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What Year 3 are learning Hints for helping your child and allow light to pass through. Help your child to plant and look after a plant in English Read a wide range of different text-types with Plants the house. Read a selection of classic children’s literature your child, including poems, picture books and To know that plants make their own food. Take your child to the Science Museum or from famous authors including the Iron Man chapter books, as well as news websites such as To plan and carry out investigations into Natural History Museum, or have a look in parks by Ted Hughes and Voices in the Park by Newsround. Try to sit with your child while they factors which effect the growth of plants. and gardens at the plants. Anthony Browne. do their homework and encourage them to say Retell and write stories they have looked at in their sentences to you before they write them Computing Practice keyboard skills at home. Use apps that class beginning to think about authors’ word down. Help them to learn their spellings. Take Programming and Bug-Fixing encourage your child to program things and choices and their own. your child to the library each week. Go to the Create a short scripted animated cartoon. discuss ways in which technology and Write a newspaper report based upon the Iron theatre or cinema where traditional tales are Make choices about their programming scripts computing helps them in their day to day lives Man. performed. to improve and edit their animations. and talk about what they enjoy about it. Write and perform poems inspired by their We are Presenters reading. Use iPads and apps to create a video Take part in drama and performance to presentation about their local area support their understanding of character and and a contrasting environment in the plot. Lake District. Begin to use more complex sentence History Visit the Museum of London and the British structures using connectives, conjunctions and Know that the Stone Age was divided into Museum with your child. Use the internet and adverbial phrases. three periods (Palaeolithic, your local library to find out more about the Mesolithic and Neolithic) and be able many Stone Age sites around the UK. Maths Try to sit with your child while they do their to compare how people lived in Read, write and order whole numbers to at homework and ask them to show and explain each. least 500 and position them on a number line; the methods they have been learning. Look for Explore Stone Age settlements. count on from and back to zero in single-digit and play with numbers around the local area for Geography Go on walks with your child around the local steps or multiples of 10. Partition three-digit example buses, door numbers and prices in Know that we live in the UK and locate key area. Ask them about what they enjoy about numbers into multiples of 100, 10 and 1 in shops. Talk to your child about the prices of locations on a map. living where they do what might make it a different ways. items in the shops and let them pay for things Use OS maps to locate their school, home and better, safer place to live for themselves and Use informal methods to add and subtract and work out change. Let them play and handle other familiar places in their local others. Help your child to research information ones or tens from 3 digit numbers. money finding different ways to make amounts. area. about the local area online or in the library. Use 2, 5 and 10, 3, times tables and begin to Help them to learn their times tables. Play Use OS maps to plan a route around their local Have fun exploring Google maps. learn the 4 and 8x tables. Maths games online – e.g. www.ictgames.com area. Use informal methods for multiplication and and www.topmarks.com etc. Consider how the land is used in their local division. area. Solve 1 and 2 step word problems with Compare their local area with that of pupils at increasing confidence. John Ruskin School in Coniston, Name and identify properties of 2D and 3D Cumbria. shapes. Begin to recognise halves, quarters Art Help your child to create their own Stone Age and tenths. Look at a range of Neolithic art from across the scene at home. Look at and research the Science Play with and explore different sources of light. world. Look at the Caves of Lascaux. Lascaux cave paintings in France and other Light Discuss and teach your child about the dangers Create their own Neolithic inspired prehistoric artworks Visit art galleries to talk To find out how shadows are formed. of looking directly at the sun and other artworks and their own cave about the paintings and sculptures. Watch To plan and carry out investigations It powerful light sources. paintings. programmes like Art Attack. To identify sources of light. Make shadow puppets together and explore Use a range of media, including natural To know the difference between opaque, how to change the shape and darkness of materials, to create a similar effect translucent and transparent materials and to shadows. to Stone Age artists. identify properties of materials which block Try to find machines that use lights. DT Take your child to play in local parks. Look Outstanding School Ofsted 2009 Design, make and evaluate a playgroundChallenge that is together Award at for how Gifted the play equipment is built and safe and fun for children in their local putPupils together. area. RE Talk about the different religions and the Learn about the life of Buddha and his main different places people worship. Find out about teachings. the Buddha and read some stories about him. Find out where and how Buddhists worship and practice meditation. Music Teach your child any of your favourite songs Explore rhythmic patterns and festivals and and sing rhymes together. Listen to a variety of seasons. music. Create simple rhythmic patterns and perform them rhythmically using notation as a support. PE Ensure your child has their PE kit and their Gymnastics – perform shapes and balances on swimming costume, goggles, towel and a their own and with a partner. swimming hat on the correct days. Dance – learn and perform a dance sequence. Take your child to the park to keep active. Swimming – learn to swim. PSHE Talk to your child about their day and their friendships. Watch Newsround with your child and talk about any issues that might arise. Help John Ruskin School Parents’ out in the local community. French Encourage your child to teach you the French Learn the names of the colours and the names words and songs that they have been practising Information Leaflet of different foods. To express simple at school. preferences about colours and food and to say whether foods are healthy or unhealthy. Additional Useful Information Year 3  Homework is sent home every Thursday and collected in every Wednesday. Please ensure your child completes their homework and brings it in on time.  Book bags need to come in every day. Please comment about your child’s reading in Spring 2016 yellow books. Your child will get an Oxford Reading Tree book and a free choice book every week as well as the option of a library book. Try to read with your child on a daily basis and talk to them about what they have read. It doesn’t have to be a story book. It Theme – My Home could be comics, newspapers, eBooks or even recipes. Don’t forget a bedtime story.  Try to make time to read with your child every day and talk with them about what they have read.  Check your child’s book bag for any letters or information from school.  PE is on Friday and swimming is on Tuesday. Ensure your child has their PE kit and their swimming costume, goggles, towel and a swimming hat on the correct days.