Week commencing 4th October
What an amazing week in Year 3! The children have worked really hard and we are all very impressed!
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.
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 comparing Ug’s world to the world today, imagining what Ug’s Stone Age community might look like and how it is different from ours. After that, we will be imagining how the future might be different to the modern world. We are going to write descriptions and compare our ideas about past and future communities. We will then be thinking about the strangeness of modern items to a Stone Age person and considering how we could describe and define them to someone who was not familiar with them.
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 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 will be continuing to work on place value, partitioning numbers in different ways, adding tens and ones to make hundreds and bridging multiples of hundreds.
Some of the representations we will be using are;
Place value counters
Place value charts
Dienes
Part, part, part, whole models
0-1000 number line
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 continuing to work on football skills and footwork skills in our lessons.
Geography- We will be beginning to understand OS maps and think about our place on the world by looking at maps of Croydon, London, the UK, Europe and the world and introducing map reading skills.
Science- We will be sorting magnetic and non-magnetic objects.
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 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