Stone Age Boy comes to Year 3

 

This half term Year 3 will be studying the book 'Stone Age Boy'. Luckily, this also matches up with the work we are doing in History!

This week we dived straight in.

After we were shown a small part of the book, we made predictions on what we thought would happen. 

We then were given parts of the book and we had to sequence them in the right order.

When we had done this we then drew a story map using our own pictures and words.

We have also focused on our descriptive writing and used expanded noun phrases to describe the caves that were seen in the Stone Age Boy.

"The magical, mystical cave with a soft mossy floor" - Maya-Rose

"The gloomy, mysterious cave" - Ana K

Year 3 have engaged really well with the text and are excited for the next few weeks of learning!

Spellings Year 3 03.0.02.20

	A	B	C	D
1	suddenly	suddenly	careful	and
2	carefully	carefully	carefully	can
3	finally	finally	final	fan
4	completely	completely	finally	pan
5	humbly	gentle	horrible	man
6	gently	gently	horribly
7	simply	horrible	February
8	horribly	horribly	people
9	merrily	comical	with
10	comically	comically	when
11	recount	recount
12	chronological	chronological
13	paragraphs	paragraphs
14	powerful	powerful
15	important	important
16	meanwhile	meanwhile
17	conjunction	conjunction
18	conclusion	conclusion
19	details	details
20	difficult	difficult

First pen licences in Year 4!!

Well done to Kanishka, Harry, Lily, Katlyn and Finley who have been awarded the first pen licences in Year 4.

They have been working tirelessly to ensure their work is always beautifully presented and handwriting is joined.

Well done children; your hard work has paid off!

We take presentation of work and handwriting very seriously in Year 4. This is a fundamental part of the writing process to ensure children can continue to make required progress. Please see the statements below for more information regarding the national requirements. 

Fingers crossed, in the coming weeks we will have even more Pen Licences given out!

National Curriculum expectations statutory requirements: Pupils should be taught to:   Use the diagonal and horizontal strokes that are needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined   Increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting [for example, by ensuring that the down strokes of letters are parallel and equidistant; that lines of writing are spaced sufficiently so that ascenders and descenders of letters do not touch].  Pupils should be joining handwriting throughout their independent writing. Handwriting should continue to be taught, with the aim of increasing the fluency with which pupils are able to write what they want to say. This, in turn, will support their composition and spelling.

Year 3 Spellings 27.1.20

Year 3 certificates 10.01.20

                                                    Tavia, Kezia, Ryan, Riley and Amy.

Sophia, Abdulmalik and Courtney-Elizabeth

Year 3 Spellings - 13.01.20

A	B	C	D
incomplete	incomplete	kind	the
invisible	invisible	unkind	lend
incapable	incapable	happy	send
independent	independent	unhappy	mend
incorrect	incorrect	complete	bend
dishonest	dishonest	incomplete
disapprove	unkind	volcano
disappear	unlock	volcanoes
disagree	unsafe	lava
disconnect	unhappy	magma
volcano	volcano
volcanoes	volcanoes
lava	lava
magma	magma
vent	vent
cloud	cloud
conduit	conduit
chamber	chamber
craters	craters
layers	layers