Year Three

Please note that Mr Loader’s class will be swimming this Thursday 19th April.

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If you get bored over the Easter holiday then try out some of these silly games to help you learn your tables.

Mad for Maths

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Thank you for to all parents who helped us this week by baking the gingerbread for our very successful gingerbread sale on Thursday. All the children had a really great time.

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Here is the recipe we used today in class to make gingerbread men.

Gingerbread men
Ingredients
• 350g/12oz plain flour, plus extra for rolling out
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 2 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 125g/4½oz butter
• 175g/6oz light soft brown sugar
• 1 free-range egg
• 4 tbsp golden syrup
Preparation method
1. Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger and cinnamon and pour into the bowl. Add the butter and mix until the mix looks like breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar.

2. Lightly beat the egg and golden syrup together, mix until the mixture clumps together. Tip the dough out, knead briefly until smooth, wrap in clingfim and leave to chill in the fridge for 15 minutes.

3. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Line two baking trays with greaseproof paper.

4. Roll the dough out to a 0.5cm/¼in thickness on a lightly floured surface. Using cutters, cut out the gingerbread men shapes and place on the baking tray, leaving a gap between them.

5. Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until lightly golden-brown. Leave on the tray for 10 minutes and then move to a wire rack to finish cooling. When cooled decorate with the writing icing and cake decorations.

The recipe is modified from one found on the BBC website (linked below)

Gingerbread Recipe

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Sorry about any confusion with swimming. Miss Ough’s class will be swimming this Thursday (8th March), then Mrs Ashton’s class will swim on the following Thursday (15th) .

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Here is a really good timeline of British history from the BBC.

How long ago were the Tudors?
Who was the first Tudor King?
How long did Elizabeth I rule for?
When did the Tudor period end?
How many years did the Tudor period last?
What came next?

BBC Timeline

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Just this once here are the spellings for this week:

1 2 3
er er er
voyager farmer farmer
villager driver teacher
manager villager reader
teacher reader driver
islander teacher feeder
reader faster harder
driver Londoner
teenager teenager

everyone everyone someone
someone someone thing

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Just a polite reminder that as a school we encourage children to read regularly at home to a parent or another adult. This adult then needs to date and sign the child’s reading record. It is clear that those children who read regularly at home are more confident and competent readers.
Every Thursday your child’s reading record is checked and if they have read at least four times they are awarded one team point, and if they read seven times they receive two team points. If there is no evidence your child reading four or more times during a week he or she will miss their playtime on the Friday.
Spellings are also very important. Being able to spell means they are more fluent at writing. We send spellings home on a Tuesday and they will be tested on the following Tuesday. Each child has a spelling book where they can practise. There are three look, cover, write, check columns in the book. This is the minimum they should be doing each week on their spellings. If your child does not bring in their spelling book or hasn’t shown that they have done the three attempts in their book then they will stay in at playtime on Tuesday until they have completed what should have been done at home.
Thank you for your support.

Year 3 Teachers

Ideas for learning your spellings

a) Use different coloured pencil crayons to make rainbow words.
b) Use pebbles or stones to spell the words on the floor.
c) Skip, jump or hop around while spelling the word aloud.
d) Write each letter of the word on pieces of paper, jumble them up and try and rearrange them correctly.
e) Look, cover, write, check.
f) Put words around the house so you see them every day.
g) Write simple sentences that include the word.

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What a fun game about symmetry.
Symmetry Game

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