Year 3 learning this week
Below you will find our weekly teaching and learning summary to find out how we develop and enrich your child's learning whilst they are with us.
| Week ending | What we have been learning about |
|---|---|
| 29/11/24 | This week in Year 3, we have had a Stone Age Workshop and we loved being able to explore the artifacts and learning how they were used over a million years ago. We used this experience to support us in writing fact files about everything we have learnt about the Stone Age. The children took great pride in creating these fact files and presented them beautifully. In Maths, we have begun our new topic of length and perimeter and have been measuring different objects around the classroom. Spellings: Topic words - Stone Age |
| 22/11/24 | This week in Year 3, we have imagined what life would have been like in the Stone Age. We have written setting descriptions and used prepositions to help us to include more detail. In Maths, we have learnt different methods of multiplying a 1-digit number by a 2-digit number and have started to look at dividing. We enjoyed going outside for art and creating paintings using natural resources such as sticks and berries. We are looking forward to our Stone Age Workshop next week. |
| 15/11/24 |
This week, Year 3 have been learning more about the Stone Age. In Literacy, they have written character descriptions about Om who is a girl from the Stone Age in our Power of Reading text. They focused on using expanded noun phrases to add detail to their descriptions. In Maths, we continued to look at multiplication and division with a focus on multiples and factors. In History, we became hunter-gatherers and thought about the threats and assets Stone Age people would have looked out for. Spellings: Common Exception Words |
| 08/11/24 |
In year 3, we have been starting our new topic of the Stone Age and have made predictions about what might happen in our book ‘Stone Age Boy’. In Maths, we have been exploring multiplication and division, looking at the inverse and commutativity. In History we have explored the timeline and where the Stone Age fits into this. In Science, we have been introduced to our new topic of ‘Rock, Fossils and Soils’. Spellings: Common Exception Words |
| 25/10/24 |
This week Year 3 have been writing a book review to the class text of The Boy Who Grew a Dragon and sharing with their peers.In Maths this week we have been looking at estimation and inverse operations. To finish our D.T topic we have been making our sandwiches learning the techniques of spreading and what makes a healthy sandwich. Spellings: Common Exception Words |
| 18/10/2024 |
This week in Year 3 we have been building our knowledge in literacy and exploring a wide range of poetry and writing our own poem about a mythical creature linked to our class text The Boy Who Grew Dragons. In Maths Year 3 have been using a variety of methods to solve word problems using both addition and subtraction. In Computing we have been practising our typing skills and creating our own list of ingredients for our sandwich task in D.T. |
| 11/10/2024 | In year 3 we have been using our imagination to write out our narrative about a mythical creature. We have been focusing on creating our characters' settings and plot. In our Maths lessons this week we have been focusing on adding and subtracting across 10 and across 100. In Geography we have been learning about the differences between rural and urban settlements and comparing them to different parts of the U.K Spellings: Common Exception Words |
| 04/10/2024 | This week in Year 3 we have been creating our own Dragon Recipe using the inspiration of our class text demonstrating a range of different organisational skills which have included subheadings, bullet points and diagrams. In Maths this week we have been working on adding and subtracting two 3 digit numbers and applying rounding for estimating.In Science this week we have been learning how we get nutrition from what we eat and producing our own nutritious meal. Spellings: Common Exception Words |
| 27/09/2024 |
In Year 3 this week we have been writing about our dream garden with a variety of different adjectives and noun phrases ,the children used lots of inspiration from their trip to Wisley Gardens. In Maths this week year 3 have been currently working on addition and subtraction using our knowledge to add and subtracts 1s and 10s. In P.E this week we have continued to work on our Netball skills learning about the rules and the different range of passing. |
| 20/09/2024 | This Week in Year 3 we have been writing diary entries from our storyboards inspired by our class text The Boy Who Grew Dragons. Our focus has been using subordinating conjunctions to improve their writing. In Computing we have been using the chrome books to practise our typing skills and searching supermarkets to build our perfect sandwich to make in the D.T lesson. Year 3 have continued to compare and order numbers to 1000 in their maths lessons this week. Spellings: Common exception words, Challenge words |
| 13/09/2024 | This week we have been settling into Year 3. In Literacy we have been reading our exciting new text The Boy Who Grew Dragons by Andy Shepherd to help us form a balanced argument. In Maths, we are beginning to explore numbers to 100 and 1000 looking at the value of the digits. We have started our Urban versus Rural topic in Geography this week looking at the different characteristics and comparing them to different places we have been. Spellings: Common exception words |
