Spellings 3.2
Welcome back!
I can’t believe it is already the last half term of Year 3 – the year has flown!
This half term, we are continuing to practise the 40 spellings from half term 2.2. There were a few tricky words in the list that I feel the class will benefit from some extra practise with.
Instead of learning eight different words each week, we’d like your child to learn these 40 words over the whole half-term. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long term.
| adventure
anticlockwise ball bawl capture caught delicious feature forward history |
immaterial
impatient impolite important impossible independent inexperienced infamous international machine |
mail
male measure mention naughty ordinary pleasure position possession pressure |
quarter
scene seen should special sugar supernatural therefore thought treasure |
Any questions please ask!
Living and Learning: physical health
During the last two weeks of half term, Year 3 focussed on the importance of physical health in our Living and Learning lessons.
We learnt about the benefits of being active for 60 minutes every day. Some examples are:
- exercise warms you up
- your heart gets stronger
- improves your attention span
- helps you learn
- improves your memory
- helps you sleep better
- makes you feel happier
Help at home by asking your child how much physical activity they have done that day!
We are physicists!
Today, Year 3 continued their learning about magnets.
We learnt that magnets are a non-contact force. We also learnt that magnets having a north pole and a south pole .
We then conducted an experiment to see which poles attract (pull together) and which repel (push apart).
Help at home by asking your child if they can remember which poles attract and which repel!
Basketball
City of Leeds Basketball, who provide our after-school basketball clubs, have a range of sessions for children of all ages.
Visit their website to book.
Living and Learning: healthy eating
Over the past few weeks, Year 3 have been learning about healthy eating and how to make healthy choices regarding food.
As a school, we promote a happy and healthy lifestyle. Eating and drinking healthily doesn’t necessarily mean only eating fruit, broccoli and peas but it means having a balanced diet.
As part of our lesson, we discussed this pie chart called the Eatwell Guide. It shows us how much of eat food group we should aim to be eating in a day.
Aiming to have at least five pieces of fruit and vegetables a day means that our body is getting the important nutrients and vitamins that it needs.
Help at home by challenging your child and see how many different fruit and vegetables they can name!
We are physicists!
This half term, we are physicists. Our topic is all about forces and magnets.
Last week, Year 3 explored which objects were/were not magnetic using magnets.
After careful observation, we concluded that some metal objects were magnetic.
We then recorded this information in a table in our books.
Help at home by asking your child what a metal needs to contain for it to be magnetic.
Coronation Day!
Yesterday, we celebrated the King’s coronation!
We came to school dressed in the colours of the Union Jack: red, white and blue. At lunchtime, we came to the hall to have an indoor picnic. We then spent the afternoon making crowns, decorating bookmarks and making coronation collages!
Living and learning: Sun safety
This half term in Living and Learning, our topic is ‘healthy me’. We are learning about the different ways we can keep our bodies healthy.
Last week, Year 3 learnt about sun safety and the positives and negatives of being out in the sun.
Have a look at some of Year 3’s suggestions for how to stay safe in the sun!
Help at home by asking your child how they can stay safe in the sun this summer.
Rounders!
This week in PE, Year 3 welcomed in the summer term with their first PE lesson playing rounders!
We practised our batting and fielding skills whilst getting to grips with the rules of the game.
Year 3 loved the PE lesson and we look forward to developing our rounders skills as the summer term progresses!
History: Carnival
Welcome back Year 3!
This half term, we are historians. In this topic, we will be learning about some different carnivals around the world, including Leeds West Indian carnival. We’ll find out about its links to The West Indies and slavery in the past.
Here is our vocabulary for our topic this half term:
Help at home by asking your child what vocabulary they have learnt in class during the week. See if they can remember what word vocabulary means!