Week Beginning 23rd January

Ready for another week 3/4?  Lots of things to get through this week...

English

Year 3

We will focus our next few week's lessons around the text, "Escape from Pompeii" by Christina Balit. The children will read and listen to the story, engage with the text through discussion and drama.  They will have the opportunity to articulate ideas about the text using an increasingly varied vocabulary.  There is also a grammar focus on using powerful verbs and a chance to develop thesaurus skills next week.

Year 4

Children will be continuing with the non-fiction unit this week.  This week they will be recapping on the features of journalistic writing and the type of language that is used in the media to encourage readers/listeners to pay attention.  Children will be looking at how to present information in the format of a newspaper report.  They will draft the content of the report and then write it up in a final piece.

Maths

Year 3

Learning Area –            Fractions

Learning Concept -          Recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators.

Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions & non-unit fractions with small denominators.

Teaching sequence -      Know that 1/2 is the same as 2/4

Be able to show 1/3 and 2/6 of a square

Know what fractional values are, e.g. ¼ is one part of four, etc.

Know what a unit fraction is

Know what a non-unit fraction is

Use fractions to solve problems

Use a fraction wall diagram to solve problems

Year 4

Learning Area –            Place Value – Roman Numerals

Learning Concept -          Read Roman numerals to 100 and understand that over time, the numeral system changes to include the concept of zero and place value.

                                               

Teaching sequence -      Read Roman numerals from 1 to 10

Read Roman numerals to 50

Read Roman numerals to 100

Write Roman numerals from 1 to 10

Write Roman numerals to 50

Write Roman numerals to 100

Topic

This week children will be continuing with our new topic of ‘The Romans’.  This week children will be gaining an understanding of why the Romans built new roads in Britain, where some of the main roads ran from and how the roads were made.

 RE

Children will be continuing with their RE topic - Journeys.  For the next couple of weeks children will be working through the Reveal section of this unit.  This second week will have children looking at the feasts of Our Lady, the pilgrimage psalms and the Christian’s life journey.