Welcome to the year 3 Blog. Every week I will give you a little snapshot of what we are learning each week so you can talk about it with your child, so here goes....

Blog 11 Week beg 1.12 25

Gosh....December already! It was nice to see lots of you at the Christmas fair last week. We have started to open our Christmas advent  houses...complete with chocolate and of course an Otway joke! I hope you enjoyed your extra day. I went to Kew gardens to see the light show. The show was great...the weather was diabolical!

Maths We have been learning about lines....horizontal...vertical....parallel and perpendicular. These are quite hard so please ask your child about them and how you can help.

English We are still using the book 'Incredible Jobs You have (probably) never heard of....it's such a great book. This week we learnt about being a Cheese sculptor (smell), a Mattress tester (jumpy) and a Rubbish detective  (dirty). We are also looking at the features of a book like this which are....headings....subheadings....paragraphs....diagrams....labels and key words in bold.

Science We learnt about the different strengths of magnets and tested them out. We found out that the largest magnet does not always mean the strongest. Who knew?!

Geography We used longitude and latitude coordinates to locate places in the world.

Spellings.....ure words including adventure...gesture...nature...pressure...pleasure...picture...enclosure....creature

Joke of the week.......Christmas style!

What food do snowmen eat?

Ice bergers!!!   Ho ho ho hee hee hee

Over and out until next week......

 

 

Blog 10 Week beg 24.11.25

This week was another busy week in the year 3 classroom. We were  mathematicians....scientists....geographers....singers.....musicians....and food tasters!

Maths We have started to learn about perimeter, this is where you add up the length of the sides of an enclosed shape.

Music We used the glockenspiels to follow musical notation to play a tune.

D and T We tasted food made by Mrs O'Neill and completed a yummy...yuk and ok sheet! Some children tasted marmite for the first time.....not keen! We planned out the healthy snack that we are going to make next week. We have chosen a base.....a filling....and a vegetable eg carrot....cucumber or spinach. Watch this space next week to see how they have turned out!

Geography We learnt about the lines of latitude....longitude and the prime meridian. Ask your child where this is!

Time tables...please keep playing TTRockstars regularly. Each week we 'adopt' a times table calculation. This week it was 8x9=72. Check your child knows it INSTANTLY!! I will start to put our adopted calculations on here.

Spellings....vary...various....varied....variety....varieties...variable....varying.....

Joke of the week

What do you get when nine ants move in with a friend?

Tenants!!!!!

Enjoy your long weekend as we are not at school on Friday.

Over and out until next week...........

 

 

Blog 9 Week beg 17.11.25

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! This week saw the first wintery snap and me de-icing the car at silly o'clock in the morning! PLEASE

ensure your child has what they need for rainy, cold weather......and label it! We did tree planting this week which was a lot of fun and hard work. We had to dig out a hole, make a little bed of soil in the hole, plant the sapling and turn the turf upside down to put back in the hole. We planted all types of different trees including oak and silver birches. Altogether the school are planting 200 trees which will grow into a wonderful little wood although not in my lifetime!! The class were brilliant at doing this with some help from year 5.

Maths This week we have been subtracting using regrouping, you might know this as 'borrowing'. 

English We have been writing our planned fables. We are using prepositions, noun phrases and 'show not tell'. This is where you describe something in a less obvious way. eg The mouse was scared turns into The mouse's heart was hammering or instead of writing The cheetah ran fast we could say The cheetah ran like the speed of lightning. It's a good technique to use.

Geography We learnt about lines called the Tropic of Cancer and The Tropic of Capricorn.

Science We learnt who discovered magnets and what happens when you put the poles together. Ask your child about this!

Our class book is called The Boy Who Lived with Dragons. They love it! There are several more in the series......just an idea from Father Christmas methinks!

Spellings..

History  historic   historical  historically historian prehistoric  

Joke of the Week      ho ho ho!

What do you get if you cross a grumpy sheep with an angry cow?

A baaaaaaaad moooooooood!!

Over and out until next week........

 

Blog 8 Week beg 10.11.25

This week saw us mark Remembrance Day on Tuesday. The whole school went onto the playground to have our 2 mins silence which was really well observed. We also had a fabulous visit from Isla's uncle Simon who is a trumpeter to the King! He played two different types of trumpet and talked about his career so far, including how to ride a horse. I think he inspired a lot of children and they asked a lot of questions which he patiently answered! 

