Monday 20th October

Welcome to our blog. The children enjoyed the trip to the copper mines and were very well behaved on both of the days.

Homework was sent out last week again and we appreciate it if it is brought back on Thursday so it can be marked. There are a few children who are bringing it back late. Thank you for your support on this.

ENGLISH

This week we will be learning lots of writing skills such as:

List sentences – writing a sentence with lists of things and commas in them such as cabbages, carrots and onions.

2 A sentences – putting two adjectives before each noun such as huge, red wagon.

Uplevelling and improving a story. Adding adverbs, time phrases and adjectives.

We will also be completing a dictation when the children write down what is being said to them.

 

MATHS Mrs Harding/ Mrs Morgan

The children will be working on addition and subtraction.

We will be practising column addition up to thousands, hundreds and tens and units.
We will be learning how to subtract with and without borrowing a ten.
They will be tested on their times tables on Thursday and we are concentrating on the eight and nine timetables.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

MATHS Mrs Sarsfield

The children will be working on division and multiplication.

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

RE Promises

The children will be reflecting on promises that they have tried to keep and promises that they have not kept. The children will also be thinking about places and situations when you give promises.

Topic

 The children will also be learning about animals in the Stone Age. We will be thinking about the end of the Stone Age and the start of the Iron Age.

 

http://wizzley.com/the-stone-age-for-kids/

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory/ancient-britain.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE6OeRZB_Wc

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/clips/p00hzpqg

http://www.historyrocket.com/age-of-history/stone-age/Stone-Age-For-Kids.html

Science

 

The children will be leaning about how soil is formed.

 

http://www.soil-net.com/primary/ks2/topic3/topic3_factsheet.pdf

 

Have a good week everyone. Have a great break too.

 

The three and four team.

Monday 13th October

Welcome to our blog. Mrs Harding’s class did really well at the assembly last week. Well done children.

The children are really excited about their trip to Llandudno.
Monday – Year 3
Wednesday –Year 4

http://www.greatormemines.info/

Please remember that the children will need for the trip:

Warm coat

Gloves
Back pack.
No more than six pounds for the shop.
Walking shoes or trainers.

We will arrive back at 3.30pm traffic permitting.

Homework was sent out last week again and we appreciate it if it is brought back on Thursday so it can be marked.

ENGLISH
This week we will be learning more about adverbs and homophones. We will also be writing an account of our trip to the mines.
We will also be completing a dictation when the children write down what is being said to them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en21watc-game-paris-word

MATHS Mrs Harding/ Mrs Morgan

The children will be working on addition and subtraction. They will also be learning time facts.
They will be tested on their times tables on Thursday and we are concentrating on the eight timetables.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/

 
http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic/division

MATHS Mrs Sarsfield

The children will be working on division and multiplication.

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

RE Promises

The children will be thinking about promises we make, breaking promises and also groups and clubs when we make promises.

Topic

The children will be learning about quarrying and mining. They will be creating an information sheet on mining using the knowledge form their trip.

Have a good week everyone

 

The three and four team.

Monday 6th October

Welcome to our blog. 

 Homework was given out last Friday and your child should have brought home:

A list of spellings for the whole half term

A list in their diary of spellings.

A homework book.

A maths sheet task three.

 

Please remember that the children have five activities on my Maths to be completed before the end of term.

Swimming is on every Tuesday. We have six weeks left.

On Tuesday morning at 9.00 am there will be an Assembly on HOMES. This assembly will be lead by 3 / 4 H.

Maths

Mrs Morgan/ Mrs Harding

This week we will be continuing to  learning about all different types of addition.

We will be adding using a number line.

http://www.ictgames.com/button%20only.html

We will be progressing onto finding the difference and rounding to the nearest 100 and 1000.

Please remember that we will be learning out timetables too.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/interactive.htm

 

Maths Mrs Sarsfield

 

This week the children will be reviewing more addition, subtraction and timetables too.

 

English

We will be learning about   SPELLING EL, IL, LE and AL words. We will also be writing a dictation.

This is when the children have to write down what we are saying.

We will also be learning more about INSTRUCTIONS.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/instructions/read/1/

The children will also be practising their handwriting.

They will be practising:

·         Joining up.

·         Starting with a  flick on the line.

·         Writing on the line.

·         Using a consistent size of handwriting.

RE

PROMISES

This week we will be starting our new topic called Promises. We will be thinking about what the topic might be about, considering our promises and clubs and groups where we might make promises.

 

Topic

THE STONE AGE

We will be continuing with our new topic THE STONE AGE. The children will be learning about HOMES AND PEOPLE.  They will be looking at villages. We will also be drawing and designing a picture of Stone Henge.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory/ancient-britain.shtml

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE6OeRZB_Wc

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/clips/p00hzpqg

 

http://www.historyrocket.com/age-of-history/stone-age/Stone-Age-For-Kids.html

 

SCIENCE

We will be continuing with our topic ROCKS AND SOILS. The children will be learning about how rocks are formed. They will be learning about the different types of rocks.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/rocks_soils.shtml

Have a good week everyone, 

The 3 and 4 team.