Estuary Class Webpage

Year 3/ 4 2023 - 2024

Teacher: Miss Thomas

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Jackson and Mr Harris

Welcome to Estuary Class webpage

Texts this term:

Class Reading Book:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Guided reading text:

Various Texts including fiction and non-fiction

Talk for Writing

Fiction

Focus - Character

Model text - How the Elephant got its Trunk

Non-Fiction

Focus – Recount/ News

Model text – Too Much Gold

Class information

PE will be on a Tuesday. Children should come to school in their PE kit on their PE day.

Drinks & Snacks

Please ensure that your child brings a drink of water (not fruit drinks or squash) to school each day. This needs to be in a labelled bottle that we can keep in the classroom which can be accessed during the day.

Please send your child to school with a healthy snack for morning break.

Homework

Homework will be set on a Friday. The children will bring home a list of spellings to learn and will have an assignment to complete on Spelling Shed.

• Times Tables Rockstars
• Spelling Shed
• Reading

Reading

It is important that you read with your child at least 5 times a week.

To support your child at home with their reading you could use lots of different questioning techniques. Asking your child to repeat/ summarise what they have read or picking specific events in the book to talk about will help you to understand what they have learnt. You can find lots of example questions to ask your child below.