Tricky words
The children enjoyed reading their bananas this week!
Phonics
We have begun phase 3 of the ‘Letters and Sounds’ phonics programme.
The purpose of this phase is to:
- teach more graphemes, most of which are made of two letters, for example, ‘oa’ as in boat
- practise blending and segmenting a wider set of CVC words, for example, fizz, chip, sheep, light
- learn all letter names and begin to form them correctly
- read more tricky words and begin to spell some of them
- read and write words in phrases and sentences
Here are some examples of words your children will be reading: tail, week, right, soap, food, park, burn, cord, town, soil
Tricky words
During phase 3 the children will learn more ‘tricky words’: he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you, her, they, all, said
In addition, during this phase children will be expected to begin to write sentences independently.
If you have any questions, please ask and do attend our next phonics open mornings on Wednesday 18, Thursday 19 and Friday 20 January.
What’s the matter?
We started our mini science based topic. The children were all very keen to learn about solids, liquids and gases.
The children enjoyed a carousel of activities including investigating solids and some scientific reading!
06 January 2017
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Thursday 12 January.
I can respond to difficult situations in a positive way.
Our SEAL topic this half term is called It’s good to be me.
In Year 3 we have discussed how to deal with difficult situations in a positive way. Your child can talk about the story ‘Happy to be me’. They can discuss the moral of the story and how everyone is special and unique.
06 January 2017
Materials
We’ve been learning about different materials this week. We started by discussing the types of materials and their properties. We’re now designing a new shed for Mr Grumpy using the most appropriate materials.
06 January 2016
I’ve updated the blurb about this week’s spellings as there was a mistake. Sorry for any confusion.
06 January 2016
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Thursday 12 January.
It is good to be me.
Talk to your child about why it is good to be them. What are they good at? What qualities do they value in themselves? Who or what else makes it good to be them?
Thinking about our next Big Topic
In preparation for our upcoming Big Topic, we put our heads together to think about what we’d like to learn and do. The next Big Topic will be Time Travel and Year 5 and 6 will be exploring entertainment through the ages.
There were hundreds of great ideas which Mr Catherall and I now need to seive through but here are a few to give you a taster:
- create a marble run using woodwork skills
- learn some ballroom dancing
- create our games using our computing skills
- write a promotional text for a game
- work out the costing and profit for putting on a theatre production
We look forward to starting this topic in the week beginning 16 January and will keep you updated on what we’re doing.
06 January 2017
This week’s spellings focus on the letter string, ‘ough’.
- enough
- tough
- though
- thought
- rough
- ought
- cough
- bought
- brought
- drought
- although
- dough
- plough
- sought
- thorough
Ten of these spellings (or words in their word families, eg thorough and thoroughly) will be tested on Friday 13 January.