Year 3
Class Teacher: Ms Grover
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Dickson
Our PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Homework will be posted on Google Classroom on Thursdays.
Please don't hesitate to contact me at alexgrover@bournehall.herts.sch.uk
Reading:
When you read at home, log your reading on Boom Reader. You can log books from home as well as books from school.
Reading VIPERS gives lots of examples of questions to discuss while reading. These will help children develop the comprehension skills of Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval and Summary.
Oxford Owl has a huge ebook library among other resources. You just need to create a free account.
Reading Eggspress also has a library as well as our homework activities.
Are you looking for a new book to read?
Have a look at this list of recommended reads from Booksfortopics.com.
Recommended Resources:
Maths:
Our maths homework is generally set on Mathletics.
Please use Times Tables Rock Stars to practise your multiplication facts. You can also play this game on Maths Frame.
Top Marks have lots of educational maths games.
Risky is a card game you can play together, which helps children to practise mental addition strategies. You will need a pack of playing cards.
To consolidate your knowledge of Place Value, you could play Crooked Rules. You will need a ten-sided dice (or an online number generator), pencil and paper to play.
Here is some useful vocabulary for mental maths methods.
Spelling:
Spelling Frame has brilliant games to reinforce the learning of spelling patterns and High Frequency/ Common Exception Words.
Here are some useful word lists:
Year 1/2 Common Exception Words
Maths:
Here are some resources to help consolidate mental maths methods and formal written methods for addition and subtraction.
Some photos from our Christmas performance...
Finding Genie (in Hawaii)
Our autumn art work:
Summer Term Curriculum Overview:
English:
- narrative: The Great Kapok Tree, The Roman Empire
- non-fiction: non-chronological report
- poetry: If I Were In Charge
maths:
- multiplication and division
- fractions and decimals
- shape and measures
science:
- animals including humans
- magnets
computing: programming
PE: dance, athletics, rounders
history: changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
geography: locations of historical significance - St Albans, Rome, volcanos
RE: Symbols, Actions and Artefacts (Sikhism and Christianity)
art:
Craft and Design: The Fabric of Nature
D and T:
Cooking and Nutrition: Eating Seasonally
music: composition - volcanoes, Mayans
personal development:
Being My Best; Growing and Changing
French: Les Animaux (The Animals), Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood)
