Week Beginning - Monday 12th September

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well. This week in Year 3, the children have been busy bees!

In English we have been recapping the four different types of sentences and using colour coded keys to highlight the text from 'The Paper Bag Princess'. Next week we will be writing our own stories - from the dragon's point of view. 

In maths, we are still focusing on place value of three digit numbers and recognising the hundreds, tens and units. Homework this week links in with our maths learning in school. Next week we will be comparing and ordering numbers.

We have started our rocks topic, we discussed natural and human made rocks and what signs help indicate if they are a naturally made. The children learnt that marble, sandstone, chalk, basalt are all natural rocks. Brick, cement and coade stone are all human made types of rock.

In our history lesson, we have been learning about the chronological order of key events during the Stone Age. Also, to try and teach the children how the Stone Age was around 15000 BC which means before Christ. Key words in history this week: Palaeolithic, Neolithic, chronological, duration, BC and AD.

I am very happy to share with you all that I have managed to secure Ukulele music lessons for all the children. The lesson will be weekly, on a Friday afternoon, and by the end of the year I hope all children are competent and confident players! 

Have a lovely weekend, Miss Atkinson