Week Beginning 10th October

Welcome back to another week Year 3/4!  This half term is going to be over before we know it.  Let’s have another great week children and keep trying our best. 

English

Year 3

This week in English we will continue our non-fiction unit on Information Texts entitled "Where Would You Like to Live?"  We will look at a range of information, focusing on a different country each day and finding out about what it is like at home, at school and at play.  We will look again at the layout of the pages and practice our comprehension skills to answer questions about the countries.  As we go through the week, the children will think about which country they might like to live.

Year 4

In English we are continuing with our unit of work called ‘A Huge First Step’.  Children have now tried their hand at recount writing and have been thinking about what features are needed to write a great diary entry. We are now going to be looking in more depth at features of biography texts.  Children will continue to focus on making good and effective use of pronouns as well as thinking about time connectives.

Maths

Year 3

Learning Area – Addition and subtraction

Learning Concept -          Add and subtract numbers mentally, including:

-3-digit number & ones

-3-digit numbers & tens

-3-digit numbers & hundreds

Teaching sequence -      Mentally:

Subtract any 1-digit number from a greater 1–digit number

Add any 3-digit number to a 1-digit number

Subtract a 1-digit number from a 3-digit number

Add any 3-digit number to a 10s number

Subtract a 10s number from any 3-digit number

Add any 3-digit number to any 100s number.

Subtract any 100s number from a 3-digit number

Year 4

Learning Area –            Addition and Subtraction

Learning Concept -          Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation.

Teaching sequence -      Estimate the answer to any given addition involving two 2-digit numbers to the                                                         nearest 10.

Estimate the answer to any given addition involving two 3-digit numbers to the nearest 100.

Estimate the answer to any given addition involving two 3-digit numbers to the nearest 10.

Estimate the answer to any given subtraction involving two 2-digit numbers to the nearest 10.

Estimate the answer to any given subtraction involving two 3-digit numbers to the nearest 100.

Estimate the answer to any given subtraction involving two 3-digit numbers to the nearest 10.

Explain the term ‘inverse’ and exemplify with an example.

Check the answer to any calculation with 2 and 3 digit numbers using the inverse.

Topic

This week we will be continuing with our first topic of the year – the Stone Age.  Children will be learning about Skara Brae and also Stonehenge.  They will explore:

·         How Scara Brae was discovered

·         Some of the items which were discovered there

·         How Skara Brae shows that  Stone Age people were beginning to change the way in which they lived

·         How Stonehenge changed from the Stone Age onwards

·         Why Stonehenge may have been built

·         How Stonehenge may have been used

RE

Children will be finishing off their work covering the topic of ‘Homes’.  They will be reflecting on everything that they have learnt from the topic so far and completing a short assessment piece.