Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Thursday 14th March 2024
Dear Parents and Carers,
Well, this week has been Science Week, in which we have investigated the concept of time and have made sand timers which we have had to calibrate to one minute. This proved more difficult than we first thought, with us then exploring why the sand takes one minute to run in one direction but more than one minute to flow when we turned it upside down! Finally, most of our sand timers worked and we were able to use them to time various events and to create graphs and tables. Please see our photos above.
In English this week, we have written descriptions of sea monkeys and revised adverbial phrases. In Maths, we have started to explore mass and have looked at the difference between grams and kilograms. In Art, we have started to make our greenhouses, with the children learning how to saw wood safely and under supervision.
Our tomato seeds are growing well - the children will be bringing them home in a couple of weeks!
Have a lovely weekend!
Dr Wilson and Ms Sham
Home Learning - Term 4:
Spelling:
In Year 3, the children are set for spelling in two separate groups: red and blue. Here are the spelling words for next week for each group. Our spelling test (for each group) will be on Thursdays:
Red Words:
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 words: homophones:
Weather
Whether
Seen
Scene
Male
Plain
Plane
Knight
Night
In addition, please find some information to support your child at home with their spellings: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/english/primary-spelling/
Also attached is the 100 most common words that your child is expected to know by the end of Year 3 (please see below).
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.
Boom Reader:
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. Instructions on how to log on to Boom Reader have been sent home in your child's bag. Please ask if you have any questions.
https//boomreader.co.uk
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.
Fun Maths: Mass
Take 5 packets of food stuff at home. Have a look at the mass given on the side of each packet. Put these in order from smallest to greatest. Now write each amount not in grams but in kilograms.