Year 3 - Lighthouse Keeper & The Borrowers
Lighthouse Keepers & The Borrowers
Year 3 Autumn 2
Reading:
We will be exploring The King Who Banned the Dark by Emily Haworth-Booth. As part of this we will be exploring vocabulary, discussing the meaning of characters’ actions and inferring meaning from events implied in the text. We will be making predictions based on what has already happened and what we know of characters’ motivations as well as summarising what we have read.
Our whole class reading sessions will be linked to our History topic of The Normans, we shall be learning about different battles including the battle of Stamford Bridge, learning what a knight is, what the feudal system is and William the Conqueror.
Key vocabulary: retrieve, infer, summarise, compare, predict
Writing:
Writing:
We will be exploring how to effectively show emotions through writing to create a diary entry based on our reading and interpretation of the characters of the King Who Banned the Dark to answer the Big Question: What was the citizen’s plan?
We will then be exploring what writing and grammar skills are needed to write an explanation text about Norman knights to answer the Big Question: What does it take to be a Norman knight?
Key vocabulary: page, squire, knight, conjunction, heading, subheading, paragraph, diary, past tense.
BQs: What was the citizen’s plan?
What does it take to be a Norman knight?
Maths:
We will be exploring estimating, looking at inverse operations and then moving onto multiplication and division. We will also be exploring formal written addition and subtraction as well as looking at multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10.
Key vocabulary: place value, hundreds, tens, ones, digit, add, subtract, exchange, multiplication, division, times tables, sharing, groups of, grouping, sets of.
Science:
As scientists we shall be exploring light and shadow, as well as shape. We will be exploring what we need to be able to see and how we can alter the shape and size of a shadow.
Key vocabulary: light, shadow, dark, shiny, see, eyes.
Topic (History):
We will be exploring the Normans. We will explore what happened in 1066 and the succession crisis that led to William the Conqueror’s reign and the creation of the Domesday book.
Key vocabulary: Norman, Domesday book, invaders, settlers, knights, battle, conqueror
Art:
Domesday book, invaders, settlers, knights, battle, conqueror
Art:
We will be exploring cyanotype printing and how the sun can be used to capture images.
Key vocabulary: light, shadow, photography, imprint
RE and PSHE:
We will be exploring Hinduism focussing on the question What is the best way for a Sanatani to lead a good life? In PSHE, we will be exploring the Jigsaw scheme of work, focussing on the “Celebrating Difference” module.
Key vocabulary: Hindu, Sanatani, Dharma, Karma, respect, difference, similarity, unique, diversity, tolerance
Homework:
We will be setting weekly spelling practise on EdShed that will reflect the spellings being taught in class as well as weekly Times Tables Rockstars practise and reading. Children are expected to read at least three times a week and record this in their reading diaries, with a comment about what they have read.
All children were also sent home with a selection of projects that they can complete throughout the term linked to our English, maths and topic learning.