Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Term 4 Week 4 13.3.24
Welcome to week 4
We have started the week off with British Science week. To celebrate 30 years of this event, we have taken the theme of time. On Monday we made our own version of sand timers and calibrated them to one minute. We will be using these to time different activities and to generate data to record on graphs. We have discussed how time is important for many aspects of STEM.
On Tuesday, Year 3 visited the church for a special RE lesson with our focus on salvation and the Trinity. Part of the lesson was looking round the church for images or symbols.
In English, we have met the rather nasty and rude character of Stacey de Lacey and his army of stinky, slimy sea monkeys. As these are made up creatures we have had fun planning a leaflet for how to care for these slimy creatures by letting our imaginations go wild!
In maths we have started looking at mass and weighing in grams and kilograms. If you have some traditional scales at home, maybe you could practice weighing different objects?
General reminder:
PE is on a Tuesday and Wednesday. Well done for everyone for remembering to bring your kits in. You all looked vey smart and ready for sporting action.
Spellings on a Wednesday.
Many Thanks
Mrs Bentham, Mrs McGinley and Mrs Strudwick
Home Learning Term 4 Week 4
Spelling:
In Year 3, the year spelling is set into two groups: red and blue. We will have a weekly test the following Wednesday. Here are the spelling words for next week for each group:
Red (taught by Mrs McGinley):
Adding the suffix -ness
We can add the suffix -ness to many root words to make a noun
illness
sadness
goodness
darkness
weakness
softness
fitness
lateness
Topic words
mass
capacity
Blue (taught by either Dr Wilson or Mrs Nash):
Blue words: homophones:
Weather
Whether
Seen
Scene
Male
Plain
Plane
Knight
Night
In addition, please find some information to support your child at home: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/english/primary-spelling/
Also attached 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).
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.
Challenge yourself to beat your score, build your knowledge and watch your confidence sore, 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 and home each day. Children are asked to change their book when it is finished using the guidance and support provided by the teaching team within the class.
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.
Please note: pupil login details have changed slightly due to an upgrade that has taken place on the Accelerated Reader platform. Pupil login details (user name and password) should now be enter in all lower case (no capital letters at all). These login details are used each time your child quizzes a school reading book which carries an accelerated reading quiz code.