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.
Click here to view the book list.
Click here to view the 50 recommended reads for Year 1. How many have you read?
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:
We are consolidating our knowledge of 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:
Spring Term Curriculum Overview:
English:
- narrative: Stone Age Boy; Little Wolfie
- non-fiction: explanaton text - Machines
- poetry: If I Were In Charge
maths:
- addition and subtraction
- fact families
- multiplication and division
- geometry
science: light, rocks and soils
computing: creating media - animation
PE: swimming, dance, Kwik Cricket
history: changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
geography: locations of historical significance - Maiden Castle, Dorset; Skara Brae, Scotland
RE: Belonging, Ideas about God and gods, communicating through prayer (Islam and Christianity)
art:
painting and mixed media: Prehistoric Painting
D and T:
textiles: The Fabric of Nature
music: patterns in music - Trains
personal development:
Being My Best; Myself and My Relationships
French: Je Peux... (I Can...); Les Animaux (The Animals)