On the menu this week...

English We were learning to use prepositions which are words that tell you where something is eg above/up/down/in front of.....They are good words to use for adding detail. We have been looking at fables and how they teach us a life lesson. We have planned a fable based on The Hare and the Tortoise which we are going to write next week.

Maths We have been using column addition including regrouping which you might know as 'carrying'! We have done very well on this and even gone into the thousands!

Geography We learnt about the Equator and which countries are above/below/on it, we used atlases to do this.

PE We have started to learn about dance and are using Carnival of the Animals as inspiration.

Science We did an investigation about friction using cars....ramps and different surfaces. We used our measuring skills to measure the distance the car travelled from the end of the ramp.

PSHE We are celebrating different families and how to solve conflicts.

Spellings this week is all based on the root words medic. 

medical  medicine medicinal medication (s) medicated  medicating

Joke of the week....hee hee haha!!

Why don't mummies take holidays?

They can't unwind!!

Over and out until next week....

 

Blog 7 Week beg 3.11.25

Welcome back everybody! Just before half term we had parent consultations and several parents said this weekly blog was very useful which is music to my little ears! 

On Thursday we went to Celtic Harmony, an Iron Age fort. It's great there and gives a real incite into life millions of year ago. We learnt how to make a stew out of herbs, wove on a loom, used different dyes and ground wheat to make flour. The round houses are great too! I really hope your child told a few things about it....it even stopped raining!

In other news...

Science We talked about contact forces such as push/pull and how we use them in everyday life.

Maths We have started to use formal addition calculations.

English We wrote a setting from a book called The Squirrels who Squabbled using noun phrases.

Spellings  ation/ion

location preparation inspiration information rotation vacation vibration sensation

Joke of the week

How many birds can change a light bulb?

Toucan!!!

Over and out until next week!

POLITE REMINDER PLEASE MAKE SURE ALL COATS ARE LABELLED....ALL CLOTHES IN FACTS!

Blog 6 Week beg 13.10.25

Thank you for coming to the assembly on Friday and seeing what we have been up to. A typical Monday  in year 3 looks like this...

assembly....reading....maths....english....story....maths fluency...spelling...history  and computing. This is just Monday so if your child is a little pooped when they get home, you now know why! Enjoy your half term next week!

Maths We were learning more mental subtraction strategies

Science We collected soil samples around the school and carried out different tests to see what sort of soil it was.

French We learnt more about colours and how to write them.

English We completed our draft poems based on The Magic Box

Spellings this week....was all about plurals

dogs children women families glasses patches  wishes  babies   ladies   pencils

Joke of the Week

Why did the golfer take two pairs of trousers to  play golf?

In case he got a hole in one!!

Over and out until after half term.......

 

Blog 5   Week beg 6.10.25

It's been another busy week in the year 3 classroom. We have been very enthusiastic with our learning this week!

History We were learning about Stonehenge...what an amazing place this is. Henge means ditch! We asked questions and tried to answer them using lots of books such as why was it built? What was it used for? How did they transport the stones? How did they get one stone on top of another? There are lots of other stone circles in the UK....there is even one in the sea made from wood. It is called (unsurprisingly) woodhenge.

English We have started to look at a poem called The Magic Box which is one of my favourite poems! It contains all sorts of impossible things such as a black sun and a fifth season. We started to write some of our own ideas based on this poem and nature. Come to our assembly on Friday at 9.00 to find out more!

Science We learnt more about the process of a fossil.

Computing We were writing code to make a 'turtle' draw a square!

RE We learnt the story of Abraham and Sarah.

Maths We were looking at mental addition strategies by picking out the bits we already know. eg 38+72 I know 8+2 equals 10 and I know that 7 and 3 make 10 so 70 and 30 must be 100....so 100 plus 10=110!

 

Please keep reading to and with your child plus TT Rockstars x3 a week.

Spellings for this week are... possess   possessive   possession   dispossess  dispossesses   possessed.

Joke of the Week

How does an astronaut get his baby to sleep?

Rock it! 

Over and out until next week.......

