Year 3 Update Week 2

• Week beginning 3rd September – INCAS (computerised assessments) will be conducted throughout the week. Results will be issued later in the year. Any further inquiries, please contact Mr Thompson.

• Friday 14th September 9am – 3W class assembly (hall)

• Friday 14th September – PTA Bowling night (see leaflet that was sent home in school diaries)

• Monday 24th September – BHS CPD (school closed)

• Tuesday 25th September – Day after Mid-Autumn Festival (public holiday)

• Monday 1st October – National Day (public holiday)

• Tuesday and Thursday 9th, 11th October – Parent Teacher Consultations (more info to follow)

• Friday 12th October – Dress Casual Day (Hong Kong Community Chest)

• Friday 12th October (3pm) – October break

• Monday 21st October – First day back

Effective communication can be enhanced through different methods.  

We will be inquiring into:

1. How signs and symbols facilitate effective communication (form)

2. How the arts can be used to communicate (function)

3. The reasons and impact for communicating in different ways (causation)

This week we continued with our place value unit. The children have been demonstrating different ways ways to show their understanding of number through written form, standard form, expanded form and through pictures. The children have also been ordering, comparing and renaming numbers. Ask your child to tell you some of the key vocabulary used when comparing numbers.

Mathletics passwords are in your child’s diary.

Next week the children will start inquiring into our Shape and Space unit.

 The children now have a well established routine for borrowing readers. A reminder that on a Monday and Friday, the children will read from Big Universe and borrow home readers on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. 

This week the children have continued to look at features of a recount and have focussed on past tense, time connectives and WOW words. We were impressed with their Airport trip recounts!

Spellings will begin next week. Children will be required to learn five spellings words from their individual spelling list (highlighted words in their journals). There will be three buddy spelling tests each week and monitored closely by the teacher. If your child gets two dots, that word will be added to their spelling list for the following week. Please encourage your child to practise their words at home everyday using the Say, Cover, Write and Check strategy and use them in their writing, remembering to include a capital letters and full stops in their sentences. There are optional spelling units in the middle of the book to reinforce spelling patterns and phonics. Children are encouraged to inquire into these in their own spare time at home. Word searches near the end of the book are for class-use only to consolidate our phonics programme.

 

Mandarin – All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.