Welcome to Blackfriars Bridge Class
Welcome to the new academic year. We would like to welcome you and your child to Year 3.
The year 3 team consists of:
Miss Danzey - Class Teacher
Mrs Preston - Teaching Assistant
Recommended reading books for Year 3:
Best Books for Year 3 | Ages 7-8 | BooksForTopics
Expertly selected books for 7 and 8 year old children (lovereading4kids.co.uk)
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will begin a new unit on addition and subtraction. We will learn to add and subtract three digit numbers and ones, tens and hundreds.
- In English we will plan and write our own versions of Stone Age Boy.
- In science we will learn about friction.
- In history we will continue learning about early humans.
- In RE we will learn that Hindus believe in one God with many forms.
It is important that children read every day and that they bring their reading record and reading book to school on a daily basis.
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will continue our work on place value. We will compare and order numbers to 1000 and read and write numbers in numerals and words.
- In English we continue our work based on the book Stone Age Boy. We will write in role and create story boards. We will also learn to record speech using speech bubbles and inverted commas.
- In science we will learn how forces work to move objects faster or slower.
- In history we will learn about “Lucy,” a skeleton of an early human found in Africa.
- In RE we will begin work on Hinduism.
The children have been given homework which should be handed in on Tuesday. They should also continue to learn times tables, read at home and complete tasks on mathletics.