Year 3 - Autumn 1 - Week 6

Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 12:14am

We have wrapped-up another week full of learning and having fun in Year 3!

On Monday, we started by designing flags with encouraging messages for World Mental Health Day in support of the "Hello Yellow" campaign.  The flags were used to line our 'mindfulness walk' in the afternoon and the children took time to read the cheerful messages.

In RE this week, we have thought about how Prophets are called by God for a mission.  People who work for charities such as OM Ships and HMS Mission shared their stories.  As a class, we discussed a message we would like to share with the world.  Also, we talked about how we can be inspired by others to give our time, love and kindness to others.

Our art lesson has been mesmerizing this week as we researched beautiful Rangoli patterns.  Everyone designed their own Rangoli pattern after being inspired by the culture of India.  They thought carefully about symmetrical patterns and the use of bright colours.  We are making our own medium for next week's artwork out of table salt and paint so that we can bring our designs to life.

In science, we have looked at different types of soils.  By being scientists, we can look at the colour, texture and location of soil, which all give clues to the quality of soil.  In class, we investigated a 'mystery soil' to see if it was a mix of sand, clay and/or silt.

For English, both groups have continued working on up-levelling their sentences.  In Mrs. McRae's group, we planned and wrote a diary entry and a narrative using rich vocabulary, a range of conjunctions, prepositions, "a" and "an," and paragraphs.  In Miss Patten's group, the children have been sequencing and planning a well-known and using their plans to retell a story in their own words using paragraphs, inverted commas and interesting adjectives.  All of the children have also been working on their spelling, punctuation and grammar skills in the morning during their "SPaG 4-A-Day" time.    

Both groups have been working on various maths objectives relating to addition and subtraction.  Their classwork is uploaded to Google Classroom; so in order to see what your child is working on specifically, then please look at their maths materials each week.  Many of you kindly said that you would like to work on maths at home so the best way to do this would be to view their work on Google Classroom or the Virtual Classroom to find maths games to practise their skills.

Today, the children dressed in pajamas in support of the Alder Hey Children's Hospital.  I overheard some children talking to each other at playtime about how they want to donate their money to 'help the babies who are ill in hospital.'  We have such thoughtful, kind children in our class who, even during their break times, are thinking of others.

And finally, thank you all for your attendance in this week's parent-teacher meetings.  It has been wonderful getting to know your students better through you and to discuss their progress so far in Year 3.  I appreciate all that you do at home to support our work in school!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Reminders: 

Our PE days are Mondays and Fridays and will continue to be for Autumn Term 2.

Your child will now bring their spelling book home on a Friday (after their spelling test) so that you can view their progress.  After looking over their spelling test, please return their books in their bags the following week.