Year 3 - Lighthouse Keeper & The Borrowers

YEAR 3 - LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS & THE BORROWERS 

CURRICULUM FOR SPRING 1

As Readers 

We will be reading the book, “The Water Princess”. As part of this, we will be inferring meaning, exploring vocabulary, making predictions, retrieving information and summarising what we have read. 

Our whole class reading sessions will be exploring the water cycle, Africa, and floods and droughts. We will be focussing on non-fiction texts and their features. There will be a focus on developing fluency and expression. In addition, we shall practise the skills of retrieval, skimming, scanning and dictionary work. 

As Writers 

We will be creating an alternate ending to our text “The Water Princess” to answer the BQ: What if Gigi didn’t have to collect water every day? We will also be looking at how to create an effective newspaper report to answer the BQ: What happens with Kilauea erupts?

As Mathematicians 

We will be developing our skills with multiplying and dividing by 10 before moving on to multiplying a two-digit number. We will be looking at dividing and dividing with remainders. We will also be exploring how to calculate length and perimeter of simple shapes as well as converting units of measure.

As Scientists 

We will be looking at forces and magnets. We will be learning about how things move on different surfaces and what forces are acting upon them, how an object moves and if contact needs to be made for it to do so. We will be looking at what magnets do, how strong they are and what materials are magnetic and what properties they have that make them so.

As Geographers 

We will be learning about volcanoes. We will be exploring where volcanoes are in the world, why they erupt, what they are, what the ‘Ring of Fire’ is, exploring why people live near volcanoes and then discussing which country is better to live in between England and Hawaii and why.