Term 3 Week 4 – overview

Each week we are fortunate to have a ukulele lesson with Mr Lawrence.  This year, this will take place on a Monday afternoon.  Instruments are provided by the school.

Spelling and grammar –we will be practising words from the year 3 and 4 statutory spelling list.  We will also be recapping 

In English, we will be learning about the different devices used in persuasive writing, identifying them in The Great Kapok Tree and deciding which ones we will use in our own stories.  We will then choose the 3 rainforest animals we will base our writing on.

In Maths, we will continue working on multiplication and division, looking at formal methods of multiplying 2 and 3-digit numbers by 1-digit.  We will then be dividing 2-digit numbers.

In RE, we will continue to work on our unit on Gospel, by asking the question ‘What kind of world did Jesus want?’.  We will be thinking exploring some more parables that help to ask our big question.

In Geography, we are going to have a focus on capital cities of major countries in the world.  Most day we play the game Globle and the children are really developing their understanding of world geography!

This term in Science, we will be learning about electricity and this week we will be carrying out an investigation into which materials are insulators and which are conductors.

PE is on Monday morning with Mrs Barter and on a Thursday afternoon with Mrs Tompsett.   This term we are going to be focusing on fitness and gymnastics.

Reading records will be sent home, with free-reading children choosing a book from the selection in class or bringing one from the reading scheme.  All children have an additional book in their tray for reading sessions in class.  Please could we have reading records in school to be checked on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.  

Homework will be issued this Wednesday and is due on the following Monday.

Please contact me if you have any queries using the class email address:

chestnut@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk

Have a lovely week!

Best wishes,

Mrs Barter