Blog 4 Week beg 29.9.25

This week we have been.....historians....writers...scientists....artists...athletes....musicians and so much more!

A polite reminder to hear your child read please AND TTR rockstars is expected 3x a week. 

Maths This week we were learning mental addition strategies. This includes Think 10/100. This is where you might turn a calculation such as 8+9 into 10 and 7 or 18+9 into 20+7 or...even bigger...318+9 into 327. The main stumbling block is knowing your pairs to 10 eg 7+3   8+2 and so on. Test your child by playing a game of 'Ping Pong' ask them for the rules!

Science We learnt how a fossil is made.

Art We drew the most AMAZING owl pics using chalk and charcoal. We would like to show you these masterpieces at our assembly on 17th October.

In Music we used the glockenspiels and in RE we learnt about covenants at a wedding ceremony. 

Spellings to practice....towards...forwards...backwards...awkward....awkwardly....afterwards.

Joke of the Week

What can a banana do that an apple can't?

Look round!

Over and out until next week.......

Blog 3 Week beg 22.9.25

The sun was out again this week but this is just a reminder that many children do NOT have coats and many are not labelled. PLEASE can you send your child in with a coat as the mornings are a little nippy. We aim to go out even if it's a little rainy, so please help us to help your child stay dry! so this week's snapshot of learning.......

In Maths we were ordering and comparing numbers. We have been using rounding slopes so you might like to ask your child what these are. They are great at helping with rounding numbers. They could even give you a little lesson on them! I have put a sheet at the bottom of this page to show you.

French We started to learn how to count up to 10 en francais.

PE Gymnastics and invasion games. On Friday we did some great intercepting. 

Art We used shading to complete the other half of an owl picture. We use 2B pencils for sketching. If you have ever wondered what HB stands for on a pencil.....ask your child!

RE We have been looking at the story of Noah and this week we learnt the word 'covenant'....a promise between a person and God.

Science We did some investigations to find out what rocks are permeable and durable. 

Another busy week of learning! Talking of busy....this word formed the basis of our spellings this week....

Spellings to practice....busy...busily....busiest....busier...business...businesses plus the words would/should/could.

Joke of the week

What food goes well with a jacket potato?

Button mushrooms!!!

Over and out until next week......

 

Blog 2 Week beg 15.9.25

Another busy week in the year 3 classroom! We are enthusiastic and keen with our learning  plus having a bit of fun on the way with our regular joke of the day!

Maths In Maths we have been learning to add/subtract 10 from a 3 digit number. Several children found it hard where it tips into the next 100 eg 78 88 98 108   or 142   132   122   112   102 92You might like to practice this with your child.

English We have been writing about Mini Rabbit Not Lost. We are using some lovely description in our work. We need to keep checking our work back for those pesky capital letters and full stops. We are also trying to include the spelling words from the week in our writing. These appear at the bottom for you to practice!

French We have learnt how to say My name is....How are you....How we feel....Goodbye and see you soon. We are almost fluent!!

PE Gymnastics and invasion games.

Computing We have been writing our own code on Purple Mash. 

Spellings to practice.....dramatically....occasionally...probably....strangely......carefully

Remember this is just a wee taster of what we are doing in the week, we do sooooooo much more!

Joke of the Week

Why did the man spread sugar on his pillow?

So he could have sweet dreams!!!!!

Over and out until next week......

Blog 1 Week beg 7.9.25

Maths  We were learning about place value, what numbers represent and how you can vary the order of numbers to make the same number.

English We have been writing a setting description using the book ' The Tree and the River'. We also wrote a Kenning poem....if you are wondering what one is, then it's a two words on each line poem!

Science We are started to learn about rocks and their properties. We used magnifying glasses to do close observations of different rocks.

History We have started to learn about the Stone Age. I love this topic! Did you know that the Stone Age is split into 3 parts.....Palaeolithic....Mesolithic and Neolithic. Expect these words to trip off your child's tongue!

Spelling words for you to practice.....

move  remove  unmoving  removing movement jumps jumped jumping

This is just a wee snapshot of the great learning we have done this week.

I always like to leave you with a joke to make you laugh

What do you call a strong vegetable?

A muscle sprout!!!!

 

Over and out until next week......