Term 3 Week 5 – overview

 

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

 

Spelling and grammar – We will be learning the spellings of the homophones main/man, ball/bawl and mail/male, as well as practising some of the year 3 and 4 statutory spelling words.  We are moving on to identifying noun phrases and modifying nouns and adjectives in our grammar sessions.

 

In English, we continue our work on The Great Kapok Tree.  This week we will be planning and beginning to write our own version of the story.  We will choose animals and plan their arguments against deforestation, using correctly punctuated direct speech.

 

In Maths we will continue our multiplication and division journey looking multiplying by 100 and dividing by 10.

 

In guided reading we will be continuing with our new text, The Boy Who Grew Dragons, by Andy Shepherd.  This is a longer text than we have previously studied and we are creating a wall of new vocabulary we are learning as we read.

 

In RE our current unit of focus is gospel.  We will be learning the story of the healing of the leper, what this might mean for Christians and how we can link it to the concept of Gospel.

 

Mrs Atkinson will be teaching Science on Thursday afternoons.  This term’s topic is states of matter.

 

In computing we will continue to write code to create shapes and embed use of new coding techniques such as repeat.

 

PE is on MONDAY MORNING with Mr Luckhurst.  Swimming is on Friday

 

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