Year 3 Class News

Leeds Diving opportunities

Recently, Year 2 and 3 welcomed Leeds Diving as part of their talent in diving programme.

If your child is interested in learning to dive, please see the information and requirements below.

Performance Poetry

During Reading this week, we have been reading poems by Paul Cookson. The first, The King of All the Dinosaurs and the second, Mr Shadow’s Shoes.

We watched Paul Cookson perform one of these and had a think about what made his performance so good! These are the R2s that we took from him:

• read with prosody
• well-rehearsed
• add actions
• change tone of voice
• change volume of voice
• involve the audience

We then used these R2s to do our performances! We worked in small groups to add actions, rehearse and practise reading with prosody. The performances were fantastic with some even memorising the words after 20 minutes!

Help at home by reading another poem by Paul Cookson. There are plenty to choose from here: https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/extract/13318/100-Brilliant-Poems-for-Children-by-Paul-Cookson.html

Greater than, less than and equal to!

Year 3 have been comparing numbers! We began by comparing 1 digit and 2 digit numbers using the <, > and = symbols.

Once we felt confident with this, we moved onto comparing 3 digit numbers! It can be slightly trickier when the numbers are larger so here is a few ways to help:

364 ___ 362

1. Begin comparing the largest value column. This is the hundreds column!
2. If these are the same value, such as 3 hundreds, then move onto the next column.
3. Compare the value of your tens column. If these are the same, then… you guessed it! Move onto the ones column.
4. The ones value is greater in 364 than 362.

364 > 362

“364 is greater than 362.”

“362 is less than 364.”

Help at home by comparing amounts of objects at home.  For example, “6 apples is less than 30 grapes.”

Leeds Diving Training Scheme

Living and Learning

Last week, our Living and Learning statement was ‘I can use good manners’. During our lesson about this, we discussed what manners are and some good examples of good ones!

Manners are words and actions that we can do to help us be kind and respectful to others. Good manners help us to get on well with others.

Here are some of our examples;

• Saying hello to someone and asking how they are.
• Using our ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ when needed.
• Holding the door open for someone.
• Helping someone if their hands are full.
• Using kind words when talking to others.

This week, our statement is ‘I know that rights come with responsibilities’. A right a is moral or legal entitlement to have or do something. A responsibility is having a duty to deal with something.

We have lots of rights such as; a right to vote, a right to feel happy, a right to be heard and a right to learn. With these rights, come responsibilities such as, a responsibility to listen to others, to be kind to others and to help others learn.

Help at home: reinforce these messages about using good manners and being responsible at home as well as at school. Encourage your child to greet the adults on the gate as they arrive at school.

Autumn term after-school clubs

*Availability update*

Our after-school clubs are available for booking on schoolcomms. Please contact the office if you need any further information or help with booking places. Clubs will begin next week.

Topic and Science!

Hello!

Year 3 have had a great second week where we have really got stuck into our new learning.

Topic – Geography – Where in the world am I?

Year 3 have become geographers for this half term (a scientist who studies the Earth). We began by using an atlas to help us plot the capital cities, rivers and mountains in the United Kingdom on our own maps. Have a look at one of our maps!

We then began to answer our question: Where in the world am I? We realised there are a lot of answers to this question; Leeds, Europe, Moortown, Moortown Primary School, UK, England and the Earth!

Help at home: visit Google Earth and zoom all the way out from Moortown Primary School! What else can you see?

Science – Skeletons!

We began by trying to build the human skeleton out of different pieces. Once we had successfully done this, we tried to name as many of the bones as possible. We focused on these 5:

We imagined what we would look like if we didn’t have a skeleton or bones… it would be quite strange! Skeletons help to protect our organs and supports our body and movement.

Blue Peter Book Badges – apply now!

Do you like reading? Do you fancy getting your hands on an exclusive Blue Peter Badge? Now is your chance!

Blue Peter are introducing their exciting new Book badge, designed by one of the UK’s best known illustrators, Sir Quentin Blake, who you might know from bringing to life characters such as Roald Dahl’s BFG and Matilda! To earn your badge, just share your love of books with Blue Peter by answering the questions on the website! You can apply using the online form or by post.

Make sure you get an adult to help you!

Please read this information before applying.

Good luck!

Reading Records!

Reading Records

This week, Year 3 will be sent home with their new and exciting reading records! These records are to help me (Miss Birch) keep track of the children’s reading progress. 

The new reading records key info:

• Each time one of the children signs out a new book to read from the library, they can make note of these in the book and rate them out of 5 stars.
• I’ll choose an activity for the whole class to complete on their chosen book each Friday. More information on these activities are inside the record.
• The children will need to bring in these reading records every Friday for our Book Club lesson where we’ll discuss their books and develop their love of reading.
• The children’s grown-ups will also need to write a short comment sharing with us the lovely reading their child has been doing at home.
• It gives the children ownership and responsibility of their reading!

I hope this is all clear and I’m really looking forward to seeing their progress.

Any questions, please ask!

Spellings for this half term…

Instead of learning eight different words each week, we’d like you 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.

How you decide to do this is up to you. You might decide to focus on the trickiest words first. Or, you might decide to learn 8 words a week and really focus on these whilst still practising the others, too. For some of you, you might already feel confident with some of the words so might choose to not practise these at all.

However you decide to do it, is up to you. The important thing is that you’re learning them and learning how you like to learn them best.

Each week, we’ll choose eight random words to test you on. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more.

Learning spellings in this way might feel quite different – or even scary – but it shouldn’t. In fact, you’ve actually got less words to learn this half-term than you normally would.

We’ll keep thinking about this in school and we’ll regularly talk about how we can best practise these words at home.

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out this ‘Super Spelling Strategies Guide’ : Some-super-spelling-strategies

Half-term 1

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

• alternative ways for writing the ‘ay’ sound
• alternative ways for writing the ‘ee’ sound
• ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
• ‘drop the e for ing’
• ‘drop the y for an i’
• adding the suffixes ed, ing
• homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)

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