Welcome to Year 3!!!
The Year 3 team:
3 Crystal - Miss Higginbotham (You can call me Miss H)
3 Lion - Mrs Smith
with Mr Ramsay, Mrs Bedford and Mrs Dunn
Important information:
Our PE days are Monday and Wednesday. Please come to school in PE kit on these days.
Bring a water bottle with a sports top each day.
Reading diaries and reading books should be in school every day.
Reading book change day will be Thursday. (This may change.)
Spellings will be set weekly on Doodle (usually on a Friday). The children should aspire to remain in the green zone by working on the little but often principle. We expect them to complete maths and spelling weekly. Rewards will be given for staying in the green zone as well as a bonus award for 1000 stars.
English
Instruction writing will be our first text this half term. We will be learning how to look after a guinea pig and learn the conventions of instructional writing. After that, we will be looking at poetry.
Our class readers will be: Planet Omar- Accidental Trouble Magnet by Zanib Mian and The Boy With Wings by Lenny Henry. Our book talk sessions will be based around a variety of short fiction books, including our class readers. Children have their reading scheme book and may also borrow a book from the reading corner in the classroom and our school library. Book change for reading scheme books will be on a Thursday. Children can also access their reading books online through the Boost website, as well as bringing the actual book home. We encourage the children to record their own reading in their Reading Diary - pages read and short reviews would be lovely to see. We also encourage adults to record in this diary when hearing children read.
Maths
We are continuing with our learning about Length this half term. Our maths understanding starts with practical apparatus before children move onto drawing or writing. Problem solving and explaining their reasoning is an important part of showing mathematical understanding.
Following length and perimeter, we will be working with fractions- comparing and ordering them and finding equivalent fractions (we will continue to learn about fractions in the summer term), then off to do some more work with measures, but this time with Mass and capacity.
To support in maths, please work on number bonds and times tables, specifically 2,3,4,5,8 and 10. We are also challenging the children to learn their square numbers this year. Using money and telling the time are also valuable activities that can be practised at home. Pizza or cake cutting can easily reinforce our work on dividing equally and fractions.
Our RE will focus on the idea of salvation- and our question will be- Why do Christians call the day Jesus died ‘Good Friday’?. In PSHE, we will be thinking about our community. We will discuss what our community is, and how to make everyone feel welcomed and valued within it.
In Science, we will be studying the different states of matter, introducing the terminology of solid, liquid and gas as well as boiling, freezing, condensation and evaporation. We will engage in roleplay, experiments and observations to make predictions and draw conclusions. Through DT, we aim to plan and build bridges.
In one of our PE units, children will develop and improve techniques with cricket. Our other PE unit is yoga.
Our geography topic this term asks "Why are there so many canals in our region?". We will be looking at how canals arrived in Stourbridge and the huge impact they had on trading and industry. We will be off for a field trip to experience life on the canal first hand, as well as using maps and primary resources to help us to compare how they have left a permanent mark on our landscape.
Our ICT lessons will be about branching databases as well as to design some objects to spread the word about Fair Trade..
In French, we will learn about les saisons and Le Carnaval de Nice. Lessons for Music will be about composing using imagination, as well as working on performing skills.