Perfect Penguins
- Year 3
Class Teacher - Mrs Vaughton / Mr Petitt
Spring Term 2010 Newsletter Autumn Term 2009 Newsletter
English: We will be learning how to write effective stories, poetry
and simple instructions. We will continue to work on punctuation,
spelling and the use of effective vocabulary.
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At home, you could help by looking for examples of how instructions
are used, such as in games, cookery books and appliances. Notice
the vocabulary used and the way the writing is laid out.
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Make sure that your child is reading regularly at home. They should
bring a new book home on a regular basis, at least once a week. If
they are not doing this, please remind them as they are responsible
for choosing and changing their own books. Listen to you child read
at least twice a week but also let them read independently, both
out loud and in their head. Ask them to tell you what it is they
have just read.
Spelling: We will be working very hard to improve our spelling through
daily sessions in which the children will work in small groups, focusing
on a particular spelling pattern.
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At home, please help your child to learn any spellings that are sent
home as part of their spelling group work and continue to learn words
from the Key Words List (leaflets available from main entrance).
Maths: We are learning to collect and sort data in different ways,
identify fractions of shapes and numbers and recognise symmetry.
We will continue to develop our mental skills by increasing recall
of key number facts, such as pairs of numbers that total 20 / 100
and learning to add and subtract small numbers in our heads. We will
continue to practise and secure knowledge of the 2, 5, 10 and 3 times
tables, and begin to learn the 4 times table.
• At home, practise addition and subtraction with pairs of
small numbers.
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Encourage your child to notice numbers in different places (on road
signs, food packaging etc) and ask them to read the number to you.
Ask questions, such as ‘is that larger or smaller than ___?’ ‘What
number would come just before that one?’
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Practise times table facts starting with 2’s and moving on
as your child is secure. When your child knows the times table by
heart, they should be able to recall facts to answer random questions
within 5 seconds.
Science: We will be finding out how we can help plants to grow well
and investigating electrical circuits.
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At home, help your child to notice things that need electricity to
work.
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Look in your garden/local park for new signs of plant growth as spring
arrives.
ICT: We are learning how to use simple databases and we will be
working with Mr Fisher to manipulate sound using a range of music
programs. If you are interested in developing your own ICT skills
generally please let me know as it may be possible to set up opportunities
after school for you to use our facilities.
Topic: This term the children have been involved in choosing our
class topic by thinking about the things they are most interested
in finding out more about. The chosen topic will be ‘What is
Life Like Under the Sea?’
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At home, any information you can find about animal and plant life
under the sea will be of great benefit to your child’s knowledge
and understanding.
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If you have any books, pictures or photographs that relate to this
topic, your child is welcome to bring them in to show to the other
children.
Other Information
• Mrs Dodson has moved on to work with another class so Mrs Clayton
will now work in Class 3 full time.
• Our PE days are Monday and Tuesday. Please make sure children have
black shorts, white t-shirt and pumps, black/navy tracksuit and
trainers in line with the school policy. There will be one indoor and one
outdoor lesson, but this will be flexible depending on weather.
No jewellery to be worn, especially on these days. If your child has
earrings, please make sure that they are removed before school
on PE days.
• Your child is responsible for changing their own reading book and
can change it first thing on a morning as they come into school
or during our daily guided reading session. This can be done as often
as needed, but please encourage your child to finish the book before
changing it for another one.
• Homework will be sent out on a Friday and will be based around the
learning that has taken place in the week. Most homework tasks
will ask your child to produce something that shows what they have learnt
over the last week, this could range from a piece of writing to
making a model. We feel this approach will be more interesting for the children
and will encourage them to talk to you at home about their learning.
In addition to this, please help your child to learn any spellings
that are sent home, practise the times table that they are currently
working on and encourage them to read on a daily basis.
• Please could I remind you that your child needs to have a pair of
black pumps to wear indoors. There are still a large number of
children without these.
• There have been a large number of items of clothing going missing
over the last term. Please could you check at home to see if your
child has mistakenly brought home something that belongs to someone
else. The following items are of particular interest as these have
been reported to me as missing…
o A Blue bag with red and white stripes and a character logo
o An Adidas tracksuit
o Black Umbro 3/4 jogging bottoms
o A white England shirt
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Please check that your child’s name is written clearly in
every item of clothing which they bring to school, as this helps
us to
identify any items which are left lying around at the end of each
day.
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