Term 4, week 6
Thank you again for all the lovely buttons we have received, we will be using them this week on our button art – watch this space! If anyone has any, especially small ones, we could still do with some more.
In maths this week, we will be completing bar charts before moving to measuring lengths, converting metres into centimetres/centimetres into millimetres and, both comparing and adding/subtracting lengths. We are also continuing with the additional focus on times tables.
In English this week, we will be using all the ‘tools’ we have been learning to create persuasive reports regarding areas in the United Kingdom. We will start with an introduction, consider our ‘argument’ and then conclude our report.
Whole class reading will have a poetry focus this week, including ‘From a Railway Carriage’ by Robert Louis Stevenson. We will share the poems and the children will have the opportunity to discuss them as a whole class.
In our topic work this week, we will be conducting a science investigation and creating our own ‘alternative’ map of the United Kingdom.
In RE this week, the children will finish off the Salvation Unit, concluding their ideas regarding why Christians call the day Jesus died ‘Good Friday’.
Maple class have PE on Thursdays and Fridays, both sessions will be with Mr Luckhurst.
On Friday, Mrs Tompsett will continue the touch-typing unit in ICT, do the spellings tests and whole class non-fiction reading, and finish the artwork based on 1950s posters. These are looking fantastic.
Homework will be sent out on Tuesday as usual, with details also on the class blog. Reading Records should come into school daily and will generally be changed on a Monday and Thursday. 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.
Any additional times tables practice would be very beneficial moving forward. There are lots of games online which can make learning their tables fun.
The children are becoming much more independent with their homework and reading records, but please do remind them to put the relevant books in the basket in class. If you haven’t seen their homework or reading records for a while, please do ask them and let me know if there is an issue.
As usual, I am happy to answer any questions you may have, so please do contact me if you have any queries, using the class email address:
Best wishes