Year 3
Mrs Salisbury and Mrs Johnson welcome you to year 3!
Why do we adapt?
This half term we are learning all about the Britain from the Iron Age to the Stone Age, their tools, artwork and settlement types. as well as forces and light! A very busy term!
Do you know when the Stone Age was?
How is it different to the Iron Age?
How did Britain change from the Stone Age to the Iron Age?
We look forward to using different types of historical sources to help us answer these questions!
Do you recognise the image above? Click on the picture to find out more.
What do you think it tells us about life in the Stone age?
We look forward to completing work on Fairtrade to help us develop our understanding of the world around us. using atlases and digital mapping.
We have some exciting trips planned to help us with our learning, keep an eye on the newsletter!
During this block we will be investigating light and shadows. We will begin to explore how light travels and what are sources of light. We will create our own shadow puppet play using our expert knowledge and skills on light and shadows. We will conduct investigations on shadows, light and reflections.
What is light?
Click on the image above to find out more!
Jesus the teacher
During the this half term children will be thinking about Jesus as a teacher to us all.
READING AT HOME
Please read to a grown up every day and ask them to sign your book. Talk about what you like and dislike about the books you read, what your opinions are about the characters and events and make predictions about what you think will happen next.
Remember to put a token on your reading chart each morning to show that you have read at home.
If you read 35 times this half term you will be in with a chance of winning some Saves!
Let's see if we can win the reading trophy this week!
Literacy
Have you ever wondered how to wash a woolly mammoth?
It's not a very easy thing to do!
Click on the image above to listen to the story at home.
We are going to be exploring instructional writing on how exactly you was a woolly mammoth! We will look at the language and sentence structure needed in instructions and develop our use of imperative verbs.
Remember don't get any soap in its eyes or it might escape!
Click on the image below to play 'Spooky Spellings'.
Numeracy
For the first few weeks we will be developing our knowledge of 2D and 3D shape.
We will develop our mathematical language to describe shapes and identify them in different orientations and in real life.
Can you spot any shapes in your every day life? Let Mrs Johnson know what you find, can you describe its properties to her?
Don't forget to log on to Times tables rock stars
to practice your times tables!
Become a rock legend - click on the image below! 
Can't remember your logins? Ask Mrs Salisbury or Mrs Johnson!
Click on the image below to play more times tables games!
PE
We will be completing PE lessons every Thursday and Friday.
Please make sure you have your full PE kit every week to make sure you gain a 'Save!'
A healthy body is a healthy mind!
Things to remember!
- Read every night and bring in your red reading diaries every day!
- Practice your spellings and times tables!
- PE kits every day!
- Year 3's day at the Bank and Shop is Monday...……….look after those Saves!
- Homework challenges...…..you've got to be in it to win it!
Spanish
We will be learning basic Spanish greetings in our weekly Spanish lessons.
Listen to the songs below to learn some Spanish phrases and vocabulary!
Buena suerta!
A fantastic trip! First we went across the River Mersey to see the sights of the river, then we went to the World Museum and became Egyptologists.
We have begun to investigate and make scientific observations of different types of rocks! We were able to use scientific language to describe their appearance, texture and colour #rockdetectives
We made Egyptian cartouches out of clay. We have been researching their purpose and designs before using hieroglyphics to design our own.
Picasso art for European day of languages 🎨
We had a brilliant morning at the Storyhouse watching 'Horrible Histories - Awful Egyptians'
We explored how fossils are made and then made our own using clay
