Year 3 blog 6th September
Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 4:03pm
Welcome back! We have had a fantastic first 3 days back in Year 3! We have been learning all about our classroom: new places at very grown up desks and new lockers. We have also been learning about the rules and expectations of Year 3.
As well as settling in, we have started a new English unit. Mrs Sant had been walking her dog and stumbled across a note written in a bottle! We read the note and thought of unanswered questions- who had written it, where were they travelling and why had it washed up in Brereton? We then looked at some unfamiliar vocabulary from the note and used a dictionary to find out the meanings. After this we have written effective sentences using picture clues from our new book The Rhythm of the Rain! We have started to look at le words in our spelling sessions like little and bottle.
In Maths we have been consolidating Year 2 place value knowledge by looking at numbers to 100 and partitioning these, before we move onto numbers to 1000 next week.
In PE we have started our netball sequence of lessons. We were learning the chest and bounce pass and played with a variety of partners and practised these skills in different games.
During our No Outsiders lesson today, we discussed what discrimination means. We said it's when people get treated differently because they have different colour skin or like or dislike different things.
We read the story This is Our House, it was about a little boy called George. George refuses to let anyone into his cardboard house, telling others that it belongs only to him and that no one else is welcome, but when George steps away, all the children pile in and tell George he is not welcome, teaching George an important lesson in sharing.
We then played a little game where only boys with brown hair were allowed to play; everyone else said this wasn't fair! We then explained this is how some people may feel if they have been discriminated against or left out of a game.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mr McAulay
