Year 3 Weekly Blog (17.1.25)
Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 5:11pm
What a fantastic week we’ve had in Year 3!
We are fully immersed in our topic, Humans Are Animals Too, and we have loved discovering so much about what goes on inside our amazing bodies. We started by working in groups to draw around one child and label as many body parts, organs, bones, and limbs as we could think of. The children loved being mini scientists and had some brilliant discussions about why we need a skeleton—to protect major organs, provide support for our bodies, and enable movement. We have some budding biologists in the making!
In English, we’ve been diving deeper into our focus text The Incredible Book Eating Boy. This week, we built some fantastic sentences using comparatives, superlatives, time adverbials, and onomatopoeia! We’ve also created our own silly story inspired by Nick Sharratt’s Ketchup on Your Cornflakes. Each child came up with three hilarious sentences to include in a class-made lift-the-flap book. We had lots of laughs as we shared our muddled up sentences as a class!
In PE, the children have worked hard on their grip and dribble techniques. Our game of Dragon’s Nest was a huge hit—each child had to retrieve a ball from a hoop using their dribbling skills. The teamwork and determination on display was impressive!
In music, we explored the pentatonic scale using the glockenspiels this week. The children experimented with five notes to perfect their own melody and then perform them for the class. It was lovely to see their confidence grow as they shared their melodies.
Maths has been a bit more of a challenge this week as we tackled two-digit by one-digit multiplication. Some children found the concept a little tricky, but we’re working together to master it! To help at home, please encourage your child to work on their 3, 4 and 8 times tables using TT rockstars. We will also be ensuring each child who completes their Doodle Maths Weekly Homework receives a stamp in their stamp album.
The highlight of our week has to be our school trip to the Eureka! Science Museum on Thursday. The children were a credit to the school, listening carefully during the science workshop and soaking up all the fascinating (and slightly yucky!) facts about our bodies. Blood, snot, and other gross-but-great topics had us all laughing and learning in equal measure!
Have a lovely weekend!
The Year 3 Team 😊
