Yr3 Curriculum Update – 22/09/17

Working together to achieve success for every child

 

 

The Unit of Inquiry:

Relationships require effort in order to be successful

 

After 5 weeks of inquiry the learners are now at the point where they understand enough to know that when working collaboratively everyone involved has to work towards the success of the group.

They can recognise relationships and have a bank of ideas as to how they can try to build successful relationships.

All that remains is that we give them the opportunity to put the theory into practice and work with self constructed groups to complete some personal inquiry.

 

 

Maths

Place Value Make Your Own Game Challenge

Partitioning, renaming and rounding numbers have been the main focuses over the last two weeks.

These skills all allow the learner to build their understanding of place value and to manipulate larger and larger numbers with confidence.

Examples

Partitioning e.g. 2465 is 2 thousands, 4 hundreds, 6 tens and 5 ones

 

Renaming e.g. 2465 could be 2465 ones, or 245 tens and 5 ones, or 24 hundreds and 6 tens and 5 ones.

English

We have continued our journey into narrative writing and having become familiar with the features of a stories orientation we move on to the initiating event and complications.

 

The initiating event is the thing which happens to get the whole story going, such as Little Red Riding Hood’s mother giving her the task of delivering food to her grandmother.  The complications are the little things that draw the story closer and closer to the climax.  Again, in the case of Little Red Riding Hood these could include wandering off the path, talking to the stranger in the woods and even the conversation between Red and the disguised wolf in the cottage.

 

How you can help at home:

For those looking for an easy real-life practice for rounding, the weekly grocery shop is perfect.  Tell the kids the budget and ask them to keep a running total of the cost of the items in the trolley and to round up so as to make sure that when the maximum is arrived at, you will definitely have enough!

See if your child can identify the initiating event in some favourite stories

Talk about what working collaboratively at home means.

 

 

Important information

Half term approaches – Friday 29th September

 

 

Some pictures from our collaborative afternoon

On Monday 18th September the students mixed together to find friends who share common interests, or even to find new interests by talking to people who were passionate about an area of learning.

 

Here are the pictures that Ms Diaz captured for us: