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Animal Antics in Year 3

09 March 2012

This week’s homework is Practice makes Perfect. The children have to complete the sequences on the worksheet counting forwards and backwards in 2s and 5s. It’s due in on Wednesday 14 March 2012.

09 March 2012

This week’s spellings are double consonants – they usually make the vowel sound before them a short sound (compare dinner with diner, for example). Your child will be tested on Friday 16 March 2012.

• better
• daddy
• dinner
• happy
• letter
• supper
• lolly
• button
• summer
• rabbit

Homework

Apologies: this week’s homework has not been sent home.

Your child will get their Practice Makes Perfect worksheet on Monday and we will collect it in on Thursday.

A very unique zoo

Year 4 were able to meet some fantastic animals – some that they may never see or touch again!

We were able to hold a corn snake.

Nayana fed a sugar glider a live insect. Everyone was able to have a touch.

Jaspreet commented, “They were brilliant!” while Zaki stated proudly, “I saw animals that I didn’t even know!”

09 March 2012

The spellings this week are all words with silent letters, e.g. knee, gnat, wrinkle.

The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 16 March.

09 March 2012

This week we’re spelling words with the ending ment.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 16 March.

• supplement
• government
• punishment
• development
• management
• employment
• environment
• equipment
• improvement
• argument
• announcement

09 March 2012

Your homework this week is talk time:

Should school uniform be banned?

In class we’ve learnt how to write balanced arguments.  Discuss with your parents, or adults at home, your opinions about school uniform.  Think of and discuss points that you agree with and points that you disagree with.  Also think about a conclusion and the connectives that you would use in your discussion.

Make notes in your homework book to show the things you discussed and what you concluded.

Homework is due in on Wednesday 14 March.

09 March 2012

This week in our spellings we are learning to drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’. All of the words this week are verbs.

By adding ‘ing‘ on the end of the verb, we have to drop the ‘e’ from the route word. For example, explore with an ing added becomes exploring.

As all the variations to the words are similar, I’ve included more words on the list. Any of the words in the list above could come up on the test on Friday 16 March.

09 March 2012

The homework this week is talk time and also a little bit creative and should be completed by Wednesday 14 March:

I can prepare a one minute presentation on an animal.

This week, we were visited by some very special animals, some that we may never touch or see again. They included a slithery corn snake, the adorable sugar glider (which we saw eat some live bait!) and also a tarantula (sedated thankfully). These were fascinating creatures and we learnt a little bit about each of them. Your objective is to find out as much as you can about these creatures and prepare a one minute oral (that means speaking) presentation on your chosen animal.

There need be nothing in your homework book. All that is required is that you are able to speak for a minute on your chosen animal. Please come and speak to me if you have any questions. Good luck!