Year 3 (Owletts)
September 2016.
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Welcome to Year 3 - Owletts!
24.6.16 Homework: Create your work of "BEACON ART" in any style or materials you like. Judging on Friday!
10.6.16 Homework : Identify the types of angle in the polygons and put the 3 lines of angles into size order.
We constructed our own Clinometers and used them to estimate the height of the church.
We came, we saw, we conquered Hever Castle. Although some of us got lost in the maze and some got a little damp!
Homework 20.5.16: Could you design your avatar, try Bond Bubbles and Dividers on Purple Mash?
Fun in the sun with the ducklings! Can you spot your two, Holly?
29.4.16 Homework: Revision of 2D and 3D shapes, some Bank Holiday challenges and Shakespeare research.
22.4.16 Homework: We have some work on Compound Words to do and an Islamic cover to decorate for Mrs.Ciccone's RE lesson.
The new Movie Trailer has hit cinemas up and down the country!
18.3.16 Homework - We have a net of a 3D solid to construct and its features to identify. We also need to make sure that we are word perfect on our lines and with our songs for next week's performances!
Our "Magic Changing" Pop Art pictures look fantastic! Can you see both faces?
4.3.16 Homework: We have some work on punctuating speech and on reflective symmetry this week.
Also please keep on learning the words to our Easter Songs!
Here is this term's newsletter.
26.2.16 Homework Part 1: Try to learn the words for the 2 songs from our Easter play.
26.2.16 Homework Part 2: Complete your coordinates worksheet.
Some of you might wish to investigate this coordinates/dinosaur game!
http://www.counton.org/games/flash/virtualmathfest/dinosaur.swf
We have enjoyed our gymnastics lessons with Mrs.Horton.
If you did find an old film container at home, it would be very useful for our next science experiment!
5.2.16 Homework is all about finding the areas and perimeters of irregular shapes. (Remember which units each is measured in!)
Our new class reader is "The Indian in the Cupboard" by Lynne Reid Banks.
29.1.16 Homework this week is on Gender Specific Terms.
22.1.16 Homework this week is a selection of questions based on our work on Calendars.
If you enjoyed our computing work on CODING this week, then here is the link if you would like to try and earn your certificate. Mr.Hygate is already certified on the Star Wars section!!
15.1.16 HOMEWORK this week is your "Collective Nouns" research plus some people had some division with remainders questions too.
8.1.16 - Although there is no written homework this week some of you may wish to try the Doubles game on the website below.
(Some of you could even try the 1 decimal place section!)
Please find below this Term's Newsletter and also the Years 3 and 4 Word List of spellings from the new curriculum. Hopefully we are already familiar with many of them!
Look at our finished Christingles! Can you remember what each part represents?
Spellings for Friday 11th December:
Green Group - break, brake, great, grate, here, hear, meat and meet
Purple Group - break, brake, peace, piece, weather, whether, medal, meddle, missed, mist, rain and reign.
Red Group - break, brake, here, hear, plain and plane.
Orange Group - break, brake, great, grate, berry, bury, groan, grown, hole and whole.
Remember that you will need to know which homophone has which meaning for the test!
We had a fantastic day as pilgrims to Canterbury Cathedral!
27.11.15 Homework this week is the Subtraction worksheet that you should have taken(!) and Wednesday's tables test is either 3x or 4x depending on your score last week. (Harri, you will be doing the 4x.)
Spellings for Friday 4th December
Green Group - cathedral, Christmas, settlement, regular, extreme, extremely, consider, continue
Purple Group - potatoes, churches, matches, pitches, ladies, babies, children, Christmas, invention, expression, discussion, extension
Red Group - group, guide, notice, minute, friend, Christmas
Orange Group - imagination, interesting, important, Christmas, centre, central, natural, naughty, threw, through
Remember to use capital letters in the correct place. Good luck!
Homework 20.11.15.
As well as writing an interesting sentence for each of your spellings, I would like you to find out 5 facts about the city of Canterbury that interest you. Please present them neatly with an illustration of any building/landmark from the city.
Spellings for Friday 27th November:
Orange Group - Canterbury, village, cathedral, metropolis, settlement, regular, extreme, extremely, consider and continue.
Red Group - station, question, position, Canterbury, peace and piece.
