Homework

Reading – Children should read EVERY day. Everyone will have a book in their tray which they are reading at school, they are welcome to also take this home to read.

Maths – Mathletics and times table practise will form the maths homework, it is expected that both are done at least once a week. By the end of this academic year the children are expected to know their 2x, 5x, 3x, 4x and 8x tables.  The order in which we learn the X tables is: 2x, 5x, 10x then 3x, 4x, 8x. This knowledge will be vital for learning in Year 4. 

Spellings – Children will have spellings to practise each week, linked to learning in class. Please make sure that children practise spelling them correctly in a sentence.

Weekly homework – We hope that they are fun and interesting activities that will develop them as learners. It will be given out on a Friday and is due in on a Wednesday. There will be a different activity for each week and castle points will be awarded generously.

Term 2 English

Week 1

Mulberry Class wondered why the giants have never been captured and decided to make wanted posters!  The children modified nouns to create noun phrases, created compound words and used a range of sentence types.

Week 2

Year 3 became inventors this week, as they created their own revolting recipes for giants.  They identified the verbs needed at the start of a sentence to create a command, recorded commands in order to create a recipe and identified patterns for words ending in ‘ous’.

Week 3

This week we have read chapters: Journey to Dream Country and Dream Catching from the BFG.  We have discussed these questions: What would make a good dream? What would make a bad dream? Do all dreams make sense?

We have also learnt that we can create nouns using the ‘shun’ suffix but this can be spelt in three different ways.

invent -  invention

explode - explosion

magic - magician

The children then created their own dream jars using nouns with the 'shun' suffix.

Mathematics Term 2 

Mulberry Class have recalled and used multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables.

Week 4

Mulberry Class have recalled and used multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables.