Welcome to Class 3
Our teacher is Miss Clark
Mrs Lupton is our teaching assistant
September
In Class 3 this term our topic is Electronics and we have kick-started this with a visit from the scrap store. We spent the morning building robots out of recycling and throughout the term we will learn about how we can use electric circuits to develop movement.
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October
In topic this term we have been learning how to build Art Bots and writing instructions on how to make them and explanation texts about different contraptions. In order to make our Art Bots we had to learn to read and follow instructions, how to make a circuit and have a good understanding of electronics. It definitely took a lot of resilience! Once we had made sure our circuits were working, it was very exciting to watch them draw some brilliant rainbow patterns.
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In science we were measuring the distance a car travels on different surfaces to test the amount of force different materials have on a toy car. We learnt that the car travels further on smoother surface this is because a smooth surface has less friction than a rough surface. We tested the car on bubble wrap, sandpaper, carpet, the table, cloth, cardboard and wet floor area. We compared the amount of friction each material had on the car by rolling the car down a whiteboard and measured the distance the car had traveled from the whiteboard on different surfaces. We had to think about how to make our investigation fair.
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Please see our Parent Planner below for more details of our learning this term.
Homework
Each Tuesday your child will be set homework, which is usually due in for the following Monday. Their homework normally includes a task on mathletics (children have their own log in details) www.mathletics.co.uk , spellings and one other piece which may be related to literacy, science or topic.
Spellings: each week your child will be given a list of spellings to learn for the following week, these spellings will consist of words we may come across in our learning and words year 3 are expected to know. I am sure your children will appreciate any help you can give them with learning their spellings.
Reading – each week I will set the class a challenge of reading 5 times a week at home, they will then receive 5 house points and a superstar sticker for their chart. We also have a star reader each week, the more you can hear your child read the better!
Parent Planners
Please click on the links below to download these PDF files.
Year 3 Parent Planner Autumn Term 2018
Here are some really fun and useful websites for games to help your learning:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar/
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular