Year 3 learning this week

In Year 3, we have been busy combining practical life skills with our digital learning! As part of our topic on healthy eating, the children put their culinary skills to the test by designing and making their own delicious sandwiches with a variety of fresh fillings, as well as tasting different fruits and vegetables. To top it all off, we participated in our final Healthy Eating Workshop to learn how balanced choices keep our bodies energized. In Computing, pupils put these concepts into practice using Chromebooks to explore different ways to present a shopping list and research real item prices online, building both their digital confidence and everyday practical skills. 

Spellings: accident / accidentally, actual / actually, address, answer, appear, arrive, believe, bicycle

Year 3 enjoyed their first trip of the year to Wisley Gardens, where they were able to build on their foundational knowledge in Science and D.T. around healthy eating, looking at where food is grown. During Maths this week, we have been using our problem-solving skills to explore how data is interpreted differently by drawing a range of different bar charts 

Spellings: th, ea  calendar,caught,centre, certain circle.

This week Year 3 have been continuing their diary entries as Tomas in The Boy Who Grew Dragons, where they have written in paragraphs using time adverbials to link paragraphs together. These have been published neatly in their books, they have done a great job! In Maths, we have moved on to a new topic - Rounding Numbers to 10 and 100. This has been a challenging topic as it is new learning in Year 3, however we have explored lots of methods to find the nearest 10 and 100 of a number, lots of which you can try at home with a helium balloon! In our Science lessons we have been exploring what nutrients are and why they are an important part of our diet. We made posters in pairs on each of the nutrients. Year 3 are still enjoying their healthy eating workshop on Wednesdays, where they are linking their Science and DT learning. 

Spellings: words ending in ‘ture’ - future, adventure, creature, sculpture, mixture, furniture, picture

This week, Year 3 have been exploring time adverbials in Literacy to write diary entries from the perspective of our class book's main character, Tomas. We will continue writing these diaries next week to ensure we complete an extended piece of writing this term. In Maths, we have been learning the value of each digit and using our known facts to solve word problems. We have also been adding and subtracting 10 and 100, noticing that usually only the tens or hundreds digit changes. In Music, we learned the difference between rhythm and pulse. We split the class in half so one group could clap the pulse while the other sang the rhythm. Finally, in our Healthy Eating workshop, we tracked our heart rates during exercise and discussed how staying active and eating a balanced diet keep our hearts healthy.

Spellings: Words ending in ‘ture’ - mixture, fracture, adventure, sculpture, picture, future, nature, creature, furniture, capture

It has been an action-packed week of learning! In English, we dived deeper into our class book, ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’. The children let their imaginations run wild as they designed and drew their own magical gardens, using expanded noun phrases to write rich, detailed descriptions.

Our hands-on approach continued in Maths, where we explored place value in three-digit numbers through energetic group games. Meanwhile, our Science and Healthy Eating workshops paired up perfectly this week. The children learned all about the Eatwell plate, exploring how much of each food group makes up a balanced diet before putting their skills to the test by categorising foods based on their nutritional value.

Spellings: words ending in ‘-sure’. E.g. treasure, reassure, leisure, enclosure, pressure, disclosure

This week Year 3 have made an amazing start to the year. They should be very proud of themselves. We have started the year off reading our new book in Literacy - The Boy Who Grew Dragons - where we have been writing sentences about the mysterious bongleweed found in the garden! We have been focusing on using interesting adjectives and making sure all our sentences have a capital letter and full stop. In Maths, we have been exploring number sense, starting with the foundations we will need to be successful in our upcoming topics. In P.E., we have started our three sports - Dance, Jumping and Netball, learning basic skills, teamwork and rhythm. 

Spellings: mouth, sprout, around, sound, spout, ouch, hound, trout, found, proud