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Term 1,Week Seven

18th October 2021

 

I can’t believe this is the last week of this term! The children have been working so hard over the last six weeks and settled in beautifully to year 3.

In maths this week, we will be converting unconventionally partitioned numbers, moving on to comparing these and ordering from greatest to smallest, or smallest to greatest.

What fun we had with the paper woolly mammoth instructions, some were more successful than others! This week we will continue to develop our instruction writing skills, preparing individual plans, ready to complete our own instructions later in the week. We will also consider how best to present these and work on some diagrams and artwork.

The children will be completing their book reviews about the Hodgeheg this week, and I am hoping we can then create our own book review folder, which we can add to with other books as the year progresses. 

We will continue with our Stone Age to Iron Age topic, looking at Stone Age homes and other aspects of life during that time.

In science, we will start to examine the different properties of rocks!

In RE, Mrs Johnson will continue to look at the story of Abraham and the concept of faith. The children have been working incredibly hard in RE and their display creations are looking fabulous.

On Friday, Mrs Tompsett will continue working with the class to learn about coding in ICT. Last week, Mrs Tompsett was lucky enough to be able to watch the children’s mini dramas about washing a woolly mammoth! That means that this week the children will finish their fossils, painting them and highlighting the detail. The children will be doing a times table challenge and their weekly spelling test.

Maple class have PE on Thursdays and Fridays, both sessions will be with Mr Luckhurst.

Homework will be sent out on Tuesday this week, with details also on the class blog. Reading Records should come into school daily and will generally be changed on a Monday and Thursday. As usual, we ask that the children aim to read daily, ideally with an adult, and please do write a comment in their reading records to tell us how they are getting on. We are encouraging the children to be more independent with their homework and reading records, so please do remind them to put the relevant books in the basket in class.

I have been impressed with the number of children who have completed elements of the wider curriculum, voluntary home learning ideas, and it is always lovely to get photos of the children and their amazing creations, many thanks for emailing these.

I am always happy to answer any questions you may have, so please do contact me if you have any queries, using the class email address:

maple@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk

Best wishes