Year 3 - Lighthouse Keeper & The Borrowers
Lighthouse Keepers & The Borrowers
Year 3 Autumn 1
Reading:
As readers we will be exploring The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. We will be exploring the language and vocabulary used, discussing the meaning of character's actions and inferring meaning from events implied in the text. We will be exploring how to make predictions based on what has already happened and what we know about characters and their motivations.
Our whole class reading sessions will be linked to our Geography topic of countries and continents. We will be exploring different countries, both real and from myths and legends and how different countries around the world are. We will be exploring how to develop our comprehension skills of retrieval, inference, summarising, comparing and predicting.
Key vocabulary: retrieve, infer, summarise, compare, predict
Writing:
As writers we will be exploring how to create an effective newspaper report about the events of the Iron Man to answer the Big Question: What happened to the Iron Man?
We will then be exploring what writing and grammar skills are needed to write a non-chronological report about our Geography learning and the country of Canada to answer the Big Question what is life in Canada like?
Key vocabulary: headline, caption, paragraph, conjunction, subheading
BQs: What happened to the Iron Man?
What is life in Canada like?
Maths:
As mathematicians, we will be exploring place value in 2 and 3-digit numbers, how the value changes when adding 1, 10 and 100 more. We will also be exploring addition and subtraction and effective ways to solve problems.
Key vocabulary: add, subtract, place value, digit, more, less, greater than, less than
Science:
As scientists, we will be exploring the human body and nutrition. We will be exploring how our bodies get the nutrition we need and how we can keep our bodies healthy. We will be exploring our skeletons and how they work.
Key vocabulary: nutrition, nutrients, healthy, skeleton, muscle, organs, excersice, carbohydrates, protein, fats, dairy, vegetables, fruit, vitamins
Topic (Geography):
As geographers, we will be exploring continents and countries and the differences between them. We will be comparing the differences between the United Kingdom with India and Canada, looking at how these countries differ in both physical and human geography.
Key vocabulary: continent, country, physical geography, human geography, climate, terrain
Art:
As artists, we will be exploring collage and how to create dynamic scenes using mixed media based on our class text of the Iron Man.
Key vocabulary: collage, mixed media, scene, dynamic
RE and PSHE:
We will be exploring Hinduism and the beliefs and theory of the religion in our RE lessons. We will be exploring the Jigsaw puzzle piece one: Being Me in My World in PSHE.
Key vocabulary: Hindu, belief, religion, reincarnation, festival, identity, unique, belonging, community
Homework:
We will be setting weekly spelling practise on EdShed that will reflect the spellings being taught in class as well as weekly Times Tables Rockstars practise and reading. Children are expected to read at least three times a week and record this in their reading diaries, with a comment about what they have read.
All children were also sent home with a selection of projects that they can complete throughout the term linked to our English, maths and topic learning.