Spring has sprung!

Spring has sprung today and the children have enjoyed the excitement of Red Nose Day in some sunshine. Thank you for all the efforts today with non school uniform and dressing up to support this wonderful charity event, the children looked brilliant.

Over the last fortnight we have started a new English unit. We are now looking at Adventure as our text type and how to write an exciting story. The children are becoming aware of what features they need to include and have enjoyed our stimulus text called 'The Tunnel'. Why not ask your child what the storyline is and why it is considered an adventure? Within the unit we are also looking at aspects of grammar that would improve our writing. In particular we have learnt about expanded noun phrases, powerful verbs, inverted commas and varying our openers. Why not ask your children if they can expand the noun - tunnel, forest or tree? Hopefully, you will be impressed with their response!

In Maths in Mrs Gaines and Mrs Mercer's set we have been looking at multiplication and division. We have practised our tables, spotted patterns between tables, applied our knowledge to larger numbers and started to write a formal calculation for division. The children have enjoyed the challenges it can bring but we are pleased to say, they have risen to them. You can support your child at home by playing fun games and practising the tables, using a quick fire approach. There are also numerous apps and games online that help with this.
We can recommendHit the button tables practise.
In Mr Clifford's set they have been looking at Statistics which includes reading and interpretating graphs and tables. 

In Design and Technology we have started designing photo frames and we will be starting to make them next week. We will be using wood and new tools, so the children will be facing some new and exciting challenges.

As always we are appreciative of your continued support to help home and school links. Please continue to hear your children read regularly, asking questions as they read to ensure they are undersatnding the text. Please practice times tables whenever conveient and a fantastic opportunity to practise money is when at the shops.

Word problem- Susan buys 6 sweets at 4p each. She has a fifty pence piece. How much change should she get back?

Next week is parent consultations, Monday and Tuesday, so please look in your child's school bag for a consultation slip informing you what time your appointment is. We look forward to seeing you all then.

Enjoy some Spring sunshine this week
The year 3 team