Year 3 Class News

Maths – What’s the time?

This week, Year 3 have been learning to tell the time. Telling the time can be tricky as there are lots of ways to read the same time e.g. 2:15, 15 minutes past 2 and quarter past 2.

We began by reading the time to 5 minutes.

“three twenty”

Then, we had a go at reading time to minutes past and minutes to. The key to this is lots of practice!

Here’s the children’s fantastic learning:

Help at home by having a go at reading the time.

Challenge: Can you read a digital and analogue clock? What about a clock that uses roman numerals?

What can you achieve?

Today, Jess Wright, who is a coach with PE Partner and leads one of our after-school clubs, came to speak to the children in an assembly.

At only 17, Jess has been playing football for over ten years and currently plays for Sheffield Wednesday. She also coaches at different levels from children to adults and referees too.

Jess has another role which is to try to get children, especially girls, into football and providing opportunities for children who want to get involved.

Jess shared information of how to get involved in local physical activities. This could be our school after-school clubs, other local physical activities listed in our guide for parents and carers or other opportunities especially around football and getting girls into football.

Leeds City JFC are a local club looking for new members especially in their girls teams.

Wigton Moor JFC are another local club with opportunities.

Catalan Soccer offer classes and camps.

Thank you to Jess for coming into school to inspire the children and to share her experiences around football and the opportunities and skills it provides.

New spelling list for half term 6!

HT6

Year 3,4

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• alternative graphemes: tion, sion, ssion, cian
• alternative graphemes: i, ie, y, i-e
• homophones: he’ll, heel, plain, plane, groan, grown, rain, rein, reign
• alternative graphemes: sc
• spelling patterns: que
• alternative graphemes: u spelled ou

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

Science – Does the amount of seeds affect the growth of a plant?

Hello! We hope you’ve had a relaxing half term.

We’ve come back to some amazing growth from our sunflower seeds! With the warm and sunny weather, they’ve shot up.

There is still a big difference between the heights of the plants in each pot too. With the plants with 2 seeds in now being the tallest and the pot with 1 seed being the shortest.

Check back next week to see more growth!

Triathlon

This week, thirty of our Key Stage 2 pupils took part in the Brownlee Foundation Mini Triathlon event at John Smeaton. This is always a great event and it introduces the children to the elements of triathlon – a swim, a bike ride and a run.

Well done to all the children for taking part.

If your child is interested in triathlons, please see more details in our physical activity guide or have a look at this bike and run offer at the Brownlee Centre.

Living and Learning – I know that being physically active is healthy mentally and physically.

Over the last couple of weeks, Year 3 have been discussing how to stay healthy mentally and physically.

Physical activity helps to:

• strength our muscles
• develops our coordination
• improves our fitness
• maintain a healthy weight

We discussed our day to day lives to work out if we are being active enough. These are some opportunities we have to be active; walking to and from school, Wake Up Shake Up, PE, swimming, clubs, playtimes.

Help at home: Have a look at Uma’s day. How could she be more active? Have a look at your own day.  How can you be more active?

Physical activity helps to keep our minds healthy too. Being active releases chemicals in your brain that make you feel good – boosting your self-esteem and helping you concentrate as well as sleep well and feel better.

Science – sunflower update!

Hello,

Does the amount of seeds in one plant pot affect the growth of the plants?

Lots of us predicted that the plant pot with 1 seed would grow quicker and taller than the others because it has more space to grow in the soil and doesn’t have to share its nutrients and water with other seeds!

However…

At the moment, our plant pots with 8 seeds is growing quicker and taller than any of the others with the tallest being 8cm.

Help at home: Can you think of a reason why this could be happening? 

Writing – The Flood

In Writing, Year 3 are planning a narrative. A narrative is a story that entertains and interests the reader. Our narrative is going to be based on this picture book called ‘The Flood’.

Features to include:

• description
• action
• dialogue (direct speech)
• different sentence lengths

In today’s lesson, we spent time generating vocabulary to use in our narrative. We tried to describe nouns like the storm, rain and clouds.  We used the iPads to find synonyms of words we could think of. Here’s what we found!

Help at home: Can you think of any more adjectives to describe these nouns?

Science – Does the amount of seeds affect the growth of a plant?

Does the amount of seeds affect the growth of a plant?

Last Friday, Year 3 set up a test to see whether the amount of seeds in one pot affects the growth of a plant and more specifically a sunflower!

What are we measuring?

We are measuring the height of the plants in centimetres every week.

What are we keeping the same?

We are keeping the size of the pots, the amount we water them and conditions (windowsill) the same.

What are we changing?

We are changing the amount seeds in each pot: 1, 2, 4 and 8 seeds per pot.

We went out in the sun to plant these and to plant our own individual sunflower seeds too!

The children will measure how these grow over the weeks and take them home.

Check back here every week to see updates!

Living and Learning – I know the importance of a balanced diet.

Year 3 have been discussing how we can make sensible choices that help our bodies stay healthy.

One way we can help our bodies stay healthy is having a balanced diet. The children have previously learnt about what a diet is and a balanced diet in Science earlier this year.

A diet: the foods a person or animal eats.

A balanced diet: eating a wide variety of foods in the right proportions.

We discussed our own diets and whether they are balanced or not. Here are some questions we thought about…

Are you having your 5 a day?

Are you getting enough protein whether its from meat or other sources?

Are you allowed a treat here and there?

Here’s a guide to the amounts of food we should be having.

Help at home: Can you plan your next meal using these proportions to help you?