Miss Crosby’s Year 3 Class
Miss Crosby Year 3 Class
On this web page you can find out about all the exciting things taking place in Year 3!
Teacher: Miss Crosby
Email: ecrosby@victoriousacademies.org
Twitter: @discoveryMissCr
Teaching Assistant: Miss Goodson and Mrs Gardner
Please follow the link here to our meet the teacher presentation.
Term: Autumn 1
Our Learning this term:
Maths: This half term we are looking at place value and partitioning numbers within 1000. We will start to add and subtract numbers within 100 whilst also looking at multiplying and dividing.
English: This half term the children will work on three text types: a character description, a narrative and a speech. We will start by looking at one of our house authors, Tom Palmer. Followed by traditional tales with a twist and looking at the story from another’s point of view.
Science: We will be looking at animals including humans with a focus on the function of skeletons. We will be working scientifically to explore which animal’s anatomy is best to survive in the jungle.
History: We will be learning and discovering more about the key events in the Civil Rights movement and how Martin Luther King Jr was influential in the movement.
Art: Year 3 will look at gestural drawing with charcoal and respond to narrative to create dramatic atmosphere. We will be comparing the contemporary artist Laura McKendry and the artist Edgar Degas.
RE: Our focus this term will be on what Christians can learn from the creation story. We will look at the first Creation story from Genesis and key messages within it for many Christians about the world being good and how Christians are called to look after God’s world. We will then move on to think about the story of Adam and Eve and how the Fall fits into the ‘Big Story’ of the Bible.
Computing: We are looking at how digital devices function, how they are connected and how networks share information. We will be discussing the positive and negative impacts of using too much technology.
Music: In music the children will be looking at the song Happy by Pharell. Learning how to sing, perform and keep in beat with the music using their voice and body percussion.
Spanish: We are learning some basic Spanish sounds, looking at the Spanish map and learning some greetings and responses.
PSHE: We are understanding what successful teamwork skills and working on expressing opinions respectfully. We will be understanding collaborative working and comprise and discussing different types of unkind behaviour.
General Class Information
Reading: Each week, the children read a range of texts through their learning. They also take part in whole class or small group Reading sessions where their decoding and comprehension skills are developed with a different reading skill being focused on each day.
Home reading is to practice and consolidate their fluency, expression and comprehension. Children still being taught phonics will take two books home – 1 decodable book and 1 reading for pleasure book. The decodable book is for the children to practice their fluency and expression as well as to show their understanding through questioning. The reading for pleasure book is for the children to share with an adult and to promote a love of reading. If they are past being taught phonics they will be sent home 1 colour banded book to practise decoding and comprehension as well as 1 reading for pleasure book. Your child has been asked to do a piece of work in their reading journals once a week to show what they have read. This will show how they have interpreted parts of the text and how it has sparked imagination.
One child per half term will be nominated for being the Reading Hero for their class based on their commitment to home reading. The child will be chosen based on the evidence seen in their reading record and in class. If your child is chosen to be the class Reading Hero they will be given a prize and a certificate and acknowledged in Friday’s good work celebration assembly.
Homework:
- Task due before Wednesday of each week.
- Read at home at least 3 times
- Go on TTRockstars twice for 10 min
PE: PE is twice a week on a Tuesday and Thursday.
Your child will participate in sports lesson and dance/gymnastics lesson every week. It is normally expected for children to have a full PE kit kept in school at all times.
Children should not be wearing any jewellery including earrings for PE. If your child does wear earrings, please could you ensure they are taken out before school on Tuesday and Thursday please.
Snack: Snack is to be a piece of fruit or a cereal bar. No chocolate, crisps or sweets are allowed