Oak Class (Year 3) 2022 - 2023

Welcome to Term 4!

We hope you had a wonderful holiday and enjoyed the sunny weather! Long may it continue! There has been a day change for PE as we have Venture Sports this term, so our PE days are now a WEDNESDAY and a THURSDAY.

This term, our geography topic will be 'Extreme Earth' and we will be recapping our learning on The UK and The Stone Age. The first week and the last week of term will also be Science weeks, where we will spend the whole week focusing on science skills and knowledge.

Reading Books

The children have all been assessed using our Accelerated Reader programme and their ZPD has been updated in their reading record. I am really proud of their enthusiasm for reading this term, it has been lovely to see so many of them read regularly and complete their quizzes.

Reading is expected at least three times per week at home, and the book signed so that Mrs Applegarth and I can keep up with how regularly the children are reading. Reading at home really benefits their learning across all subjects and we are really thankful that you support their learning at home too.

Once the children have completed a book, they do a quiz at school and will change their book, ready to bring a new one home. Please could children bring their books in every day, regardless of whether they have finished or not so that Mrs Applegarth and I can read with them if we get the chance throughout the day. Thank you for your support!

Maths Homework

This term, I will be asking the children to complete tasks on Freckle for their Maths homework. There will be one task a week that children can access through the 'From My Teacher' tab on their Freckle dashboard. This will be set on a Friday and due to be completed by the following Thursday.

The website to access Freckle: https://freckle.com/en-us/

Class Code: y3vc6v

Spelling

The children all have a spelling book which can go to and from school so that they can practise at home too. The book must come into school every day as we practise spelling regularly at school.

Every time we start a new spelling unit, the children will get a new list of spellings. This may not be weekly as it depends on the length of the unit in the spelling programme we use - No Nonsense Spelling. Rather than assessing using a spelling test, we use a variety of ways to encourage the children to use their learnt spelling words in their writing, such as proof reading and editing in their own written work.

There is also the Year 3 and 4 statutory spelling list in their books, which is a list of words children can be expected to spell by the end of year 4. If there are no set spellings, these are the words that the children can practise.

There are a variety of different methods we teach children to use to practise their spellings - ask them which ones we have been learning at school. Here are a few of them:

• Pyramid Writing
• Rainbow Words
• Spelling Flowers