Year 3 children are now moving onto learning about the ‘ou’ making the ‘uh’ sound as part of their spelling and grammar lessons.

At the end of this half term the children will be tested through dictation to see if they have remembered this spelling rule! Children love their spelling and grammar lessons that take place daily- on Tuesday we played ‘ou’ dominoes! 

Some examples of words we are learning are;

touch
young
double
trouble 
country
cousin 
couple
courage
flourish 
nourish
rough
tough
enough 

Some parents find that posting the words around the house helps children to recognise them daily! You could also encourage your child to play “teachers” at home and let them show you how to write the word within a sentence. 

We are also working on learning the definitions and synonyms (other words with the same meaning). They are really enjoying this game of finding definitions! 

Please keep going with the spellings at home. Large numbers of children have now completed all first 300 words and are working solely on the year 3 words! If you have been given year 1&2 words to learn with your child, please treat this as the priority before year 3 words. 

Thanks! 

Mrs Toms