Welcome to Year 3
Class Teacher: Miss Clarke
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Decourcey
Our PE days are Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Homework will be posted on Google Classroom.
Please don't hesitate to contact me at jclarke@bournehall.herts.sch.uk
Key dates
Tuesday 10th September - Meet the Teacher
Thursday 10th October - Trip to Hazard Alley
Thursday 17th October - Harvest Assembly & Coffee Morning
Tuesday 22nd October & Wednesday 23rd October - Parent/Carer consultations
Reading:
When you read at home, log your reading on Boom Reader. You can log books from home as well as books from school.
Please make sure books are logged with a comment about the reading/story.
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.
Class Novel:
Reminders
Swimming starts for group 1 on Thursday 12th September.
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
