Welcome back to Summer Term! Our final term in Year 3 and how time has flown already! It sounds like everyone had a fantastic Easter break with lots of stories to share with the class.
In literacy this week we have been coming to the end of our class text, 'Arthur and the Golden Rope'. We had an in depth discussion about the author and illustrator, Joe Todd-Stanton's use of text and illustration and how he tells the story sometimes only through the illustrations. We also compared the different techniques he uses when creating the illustrations. We wrote in role as Arthur to describe the adventure he went on to get the two impossible ingredients that the mighty God Thor had asked for. Towards the end of the week we created our own impossible objects poems and published them - these will be on show during our celebration event at the beginning of May (information to follow).
Our maths focus has stuck with fractions this week as we have looked at adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator within the whole. We now know to check if the denominator is the same and then look at the numerator and either add or subtract as we usually would. We also have looked a fraction wall to help us visualise how fractions come together to create a whole.
We have had lots of exciting afternoons this week creating watercolour paintings of the Northern Lights, investigation fizzy drinks and Mentos eruptions and beginning to make our volcanoes ready for our eruption display!
Reading:
I have been amazed to see the massive improvement in reading for the start of this new term. People who's last reading log entry was in 2017 have now been trying to read every day and it is fantastic. Let's keep up the great work. Remember, book bags with books and reading logs should be in every day but especially Tuesdays as this is the official book changing day. Who will be the best reader of this term?
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