Operation Smile

Today we had some IB student speak to use about Operation Smile, the charity we are raising money for on Friday. Here is a video with some information about the charity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLyMZmtdI0E 

3D Shapes

Today we looked at the properties of 3D shapes. We learnt why they are called 3D shapes and counted how many faces, edges and vertices they had. 

Guest Speaker

Today Mrs Asher came to speak to us about her culture. We learnt her Grandfather came here from China. 

She taught us about Chinese New Year and the moon festival.

We learnt that she lived in Canada for two years when she was at school and would visit her grandparents for one month of the year when she was little. They lived a very different lifestyle in a rural part of Thailand.  

Clive Pig

Today we had a visit from Clive PiG. He is a famous Clive PiG is a storyteller, songsta, performance poet and potato juggler from England. We had an assembly this morning and Clive told us lots of fantastic stories. 

Later we got to do a story telling workshop with Clive PiG!

Kim and Prach told stories in front of the whole class! They were really brave and their story telling was excellent.

Clive PiG is here again tomorrow if you would like to buy his book! 

Website: http://www.clivepig.co.uk/ 

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Pigs-Tales-Poetry-Clive-Pig/dp/0956948235 

Homework

Year 3 Homework
Set: Monday 26th September Due: Monday 3rd October
Maths:	Abacus Homework. Please email if you need login details.
Times tables:	3 x tables Learn them so you can say them without stopping: 1x3=3, 2x3=6, 3x3=9, 4x3=12... Be able to answer questions out of order : what is 5x3, what is 2x3, what is 8x3?
Reading:	To read at least 2 books and complete an activity in your reading diary for each book you have read.
Book Week:	Design a book cover for the book you would love to write. It must have; a title, author's name, drawings and be colourful.

Weekly Update

Y3 Weekly Update: 19th September - 23rd September 2016

 

	This Week	Next Week
English	In English class we have begun learning about Non-chronological reports. We learnt that non means not, chrono means time, and logical means order. Therefore, a non-chronological report means not in time order. We looked at the different features of a non-chronological reports and discussed how these are different to the features of a story and other fiction texts. Next, we went to the library to see if we could find non-chronological reports in the non-fiction section. Afterwards, we drew a text map for the features of a non-chronological report to show what we had remembered. At the end of this English unit we will write our own non-chronological reports.	Space Case Next week it is Book Week and we have a space theme. We will be reading a book called ‘Thad Goes to the Moon’.  We will be looking at characters, settings and events throughout the week as well as answering questions based on the text to improve our comprehension skills.
Maths	In Maths, we have been learning to: To read a yearly calendar To know the difference between a day and a date To tell time to the quarter hour on analogue and digital clocks e.g. quarter to 6, 6:45 To tell time to 5 minutes on analogue and digital clocks e.g. five past 4, 4:05 To write digital time for 5 minute intervals e.g. 5:45, 6:20, 7:50, 9:55, 10:05	Subtraction Next week we will be working with number lines in order to compare 2 and 3 digit numbers. We will also be using predicting methods to estimate calculations. Finally, we will be learning new techniques to use when solving word problems.
Unit of Inquiry	Going Further This past week we studied a variety of countries in greater detail. This allowed us to use our ever growing ICT skill set when researching. Non chronological reports were also made using the information gathered in our researching sessions.	Book Week Next week we are taking a break from our unit of enquiry work to spend some time looking at space as part of our book week theme.
Notices and Events	There will be no Literacy homework again next week as we would like the children to complete their competition entries, however there will still be Abacus and the daily reading diary to complete. The deadline for the Extreme Reading and Picture Book competitions is Wednesday 28th. Please remember that the children are able to come to school in fancy dress on Friday 30th.

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