Spellings for this week are:

Super Spellers

answer

believe

circle

fruit

heart

Sparkly Spellers

different

extreme

favourite

famous

medicine

Once you have learned all of your spellings, you could challenge yourself by seeing if you can put each word into a sentence.

They will be tested on Friday 20th January. 

Reading

If you have a Lexia Login please try to do some at home – we are all trying to meet our weekly targets. It doesn’t matter if you have already met yours; the more you do, the better you get – and it would be fantastic to see year 3 on the Lexia Leaderboard in Mrs Wood’s 2%er assembly on Thursday!

If you finish your reading book you can complete the quiz at home. Don’t forget you can quiz on your library book or home books too. (Not all books have quizzes but it’s worth typing in the title to check). Remember to take your time and think about the correct answer as you can only quiz once per book.

I have also sent your child home with a copy of the text map for our model text ‘Elf Road’. This is so they can practise learning the story and actions at home too.

Maths

Practise the number bonds of 12 and their subtraction facts.

10+2   9+3   8+4   7+5   6+6   5+7   4+8   3+9    2+10    1+11

12 -1   12-2   12-3   12-4   12-5   12-6   12-7   12-8   12-9   12-10

This half term each week’s mental maths home learning will be all about quick recall of number bonds (adding 2 single digits) from 11 – 20 (and their related subtraction facts). Each week we will tell you what number bond to practise.

Quick recall of these number bonds helps children develop fluency in their maths. The aim is for your child to instantly give the answer when faced with an addition like 8 + 4. We want your child to be able to answer 12 instantly, rather than have to ‘work it out’ eg 9  10  11  12. Likewise when they are faced with 12 – 4, the aim is to instantly answer 8.

And not have to ‘work it out’  11  10  9   8.

A great way to help your child with sharpening up their number bond recall is to play games. For example this week the focus is on number bonds of 11. Make some cards, each with a digit on: …..  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10. Lay the cards face down on the table then turn 2 cards over. If they are a number bond of 11, keep the cards. If not, turn them both face down again. Don’t forget to practise the subtraction facts too.  

They will be tested on Friday 13th January.

Of course the children are still encouraged to practise their times tables via TT Rockstars – please click on the link provided. 

Have a wonderful weekend,

Miss Hutton 🙂