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Literacy

In a recent literacy lesson, the children worked in groups to correct sentences that had no capital letters. They got points for spotting each missing capital letter and the winning team won a Wilksy Wonder prize!

Guided Reading in Year 3

Hello!

Guided reading is a bit different this year so I thought I’d write a post explaining how it all works:

The children are split into five different guided reading groups. Each group has about six children in it and each group reads with me once a week on a designated day of the week. For example, Monday Group read with me on Monday, Tuesday Group on Tuesday, etc.

All the children in the group read the same book. After they read with me, I set a “target page”. They have to reach this “target page” by the next time they read with me. It’s really important that the children reach but do not exceed the target page so that they are all at the same place in the book. If you find that your child has reached the target page quickly, they can read another book at home or I can arrange for them to take another school book home.

I hope that makes sense! Please come to see me if you have any questions.

The Water Cycle

Our first mini-topic of the year is water. As part of the topic, we’ve been learning about the water cycle. In this topic lesson, children annotated a picture on the iPads to show the different parts of the water cycle.

Forces

We’ve started the year with a mini-topic on forces. We went to the playground to think about pushes and pulls that we use. Here’s a pupil using a pull force to lift himself up (he loves climbing from what I read in his homework)! Gravity and friction are two new words that we’ve learnt this week.

Maths

This half-term, the children will learn to develop their number skills. So far, we’ve learnt about multiples of numbers, partitioning numbers, odd and even numbers and we’ve been mentally adding numbers, too.

We’ll soon be focusing on using other methods to add and subtract. To help your child at home, you could encourage them to count on and back from random numbers in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s.

We’ll learn our 2, 5 and 10 times table this year so practising them will help, too.

Roll Up! Roll Up!

Our big topic ‘Roll Up! Roll Up!’ will start in October – we’ll learn all about the circus.

We’re looking forward to learning some circus skills too!

You might be interested to know that the Netherlands National Circus are performing in Harrogate on The Stray between the 18 and 23September.(Check out Groupon for some discounted prices!)

SEAL

The SEAL topic for this half term is ‘New Beginnings’. As a class, we have decided what rules we should all follow and have created a learning contract that we have all signed. The children will develop their speaking, listening and thinking skills through circle time. It is also a good opportunity for children to reflect on their week and help others with their problems.

Well done to Grace and Mia for making Jorja feel welcome in her new beginning at Moortown Primary.

14 September 2012

This week, the spelling chant to practise with your child is ‘drop the y for an i’.

There are lots of types of words where you drop the ‘y‘ for an ‘i‘. Here’s a selection of different types of words where the rule applies.

14 September 2012

This is the second week of investigating the effect of adding ‘ing’ to words.

This week’s spellings are all words which have a short vowel sound before the final letter. This means that you need to double the final letter when adding ‘ing’.

The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 21 September.

14 September 2012

Spellings this week are words with the suffix ful. Spellings will be tested on Friday 21 September.