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Half Term Overview

Homework

• Children should practise their spellings each week in preparation for their test every Friday.
• New spellings will be sent home half termly for the children to practise
• Children should read at home as often as possible. If they read at home 12 times and have their reading book signed each time, they will receive a certificate in assembly. They should read their reading book where possible, but should also read other suitable reading materials e.g. books they have at home.
• Children will be asked to access Times Table Rock stars online at home each week to support their Maths work.

Spellings – Autumn 1 

Try to practise your spelling each week and then ask an adult to test you on a Friday.

Autumn 1 Group 1 (Y3)

Week 1: Children will be given their spellings for the half term and introduced to them in school

Week 2: Catch, Fetch, Kitchen, Switch, Stretch, Notch, Hutch, Match, Witch, Switch

Week 3: Have, Give, Live, Wave, Cave, Love, Glove, Sieve, Dive, Jive

Week 4: Race, Ice, Cell, City, Fancy, Mercy, Price, Slice, Dice, Space

Week 5: Station, Fiction, Motion, Solution, Correction, Information, Position, Ambition, Option, Attraction

Week 6: Work, Word, Worm, World, Worse, Worst, Worth, Worthy, Worthless, Worker

Week 7: Warm, War, Towards, Award, Reward, Wardrobe, Dwarf, Warmer, Wart, Ward

Week 8: Refreshment, Agreement, Enjoyment, Hopeful, Careful, Mindful, Careless, Useless, Proudly, Quickly

Autumn 1 Group 2 (Phase 5 recap)

Week 1 and 2: Children will be given their spellings for the half term and introduced to them in school looking at familiar spelling patterns and sounds

Week 3: Day, May, Say, Play, Tray, Our, About, Cloud, Sound, Proud

Week 4: Pie, Lie, Die, Cried, Tried, Sea, Bead, Read, Seat, Meat

Week 5: Toy, Boy, Destroy, Enjoy, Royal, Girl, Bird, Shirt, Third, First

Week 6: Due, Venue, Fuel, Argue, Clue, Saw, Paw, Draw, Yawn, True

Week 7: White, Whisper, Whiskers, Wheel, While, Phone, Dolphin, Elephant, Alphabet, Graph

Week 8: Few, New, Stew, Chew, Grew, Toe, Goes, Dew, Drew, Doe

P.E – Autumn 1

P.E will be on a Tuesday afternoon and a Thursday Morning . Children should come to school equipped with a full, appropriate P.E kit.

Y3 children will be taking part in activities both indoors and outside so shoes are a necessity.

Reading

• Reading with your child every day is the best thing you can do to help them.
• Read to them and let them follow along.
• Listen to them read. Just a few minutes every day helps. They can read any appropriate text they wish, whether that is their school book, their own book, or a newspaper.
• Ask them questions! This helps them understand what they have read which is a very important skill.  

Spellings

• Your child will be given a spelling list each week. The weekly spellings can be practised on paper or the children can practise saying each letter out loud to you.
• Practising each day helps the most but every little bit counts!
• Check your child knows what each word means (This will be discussed on a Monday at school so don’t worry if they are unsure.)
• Challenge your child to write their spelling words in a sentence.

Times Tables

• Encourage your child to log in to their Times Tables Rock Stars account if they are allowed internet access.
• Practise saying the times tables! Sing them, whisper them, shout them (perhaps not late at night!) – it all helps!
• Test them on a few calculations at a time e.g. in one week you might only focus on 1 x 3 = 3, 2 x 3 = 6 and 3 x 3 = 9