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We are SCIENTISTS! We have been learning about where raw materials come from and how they are used to make synthetic materials. This week we focused on glass and how sand is heated to form a liquid before being shaped into objects we use each day. We have also explored the process of paper being made and how paper is turned from wood to pulp to a sheet of paper we use for drawing, writing, decoration and more! Today, we made our own paper! We have been learning about estimation in maths and have focused on rounding to help us with estimation calculations. Next week we will begin our next unit, Multiplication and Division. It would be great if the children could focus specifically on the 3, 4 and 8-times tables over the next few weeks. In Geography we have been designing our own city, thinking carefully about what makes a city as well as where best to place green spaces, residential areas, and factories. We thoughts about transport links and where people would need to go and how best to get there! Next week we will be making our own fruit skewers as part of our DT unit, using seasonal fruits to create some tasty treats! We will also be focusing on spellings from the Year 3 Statutory Spellings list we sent home a few weeks ago, we will be looking at different strategies to help us learn these.
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We have had the most wonderful week full of new learning and developing our understanding of concepts.
In English, we have been writing our own version of Journey, written by Aaron Becker. We have used fronted adverbials to structure interesting sentences that engage the reader as well as similes to help the reader visualise the story. Next week we will publish our story and make a small book with our own illustrations. In maths this week we have worked hard to exchange across columns with 3-digit numbers when adding and subtracting. We will continue this next week but dive deeper into the reasoning and problem-solving phase of learning. Today we explored the woodland school and used natural materials to make maps of the area. This was great fun and enabled us to work on our team building skills. We will be learning about apostrophes and contractions in spelling next week, focusing on why they are used and when to use them. Using this link may help you support your child if you have the time. Year 3 Apostrophes for Contractions - Parent Guidance (free-secret-resources.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com) Have a lovely weekend! It was really interesting that not too long ago we were learning about the population of earth; we even discussed that we were so close to a population of 8 billion. This week, the population of earth reached 8 billion! That is a huge number! This was really interesting for us to notice as part of our current Geography unit.
In Science, we have been exploring materials. Raw materials come from nature and are untouched in terms of change. Next week we are exploring synthetic materials and it would be great if the children could bring in some examples of raw or synthetic materials to help us with our lesson on sorting and identifying characteristics. Oak class have worked hard to use fronted adverbials, similes and coordinating conjunctions in their writing this week and next week, we will continue to work on putting all of these new skills together to write about The Journey. Today we were treated to the most incredible performance by Theatre Alibi. The show was clever and interesting which sparked lots of exciting questions in class. We decided to design our own boxes and thought carefully about what we would need and how we could store it in such a small place. In spelling, we are continuing to work on prefixes and suffixes. The suffixes we have explored are 's', 'es', 'er', 'ed' and 'ing'. The prefixes that we are exploring are 'un', 'in' and 'dis'. We have used these to explore tenses, plurals and changing the meaning of a root word to the opposite. Here are some links that may be useful to check out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBdIzj0elzI - Synthetic fibres. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH4cMjyBZWg - prefixes It has been a busy week in Year 3! We have explored lots of new methods in our maths lessons as well as new vocabulary to help us identify the difference between addition and subtraction. We know that addition is commutative, and subtraction is not! Using counters we found ways to exchanges when adding across 10s and 1s! We have also explored similes and fronted adverbials in our English lessons, exploring retelling a story with some exciting sentences. We also identified what the differences between villages, towns and cities were and thought about where we live in comparison to these. Next week we will continue exploring these but by looking at what affects where people choose to live. For this, it would be really interesting if we have any families that have lived elsewhere and if you could talk about the different places you have lived in comparison to where you are now. I know that living in China is very different to living in Devon in many different ways for me! Cities, towns and villages - BBC Teach Today, we were incredibly lucky to enjoy our woodland school. We explored building a shelter, how to safely light a fire and were able to test the shelters to see how wet we may get if a storm were to arrive! Take a look at our shelters! Just like that, the first week back after the holiday is over!
