It has been another busy week of learning in Year 3. We would like to say a big thank you to all the parents who came to the 'Goal Setting' meetings. The children did an excellent job sharing their learning and what their next steps are. If you could not make it this week then please try and schedule a meeting for next week.
We have been investigating shadows in this weeks Topic work. We began exploring shadows with light boxes, plastic animal shadows and hand puppet shadows. We then became scientists and investigated the question - At what time of day are shadows the longest? Most children predicted they would be longest at lunch time, so there was great surprise and excitement to find out the opposite was true.
In Literacy, we have been learning how to write procedural instructions for a video of 'How to Wash Your Dog'. We focused on using imperative verbs, adverbs, numbered sequences and visual literacy to develop our instruction writing skills.
In Maths, we have been applying all the strategies we have learnt to addition word problems. We have focused on Concrete, Representational and Abstract methods for solving addition problems and we encourage the children to find the way that works best for them. We have refrained from teaching the formal column method for addition at this stage of the year as it is vital the children have a secure conceptual understanding of the addition process first.
Notices
Friday 13th October - School closed.
Friday 20th October - Last day of school before half term holidays.
Monday 30th October - First day back at school.
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