Heavers Farm Year Group Blog
Jet class wrote a great scene for the book Gorilla. In English, we read the story Gorilla, wrote a play script for the different scenes in the book and then we acted out or scenes to other classes. They also acted out their scenes for us.
This week in maths we are learning to use terminology associated with the topic of time so that we can read and use a 24 hour clock.
This week Pearl class had the opportunity to enjoy everything about Ancient Geece including attending an Ancient Greek Workshop. 
Homophone of the week:
heel
heal
he’ll
Year 3 spellings:
possess
possession
possible
Spelling rule words:
measure
treasure
pleasure
enclosure
This week we learned how to change direction while keeping control of the ball when dribbling. We then competed against each other in a hockey match. 
This week we used pizza fractions to find equivalent fractions. 
This week in maths we built a fraction wall and compared the size of different fractions.
Hello students, parents and carers,
Please ensure that the following spellings are inserted in your reading diary this week. There will be a spelling test on Friday 29th March 2019.
Spellings
Homophone of the week:
here
hear
Year 3 spellings:
perhaps
popular
position
Spelling rule words:
creature
furniture
picture
nature
adventure
Times tables
Please practice your 8 times table this week. Try and recall the 8’s as quickly as you can when out of order
eg) 3 x 8 = 9 x 8 = 5 x 8 = etc
Optional maths challenge
This week in maths, we have been learning about fractions. Can you solve this fraction problem?
Three children have one whole pizza to share. Caleb eats one fifth. Sara and Ibitzim together eat half of what is left.
a) How much pizza is left over after the children have all eaten? Express your answer as a fraction.
b) Who ate the most pizza? Explain your answer.
Fraction games
https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/fraction-matcher/latest/fraction-matcher_en.html
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=Fractionsv7
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3us/flash/lessonLauncher.html?lesson=lessons/10/m3_10_00_x.swf
Hi All,
Year 3 pupils will be making Greek Structures in Design & Technology next week. We would really appreciate it if you could start collecting and bringing in materials that could be used to make these models.
Ideas of thing you could collect:
Many Thanks,
The Year 3 Team
This week we participated in role play so that we could begin to look at the feelings of the characters from ‘Gorilla’ by Anthony Brown.