We have had a busy week starting some new and exciting units! In Geography we looked at populations of different countries and watched the count of the population of the world... live! We have been exploring using concrete resources in maths to support us with our pictorial and abstract representations. Working as a team to work through addition and subtraction equations of 3-digit numbers! Our focus in English has been vocabulary, we have been learning about similes, can you make some fun similes at home? We were also lucky to have a tag rugby session this afternoon, it was great to see Year 3 having fun and working as a team! Next week in science, we will be exploring our new unit - Raw Materials. It would be great if the children collected some objects from home made from different materials (plastics, cotton, metal, wood and so on). One or two per child is more than enough for us to share and sort as a class. This half-term, we have started sharing books that we would like our friends to read. Each week a child takes their turn to choose some books for our display. These can come from home or school and are placed for others to read and share. This has really helped encourage a love of reading this week, we will go through the class in register order to help make sure everyone gets to share! Here is a link to some information on similes that may help with some simile fun at home! Similes interactive - Teaching resources (wordwall.net) What a busy yet wonderful half-term! It has been brilliant to see how Oak class have stepped up to the challenge of Year 3, learning new routines and exploring new and exciting learning! This week we took our trip the Church to celebrate Harvest Festival and to share what we are thankful for. We explored addition with up to 3-digit numbers and discovered how to use the senses when writing a description of a setting. We also took advantage of the wonderful autumnal colours on our playground; the leaves have been falling fast and heavy this week, so we found some of our favourite leaves and used them to create some beautiful pieces of art. Using oil pastels, we chose colours that we could see within our leaves to blend and smudge. Next half term, we will begin our Geography unit, Villages, Towns and Cities. I would like to ask the children to try and find some interesting facts about Chagford and its history as a town to share for our first lesson. We will continue with addition and subtraction, using number lines and number bonds to 10 as quick recall really helps the children with this. We will continue our story writing with a wordless book called The Journey. This is full of beautiful illustrations and hidden meanings. Reading 3 times per week really is helping the children with their quizzes and progress, the quiz can be taken at home using their login details and really helps the children progress through the Accelerated Reader levels. Have a wonderful half-term! Did you know that it is widely believed that there were 21 different types of human? We have learnt about the Neanderthals and how homo sapiens evolved through the Stone Age to eventually begin farming and using languages. Next week we will explore human settlements across the three eras of the Stone Age. Take a look at this link to take a look at some of the learning and vocabulary we might encounter.
Stone Age Settlement | Encyclopedia.com We will also be continuing our journey into the work of Shaun Tan. We have been exploring ‘The Lost Thing’ over the past few weeks and will discover the wonders of ‘The Red Tree’ next week. We will be using the images to explore the character’s feelings and use PEEL (Point, Evidence, Explain and Link) to help structure our thoughts. We will be using our number bonds to 10 and 100 next week to help us with some challenging new concepts and methods. Part whole and bar model will help us to calculate, and problem solve. What Is Part Whole Model? Explained For Primary School (thirdspacelearning.com) Just one more week until half term, it has been a wonderful and exciting half term getting to know Oak Class. Have a lovely weekend! We have had such an interesting week in Oak class! Now that the term is well under way, we are beginning to explore some very exciting concept around settlements and cultures. Did you know that the Stone Age began around 15,000 years ago? This week we explored the time periods of the Stone Age and will continue our Stone Age adventure next week where we learn about the different animals that existed 15,000 years ago. We will begin a new adventure in English next week, exploring Kassim and the Greedy Dragon! We will be exploring new vocabulary and sentence structures to keep our writing engaging! Today we were very lucky to have a workshop run by the Regency String Quartet where we were able to listen to some famous pieces of music as well as some familiar themes to some of our favourite shows and films. They even played Happy Birthday for a member of our class! Here are some links to some useful sites for our Prehistoric Britain unit as well as some vocabulary that we are beginning to explore. Stone Age Facts For Kids - Learn All About Stone Age (kidzfeed.com) Prehistoric - KS2 History - BBC Bitesize School Learning Zone - Pre-historic Britain (school-learningzone.co.uk)  
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