Welcome to Class 3
Hello, we are Year 3 and we are taught on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday by Mrs McNeill. On Thursday and Friday we are taught by Mrs Darwin.
You can keep up to date with what we are doing everyday by checking our Twitter and Facebook pages.
HOME LEARNING
Week beginning 29.06.2020
Home learning this week is the same as it has been in previous weeks – BBC bitesize for maths, English and one other subject each day. This week I would also like you to try to get your Blue Peter music badge. I’m looking forward to hearing all about your musical exploration this week. Links to these can be found here –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/joinin/six-badges-of-summer
As usual remember to keep practising your times tables and reading daily.
Our zoom this week is on Tuesday at 11am.
I am really looking forward to seeing you all this week. Hopefully by now you should all have received your invite to our class picnic on Friday. I will tell you more about it during our zoom!
Keep smiling and keep safe! 🙂
Week beginning 22.06.2020
It was lovely to see so many of you this week on Zoom. Remember our meeting this week is on Tuesday at 11am.
Home learning for this week can be found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons
This week I would like you to try to get your Blue Peter sport badge for the 6 badges of summer challenge. The information for it can be found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/joinin/six-badges-of-summer
Please keep practising your times tables. Times Tables Rockstars is there to help you. Try to log on to it at least once this week and send me a challenge. It will be fun to try to beat you!
Keep smiling and keep safe 🙂
Week beginning 15.06.2020
I hope you have all had a great week, and I am looking forward to our zoom this week. Remember that it is at 11am on Tuesday.
There are several different bits to this weeks home learning. Firstly I would like you to continue with the daily maths and English lessons on BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons
I would also like you to continue practising your times tables. Well done to those of you who have been using TimesTables Rockstars.
Blue Peter are running a challenge for the next 6 weeks. They would like children to collect the 6 different Blue Peter badges over the next 6 weeks by completing tasks and sending them to the show. This week it is the Green Badge. I would love it if you could all have a go at earning this badge. You can find more information here https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/joinin/six-badges-of-summer
Your final bit of home learning this week is to watch Newsround every day if you can. There are lots of things happening in the world at the moment, and some of these things can be quite troubling. Newsround can help you to understand what is happening as well as why it is happening. The website is full of information too! https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
Phew! That is quite a lot this week but we can talk about how to do it all on Tuesday.
Keep smiling and keep safe 🙂
Week beginning 08.06.2020
It was lovely catching up with so many of you this week either on Zoom or by phone. Remember we will be having our weekly zoom call this week on Tuesday at 11am. Mrs Darwin is planning a fun quiz again so remember to have a pen and paper handy!
Home learning this week is maths and English on BBC bitesize. We will be doing this every week again. You can find it here https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons/1 Feel free to do the other subject lesson daily as well, there is a fantastic lesson about the Romans on Monday.
This week I would also like you to focus on practising your times tables. By the end of Year 3 you should know fluently the 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8 times tables. This includes division facts such as 3 x 5 = 15 so 15 divided by 5 =3. Please can you make sure that you all log on to TimesTables Rockstars and practise. If this isn’t possible you could always use BBC supermovers or even envent your own games to help you remember them.
I hope you have a great week. Remember to keep sharing the work that you have done with me and you might get a special mention in the achievement assembly and newsletter!
Keep smiling and keep safe!
Week beginning 01.06.2020
I hope you all had a lovely half term. We were very lucky to have such beautiful weather!
Home learning this week is maths and English on BBC bitesize. We will be doing this every week again. You can find it here https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons/1
New home learning packs will be available in the bike shed this week. I have included some how to guides/the answers for the parents.
This week I would like you to think about where your food comes from. Not all of the things we eat are grown in England. Can you look on your food packets (fruit and veg are good for this) and see if you can see where it was grown. Has it travelled a long way to get to your plate? How did it get there? What impact do you think this has on the environment? Let me know what you find out by either sending a message on Facebook or emailing me at c.mcneill@collierleyprimary.co.uk. Mrs Darwin would love to see your work too so don’t forget to include her on your emails! Her email address is s.darwin@collierleyprimary.co.uk
Hope you have a lovely week. I am looking forward to seeing you on our next zoom!
Keep smiling and keep safe 🙂
Week beginning 18.05.2020
Home learning this week is maths and English on BBC bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons/1
The history on Monday looks very good – it is a recap about the Bronze age so you lot should all be experts!
Over the last few weeks we have heard lots of things about people being heroes. Our NHS workers are heroes, our shop and factory workers are heroes, our post/delivery people and people who collect our bins are all heroes. But I think you are all heroes too. You have had to stop seeing your friends and family and stay at home and you have done so brilliantly! So this week I would like you to draw yourself as the superhero that you are. Think about what super powers you have, and what would you do if you could choose to have any superpower. You could even draw a comic strip with you as the star!
Remember to read, use Lexia and Times Tables Rockstars. Please do send me your work (c.mcneill@collierleyprimaryschool) and make sure you listen to the achievement assembly on Facebook on Friday to see if you get a special mention.
I look forward to seeing you on Zoom on Tuesday. Keep smiling and keep safe 🙂
Week beginning 11.05.2020
I know I said last week that the daily activities would stay the same until half term but unfortunately I have needed to change them! English will remain the same (the English task on BBC Bitesize) but the maths will be different. White Rose Maths have began charging parents to access the worksheets and I really don’t want any parents to have to spend any money to help their child. So maths is changing to BBC Bitesize. Both the English and the maths can be found on the same webpage https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons/1
Feel free to complete the third daily lesson (which is a different subject each day) but don’t worry if you don’t get this done.
