In English this morning we looked at using prefixes. We focused on super-, anti- and auto-. We identified what the prefixes did to the word and then created a range of nouns by adding these prefixes.

Some examples were supermarket, superhero, antifreeze, antibiotic, automatic and automobile.

What words can you think of that use these prefixes?

In Maths today we looked at multiplying by 8. We looked at lots of different representations of this. For example:

How could you represent 9×8?

This afternoon we continued reading the class book of Helping Hercules and answered a range of questions about the text.

We then completed our History topic studying the Ancient Greeks. We looked at hoplites (foot soldiers) and drew and labelled our own example. Read this page to find out more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zckr4wx

In the morning Year 3 had their Muddy Adventures treat time, followed by German with Mrs Lees where they created Christmas Decorations.

This afternoon we completed a non fiction reading activity answering multiple choice and sequencing questions.

To finish off the day we had History. We looked at different famous Greeks and what they invented or were famous for. We created Tom Trump Cards for them.

Here is some information about some of the famous Greeks.

Hello Year 3!

Here is your homework for this week. Remember to submit your work on Seesaw once complete, using the Seesaw code that is stuck into your Reading Records.

English: This week we are looking at adding suffixes ‘ment’ and ‘ness’ at the end of words. The last 3 words are from Year 3/4 spelling list.

1. Practise your spellings for this week using look, cover, write, check. Practise each word 5 times and then put 5 of these words into sentences.

2. Practice your spellings on Spelling Shed (your username and password is stuck to your reading record).

3. Remember to read and record it in your reading record every night! 🙂

Maths: Times tables

Please continue to practise your target times table.

You can also go on these websites and practise! Remember, you have your times table rockstar’s username and password stuck in your Reading record Book!

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

For those of you who like to download the homework, please find the documents attached below.

Please remember, homework must be completed before Friday morning!

Mrs Dubey, Miss Smith & Mrs Jeffries

Hello Year 3!

Here is your homework for this week. Remember to submit your work on Seesaw once complete, using the Seesaw code that is stuck into your Reading Records.

English: This week we are looking at adding ‘s’ or ‘es’ to a noun to make it plural. The last 3 words are from Year 3/4 spelling list.

1. Practise your spellings for this week using look, cover, write, check. Practise each word 5 times and then put 5 of these words into sentences.

2. Practice your spellings on Spelling Shed (your username and password is stuck to your reading record).

3. Remember to read and record it in your reading record every night! 🙂

Maths: Times tables

Please continue to practise your target times table.

You can also go on these websites and practise! Remember, you have your times table rockstar’s username and password stuck in your Reading record Book!

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

For those of you who like to download the homework, please find the documents attached below.

Please remember, homework must be completed before Friday morning!

Mrs Dubey, Miss Smith & Mrs Jeffries

English: Children continued with their story writing and wrote 3rd and 4th paragraph of their mythical story, .

Maths: In maths, we learnt dividing by 5 using sharing and grouping methods. Click on the link below to watch the video tutorial.

Have a go at solving some questions by clicking on the link below.

RE: In RE, we discussed the importance of a prayer and the reasons why people pray. Some of the reasons given by the children were: to be thankful, to ask for help etc. Have a go at filling the sheet attached below.

English: Children continued writing their stories inspired from ‘King Midas and the golden touch’.

It was Art day at school today and we studied a very famous artist, Alma Thomas and taking inspiration from her work children created similar artwork. They used tissue paper, cut it into tiny bits and then stuck onto their pictures one by one! The pictures looked great!

Given below are some facts about her Alma Thomas and some of her works.

English:

Children wrote first paragraph of their story inspired from the ancient Greek myth, ‘King Midas and the golden touch’. They introduced their character, described him and wrote about the thing that their character liked the most! Children will evaluate their work once they’ve finished their story against the following check list.

Reading:

We read the following text and answered the questions

Science: In science children explored magnets, learnt about magnetic poles and observed how magnets attracted and repelled. They initially predicted what will happen when north pole of one magnet and north pole of another magnet are brought closer – whether they will attract or repel. They filled their prediction in the table given below. After that they conducted the experiment to find out if their predictions were correct.

Conclusion: Like magnetic poles repel and unlike magnetic poles attract!