Year 3 Home Learning Statements

This term, students are revising their knowledge of the reading strategies and skills such as; inferring nonfiction texts, visualising, comparing and contrasting and identifying cause and effect in texts.

 Students will view and listen to a variety of mentor texts, and be given the opportunity to practise these strategies using their independent text. Students will continue to work with a small focus group throughout each week completing set tasks on the different elements of reading. For example, word work, decoding, comprehension, understanding parts of speech, and text reviews.

To support this learning at home:

• Listen to your child read aloud each night.
• Model reading aloud to your child. 
• Introduce different text types during reading time (newspapers, biographies, picture story books, etc.). 
• Allow your child to see you read for pleasure to encourage a love of reading. 
• After reading a text, ask your child to retell the events.
• Please ensure that your child fills out their home reading log.

Students will be exploring information reports. We will be analysing the features and structures of an information report, brainstorming and planning their information report on an aspect of the Olympic Games. Our focus will be on informing the reader through descriptive and subject specific vocabulary.

Year 3 students will be writing a free choice SEED write alongside their information report.

To support this learning at home:

• Read a variety of non-fiction texts and information reports
• When reading non-fiction text with your child, ask them to point out the features of information reports; titles, subheadings, tables, diagrams and photographs
• Discuss different homophones and contractions when reading aloud with your child
• Allow your child to see you read and write
• Provide your child with writing materials at home (pencils, pens, paper, notebooks, etc.)
• Encourage your child to set up a designated place to write at home
• Encourage the correct use of full stops, capital letters, nouns, verbs and adjectives
• Watch a documentary and ask your child to recall new information they learnt about
• Discuss and watch the Olympics

Mathematics

This term, students will build on their knowledge of skip counting and make connections to multiplication. Students have been learning strategies to assist them in solving their multiplication facts of twos, threes, fives and tens. Following multiplication, students will use their new knowledge to solve related division facts.

Alongside this, we will be exploring chance experiments and the likelihood of outcomes and recognising and exploring measurement with a focus on area. They are estimating, measuring, ordering and comparing different units such as centimetres and metres.

To support this learning at home:

• When practising 2s facts, use the double strategy e.g. 2×6 -> think double 6.
• When practising 3s facts, use double + 1 more group strategy e.g. 3×4 think double 4 plus one more group of four.
• When practising 5s facts, use the half 10s strategy e.g. 5×8 -> think 10×8 = 80 -> half is 40.
• When practising 10s facts, ensure that there is a 0 in the ones column and the tens column goes up by one.
• Guess the area of different objects around the house, using a ruler/tape measure check if they are correct.

Students have spent time setting up their home reading folders, choosing IPICK (good fit) non-fiction and fiction books, and filling in their reading logs. In class, students will be learning how to activate their prior knowledge, make connections and ask thought provoking questions about what they are reading.

To support this learning at home:

• Encourage your child to read aloud to you.
• Allow your child to see you read: encourage a love of reading. 
• Read to your child.
• Share a reading experience together: you read to them, they read to you.
• Encourage incidental reading; shopping lists, streets, signs, maps.
• Encourage your child to fill in their reading logs at home.
• Ask your child to talk about their book.

Students have been building on their understanding of persuasive writing. They have analysed and annotated rich examples of real-life persuasive pieces and learnt that people express themselves in different ways when there is passion behind a cause. Students will be encouraged to use persuasive devices in their writing to help convince their reader of a topic they have a strong opinion about.

Throughout the term, students will focus on the enjoyment of writing, using multiple stimuli to generate brainstorms and ideas. We call this ‘seed writing’ in the classroom.

They will work through the stages of the writing process to complete a piece of writing from a prompt and a persuasive text.

To support this learning at home:

• Read a variety of texts with your child to experience different written languages.
• Allow your child to see you read and write.
• Provide your child with writing materials at home (pencils, pens, paper, notebooks, etc.)
• Encourage your child to set up a designated place to write at home.
• Encourage the correct use of full stops and capital letters.
• If your child asks for something, encourage them to write down three reasons to support their request.

Mathematics

Students have been revising and building on their place value knowledge by representing digits as words and using various materials, such as MAB. Students are ordering and renaming numbers to the tens of thousands as well as comparing numbers using greater than and less than symbols.

Students will also explore number patterns. They will look at the properties of odd and even numbers, and patterns resulting from addition and subtraction.

Students have been consolidating and extending their ability to read analogue clocks and will work towards reading times to the nearest 5 minutes or minute.

To support this learning at home:

• Encourage your child to make numbers. Roll a 2, 3, 4, or 5 digit number and work out the largest and smallest possible number.
• Encourage your child to recognise the properties of numbers. Roll a 2, 3, 4, or 5 digit number and work out the amount of ones, tens, hundreds, thousands and ten thousands that make up that number.
• Encourage your child to read numbers. Enter a 4 or 5 digit number on the calculator, or make flash cards, and ask your child to read the number and write it in words.
• Practise counting backwards from 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s from a three-digit number.
• Practise reading time on an analogue clock.