Term 2 Week 1 – overview

We have our usual Monday morning ukulele lesson with Mr Lawrence.

Spelling and grammar – we will be practising spellings from the Year 3 and 4 statutory list, along with other focus spelling words highlighted in our latest writing.  We will continue to revise using apostrophes for possession with singular nouns.  

In English we will be peer editing our Escape From Pompeii stories, using dictionaries and thesaurus to correct and improve our writing.  We will then create neat copies and complete the covers we have designed for our stories. These will then be published and put into our book area so we can all read them!

In Maths we be beginning a unit on addition and subtraction, beginning with adding and subtracting 1, 10, 100 and 1000 from a number.  We will then move on to adding 2 4-digit numbers without exchange and then with an exchange.

Our guided reading text for this term is The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.  This text will engage the children with more complicated vocabulary and a variation of punctuation and sentence length.

In RE our new unit of focus is incarnation.  We will be considering the different accounts of the Gospel with a focus on John 1’s account of the incarnation.

Mrs Tompsett will be teaching Science on Thursday afternoons.  This term’s topic is electricity.

In art we will be continuing our work on the artist Gorgio Morandi.

PE is on MONDAY MORNING and THURSDAY AFTERNOON and with Mr Luckhurst.  

Reading records have been sent home with most children choosing a book from the selection in class.  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 a Wednesday morning.  

Homework will be issued this Wednesday and is due in 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