This week in Year 3, we have been writing diary entries from the perspective of one of the characters from our book ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’. We have focused on using time adverbials to make our diary entry tell our story in order. In Maths, we have been learning how to round numbers to the nearest ten and hundred, using our knowledge of place value. In P.E., we have been continuing with netball, jumping and dance, creating our own dance moves to tell the story of ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’.

Spellings: words ending in ‘ture’ and ‘sure’.

This week Year 3 have been designing their own gardens in Literacy. They drew their dream gardens and wrote interesting descriptions about them using expanded noun phrases. Some examples included a garden as long as a beach, and two spiky coconut trees. They have also been continuing their number sense learning in Maths where they have been learning to find what each digit in a number represents, and order and compare them based on their values. In French, they have been continuing their new learning of greetings and practising saying them out loud to their teacher and peers.

This week Year 3 have been practising partitioning numbers and writing numbers to 1000 in Maths. They have also been working in groups using Cuisenaire rods to find number bonds to 10 and 20. In Literacy, they have been writing balanced arguments as to whether they would grow a dragon or not. This has been interesting to see how many of them would want to grow a dragon, and their reasons for it (making them breakfast in bed). We have been learning about healthy eating in Science, using the iPads to research different nutrients and how much of them we need in our diet. 

Spellings: Words with the sound ‘ou’ that sound like ‘ow’ and ‘u’.

This week we have enjoyed learning the routines of year 3 for our first full week! We had our very first french lesson which we loved and learnt how to say hello and goodbye. We have started lots of our new topics such as Healthy Eating in Science and Urban vs Rural farming in Geography. In Literacy, we have started our new book - The boy who grew dragons and wrote a description of the infamous Bongleweed Plant. In Maths, we have looked at strategies for solving simple mental addition. 

Spellings: words with ‘ou’ - shoulder, could, mouth, shout