Friday 10 March 2017

Busy but fun days

Last week year 3 wowed the school with a confident assembly performance. Every line was audible and remembered unprompted and the singing and dancing was brilliant. Well done year 3. In addition to a fabulous assembly, we also had the excitement of book day. During the day the children wrote their own story, unaided, which they all then submitted into a writing competition. We will hopefully have a chance to share some of these stories in class but there was no opportunity this week.

Assessment week has been very busy.  The whole year group rose to the occasion and everyone tried their hardest. The children have had Maths tests in every area (place value, geometry, measurement,  fractions, statistics and the four rules of number)  to check their understanding. We also assessed them in three different reading comprehensions - fiction, non fiction and poetry. The children took it all in their stride and are now looking forward to a more relaxed day on Monday, in the form of Science day!

Homework
In preparation for this and to have a break from English and Maths, we have sent home a science homework. The idea is that the children make a colourful spinner and then make observations whilst spinning it. All the resources have been provided for the children and put inside their science book. We hope you have fun creating it and we look forward to seeing the results.
We have also set their weekly spellings and would like them to continue writing in their reading records as often as they can.

Help at home
Further support you could give your child at home is to continue practicing the times tables with them, especially Mrs Mercer's and Mrs Gaines' group as we are moving onto the unit of multiplication and division next week. First we will be looking at the 3, 4  and 8 times table. There are lots of fun websites and apps that help children to learn the tables at speed and being tested on an IPAD or computer doesn't always seem like work!

In Science we have just started our topic of plants so if you are a keen gardener you could talk to your children about why you plant certain seeds or bulbs at different times of year.

In English we are moving onto the genre of Adventure stories, if you wanted to practice orally rehearsing stories, that could be fun together.

For example ... On a quiet, deserted island the young boy called Pete, spied an adventure map in a bottle. Without hesitation he pulled it out and saw.....



























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