Another busy week of learning completed. The children have been impressing us every day!

 

Here’s what we will be learning next week:

English- Our grammatical foci this week are paragraphing, fronted adverbial phrases and apostrophes for possession. Our new text is Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf by David Almond. and this week we will be beginning a piece of persuasive writing about the best creations in the world..

Our class read is Varjak Paw by SF Said.

We will be beginning to send home reading books on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for those children who have not already chosen them. Reading diaries should be brought to school each day.

Maths- We are continuing to work on multiplication this week. We will be thinking about the divisibility rules for the 4 and 8 times tables. Next, we will be counting in 3s, using number facts and adjacent multiples in order to problem solve and finally, counting in 6s.

If your child would like to practise their learning at home, there are lots of free games which they can use, including Daily 10 from Topmarks or Hit the Button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

PE- We will be beginning to work on gymnastic and static balance and also incorporating some dance lessons over the course of this half term.

Computing- We will be introducing Scratch and planning a simple animation.

Science- We will be continuing our topic of light, using torches to investigate how we can alter the size of shadows.

Homework- We will post homework on Google Classroom each week. We have added tasks to Mathletics. Additionally, the children will have access to Language Angels to practise their new vocabulary in Spanish. We hope to give your child access to TTRockstars also this week, a fun way to practise times tables.

PE will take place on Monday and Friday for Blackfriars class and Tuesday and Friday for Waterloo class. Children should come to school in their school PE kits on those days.

RHE- We are beginning a new topic about dreams and goals and thinking about the challenges people face and how they can overcome them.

Please ensure your child has a water bottle in school each day.

Lastly, if you have any questions or concerns, please speak to a member of staff or email us at the address below;

Year3@howard.croydon.sch.uk

Year 3 Team

We have now got access to Google Classroom again and are starting to upload homework tasks. Children’s logins have not changed but there is a new class code.

Waterloo: 2tu6ksx

Blackfriars: tdsv7fo

If you have any problems logging in, please let us know.

Happy New Year! The first week has flown past and we have lots of exciting learning to get through this half term!

 

Here’s what we will be learning next week:

English- We are focusing on the use of adverbs this week and beginning to use commas after adverbial phrases. Our new text is Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf by David Almond. and we will be reading the first part and recording our initial responses to the text.

Our class read is Varjak Paw by SF Said.

We will be beginning to send home reading books on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for those children who have not already chosen them. Reading diaries should be brought to school each day.

Maths- We are continuing to work on multiplication this week. We will be consolidating counting in multiples of 8, using 8 times table number facts to solve multiplication and division problems, and considering the relationship between the 4 and 8 times tables, understanding that 8 is double 4 and 4 is half of 8.

If your child would like to practise their learning at home, there are lots of free games which they can use, including Daily 10 from Topmarks or Hit the Button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

PE- We will be beginning to work on gymnastic and static balance and also incorporating some dance lessons over the course of this half term.

Geography- We are beginning to consider volcanoes, how they are formed, where they are found and what happens when they erupt.

Science- We will be continuing our topic of light, using torches to investigate how we can alter the size of shadows.

Homework- We will post homework on Google Classroom each week. We have added tasks to Mathletics. Additionally, the children will have access to Language Angels to practise their new vocabulary in Spanish. We hope to give your child access to TTRockstars also this week, a fun way to practise times tables.

PE will take place on Monday and Friday for Blackfriars class and Tuesday and Friday for Waterloo class. Children should come to school in their school PE kits on those days.

RHE- We are recapping the NSPCC Pants project, considering that there are parts of our bodies which are private. More information can be found here

Talk PANTS & Join Pantosaurus – The Underwear Rule | NSPCC

Please ensure your child has a water bottle in school each day.

Lastly, if you have any questions or concerns, please speak to a member of staff or email us at the address below;

Year3@howard.croydon.sch.uk

Year 3 Team

We have now got access to Google Classroom again and are starting to upload homework tasks. Children’s logins have not changed but there is a new class code.

Waterloo: 2tu6ksx

Blackfriars: tdsv7fo

If you have any problems logging in, please let us know.