Year 3 - Autumn 1 - Week 3

Date: 23rd Sep 2022 @ 3:24pm

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We have had a wonderful week in Year 3.

In Collective Worship, we discussed our monthly values of ‘Dignity and Respect’. We thoroughly enjoyed watching a clip of Rose and Giovanni on Strictly Come Dancing. Rose is deaf and feels the vibration of music. Within the clip, we experience the dance through Rose’s perspective and the music is silenced. The children thought this was amazing and shared their views on how we should respect others and ensure everyone in our community feels included. We celebrated the increasing diversity shown on television today. We also delved more into what ‘genes’ are for Genes for Jeans awareness day.

 In RE, we continued learning about what it means to be 'called by God.'  Everyone enjoyed watching video clips of the following Prophets from the Old Testament:  Moses, Elijah, Samuel, Abraham, Jonah and Isaiah.  After each video clip, the children brainstormed questions that they wished they could have asked the Prophets after God spoke to them.  Next week, the class will choose a Prophet to study more about and the children will work in groups to create a memory board for their chosen Prophet.

 In our Tuesday reading and writing lesson as a whole class, we read poetry and found interesting verbs to describe the movement of water.  We then created our own list of verbs to describe the movement of the wind.  The children learned about a question-and-answer style poem and used their new vocabulary from their reading lesson to write a poem entitled "What is a breeze?"  Over the next few weeks, we will be reading more poetry so that we can enter the Young Writers Poetry Stars Competition in October.

 In music this week, the children learned more about their singing posture and breathing from their diaphragm to increase their air supply and enhance their volume.  They sounded like a choir when they sang their song, Let Your Spirit Fly!  Next week, we will try to sing without reading the lyrics from the screen.

 Place value has continued to be our focus in Maths delving deeper into the value of digits in a three digit number. With Miss Lucas the children have been using Base 10 to make 3 digit numbers and learning how zero is a place holder. With Mrs McRae the children have been using the number line to estimate numbers and figuring out the intervals on number lines with missing labels proved to be very tricky. 

 During our reading lessons we have been focusing on ‘The Sea Book’ which is a non-fiction text. We have investigated the roles of a ‘contents’ page and an ‘index’ page. The children also practised their dictionary skills to see if they could find definitions of words within the text.

  In Science, we were introduced to the three types of rocks; igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. In Art, we continued our learning of Indian art by focusing on the art during Indian elephant festival. We then set to work to design our own elephant art using a variety of colour, patterns and features.

 Netball has been a highlight of this week, with some phenomenal throwing and catching skills. We have extended our range of passes to now include chest pass, bounce pass and over arm pass. The challenge now is trying to land, pivot and throw in a very short space of time! On Friday, we also joined the fantastic Dame Darcey Bussell for a virtual dance along in support of National Fitness Week. Our dance movers were certainly enough to rival the Strictly Come Dancing dancers.

Enjoy your weekend, Year 3. See you on Monday!

 

Reminders:

- Our Read-a-thon takes place next Monday and Tuesday, in class.

- Weekly spellings can be found on Google Classroom.

- Children should return their reading book to school every week on their Reading day.

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