Children sometimes lose some of the study skills and concentration they have acquired during term time over the long summer holidays and can appear to have fallen back somewhat at the start of a new term. In order to avoid this it would be a great idea to do some of the following over the summer holiday.

READING

  • Continue to hear your child reading aloud regularly – even 5 minutes a day can make a big difference.
  • Discuss the book and what their likes and dislikes are. Talk about the characters and ask them to predict what they think might happen next in the story.
  • Reading aloud to them is a great idea too since this will stimulate their language development and love of books and reading.

WRITING

  • Ask your child to keep a short diary or scrap book during the holiday so they are writing at least a couple of times a week.
  • Send post cards

Encourage them to form all their letters correctly and ensure their writing is ‘sitting on the line’ and use a variety of punctuation including speech marks and commas in lists. They should use a variety of sentence openers and start to join sentences using connectives. (If, after, while, as well, as, although, however, also, besides,even though, never the less)

MATHS – Regular practice in short sharp bursts will ensure your child does not forget what they have learnt and will boost their confidence in Maths.

  • Get them to identify fractions of amounts
  • Practise counting in 2`s, 3’s, 4’s, 5`s and 10`s.
  • Work with the children on simple addition and subtraction problems they come across in their holiday activities
  • recall number bonds to 20 and 100
  • Encourage the children to pay for small amounts when shopping and calculate change
  • Learn times tables 2`s,3’s,4’s,5`s and 10`s
  • Reading the time throughout the day

SPELLING – Practisewith your child the common high frequency words that they will find useful in everyday writing.

  • Have word of the week

It would good for children to know all these words for year 3.

about / can't / her / many / over / then / who
after / could / here / may / people / there / will
again / did / him / more / push / these / with
an / do / his / much / pull / three / would
another / don't / home / must / put / time / your
as / dig / house / name / ran / too
back / door / how / new / saw / took
ball / down / if / next / school / tree
be / first / jump / night / seen / two
because / from / just / not / should / us
bed / girl / last / now / sister / very

We hope this is helpful. We believe the children should have a proper break over the summer and hope that the moderate learning activities suggested will keep everything ticking over, and perhaps something they might enjoy – rather than being a chore.

Have a lovely summer.

Summer Learning

Getting ready for

Year 3