing in toys and precious items from home. This includes fidget toys, unless we have given your children an item for them to use. Please do not allow your children to bring in their own.

We also reinforced the importance of them taking care of their belongings. Making sure that they bring in their snack and drink pots. Checking that they have their jumpers and cardigans and that items are either put in their trays or lockers.

Thank you, in advance, for supporting us in reinforcing these discussions at home. Please communicate with us if you have any other areas for discussion.

The Year 3 team

Year 3: Home learning 21/1

The children will now get a 'house point' each for spellings that they practice, home learning that is in the box by the following Friday and getting full marks in their spelling checks. 

Year 3

We really missed everyone today. Sorry to hear so many of you have the sickness bug. Rest assure the classroom is still being thoroughly cleaned throughout the day. We hope to see the children back when they are well enough. Please remember that they should stay at home for 48hours after the last episode of sickness or diarrhea. 

Next week will be showcasing our new class library. We have some amazing books to share! 

We hope you are able to have a restful weekend. 

The Year 3 team 

Year 3: Watercolour art

 Today we looked at the Canadian artist David McEown who travels to some of the most amazing scenery in the world and paints. Today we used his watercolour pictures from Antarctica and the Arctic as inspiration for our own iceberg water colour pictures. 

The children used the techniques that they learnt last week to help them build up the colour in their pictures.