Year 3 Blog - 5.11.21

Date: 5th Nov 2021 @ 11:18am

Welcome back everyone!

Well this week has absolutely flown by. The children are loving our new topic “Around the World in 38 Days” exploring the 7 continents through Phileas Fogg’s eyes. Ask your children to sing you the 7 continents song. It’s a catchy one! As the week progressed the children became fascinated with Paris and in particular the Eiffel Tower. The children have created a Paris fact file using a picture atlas, encyclopaedia, non-fiction texts and online resources. Take a look at the photos below.

In maths some of the children have moved on to subtraction with renaming. This has thrown up a few tricky areas. If you have a chance to practise alongside your child we would be very grateful. The main area that is causing confusion is that some children automatically see 0 – 6 and flip it around and answer 6 – 0. We continually reinforce with the children that you cannot alter the order of operations when looking at a subtraction calculation whereas you can when using addition.

It was lovely to speak to lots of you last night during our Parent / Teacher meetings and we are looking forward to seeing everyone else next Tuesday. Thank you for everything you are doing at home to support your children. 

Have a great weekend and stay safe.

The Year Three team x