Willow

Year 3 - Mrs Mossom

Welcome to our class page. We hope you will find it useful and it will let you know what we are currently learning about in school.

AUTUMN TERM

Class Routines

Our main classroom door for the start and end of the school day is the Year 3 playground door.

Our regular PE days are Monday and Friday. On these days children should come to school in PE kit.

On a Friday, Mrs Rundle will be teaching Willow in the morning. Miss Lambe and Miss Betts will be supporting in Year 3.

Current Learning

This term our learning will focus around our history and geography unit on The Stone Age to The Iron Age.

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Our class novel this half term is: An Alien in the Jam Factory.

Writing: In writing we will be developing our descriptive writing skills, writing setting descriptions and writing stories based on Mini Rabbit not Lost and the Koala Who Could. We will be writing Non Chronological Reports about different jobs.

Maths: We will be developing our understanding of place value in numbers to 1000, as well as learning written methods for addition and subtraction. Alongside this we will be developing our fluency skills using Number Sense which we will practice daily.

Science: We will be learning about forces & magnetism, and rock & fossils.

PE: We will be developing our team work skills, as well as looking at skills needed for netball.

RE: We will be focusing our learning about what makes us human and where our morals come from.

French: We will be learning about what we can do and the seasons.

Art: We will be learning about colour mixing with paint and practising our sketching skills.

Homework

Our expectations for homework are as follows:

Reading: Reading aloud with an adult as often as possible, with a minimum expectation of 4 times a week. This can be the school banded book or free reading at home; record any home reading in reading record. These will be checked weekly by the class teacher.

Spellings: Children should be able to spell all words on the Statutory Word Lists for Years 3/4 by the end of Year 4 so please learn a few at a time.

Times Tables: Children should know;