Welcome to Team CB's blog

Firstly, a huge welcome to Team CB's blog for the academic year. Over the last few weeks children have really settled into life in Team CB and made great adjustments to life in a Key Stage 2 classroom. It has been a pleasure and a privilege getting to know all the children and I am certain we will have a fantastic year ahead of us. Check back for blog updates regularly to see what we have been doing in our learning!

Maths:
Over the last few weeks the children have been working immensely hard in their Maths. As they have made the move to Key Stage 2, each day for the first 3 weeks the class have completed a tables race. This is where children complete their times tables in a random order in 10 minutes. The progress the children have made has been absolutely staggering, I am so proud of them! Times tables will remain a big focus for our learning over the course of year as we prefer for the MTC next year. In our daily lessons, children have been recapping basic addition and subtraction skills initially, before beginning to look at place value this week. This will continue over the Autumn Term as we hope to secure the children's understanding. 

Literacy:
In our writing, children have been centering their work around the class author Roald Dahl. We spent our first two weeks of Year 3 exploring who Roald Dahl was, learning about the books he wrote and what his life encompassed. We used what we knew to write a biography of his life for others to enjoy. This week, we have begun our new writing focus where we are engaging with Fantastic Mr Fox as our text driver. We realised after reading the first two chapters that Mr Fox was not very well described, and so our focus for writing is a character description of Mr Fox which we will add into Roald Dahl's famous book.

Science:
In Science, we have started our first topic which runs over the course of the Autumn Term. As a class, we are investigating plants. The children have demonstrated great knowledge already, being able to sort flowering and non-flowering plants, name the key features of a plant and explain their function. They have shown great enthusiasm over the learning and will be excited to share more over the coming weeks I am sure!

History:
We have also started our History topic this term which is based on the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Children have developed an awareness of the three time periods and developed a sense of chronology through exploring timelines and physically representing this outside. We looked at not only the order of the Ages, but also the duration, to help us better understand how long each one lasted. This week we have started to explore how the land was used back in the Stone Age and how hunter gatherers survived using the resources they had available to them. 

Be sure to pop back soon to see what more we have been learning in Team CB!