Category: Year Three

This week’s year 3 blog is written by Kallum and Sofia.

This week we have been learning all about poetry. We have learnt about using imagery and onomatopoeia to make your poem interesting for the reader. To inspire our poem we are using our class book ‘Major Glad and Major Dizzy’ which is about two soldiers who have a hard life. They belong to two children called Amelia and William but they get lost when they slip between the floorboards.

We have also been learning extended noun phrases such as “Two smart soldiers standing in attention.”

In maths we have been learning about column addition and subtraction. We have also been learning about division and multiplication.

In science we have been learning about magnets and forces. We did an experiment to see which things were magnetic and which things were not magnetic. We have also learnt that magnets can repel or attract.

In music we have been playing different instruments to the same piece of music.  Taking it turns and listening carefully to the pulse and the beat.

In French we have been learning about instructions and our body. “Ecoutez” means “Listen”.

This week has been very good and fun!

By Kallum and Sofia.

Want to know the fastest surface to race a car down? Then ask your child about their experiments in year 3. The classroom was transformed into an engineer’s fortress with lots of fun had. Sadly the PTA wind tunnel is not yet ready for use, but this will do for now.

To follow it up this week we have made weaved lanterns to kick-off our Iron Age work. The children have been ‘playing’ (read learning) with magnets to discover what materials in our school are magnetic. Who knew that not all metals were magnetic! We have also made a poppy wreath, as November is the month of remembering.

Times table rockstars is back up and running.

Go to https://play.ttrockstars.com/login/37568   and enter these details:

School: St Matthew’s CofE Primary School, West Wimbledon

Username and Password will be coming home with your children today – please ask them for it.

Have a great weekend.

The Year 3 Team​

‘Thank you’.

Mr Quinn encouraged us this morning to think of those who help us at school and say a big thank you to them. I hope the children do similar at home. The children wrote some lovely messages for one another to say thank you on Thursday morning. Messages like:

“Thank you Benedict for helping me when I tripped.”

“Thank you Harrison for making me laugh.”

“Thank you Harry for letting me play in your game.”

“Thank you Matilda for taking me to the office when I bumped my head.”

The children have some challenging words to learn this week for the spelling test. There is no one rule for them all and so they may need to be creative in how they remember them. We tried to see how much each word would be worth in a game of scrabble. Perhaps you could challenge your child to a game this weekend? Don’t forget to login to spelling shed and get practising. Click on the link  https://play.edshed.com/login

In maths we have been adding 3 digit and 2 digit numbers using the column method. See the diagram to see how we have explained exchanging to the children.

I am sorry not to be seeing you all at the light festival this evening. Have a lovely weekend.

Mr Peck and the team.

Year Three are an impatient lot and waiting another few million years for some fossils to appear didn’t sound very appealing, so we’ve made some ourselves out of plaster of paris. Yes, I know it’s cheating, but the children had a lot of fun doing it.

Perhaps, we’ll find some real fossils elsewhere!

In spellings the children enjoyed a game of tic-tac-toe (nought and crosses) using their spelling words. I expect them to challenge you to a game at home. All the words this week end in –sure.

I am sure they have also been practising their French on you at home. We introduced our families (je te présente ma famille) with here is my brother (voici mon frère) and here is my mother (voici ma mere) etc. All good fun.

Have a great weekend.

Mr Peck​ and the Year Three Team

In Year 3 we have been finishing our dilemma stories where a child from the Stone Age has travelled to our modern world and then back again.

In science we have learned about fossil formation (so they understand where all the staff have come from) and sorted rocks by their properties.

In maths we completed our place value work and did an end of block assessment. Your child’s score, as well as their spelling score is coming home with them tonight. Please practise on Spelling Shed and Times Table Rock Stars this week.

A curriculum map outlining our learning for the term will follow next week.

Enjoy the rugby this weekend,

Mr Peck and the Year Three Team