Year 3 - Hippo & Tiger

Planting vegetables

Term 5

Year 3 have had a great start to Term 5. We had a lovely Egyptian Day full of wonderful stories and lots of opportunities for drama.

We have started a new unit about Healthy Eating in DT and have got some tomato plants growing in the classrooms. We will using the harvest in a cooking lesson later in the year. We will be linking this to our science unit about plants and what they need to grow.
We are looking at diary entries in English and have started a maths unit on mass and capacity.

Egyptian Day

Term 5 spellings and homework

Term 4 (part 3)

We have had lots of fun making Banksy style stencils this week and using water-based spray paints to pretend graffiti the outdoor classroom. Luckily it was all on paper so we could take it down afterwards and stick it into our art books. It was really effective!

We have been busy rehearsing our Easter assembly and learning the songs. We have been studying information texts in English so have recapped our learning on biomes and Ancient Egypt to ensure we have enough facts at our fingertips. We have loved fractions and have had some really successful lessons with insightful reasoning and problem solving.

Term 4 ( part 2)

Time is flying by this term and the children are getting lots of lovely learning under their belts!

We have been absolutely smashing our fractions unit this week, the children are enthusiastic and are working well. In English we have started a unit on Information texts that will recap our Stone Age learning from Term 1, our biomes from terms 2-3 and our Egyptian learning from this term so will be very exciting.

Our science work on light is progressing and we have undertaken several experiments so far.

PE is football, we are building up to a match and our dance lessons are focusing on machinery-style and repetitive movement.

Term 4

This term has started well with a new maths topic of length and perimeter that the children have really been enjoying. We have been learning how to write journey stories in English, experimenting with light and shadows in science, and started our Egyptian topic in history.

We are doing football and dance in PE and healthy eating in DT.

Term 4 Spellings

Term 4 Spellings.docx

We have had lots of fun in this half of Term 3!

We have had Dragon dancing workshops, an author visit and have had a great time learning about the human skeleton. PE has been Quidditch and our English unit of Defeating the Monster stories is proving to be a hit with some amazing work being produced.

Science Week

There has been a lot of fun in Year 3 so far this year.

We had the Chatham Dockyard in to help us conduct experiments with forces and magnets.

We also had a visit from a mobile planetarium and learnt all about being an astronomer.

This week we have been writing about spy gadgets in English and persuading Mr South to let us have a vegetable patch in the playground!

Term 3 Spellings.docx

There’s been some great learning going on in year 3 these past 2 weeks. We’ve created compasses using magnets in our Science lesson. We’ve had some fantastic practical maths lessons learning all about multiplication and division. Additionally, we had a lovely visit from dogs trust teaching us all about dog safety.

Another great few weeks in Year 3, we’ve begun practicing for our Christmas assembly and had a wonderful well-being workshop. See below for the fun we’ve had.

Using manipulatives for maths

November 2023

We have had a wonderful start to Term 2.

Lots of science experiments with magnets and forces, a new topic on biomes, a new unit on Warning Tales in English and a look at celebrating differences in RSE. We have completed our testing for this stage of the year and have shown resilience and a good work ethic.

In maths, we are continuing with our addition and subtraction unit, using lots of manipulatives and practical resources to show exchanges.

Term 2.

The rain doesn't stop play in Year 3, we managed to take science outside and test friction using toy cars.

This is the start of a new unit looking at Forces and Magnets.

In maths, have begun to add and subtract across the 10s and 100s.

Forces and Magnets

Term Two Spellings

Term 2 Spellings.docx

A fun-packed few weeks to end our first term of the year.

We had an amazing African drumming workshop as part of our look at Black History Month, we had a road safety workshop to teach us how to cross the road and completed our topics on Rocks, The Stone Age, and Pointillism.

The children produced wonderful pieces of Georges Seurat inspired landscapes and we finished our Portal Stories in English.

Some of our activities this term

These past two weeks have been action packed! We’ve had an African Dance workshop to celebrate Black History month. We’ve made soil puddings in science to model the layers of soil. Forest school is well under way and the children are loving it! In English, we have been learning our model text and our beginning to write our portal stories.

For weekly updates, our ClassDojo pages are linked below,

https://teach.classdojo.com/#/classes/64f1ddb18dfe1efc97ad4b97/story

https://teach.classdojo.com/#/classes/64f1df448458805fbe0e7ed2/story

Our Week in Pictures

Term 1

Spellings Group 1

Week 1	Week 2	Week 3
The /ow/ sound spelled ‘ou.’ mouth around sprout sound spout ouch hound trout found proud	The /u/ sound spelled ‘ou.’ touch double country trouble young cousin enough encourage flourish couple	The /i/ sound spelled with a ‘y’. gym myth Egypt pyramid mystery symbol synonym lyrics system gymnastics
Week 4	Week 5	Week 6
Endings that sound like /ze/, as in measure spelled ‘-sure’. measure treasure pleasure enclosure displeasure composure leisure exposure closure disclosure	Endings that sound like /ch/ is often spelt –’ture creature furniture picture nature adventure capture future sculpture fracture mixture	Prefix ‘re’ meaning ‘again’ or ’back’ redo refresh return reappear redecorate revenge review replay reaction rebound

Group 2

ility

Week 1	Week 2	Week 3
The /j/ sound spelled –dge at the end of words. badge edge bridge dodge fudge ridge smudge judge wedge lodge	The /j/ sound spelt –ge at the end of words. age huge change charge bulge village range orange hinge	The /j/ sound spelled with a g. gem gym giant magic giraffe energy digit engine religion gentle
Week 4	Week 5	Week 6
The /s/ sound spelt c before e, i and y. race ice cell city fancy lace space circle circus rice	The /n/ sound spelt kn and gn at the beginning of words. knock know knee knit knew knight gnome kneel gnat gnaw	The /r/ sound spelled ’wr’ at the beginning of words. write written wrong wrap wren wrecked wrapped wriggle wrestle wrote

We have had a lot of fun learning about rocks this week, we had Mr Berry in to inspire us all and teach us lots of interesting facts. We made our own fossils, we made metamorphic rocks by melting particles over a flame, and we caused explosions!