Summer Term 1 2024

Weekending 3rd May 2024

Maths, we have finished our current topics on decimals and mass and capacity and towards the end of the week we started decimals 2 and Fractions 2.

We have continued with ‘The Firework Makers Daughter’ looking up unusual words in dictionaries and writing a cross letter to Lachland from Lila. We had to use paragraphs and say why we were cross.

Tuesday, all day we made our lights for DT. We had to use glue guns and saws and mark where we wanted things cut. It was complicated making a switch out of silver foil but most of managed. We have also looked at features of a river like source and meander as well as learn that muscles can only pull.

Please keep reading daily with an adult signing our record books, TTRS and learning your spellings.

Enjoy the long weekend and the ‘Black Prince’ celebrations.

Rouen Gargan, Emily Green, Jenna Welch

Weekending 26th April 2024

On Monday please can your child bring in CLEAN plastic for our DT project.

We have continued to look at mass within Year 3 including solving addition and subtraction problems. We have now just started capacity looking at millilitres. Year 4 have continued with fractions and hundredths and we are now starting to learn about decimals.

We have adapted ‘The Sound Collector’ Poem, for example ‘The Sight Collector’. We then started our new narrative writing topic based on ‘The Firework Makers Daughter’. From the cover we inferred lots, just by looking at the picture of a girl with a walking stick. We also thought about the language used.

In geography we used atlases to locate some of the major rivers of the world. We have looked at the role of the skeleton in protecting our vital organs. In RE we have continued to consider Pentecost and the actions and feelings of the Apostles. We have created an annotated design for our DT which we make next week.

Please keep reading daily, TTRS and learning your spellings. If Year 4 wish to practice the tables check, the link for this is:

https://www.mathshed.com/en-us/mtc

Enjoy your weekend

Rouen Gargan, Emily Green, Jenna Welch

Weekending 19th April 2024

Welcome back to the summer term and a bit better weather!

For both groups in maths we have stared new topics with Year 4 starting decimals as tenths building on our previous fraction knowledge. Year 3 have now started mass and capacity, specifically looking at grams and kilograms this week.

We have been looking at performance poetry, specifically ‘The Sound Collector’ by Roger McGough. We have read it aloud, developed ideas and changed the poem so that we could perform it. We found out that voice, volume, pauses and stops, actions and mime as well as sound effects make for a better performance.

We have recapped the water cycle and the fact that precipitation is snow rain or hail and the importance of rivers to take the water to the sea. In art we have undertaken sketches to record and develop ideas in our sketch book and in RE started to find out about Pentecost.

This is a normal home learning week with spellings, reading every day and at least 20 minutes of TTRS. If Year 4 wish to practice the tables check, the link for this is:

https://www.mathshed.com/en-us/mtc

Enjoy your weekend

Rouen Gargan, Emily Green, Jenna Welch