Are you ready for another week
Year 3/4? Routines should now be firmly
in place and so we can come in to school ready to learn. Last week’s swimming sessions went well and
will hopefully run even smoother this week.
Thank you to all of the parents who came to support last week and who are
ready for another week of swimming fun this time round too! Don’t forget Year 3/4, the swimming
instructors have told us that the quicker we can get changed before and after
the swimming session, the longer you can spend in the pool. Let’s show them this week how sensibly and
quickly we can get changed and you might then get some extra time in the weeks
that follow.
Don’t forget that this Friday is
Jeans for Genes day, so children can come to school in their own clothes and we
ask that they bring a pound donation.
English
Year 3
This week, we will
continue our work on Adventure Stories around the text "Stone Age
Boy". The children have really enjoyed getting to know the
story so far and enjoyed freeze framing the main events in the story. We will look more closely at the language this week and have a go at
using some of the features in our writing. In particular, we will focus
on adverbials and conjunctions. To finish, we will plan our own
complete adventure story and put all the skills we have learned into
practice in our final piece of writing.
Year 4
In English we are starting a new unit of work
called ‘A Huge First Step’. In
this unit, the children select applicants to be trained as astronauts for a
mission to Mars. We will be reading about Neil Armstrong using an interactive
eBook. We will look at and be using the
features and layout of the eBook to find out about Neil Armstrong’s personal
qualities. Children will be focussing on effective use of pronouns and fronted
adverbials to develop their grammar.
These skills will then be applied in their own writing when they produce
diary entries and biographies. These
text types will also be transferred over to and applied to our topic work.
Maths
Year 3
Learning Area – Place Value
Learning Concept - Read
and write numbers to 1,000 in numerals and words
Teaching sequence - Read all numbers
from 100 to 1000 in numerals
Write all numbers from 100 to 1000 in numerals
Read all numbers from
100 to 1000 in words
Write all numbers from 100 to 1000 in words
Year 4
Learning Area – Place Value
Learning Concept - Count
in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000.
Teaching sequence - Count on and back in
1000s from 0 to 10,000
Count on and back in 10s
from any given multiple between 0 and 10,000
Count on and back in
100s from 0 to 10,000
Count on and back in 50s
from 0 to 1000 starting at any given multiple
Count on and back in 25s from 0 to 1000 starting at
any given multiple
Count on and back in 9s
from 0 to 1000 starting at any given multiple
Count on in 8s from 0 to
1000 starting at any given multiple
Count on in 7s from 0 to
1000 starting at any given multiple
Count on in 6s from 0 to 1000 starting at any given multiple.
Topic
This week we will be
continuing with our first topic of the year – the Stone Age. Children will be learning about what humans
needed in order to survive during the Stone Age. They will explore:
·
the
different challenges of survival which the early men and women faced.
·
where
the Stone Age gets its name from.
·
the
tools which were crucial for the survival of early men and women.
·
how
tools changed to make hunting more successful
RE
Children
will be continue with their first RE unit this week entitled ‘Homes’. They will explore the following questions
through class discussion and a range of activities:
·
What is God’s vision for every family?
·
What does God want the relationship between children
and parents to be like?
·
Who was part of the Holy family?
·
When is God with us and our families?
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