We’ve had another busy week in Year 3 and celebrated the start of our new academic year with Mass yesterday.

We’re enjoying our new book, ‘The Paper Bag Princess’ by Robert Munsch, and have discussed what we liked and didn’t like about the book. We used our oracy skills to take it in turns to discuss our points of view and what we might do if were captured by a dragon. We’re exploring the main characters in more depth too ready for when we write our own fairy story.

In Maths, we’ve been continuing to explore place value with 2-digit and 3-digit numbers. We’ve used manipulatives like base 10 and played games to help reinforce our learning.  We’ve started to revise some of our times tables too.

We’ve started our Science unit on Rocks by recording what we already know and noting any questions we have about the topic on our working wall.  I’m sure we’ll discover the answers to those as we continue!

In History, we’ve explored timelines and discovered that the Stone Age started about 2.5 million years before the birth of Jesus! We’re going to make our own timeline showing different historical events from the Stone Age through to 2025. We’ll be able to use prior knowledge from Year 2 to help us as well.

Congratulations to our Stars of the week and to our Leaner of the week too.  There’s plenty of time throughout the term for everyone to be chosen so keep doing your best.

Have a super weekend and we look forward to seeing you next week in class.

Best wishes

Mrs Howard, Miss Cicero and Mrs Mills