Week beginning 20th September
What an amazing week in Year 3! We have had an amazing start to the year. It has been wonderful to meet you all and begin to get to know you. Many thanks for all the support you have shown us so far. We look forward to working with you over the year.
What we will be learning in Year 3 this week:
English- We will be continuing to read the story of Ug Boy Genius of the Stone Age by Raymond Briggs. This week we will be inventing a Stone Age game and writing a set of instructions to help others play the game. We will also continue to compare Ug’s world with our own.
Our class read is The Boy with the Bronze Axe by Kathleen Fidler. Children also have access to a range of Raymond Briggs books which allow them to explore more of his writing.
We will be beginning to send home reading books for those children who have not already chosen them. Reading diaries should be brought to school each day.
Maths- We will be continuing to work on place value, consolidating 3-digit numbers over 200, finding 3-digit multiples of 10 on a 0-1000 number line, finding non-0 0nes digits on sections of number line and identifying and placing 3-digit numbers on a blank 0-1000 number line.
Some of the representations we will be using are;
Place value counters
Place value charts
Dienes
PE- We will be continuing to work on football skills and footwork skills in our lessons.
History- We will be continuing to investigate and interpret the past, learning about Stone Age people and how farming changed their lives.
Science- We will be carrying out an investigation to discover how friction caused by different surfaces affects movement of an object.
Homework- We have been looking at inventions which changed the Stone Age world in both English and History. Over the next couple of weeks, we would like children to find out about a person who changed the world and display their information on a poster which we can display at school. Please see below for full details.
PE will take place on Monday and Tuesday for Blackfriars class and Tuesday and Thursday for Waterloo class. Children should come to school in their school PE kits on those days.
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