Remember the home learning grid is there to give you ideas for other activities you could complete. The link to that can be found further down the page. If you wanted to do something a little different this week then why don’t you write a letter to someone you haven’t been able to see lately. You could tell then about all the amazing and fun things you have been doing whilst school is closed.
Keep reading every day, practise your timestables and remember to keep smiling and stay safe!
We miss you,
Love from Mrs McNeill and Mrs Darwin
Week beginning 04.05.2020
The activities for this week are the same as last week (and will be the same every week until half term). I would like you to;
Complete a short daily maths lesson. This can be found at https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/
Complete a short daily English lesson – you don’t need to do the maths/history lessons unless you really want to! This can be found at https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-lessons/1
You may also like to choose an activity from this term’s learning grid. These activities are similar to the ones we would have been doing in school. Please do share the work you have done with me via Facebook or email (c.mcneill@collierleyprimary.co.uk) as I love seeing the amazing work you have completed! We will also be holding a special facebook live achievement assembly this week so make sure you send me pictures of your work and you might get a special mention!
You might want to do something different this week so why don’t you research VE day and why we celebrate it. Keep an eye on facebook this week for a special competition!
As always keep reading and taking tests on Accelerated Reader. Try to use Lexia and TimesTables rockstars at least 3 time a week.
Keep smiling and keep safe. I miss you all!
Week beginning 27.4.2020
It was lovely seeing some of your projects last week. Fingers crossed you get to visit the places you wanted to see very soon!
This week I would like you to;
Complete a short daily maths lesson. This can be found at https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/
Complete a short daily English lesson – you don’t need to do the maths/history lessons unless you really want to! This can be found at https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-lessons/1
You may also like to choose an activity from this term’s learning grid. These activities are similar to the ones we would have been doing in school. Please do share the work you have done with me via Facebook or email (c.mcneill@collierleyprimary.co.uk) as I love seeing the amazing work you have completed!
As always keep reading and taking tests on Accelerated Reader. Try to use Lexia and TimesTables rockstars at least 3 time a week.
Keep smiling and keep safe!
Week beginning 20.4.2020
I hope you have had a lovely Easter holiday and have enjoyed the sunshine. I am missing seeing your smiling faces. Hopefully I will be able to speak to you all this week when I ring your families.
This week I would like you to virtually visit somewhere you have never visited before. Lots of places are doing virtual tours and sharing things online and on YouTube so think of something/somewhere you would love to see and go visit! Some ideas are;
See an opera or a concert at The Royal Albert Hall https://www.royalalberthall.com/
Visit the zoo www.chesterzoo.org
Explore the Natural History Museum in London https://www.nhm.ac.uk/
Have a look around the beautiful gardens at Kew Gardens https://www.kew.org/
Or just have an explore of a different place using Google Earth!
Write a report about your visit. Include what you saw, some interesting facts that you found out, where it is and how to get there and any other exciting things about the place. Don’t forget capital letters and full stops! Please share your reports on Facebook or email me.
I would also like you to try and complete a short maths lesson daily. You can find the lessons at https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/
You do not need to print the worksheets out, just write the answers on a piece of paper.
Remember to keep working hard on Times Tables Rockstars and Lexia and remember to READ, READ, READ!
Week beginning 30.3.2020
In geography we have been learning all about our world. We have learnt about the equator and longitude and latitude. We have also looked at North and South Pole and the different hemispheres. This week I would like you to complete some research on the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. I would like you to compare what it is like in the Tropics with what it is like in the UK. You may present your research however you would like. You could;
- Write and present a weather report
- Make a travel brochure
- Design a factfile
- Made information leaflets or posters.
Please share pictures of your projects on our school Facebook page, or email me pictures so I can see your fabulous work!
I would also like you to try and complete a short maths lesson daily. You can find the lessons at https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/
You do not need to print the worksheets out, just write the answers on a piece of paper.
Don’t forget to read, read and read! Make sure you take a quiz on accelerated reader when you have finished a book.
P.S – I have challenged you to a battle on Times Tables Rockstars. Make sure you log in to try to beat me!
Curriculum Overviews
CPS long term curriculum plan Y3
This half term we are focusing on the history topic ‘Stone Age to Iron Age’. Next half term we will be focusing on the geography topic ‘Maps and Atlases’.
You can see our foundation report here which shows what we have learnt across the curriculum this term:
Foundation report Class 3 Spring 2020
Interventions
Children benefit from daily LEXIA interventions to promote rapid progress in both reading and spelling.
Weekly maths interventions are also in place to accelerate progress in maths.
Homework this half term:
You can support your child at home by reading with them at least 3 times a week. Please make sure you sign their diary every time they read to help us celebrate their achievements.
Your child will be getting spellings home to practise. These may be words we have been practising in class, or they may be spellings from the statutory spelling list for Year 3 from the National Curriculum. Your child will not have a spelling test every week, but they will be expected to show that they can use their spellings within their writing throughout the week.
Please help your child to learn the multiplication facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables. It is expected that by the end of Year 3 your child should be able to recall the facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 multiplication tables fluently.
Homework will be sent out on a Friday and needs to be completed and returned to school on a Tuesday.
Please visit the following websites to support your child with their homework.
www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games
www.spellzone.com
