Hare Moonwood Class
Our Year 3 children are taught in Hare Moonwood Class by Miss Smith and our teaching assistant is Mrs Waters.
Moonwood was a talking hare who lived in the sixth century, during the Age of Conquest. He lived under the Great Waterfall in the west of Narnia. His hearing was so sensitive, that he could hear a whispered conversation in Cair Paravel above the roar of the waterfall. You can read about Moonwood in the book, 'The Last Battle'.
What we do:
MATHS
The class will start by recapping their knowledge of place value, and then move on to learn about the value of 100s and 1000s. As well as this, they will learn how to add and subtract using formal written methods and apply this knowledge to real life problems. We will continue the focus on improving mental calculations, specifically your child's times tables, and this happens every day within the maths lessons. It is really important that your child can recall their times tables rapidly so please help your child to practise these at home.
LITERACY
During our Literacy lessons, we will begin by learning about the features of an informal letter, working towards writing our own informal letter home about living as Roman. We will learn how to use informal letter features correctly and how to link this with our History topic. As well as this, we will be exploring Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl, using his style of writing to create our own exciting stories. Finally this term, we will be practising old and learning new homphones through the poem 'Miss Homophone', using this is to practise our performance skills and then create our poems using homophones.
HISTORY - Romans
We will explore the events of the Roman Empire, including but not limited to: the invasion of Britain, Hadrians Wall and the way of Roman life. They will be finding out about the key events and consoldiating their learning through different tasks such as mindmaps, fact files and comprehensions.
COMPUTING
In year 3, we will be learning about e-safety, how to be cautious at home and in school whilst using technology and the internet. We will begin by learning about the zip it, block it, flag it approach and make posters to display our understanding. Over the term, we will learn how to do basic activities on the IPad and how to use it to research.
SCIENCE
Hare Moonwood will investigate the human skeleton, and how different systems within the body work. Additionally, we will be exploring nutrition and how animals including humans get different types of nutrition from types of food.
What the children say: