Week beginning 12th October

 A busy week ahead in Y3/4

Thank you for your parent's night forms, times slots will be sent home this week.

This week is the KS2 disco in Tuesday.  During the disco there is an opportunity for parents to receive some information on the new assessment system.  Please come along, staff will be available to answer any questions you may have regarding assessment.

English

Last week the children continued to develop their descriptive language with a focus on settings.  They worked in groups to create a description of the Viking land in 'How To Train Your Dragon'.  This week they will develop this further and look at character descriptions.  They will use a variety of descriptive sentence types to develop their characters, such as similes, metaphors, repetition, two adjectives sentences and punctuation to create an atmosphere such a dash and an ellipsis.  

Maths 

This week in maths we have been focusing on multiplication.  We used number lines to understand that multiplication is repeated addition.  We looked for patterns and discovered there are many and these can help us to learn our tables; there's even a trick with our fingers to help us with our 9 x tables.  This week we will look at written methods of multiplication and begin looking at measure. The children will write the time to the minute on analogue and digital clocks; calculate time intervals; measure in metres, centimetres and millimetres; convert lengths between units and record using decimal notation.

Science

We looked very closely at the ear this week and labelled the parts of the inside of the ear.  This week we learn more about the workings of the ear and what the ear does with that sound.  We will investigate the question, Can you change the pitch and volume of a sound?

Topic

The children have looked at a variety of Viking brooch designs.  They will sketch their own and then decide what materials and colours they will use to make it.  The children will make their brooches using a variety of materials such as clay, wood, card, paint, beads etc.  They will also look at the Viking alphabet - Runes.  They will  make their own viking name using straws.  

Thank you for all your support

Y3/4 Team