Year 3 - Autumn 2 - Week 1
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 5:30pm
What a fabulous week we have had in Year 3. We have had so much fun, especially when filming dance clips for our whole school Kindness music video. Everyone has shone with their dance moves and we cannot wait for you to see us!
During Collective Worship this week we have been discussing the definition of the word ‘peace’. Children worked in pairs to consider how they would describe the word and we had lots of ideas such as a calm place, being relaxed, no war in the world, getting along with everyone and having harmony.
On Monday, we became artists and worked with line, pattern and colour to create our own vibrant pumpkin pictures using pencil, pen and oil pastels.
For RE this week, we continued learning about Harvest traditions. We used our laptops to research words and phrases that are said at the Harvest church service every year by looking at the hymn titles and lyrics and analysing the Epistle and Gospel readings. Most of the words and phrases the children found in common amongst all of their research related to 'gathering,' 'fruit,' 'grain,' 'thankful' and 'giving praises.'
In Mrs. McRae's English writing group, the children have started a new book called Hello, Hedgehog by Laura Buller. This text is to support our non-chronological report unit. We have been learning about hedgehogs this week so that we could write sentences about them in the present-tense, using different sentence starters, and using the conjunction "and" to add detail.
In Miss Lucas’ English writing group, the children were introduced to our focus text ‘Winter’s Child’. We have been describing the setting using adjectives and prepositions and investigating the relationships between the characters. The children loved using drama techniques to role play a conversation between the characters ‘Tom’ and ‘Mum’. Then, they wrote their conversations down focusing on inverted commas and alternative words for said. Miss Lucas has been very impressed with the effort and focus demonstrated this week.
In Mrs. McRae's maths group, we have been working on number bonds to ten and using those facts to help solve equations with larger numbers. For instance, if we know that 3 + 7 = 10, then we know that 30 + 70 = 100. Our group has also been figuring out what fact families are and how to write number sentences for addition and subtraction fact families.
In Miss Lucas’ maths group, we have focused on column subtraction where exchanges have been needed to enable us to calculate accurately using this method. This week, we concentrated on exchanging across the tens, next week we will move on to exchanging across the hundreds. The children were excited to use ‘Learning by Question’ to review their place value knowledge on their laptops. Some children have even said they are going to practise their maths at home this weekend – dedication at its finest!
In Reading, we have begun our new text ‘Blue’. Blue is a lonely bird, who lives in the deepest, darkest part of the forest and the other birds do not visit him anymore. We considered how different colours can represent our feelings and emotions. We have now been introduced to a new character called ‘Yellow’ and we made some predictions for the storyline.
We were very lucky on Wednesday to have a visit from Dom who works for Active Sefton. He taught us all about the different food groups that make a balanced diet. Dom was very impressed with the adventurous food choices we shared with him!
In Science, we continued to focus on animals and food and designed a menu for an animal. We had to consider whether our animals were a carnivore, a herbivore or an omnivore and then try to include food from the various food groups. We also made bird feeders to hang outside in our playground to feed the birds during the winter months.
TSP’s Sports Ambassadors visited us on Thursday and announced the football teams we will support in the World Cup. Cheers were heard from our classroom as it was revealed that we will be supporting Costa Rica, Germany, Brazil and England!
We hope you have an enjoyable weekend and cannot wait to see you again on Monday.
Reminders
-Donations for poppies can still be brought in next week.
- Please can children ensure they bring a warm coat to school with them every day.
- In the Spring term, we will be learning all about the Egyptians. With this in mind, the Atkinson in Southport are currently holding an exhibition if you would like to visit whilst it is still on.