Year 3 Weekly Blog 20th June

What an amazing week, filled with sunshine and fun!

Worship Our class worship was led this week by Blythe, Logan, Bella, Elsie and  Dexter. We listen to the story of Philip and how spread the word of God. As a class we thought about how we spreads God’s work, we decided that it was not just through speech but in acts of kindness, care and love. We though about times we had show care and compassion and times others had shown us care. Thank you for leading our liturgy Blythe, Logan, Bella, Elsie and  Dexter, you will be our prayer leaders this week. 

On Thursday we watched the Mark 10 Little Liturgy. We meet Jesus as he spoke in front of a great crowd but there was a problem, they needed something to eat. His disciples brought him five loaves and two fish and Jesus worked a wonderful miracle. Greg helped us reflect upon the Gospel for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. We then gathered with Jesus to pray, we thought about those who are not as lucky as us and may be hungry.

Sports Day and Gym Jam Jog

I’m sure you will agree we had a fantastic sports afternoon, the sun was shining and the children were superstars. Thank you so much to the parents and friend who came and supported the children and cheered them on.
It was lovely to see so many families jogging together on Thursday morning for our annual Jim Jam Jog. Check out the picture on Mrs Gregan’s blog.

Our learning this week…

English We have started reading the classical poem ‘The Spider and the Fly’, the children have written statements and questions around illustartations form the text and started to make prediction about what they will think will happen.

Maths - We are column addition and subtraction experts - the children have smashed these units and I am so proud of them. We have started looking at fractions - recognising the whole and parts of everyday objects. For example, the cake is the whole, the parts are the icing, the sponge, the chocolate chips and the cake case. Can your child recognise the parts and wholes of items out and about this weekend?

Spelling - this weeks spelling are more homophones: weather, whether, heel, heal, he’ll, accept, except, affect and effect. Spelling quiz will be 30th June.

Science - We have continued looking at magnetism and non contact forces. We experimented with magnets and wrote statements about what happened when like poles were put together eg north to north and opposite poles were put together eg south to north. We added attract and repel to our scientific vocabulary and used these in our statements.

Conversation starter…

What is the most courageous thing you’ve ever done?
How did you feel after you had done it?

As we come closer to the end of the school year, children might be starting to feel nervous about moving classes and meeting new teachers. It would be a good time to remind them of how they felt at the beginning of year 3 and how far they have come.
Are they proud proud of their achievements?

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Certificates

Our learner of the week is Jude
You have impressed the adults in class this week with your learning attitude. You have been focused and engaged particularly in maths. You have worked cooperatively with your learning partner and solved tricky problems together. We can see your brain growing right in front of us! Keep up the hard work Jude!

This half term’s virtues are Loving and Compassion.

Our Virtue butterflies this week have been awarded to Blythe.

Reminders

• PE Days - Wednesday (outdoor) and Thursday (indoor).

• Sponsored swim money - to be in by Friday 20th June

• Glazey Days class trip - we will be visiting Glazey Days in Fleetwood on Wednesday 9th July. We will be travelling by bus and coach (keeping the cost down), then speding some creative time in their studio to paint pottery. The cost of the cost of the trip is £20 and can be paid on parentpay. More info to follow next week.