Week beginning 19th May

Suddenly, we are in our last week of Term 5!

In English this week, we listened to a really exciting part of Krindlekrax where Ruskin went down into the sewers to lure Krindlekrax out using toast. We planned out a narrative and have been busy writing this narrative trying to include fronted adverbials. We can't wait to find out what happens at the end of the book now. 

In maths, we have been continuing our work on time, thinking about days, weeks, months and years. We were fascinated about leap years and the idea of people having their birthday on 29th February!

Our history topic is still so interesting and we have enjoyed learning about the Roman hierarchy and why the Roman army was so successful.

We really enjoyed making our our mosaic coasters. We thought carefully about creating a border and then a simple design in the middle using small stone pieces. After half term, we will grout them to finish them off. They will look amazing when they're finished!

Our PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays so please make sure your child has a PE kit in school all week. 

A typical week in Devon 3: 

Home Learning

Times Tables Rockstars! 

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account. 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score and build your knowledge as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

Reading

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading Book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading, children are asked to complete a quiz before changing their book. 

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

We recommend children in Year 3 read for at least 20 minutes a day.  Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week.

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Spelling

Spellings will be checked on Wednesdays. 

Blue group (Mrs Nash, Miss Owen & Mrs Charlwood)

superglue

supermarket

superpower

supersonic

superhuman

submarine

subtitle

subway

subheading

subordinate 

Red group (Mrs Whitmore) 

dangerous

jealous

fabulous

enormous

nervous

Purple group (Mrs Smith)

large

charge

barge

bridge

badge 

Below is a list of the 100 most common words that your child is expected to know how to spell by the end of Year 4 (please see attachment).

The spelling strategies document below shows what strategies are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words: