Author: Annie Hardinge

We made a fantastic start to our forces and magnetism science unit this week. We talked a lot about the different vocabulary that we need to use, including contact and non-contact forces and push and pull forces. To demonstrate this we experimented with a piece of paper each and listed all the ways we could make the paper move or change shape. It was brilliant fun and Meadow 3 were incredibly inventive. We then thought about the contact force we put on the paper and listed which were push and which were pull forces.

We were reminiscing in class about our first big performance of the year and how brilliant all of the children were. We can’t wait to show you how far we’ve come in our performance skills when we reveal the dates for our Spring show!

We had a wonderful time this week starting our Geography project. We had a blank map of Europe and had to find as many countries as we could. It was great fun and we even learned some capital cities too. We can’t wait to continue our journey through Europe!

We are so proud of Meadow 3’s maths today. We learned some new vocabulary for Maths which helped us to better understand which part of an addition sum we’re thinking of when we’re discussing our Maths.

We had a wonderful day making our roundhouses on Monday. It was incredibly messy but it was really interesting trying to work out how to create the roundhouses with just the resources we had.

We’re so excited to be taking part in the walk-a-thon on Friday! Please remember that everyone will need to be in school uniform but wearing some comfortable trainers. If you have a yellow or spotty accessory to support Children In Need you can also wear this too.

Please give what sponsorship money you can, we will collect this in classrooms on the day.

This week’s Maths homework is one simple addition problem… however, in class we’ve been challenging the children to come up with different ways of solving the problem. Here are 6 we came up with in class. The children can use these methods or come up with their own.

As adults we know that sometimes an addition problem (in the supermarket for example) needs us to do column addition, but sometimes a problem like 250 + 10 merely needs us to jump 10 on a number line. This is what we’re trying to practise. How many methods can we think of, and which is the best for this particular problem!

We’re always available to chat on the Year 3 email if you have any problems with the homework or any set.

Welcome back everyone! Have a look at the all the learning we’ve got in store for this half term. On the second page you’ll find some exciting activities you can do at home linked to our Science topic of ‘light’.

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On the first few days back after half term we’ll be making our Stone Age roundhouses.

Please could we have any nice thick bits of card about A4 sized so the children have something to create their roundhouses on.

If you have any extra we’d really appreciate this too. Any card from packaging boxes is perfect.