It’s great to see children being resourceful in order to support spelling.
From using Zero Tolerance spelling cards…
… to getting dictionaries if we need one. 
Remember to check out our spelling support for tips and ideas and other super spelling strategies.
WOW! Today, I witnessed my favourite homework review – I can show what I love about reading. The children’s enthusiasm and love for all things books really shone through and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing and hearing about everyone’s efforts. Here are some highlights:
You’d have to go on many a quest to find more creative homework than this!
Books rock! (Keep an eye out in Roundhay park for these colourful, hand-painted stones. Take a photo if you find one!)
There’s nothing horrid about reading!
I had to poster ’bout it!
Reading can be comic-al.
You’d have to search far and wide to find people who love reading more than us!
We really raised the bar (graph), this week!
This week’s spelling list is formed with words that have the prefix super- or auto-. If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out! Think about the root word and how the prefix changes the meaning.
| autobiography | autocue | autograph | automatic | autopilot |
| superior | superficial | superhuman | supernatural | superstar |
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect, consolidating learning we’ve been doing in Maths on perimeter. The children have a worksheet which requires them to find the perimeter of 2D shapes and explaining their reasoning.
This homework is due on Thursday 15 March when we will go through the answers together.
Today in maths, we had fun finding out how tall we are! We practised saying our height in different ways. For example:
“I am 1m and 26cm tall. I am 126cm tall,” said Jasraj.
Isabella said, “I am 1m 46cm or 146cm tall.”
We linked our measuring back to the equivalent lengths we looked at earlier in the week.
For example, 500cm is the same as “5m,” said Leo, and “5000mm,” said Jemima. (I really liked that answer.)
Here are some photos of us measuring our heights, making sure the tape measure started at the very bottom of our heels or the very top of our heads.
What do Y3 like about themselves?
This week’s living and learning theme was all about saying something good about ourselves.
At Moortown, we strive to be confident in our abilities and comfortable in our own skin.
During our circle time this week, we discussed what was good about ourselves and each other. Take a look at the main themes that came up below:
“I am good at anything as long as I work hard. I’m really proud of myself,” said Rayn.
Well done to all of Y3 for engaging brilliantly with this week’s Talk Time homework.
Even though there were people who believed in one side of the argument only, they were able to understand and give points for the other side, too. Everyone listened and waited for their turn to speak.
We had a really interesting discussion in class. Overall, we voted that we thought zoos should not be banned.
Take a look at the table below. Can you spot something you had spoken about at home?
Should zoos be banned?
This week’s spelling activity is a rollover! Due to the weather, we weren’t able to discuss our findings yesterday. We did, however, manage to discuss them today and we’ve come up with the following guaranteed spellings that will be on next Friday’s (09 March) test:
We are one cool class!
Well done, everyone!
At the midpoint in the year, this week’s spelling activity is to revise all the spelling rules and lists that we have learnt so far.
Children should revise the rules in preparation for a test on Friday 02 March. (We’ll discuss our revision on Thursday 01 March to formulate a list for the following day.)
