Class 3 Blog

Over the past two weeks we have been exploring multiplication and division. Please work with your child to learn their times tables by heart.

The end of year expectation for year 3 is to know their 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times table

The end of year expectation for year 4 is to know all tables up to 12 times table.

There are many games on purple mash and also on websites such as www. topmarks.co.uk and www.ictgames.com. All children also have their own times table rockstars log-in in their reading logs.

Regular practise is the key!

https://www.ictgames.com/tablesTennis/mobile/index.html

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/bunny/index.html

Over the past 2 weeks, Class 3 have enjoyed using the film ‘A Whale’s Tale’ in our English lessons. Last week we all worked very hard exploring the emotions linked to the characters of the story and we produced some great emotion graphs. This week we are going to look at speech linked to the film. Have a look at the film yourself and see what you think the different characters would be saying in different parts of the film.

On Friday, we had great fun using 2Type to improve our typing skills. The IT Suite became quite a hive of competition we everyone trying to beat each others scores! We decided to continue this as homework – can your mum or dad beat your score?

This week we continued our work on classifying animals by using our previously gained knowledge to sort animals in different ways. We all worked well in pairs to sort the animals and even moved onto using carroll diagrams, using 4 different criteria. It was tricky!

This week, I have been really impressed with the children’s hard work to learn new strategies and we have had much success with both column addition and subtraction! Ask your child if they can explain each strategy to you.

The area that we need to continue to work on is simple quick recall of addition and subtraction facts to 20, that will support us in our methods. Please work on this with your child.

The following websites might be useful

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

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

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/funkyMummy/index.html

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/smoothie/index.html

For an extra challenge, can you complete this puzzle….

Feel free to write me a message in your reading log to let me know how you got on.

Class 3 would like to introduce Freckles our very own sea turtle. Freckles is currently swimming in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of America! We have had great fun tracking him, finding out about sea turtles, researching the lifecycle of a sea turtle, drawing him and even making life size models on the playground!

If you want to see where he is, check out our display in the classroom or click on the link below…..

https://conserveturtles.org/sea-turtle-tracking-active-sea-turtles/

Over the past 2 weeks we have been looking at the range of different spelling patterns for ‘ai’. We have been so busy exploring all the different choices. We have also had a focus on ‘tricky words’ to make sure we spell these correctly in our writing. Please see your reading log for information on where spellings can be found on Purple Mash and also an extra wordsearch challenge.

In order to recap the continents and oceans of the world, we made balloon globes to hang in the classroom. I’m sure you will agree that they look fab and will be very useful for our theme….

In English this week we have been working hard to use expanded noun phrases linked to our text ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley’. It is a great story about the trials and tribulations of a plastic bag! Have a listen to the story yourself….

Did you hear any expanded noun phrases?

For homework this week, I would like you to work with a grown up to see if you can spot the expanded noun phrases in these sentences below.

If you need a quick reminder check out this site below, there is even a little game to play.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/z3nfw6f