Year 3 Curriculum - Spring

Year 3 - Curriculum Newsletter

We hope you find this letter informative, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher if you have any questions relating to the curriculum.

Homework:

Our expectation at Broadford is that every child should do the following every night:

• 5 minutes reading to an adult and note in the reading record
• 15 minutes practising spellings
• 15 minutes rehearsing times tables facts (including multiplication and division)

If children would like to attempt an additional challenge, we have a new Worldly Wise challenge for the Autumn Term. There will be more detailed information to follow regarding this.

Spellings:

Spellings will be given out on Mondays. The children should practise their words every evening. We encourage the children to write their words in sentences on the back of their homework sheet. Their spelling test will take place on Fridays. 

Rockstar Times Tables:

Children will be completing their times tables daily in school at the start of each maths lesson. Please practise times tables with your children at home. They all have passwords and access to the Rockstars app or alternatively they could simply practise writing their times tables out. They take part in a ‘Sound Check’ every Friday morning which involves their test taking place.

Curriculum Information

We have included a summary of the topics which the children will be covering this half term. If you have any questions about the topics being covered, please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Taylor

Year 3 Leader

Spring Term
	1st Half Term	2nd Half Term
Literacy	Guided Reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation Science-fiction stories Explanation texts	Guided reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation Mystery stories Non-chronological reports
	Please fill in the reading journal after hearing your child read. For a good selection of childrens books visit the local library. Also Mybookblog can be accessed from home with your children's individual usernames and passwords.
Numeracy	Rockstars timetables Place value Multiplication/division Fractions Data Handling	Rockstars times tables Decimals Solving Problems with addition and subtraction
	Rockstars and MyMaths can be accessed from home with the children’s individual usernames/passwords.
ICT	Select, use and combine a variety of software on a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs. Including collecting, analysing and presenting data and information.	Making things happen in a sequence, creating simple animation and simulation-Scratch
Science	Earth Rocks! Looking at the different types of rocks and investigating their characteristics. N/A
	You could visit the Science Museum. Admission is free. Located at Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD.
Geography	What makes the earth angry? Volcanoes	What makes the Earth angry? Earthquakes
R.E	Faith - Religious Figures	Faith - Religious Figures
P.E	Rugby/Football/Netball	Rugby/Football/Netball
	PE will usually be on Wednesday, but this can vary. Please ensure your child brings in their kit and leaves it in school.
Music	Three Little Birds Listening and appraising the song as well as singing, playing, improvising and composing.	The Dragon Song Listening and appraising the song as well as creating a performance.
French	Animals/pets Weather	Adjectives Easter
Art	Painting Experimenting with different effects and textures and using a colour vocabulary.	N/A
P.S.H.E	Getting on and falling out	Getting on and falling out
Trips	Natural History Museum - 28th January 2019 Maths Stay & Learn - Tuesday 14th January 9-9.30 am	Mystery Workshop - Date to TBA

Year 3 Spellings 27.1.20

Year 4 Geography

Dear parents or carers,

In Geography we have been learning about the rainforest. In the next part of our learning, we will be building a rainforest using recyclable materials. We would appreciate it if you could donate spare cereal boxes, bottles, cans, any animal toys that you do not use and any other recyclable materials. Please send these resources in by Wednesday 29th January 2020. 

Kind regards, 

The Year 4 team. 

Year 4 Spellings 27/1/20

A	B	C
division	division	division
revision	revision	revision
explosion	explosion	explosion
confusion	confusion	confusion
decision	decision	decision
invasion	invasion	invasion
collision	collision	collision
television	television	television
erosion	erosion	erosion
conclusion	conclusion	conclusion
tough	Wednesday
thorough	Tuesday
ought	January
though	February
brought	remember
throughout	thoughts
rough	answer
through	actual
bought	disappear
sought	possible

Year 4 Spellings 18/11/19

A	B	C
happily	happily	happily
rudely	rudely	rudely
finally	finally	finally
sleepily	sleepily	sleepily
hastily	hastily	hastily
angrily	angrily	angrily
sadly	sadly	sadly
merrily	merrily	merrily
heavily	heavily	heavily
cheekily	cheekily	cheekily
dramatically	headline
heroically	caption
automatically	lead
paragraph	paragraph
bossily	source
comically	primary
frantically	secondary
slowly	reliable
physically	newspaper
magically	image

Year 4 Chinese New Year

Year 4 have been celebrating Chinese New Year this week. 

After discovering 2020 is the Year of the Rat, the children researched the Chinese Zodiac and discovered which animal their birth year represents. The children discovered that they are all either the Year of the Tiger or the Year of the Rabbit. 

The children have also been drawing their own Dragon eye in Art as the dragon is a famous Chinese symbol.

The children worked hard to add detail to their Dragon eye. They needed to be patient when colouring the small sections in at a time to ensure the end result would be effective.