Class 3

Welcome to Class 3!

Teaching Staff

Miss Latter, Mrs Bateup, Mrs Housden, Mrs Giles and Mrs Entwistle

Meet the Teacher

Learning Lens - W/C 6th January 2025

Welcome to Class 3!

Happy New Year to you all. I hope you all had a wonderful break. This week in school we have been focusing on our school theme of a healthy start.

Here are some of the things we have been learning in class:

In Maths, we have been continuing to learn about multiplication and division; working on multiples of 10, related facts and making connections. For Home learning in Maths, we are no longer using Mathletics. The children are going to be using TTRockstars instead. They have their log ins in their planners. https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/100430 I have set focus times tables for the children but they are welcome to explore any others.
In English, we have started looking at our new class text: The King Who Banned the Dark by Emily Haworth-Booth. Firstly we looked at the front cover without the title on it and made predictions about the text, using the illustrations to support our thoughts and ideas. We then looked at a picture from inside the text, annotating what we could see and making more predictions about the story before finding out the title. Lastly the children were shown the title and reflected on their predictions.
In Science, we thought about our termly question: Why is a balanced meal important? We then looked at the 'Eat well plate.' We reflected on this plate and thought about healthy meals we could eat.
In RE this term, we will learn about what things are important to Sikh people. This week we shared what we already knew from previous learning. We looked at pictures of different Sikh events, discussed what we thought was happening and shared any question that arose.
In Art, we thought about our termly question: How do artist create texture within their work? We then worked on our fine motor skills by repeating given patterns and creating marks in our books.
In PE, we created workouts with our learning partners. We then went and did these workouts in the hall. We then shared these work outs with the other children on our table. I loved watching the children leading and having fun sharing their workouts.
To consolidate our learning this week, I wrote the children a short letter about eating lots of chocolate, watching too much telly on the sofa and feeling sad. I asked the children to respond to my letter by giving me examples of meals I could eat, exercise I could do and things to make me happy. The children were asked to use all the knowledge they know about being healthy to write their letters.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Latter and the Year 3 Team

Phonics:

/er/ as in kerb

• circle • purpose • answer • certain • transfer • prefer • perhaps • quarter • work • centre • early • heard

This week's sentences are:

- Miss Latter was certain the answer in Maths was correct.

- Mrs Bateup asked us to colour in a quarter of the circle.

- Early in the morning, I heard the dog bark.

Home Learning:

TTRS is a great way to practice times tables: https://ttrockstars.com/ - Log ins are in the childrens planners.

Read! We will be sending some banded reading books home for some children as well as letting the children pick books for pleasure. Children will be changing their own books and if they pick a book they have read before that's fine. They should find it easier to read a second time round, gain more from it and be confident when reading. Repetitive reading will support children’s comprehension and impact their spelling.

Reading at home will always be encouraged and is a great way for children to discuss their ever-growing knowledge of different text types and writing styles!

Home Learning Ideas:

Art:

- Find out about these different Artists: Henri Rouseau and Andy Warhol.

- Create your own Jungle paining or drawing.

- Draw a portrait of someone.

Science:

- Plan a healthy meal for your family and then make it. Make sure to ask your adults first!

- Explain a balanced diet.

- Explain what happens if we eat too much of one food group.

- Draw and label a picture of a human or animal skeleton.

PE:

- Create an exercise workout for someone.