Week Beginning 13th February

Is it the final week of the term already?  Can I just mention that I was on the Warrington Guardian site tonight and there are some great pictures of our Year 4 children when they attended the opening of the new Penketh Fire Station.

English

Year 3

This week in English we will be focusing on spelling, grammar and punctuation.  We will look at spelling rules when adding prefixes and suffixes and we will learn some of the key words from the Year 3 statutory spelling list.  We will correct unpunctuated sentences and revise speech punctuation.  In our sentence work, we will look at improving sentences with conjunctions.  We will also practice our reading comprehension this week, with a focus on looking for clues in the text to improve our inference skills.  When we answer our questions, we will aim to go A.P.E.  (answer, prove and explain).

Year 4

Children will be spending this week recapping and learning some new information related to grammar.  This is important so that our children understand what it is that we can put into our writing to make it even better.  This week will also see children having an opportunity to write their own extended pieces of writing to demonstrate what they think makes a good piece of writing for us to read.

Maths

Year 3

Learning Area –            Measure – Length/mass/volume

Learning Concept -          Measure, compare, add & subtract:

-lengths (m/cm/mm)

-mass (kg/g)

-volume/ capacity (l/ml).

Teaching sequence -      Use measuring apparatus to measure length, mass and volume

Measure accurately to nearest mm, cm, m

Measure accurately to nearest g, kg

Measure accurately to nearest ml, l

Know and use equivalence, e.g. 10mm = 1cm; 50cm = ½m; 100cm = 1m

Know and use equivalence, e.g. 1000g = 1kg; 500g = ½kg

Know and use equivalence, e.g. 1000ml = 1l; 500ml = ½l

Year 4

Learning Area –            Fractions

Learning Concept -          Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.

Teaching sequence -      Add two fractions with the same denominator that add up to more than one whole.

Subtract one fraction from another with the same denominator crossing one whole.