Year 3 Blog - Penguins Class

Please find attached this week's spellings for next Monday's spelling test (13.11.23). Thank you for your ongoing commitment over the half-term holidays to ensure your child's learning remains fresh. Looking at the homework books, I can see all of the exciting things your families got up to from pumpkin carving to zoo visits etc. We enjoyed listening to these adventures during 'Show and Tell'. 

For this week, your child has only two spelling activity sheets (both can be completed independently) and a Maths revision sheet which shouldn't take your child too long to finish and complete (the majority of it) independently. Please continue with reading at home as well as Doodlemaths and Spelling Shed for a few minutes at a time. Again, most of these online tasks are set so your child is able to complete these by themselves.

Have a great week! 

- Miss Jackson 

Hello,

I hope you're enjoying your holidays so far. In preparation for Monday's spelling test (06.11.23) please find the attached list to ensure your child is able to keep practising in their homework book.

Thank you for the continued support this half-term in ensuring your child completes their weekly homework tasks.

*Please listen to your child read at least 3 time a week. Please use the phonics links sent to you (if applies) as a way to keep phonics learning fresh and secure.

*Try to stay in the green zone on doodle by completing your '5 a day' and your assignments. Hopefully, this is a quick activity for your child - it really does make such a difference to their maths fluency and helps their maths to become more automatic.

*Please ensure your forest schools kit including wellies are in school on Fridays and that PE kit is in school on Mondays and Fridays. Please feel free to leave kit in school now that we have our lovely, new cloakrooms where we have plenty of storage!

Miss Jackson

Hello,

Just to make you aware, I plan to create weekly homework posts to enhance communication and work-related expectations as well as any key updates, reminders and any general messages for the week.

Thank you for the continued support this half-term in ensuring your child completes their weekly homework tasks  - key reminder: please make sure your child uses the rest of the handwriting lines when practising their spellings as opposed to writing out the word once or twice. This way, the children are able to instil great handwriting skills as well as uphold spelling practice by repeating writing the word multiple times.

*As always, there are the usual spelling and mathematics task to complete over the holidays. You'll begin to see that I am adding in a spelling shed activity to encourage spelling practice. Keep on completing your additional homework tasks if you have not managed to tick off at least three or four Science activities. Following on from this, feel free to keep a short holiday log in your homework book in order to share with the rest of the class all the fun things you got up to in the half-term holidays. This is not designed to be lengthy or for your child to write a great deal each day. Just a few sentences about key memories and trips out will help to maintain the importance of finger spaces, letter-join handwriting, full stops and capital letters. 

*Spelling activity this week is an extra week as we have completed all of our words for this half-term (I have added words to Spelling Shed so that your child can play games as well). I have used words that I have identified they are spelling incorrectly in their work, so I know these words will be helpful for children to use in their writing.

*Please listen to your child read at least 3 time a week. Please use the phonics links sent to you (if applies) as a way to keep phonics learning fresh and secure.

*Try to stay in the green zone on doodle by completing your '5 a day' and your assignments. Hopefully, this is a quick activity for your child - it really does make such a difference to their maths fluency and helps their maths to become more automatic.

*Please ensure your forest schools kit including wellies are in school on Fridays and that PE kit is in school on Mondays and Fridays. Please feel free to leave kit in school now that we have our lovely, new cloakrooms where we have plenty of storage!

Miss Jackson

Thank you for coming to last night's Base One Meeting. In case you were not able to come, please see the attached document which will take you to the shared information we talked about last night. 

Any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

As mentioned in the previous blog, this post is for you to easily access key documents to share the areas of learning your child will be focusing on this first half-term. 

For science this half-term,  we shall be looking at 'Animals, including humans' combined with our 'Wonderful Me' topic. Therefore, please can you stick in a picture of your child and their pet/previous pet with a small explanation of its name and how long it has been in the family (if you have one, if not you could borrow a family/friend's pet) before 11/09/23.