Robins week beg. 9th January

Date: 5th Jan 2023 @ 5:48pm

Happy New Year!

Thank you kindly for your generous gifts, cards and best wishes from everyone. I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas with your families. It has been lovely welcoming back the children and hearing about the fun times they had over the holidays. They have all settled well back into lessons this week and have worked extremely hard for the first week back! I am sure they will all be exhausted this weekend!

In Writing this week we have started our new unit based on the book Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. We have written some pieces of dialogue and described the setting. Next week we will be devolping our ideas into paragraphs as well as beginning to plan and write a report. 

In our Reading lessons we have begun our new text The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. This week in class we have been discussing the books that we have read so far in Year 3, our favourite books/authors/genres and building up our stamina to read for longer periods of time. 

Please remember to read with your child for 10 - 15mins daily and record in diary if possible. Also take a look at their reading target which is on a sticker in their diary, some children may have the same target for a few weeks to work on. 

Spellings for next week will focus on words with the 'c' sound spelt 'ch'. chemist, character, chemical, chaos, school, anchor, mechanic, stomach

Remember to have a go at this spelling game to revise spellings. 

https://ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/

Maths game to play as usual. 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Continue to use this game to revise and learn times tables. The children will continue to be tested on times tables in school so at home they can work on x2, x5, x10 and x3 

These are also some games that I recommend the children play at home to revise key Maths facts. 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

I think everyone got the email this week that PE days are Monday and Friday for this term. 

In our Topic lessons this term we will be doing lots of History and Geography in preparation for our trip to Beeston Castle on Thursday 9th February. 

Please feel free to get in touch if there is anything we can help you with,

Mrs Whittingham, Miss Wilkinson (Friday) & Mrs Taylor