Larch Y3
Year 3
Mrs Crocker
Teacher Bio
Hello, my name is Mrs Crocker and I will be teaching Larch class this year. I enjoy reading in my spare time, especially detective and fantasy stories. I also love cross-stitching and Disney! As well as being a mum of three girls, I also have two young, black cats which keep me very busy (they are also named after detectives!).
Mrs Danish is currently supporting Larch class.
Class Routines
Our main classroom door for the start and end of the school day is the Larch playground door.
Our regular PE days are as follows:
Outdoor PE - Wednesday
Indoor PE - Friday
On these days children should come to school in PE kit. Earrings should be removed or safely covered.
The Library is open for Year 3 students during Monday, Wednesday and Friday lunchtimes.
Current Learning:
Writing: Internalising the model text 'The Lost Amulet'
Exploring vocabulary
Developing our use of different sentence structures
Writing a fantasy story
Reading: Class Novel - 'Harley Hitch and the Iron Forest' by Vashti Hardy
Linked reading - other fantasy stories and texts linked to our science and RE curriculum
Maths: Mass and Capacity
Science: Forces and Magnets
PE: Athletics and target games
RE: Sikhism
French: Je me presente: introducing ourselves
Art: colour studies
Larch Star Of The Week
30/6/22
Phoebe
For always trying her best and improving her resilience.
20/5/22
Ella
For her excellent effort in maths. Well done!
13/5/22
Lillie & Hope
For spending all week organising our class library, it looks fabulous!
6/5/22
Everybody!
For amazing effort in our self-led learning day! (see pictures below)
29/4/22
Tilly
For her excellent effort in her writing this week.
22/4/22
Stanley
For working hard to improve his presentation and handwriting.
18/3/22
Acacia
For her perseverance and hard work in maths this week. Keep up the hard work!
11/3/22
Jessica
For her amazingly detailed work about Great Britain.
4/3/22
Lucia-Anna
For her fabulous art work. Well done!
25/02/22
Lily-Ann
For her wonderful work about the Suffragettes.
11/02/22
Nevaeh
For her brilliant postcard this week!
28/1/22
Joey
For his enthusiasm in his learning.
21/1/22
Everyone!
For being fabulous.
14/1/22
Lillie
For always showing the school values and being a great role model.
7/1/22
Ashreena
For trying her best with her Maths work.
10/12/21
Everyone!
For being their B.E.S.T.
I'm super proud of all your efforts this week!
3/12/21
Lily-Ann
Lily-Ann has really enjoyed learning about rocks this week and has produced some lovely science work.
Keep up the great work!
26/11/21
Acacia & Emily
They have persevered with their learning skills this week, particularly in maths where we have been learning about multiplication. I am so proud that they didn't give up when things got tricky. Well done girls!
19/11/21
Congratulations to our Children in Need entries
Libby & Jessica
12/11/21
Rosie
Rosie has been a fabulous role model and support to her friends. Well done!
5 / 11 / 21
Keylan
Keylan has been working very hard in maths, particularly with his presentation. Well done!
22/10/21
Daniel
For his wonderful descriptive stone age story. Well done!
15/10/21
Morgan
For his amazing effort in his learning! Keep it up Morgan!
8/10/21
Oliver
For showing excellence in his presentation.
1/10/21
Joey
For amazing History work!
24/9/21
Libby & Marcy May
For excellent History discussions during our timeline activity.
17/9/21
Lillie
For her excellent presentation and hard work in maths. Well done!
10/9/21
Marcy-May
For her excellent participation in drama.
Larch Learning!
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Homework
Our expectations for homework are as follows:
Reading: Reading aloud with an adult progressing to more independent reading as often as possible.
Spellings: Children should be able to spell all words on the Statutory Word Lists for years 3/4
Times Tables: Children should know 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 times table by the end of year 3.
Project: Each half term, children are expected to complete a project that is linked to their current topic.
See the link below for Homework Guidance for this half term.
Useful documents
Recommended Websites:
ENGLISH
Reading
Read Theory www.readtheory.org/auth/login
Reading Games www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/reading
Spelling
Spelling Frame - activities to practise spelling patterns and rules www.spellingframe.co.uk/
Grammar
The Quest of Comma Castle https://gridclub.com/activities/comma-castle
Spelling and Grammar www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar
Punctuation www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/punctuation
Writing
www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/writing
General
www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/literacy/
www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html
MATHS
Fluency
Times Table Rockstars www.ttrockstars.com/
Top Marks 7-11 www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=3
Radius of the Lost Arc www.gridclub.com/activities/radius-of-the-lost-arc
Word Problems
Maths Playground -you'll need paper ready for your working out!
www.mathplayground.com/wordproblems.html
Problem Solving and Reasoning
Nrich - mathematical games and problems