Purple Group - imagination, interesting, important, increasingly, centre, central, natural, naughty, threw, through, thorough and thought.
Green Group - Canterbury, knowledge, perhaps, popular, sentence, separate, special and straight.
Don't forget the 3x tables test on Wednesday!
For anyone who enjoyed the Pentominoes Investigation and would like to try the challenges:
http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/ngfl/maths/cynnal/pentominoes/pentominoes.htm
You will need to click "Main Session" and then "section3".
Spellings for Friday 20th November:
Green Group - believe, disappear, possession, question, position, mention, station and operation.
Purple Group - village, cathedral, metropolis, settlement, regular, extreme, extremely, consider, considerably, continue, continually and completely.
Red Group - island, village, town, city, church and cathedral.
Orange Group - famous, favourite, February, knowledge, perhaps, popular, sentence, separate, special and straight.
Also 3x tables test on Wednesday 18th November (0x3 - 12x3). The website below that we have been using really helps with speed of recall.
Homework this week is to create a poppy for our "Remembrance Window" on Wednesday. You can use any materials and artistic method you like but please remember to decorate both sides. Hopefully we can create our own mini version of last year's Tower of London display!
There are no spellings this week as on Friday 13th we shall be doing a speed test on the 2, 5 and 10 times-tables. The following link has some good games to help speed up your recall!
We had fun experimenting with our telephones!
Spellings for Friday 6th November:
Green Group - accidentally, occasionally, actually, probably, ordinary, remember, woman, women.
Orange Group - believe, disappear, possession, question, position, mention, station, operation, woman, women.
Red Group - science, special, different, difficult, describe, hexagon.
Purple Group - famous, favourite, February, knowledge, particular, peculiar, perhaps, popular, sentence, separate, special, straight.
Our pyramid builders have been busy!
16.10.15 Spellings for Friday 23rd October:
Purple Group - believe, decide, describe, different, difficult, disappear, mention, position, possession, question, equilateral and isosceles.
Red Group - circle, square, triangle, quarter, half and whole.
Green Group - circle, square, triangle, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, octagon and quarter.
Orange Group - quarter , circle, square, triangle, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, decide and describe.
For homework this week please find a poem about an animal and present it neatly for our class book. See if you can learn at least the first 8 lines off by heart to recite next week!
Can you explain to somebody what is going on in this picture?
Friday 9 October
Spellings for Friday 16 October
Orange - accidentally, occasionally, actually, probably, ordinary, science, special, build, fruit and remember.
Red - build, fruit, weight, eight, height and Tuesday.
Purple - pester, vivid, errors, dilute, various, constantly, exterior, vacant, request, extinguish, surrender and glorious.
Green - science, special, build, fruit, different, difficult and describe.
Take care to learn the correct spelling group. Enjoy!
Try this game to help with your Roman Numerals.
Friday 2 October
Spellings for test Friday 9 October
Green group - strength, length, learn, heard, heart, October, sound and vibration.
Orange group - strength, length, eight, height, weight, metre, October, sound and vibration.
Purple group - accidentally, occasionally, probably, actually, ordinary, address, business, October, sound, vibration, experiment and experience.
Red group - change, charge, huge, village, October and sound.
Make sure you learn the correct group and remember capital letters at the beginning of proper nouns only e.g. October. Good luck!
See whether you can help prepare a mummy using many of the processes that we covered in history this week!
http://oi-archive.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/mummy.html
Maude beware! It is quite gory in places!!!!
25.9.15 This week's spellings:
when, where, what, why, often, Egypt
when, where, what, why, history, Egypt, Nile, Wednesday
earth, early, learn, heard, heart, increase, history, Egypt, Wednesday, September
strength, length, eight, height, weight, metre, Egypt, Wednesday, September, pyramid, pharaoh
Make sure that you remember which colour group you are in.
Test next Friday!
25.9.15- This week's homework is research based on ancient Egypt! Due Wednesday please.
Our Egyptian sunsets look stunning!
18.9.15 - This week's HOMEWORK! Keep it neat and bring it in by Wednesday please.
We shall be reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in class. Do you remember the author's name and what his initials stood for?
Can you explain to someone why Egypt looks like this from space? Do you remember what "black mud" is?
Congratulations to Oliver and Lilly-Rose on being voted as our Year 3 council members!
Here is our class newsletter for this term:
