Hello everyone, it is Krystal! I am writing to tell you about Science lessons!

We are learning about solids, liquids and gases.

Our experiment is helping us to find out how long ice take to melt from a solid into a liquid.

Here are some photos of our experiment that I took.

by Krystal

Year 3 have discovered 2 mysterious eggs by our frog pond in the playground.

We assume they are eggs but we cannot be sure.  At the moment we are calling them “unidentified objects”.  Here is a picture of what we found.

We have used our imaginations to decide what they may be.  Some say they are dragon eggs, some say they belong to an oversized bird.  Others say they have travelled through time via a black hole or a vortex.  Josh thought they have appeared here due to telekinesis.

What do you think they could be?

Hi all,

Thank you for your patience while we update your children’s spelling books.  We are very impressed with the spellings the children have remembered so far and we are well on ur way to ensuring every child has filled any gaps in their spellings from Year 1 and 2.

If your child has a note in their book saying well done for completing Year 1/2 words, they are ready to move onto Year 3 spellings.  By Christmas, we would like the children to know the following words.  If they are still working on Year 1 and 2 words, that is the priority and they should know these first before moving on 🙂

Autumn words for Year 3;

actual, actually, arrive, address, believe, breath, breathe, build, calendar, century, complete, consider, continue, decide, describe, different, early, difficult

Spring words for Year 3;

earth, eight, eighth, experiment, famous, February, forward, forwards, fruit, grammar, group, guard, heard, heart, history, important, interest, learn, length

Summer words for Year 3;

notice, often, perhaps, popular, possible, probably, promise, remember, sentence, special, straight, strange, strength, suppose, therefore, woman, women

Many thanks again for your help.  You are marvellous and we really appreciate your support.

Mrs Toms xx

Hi all!

Just an update on our maths so far!

We have a strong focus on place value to 1000 at the moment.  Children are demonstrating their understanding of three digit numbers by comparing, ordering, building numbers with dienes equipment (the hundreds, tens and ones blocks) and finding the difference between two numbers.  Some children have started adding with hundreds, tens and ones using simple column addition and subtraction.  We have been shopkeepers and bought items using £1, 10p and 1p coins to represent the hundreds tens and units.

On Tuesday, we will be creating large and small 3 digit numbers from 3 number cards, deciding which is the biggest and smallest and finding the difference between the 2 numbers.   On Wednesday we continue with Fast Maths and times tables work in our breaks before/after swimming.  On Thursday we are becoming estate agents and deciding which 5 houses are the most cost effective and will give them the most change from £999.  Don’t you wish you could buy a house for under £1000?! 🙂  On Friday we will be in charge of celebrity payslips and deciding which celebrities have the greatest wages!

We have been using the greater than and less than symbols;

greater than >

less than <

Also, a massive thank you for such kind donations so far for our Wonka sweet treats day.  We hope to raise lots of money so we can subsidise our trip to the aquarium in Autumn 2 and use the data to support further learning in maths using hundreds, tens and ones.

What a wonderful start to the week!

Mrs Toms x

In year 3 we have to learn some very tricky words!

We have broken them down into terms to make it manageable for children to learn them.

We practice these words in handwriting and in class.  It would really help us and your children if you could write these at home together and have little races and quizzes etc!

These words are for this term;

actual, actually, address, arrive, believe, breath, breathe, build, calendar, century, complete, consider, continue, decide, describe, different, difficult, early.

Once you have learned how to spell them together from memory, why not try and write them in a sentence!

Mrs Toms, Mrs Taylor & Miss Armstrong

Hi all!

We have had a lovely time so far in Year 3!

We are learning about Charlie and the Chocolate factory, as well as learning about the Aztecs.  The Aztecs helped bring chocolate over to Europe (Mrs Toms is very grateful!) and they had a very interesting culture with traditions.  We will learn more about them as the weeks go on.

So far we have been visited by Willy Wonka, given copies of the book, eaten disgusting cabbage soup and talked about the poor Bucket family.

Here are some pictures from our time in Year 3 so far!

This week, the children dressed as people from 1666 during the time of the Great Fire of London.   The children were so excited to receive their old fashioned name.  We had a Gertrude, Cuthbert, Agnes  to name a few!

In the afternoon we headed outside to a large open space and reenacted scenes from the fire.

Below are some of our pictures.  Thank you to all mums and dads who helped children with their wonderful costumes.

During Science Week,  the Year 1s conducted an experiment to see which materials was the best for protecting an egg.  We tried dropping the egg from a great height onto a surface and then wrapped an egg inside the material.  We found out that the best material to protect an egg was the wool and the worst was wood and metal.

Can you think of any other materials that could protect an egg?

Hi all!

Chestnut class have been working hard to use different coins to make amounts of money.

We have been shopping in the classroom and counting in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s to make amounts up to 50p!  Some children have been challenged to make amounts over £1!

If you go shopping with your children, let them pay the cashier and ask them how many different ways you could make the total.  You’ll be surprised at what they can tell you!

We have been reading the story of Farmer Duck.

Poor Farmer Duck has to do all the work when the lazy, fat farmer stays in bed eating chocolates and candies!  As you can imagine, Farmer Duck is weary and weepy until his animal friends decide to do something to help him!!

The children have been engaged in this wonderful story and have called out “How goes the work?” many times!

Below are some photographs taken from our Farmer Duck drama lesson.

See if you can spot which children are Farmer Duck!!