As I stepped into Year 3 this week…

Maths
The children are nearing the end of their Place Value topic and this week, they have focused on number lines up to 1000 and comparing numbers up to 1000. The children had to use their understanding of 3-digit numbers to help them complete number lines and estimate where numbers should go on number lines. Have a look at the video below to recap their work on number lines. Then children also had to use their place value knowledge to compare 3-digit numbers. The children quickly recognised that they had to compare the biggest digit of the numbers first, before looking at the other digits in the number and deciding which was greater or smaller.

English
The children have done some fantastic writing in English this week! At the start of the week, the children put themselves in the shoes of a stone age child and wrote a diary about a day in their life! The children had to use features of a diary, including writing in past tense, first person and in chronological order, and include lots of stone age activities such as hunting, foraging and making and using stone tools! Later in the week, children planned a setting description of a cave. They watched a video of a cave first to help them imagine what it would be like to be there, then thought of lots of descriptive ideas relating to their senses! The children then used all of their ideas to write some super descriptions, using adjectives to describe what they could see, hear, smell and feel, and fronted adverbials to describe the position of things in the cave.

History
In History this week, the children learnt about how life changed throughout the Stone Age. They began by thinking about what life was like in the Paleolithic period of the stone age, when people were hunter-gatherers and had to move around regularly to find food. They then compared this to the Neolithic period, when people had started farming which included domesticating animals, growing crops and building settlements. Children found similarities and differences. Children enjoyed discussing their opinions when completing their task on the changes they felt were big and small, and those that stayed the same.

PSHE
In PSHE this week, we continued our topic about ‘things that harm us’ and learnt about ways in which people can stop smoking and the benefits of doing so. The children ranked the benefits of not smoking in order of importance and discussed this with their peers.

Homework
Maths – recap on adding and subtracting 1, 10 and 100
Spelling – Spelling Shed assignment (ei sound)

Special Mentions and Dojo Winners
Special Mentions – Tessa, Aris, Layla, Daisy and Amaya
Dojo Winners – Tilly, Martha

Extreme Reading
3B – 88%
3Bk – 60%
It’s really important that children bring their reading record every day, signed by an adult.

Have a lovely weekend,
The Year 3 Team