Hi Everyone

I hope you are well and looking forward to the half term and Diamond Jubilee Celebrations.

The children have had a short but busy half term. They had done really well with swimming and lots of children are showing really improved water confidence. They are busy designing their own characters to create a myth in English. In maths, we are telling the time. Please let me know of any amazing telling the time to the nearest minute and I will reward it with a Dojo. It is skill they just need to practise a lot. We had an amazing storyteller in for history this week. The children were really engaged and asked lots of interesting questions. 
Next  term, so much to look forward to: class trip, sports day, a French play and much more!  
Have a great Friday and half term.
Thank you for all your support.
Miss Keen and the Year 3 team

Hi Everyone

I had trouble with the internet and my computer last week so sorry this is a bit late.

The children have started to look at the Myth Atlas in English and use their knowledge of Greek Gods and Goddesses to begin to write about Gods and Goddesses. We are designing our own Gods and Goddesses. We are nearly completing our fractions learning and will finish it before half term. In science, we continued to observe our plants growing and we learnt about flowering plants and the plants life cycle. I have included two children's learning below.

I'm really impressed with the children who are completing their reads and more children had extra play this week. Looking to see how many will get it after half term... 

Thanks, as ever, for all your support.

Miss Keen and the Year 3 Team 

Hi

I had a very enjoyable evening yesterday reading all the children's amazing stories which were based on our class story of Grendel: A Cautionary Tale About Chocolate. The children have all made great progress. As well as making their stories really exciting, I'm particularly impressed at their use of inverted commas for speech. Next week, we will have a lesson on turning part of this into a scene from a play.  In maths, the children have been learning about tenths and how to record them in decimals and fractions. We are continuing with fractions next week. 

In history, we learned some facts about Greek philosophers by sorting them in our groups (see below) and we  also learned about what people in Ancient Greece believed. The children have been thinking about setting themselves goals in life skills and we were recording the progress of our plants in science as well as learning about the flowering parts of a flower.

Next week, we are starting a new book in English called Myth Atlas and continuing our learning about fractions.  

Hope you have a great rest of your week.

Miss Keen and the Year 3 Team

Hi Everyone

It has been a short week with the bank holiday and I can't believe it is Thursday already.

In English, we have started our first draft of our stories based on Grendel which is a version of the King Midas myth. The children are working really hard on remembering to add inverted commas when the characters are speaking which is pretty tricky!  In maths, we have begun our second unit of fractions. We have been looking at tenths this week and will start to relate tenths recorded as fractions to tenths recorded as decimals. The children have really impressed me by beginning to use words like denominator and numerator to discuss fractions. We have continued to read about Ancient Greece in our reading time.  During Life Skills, we have been learning all about jobs and looking at stereotypes. This afternoon, we are looking forward to going swimming. I have included a photo of the plants which are part of a science investigation that the children have set up. Thank you for the jam jars. We are going to grow broad beans in these. Photos will follow! 
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Ms Penny came into class this week and she was extremely pleased by the fantastic behaviour and attitudes of the children. 

Next week, we are continuing to learn about plants in science. We will learn more about Ancient Greece starting with Gods and Goddesses. We will write our own version of the Grendel story and learn more about fractions. 

Thank you for your support. 

Miss Keen and the Year 3 Team

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