In English over the past two weeks we have been exploring Instruction Writing.
We have had lots of fun exploring the features, looking at the different elements of the sentences and writing our own instructions. Our jam sandwich making was definitely interesting!
As a final piece of writing, we followed instructions to make EDIBLE ROMAN ROAD. We then wrote new improved instructions.
Challenge – Can you find some instructions to follow at home? Can you identify any imperative verbs? Can you add any adverbs? Do the instructions include time adverbials?
We had a brilliant time on World Book Day yesterday and I was so impressed with everyone’s ‘book in a box’ We also explored our favourite books and looked at creating book people. Thank you to everyone who took part. Here are some of our amazing boxes and our well deserved winners.
We also had an amazing lunch!
I wonder who will join us on our next challenge of the Brandesburton Bake Off linked to Reading!
The Year 4s loved the opportunity to WRITE on the tables this week in Maths. We explored informal methods for division and used our multiplication skills to help us. Luckily it all washed off afterwards!
Class 3 had an amazing start to the half term this week with a school trip to the Hull and East Riding Museum. The children loved the opportunity to to find out more about the Romans and our guide for the morning was very impressed with our knowledge!
We explored artefacts, made mosaics, role played as shopkeepers, built bridges and drew Roman artefacts. The children were so well behaved and were a credit to the school.
This week the Year 4s have shone with their animation skills.
All half term we have been working on using Purple Mash to create animations but this week we used actual objects to complete some stop motion animations. I was so impressed with their skills and ideas!
In English we have been looking at stories with dilemmas. We have been using the book ‘The Tunnel’ by Anthony Browne. We have had lots of fun exploring the story and looking closely at the characters.
Next we are going to look at writing our own stories containing a dilemma
Can you think of any other stories with a dilemma?
I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and a great start to the New Year. We have had a great first week of the term, settled well and completed some great work. On Tuesday we revisited our Class Charter using the book ‘Be You’. It was lovely to see that many of us thought ‘Be Kind’ was the most important characteristic to have in our classroom!
We have also made a fab start to our new English unit, begun to look at the Romans in History and continued to work on multiplication in Maths.
Guided Reading
We also made a start on our new text for Guided Reading, The Griffin Gate by Vashi Hardy. I have been very impressed with the predictions and inferences we have made just from looking at the front cover!
Last term some of the children bought their own copy of the text and have talked of buying our new one. If you would like to buy this term’s, I have found them cheapest on this site.
It is not necessary to buy a copy as we have enough for one between two but I know some of the children like to have their own.
Maths – Plea for Help
Recently, both year groups have been working on multiplication in Maths, in order to fully learn their times tables by heart, the children need to have regular practice at home. Please try to build this into your routine. The children all have access to times table rockstars and purple mash which contain a range of games and www.topmarks.co.uk also includes some fun alternatives.
Updates and Reminders for the start of the new term
Reading
I hope you are enjoying the range of reading books that the children are bringing home. I am constantly changing the books on offer to the children in order to really build that love of reading. Please feel free to chat to me if you would like any advice on books your child can read at home.
Please continue to record reading daily in your child’s home school record book. We are happy for the children to write down their own reading in their logs and we welcome comments linked to the events in the books. If they are recording independently, please ensure there is an adult signature each week. As a school, we aim for at least 3 entries each week. All logs will be looked at on a Friday, but we will continue to change reading books any day of the week as long as it is recorded in the log with an adult signature.
PE
This term, Class 3 will be required to come to school in their PE kit on a Tuesday and a Friday
Well Class 3, we have got there…the final week and what a final week it has been!
Christmas Performance
Well done to everyone for our Christmas performance on Tuesday. I think our Christmas poem was very well written and perfectly performed, our signed ‘it was on a starry night’ is so lovely to watch and we all did some fab singing!
Food Technology
Our week was also very busy with our Food Technology project. On Monday and Tuesday, Class 3 were given the chance to try a range of Greek food and then create their own Greek meals; cooking lamb koftas, making flatbread, slicing and chopping for a Greek salad and making a Greek dip. We also completed lots of work on food hygiene and healthy eating alongside this and of course got to try our finished meal – we thoroughly enjoyed it!! A massive thanks must go to Mrs Thomson and Miss Jessop who were fab cookery teachers!!
Christmas Cards and Calendars
This week we also fitted in time to make our Christmas Cards and Calendars. The children used their painting skills to create some fab designs which we then added our Christmas decorations to. They really look fab.
Finally, I just want to wish everyone a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope everyone has a great time with their family. See you in 2024!!
Another fab week in Class 3 – we have begun to look at multiplication in Maths, started to explore persuasive texts in English and explored atlases in Geography. We have also finished our whole class guided reading text – Beasts of Olympus. It was lovely to see all the children discussing the text and how it ended. It has also been great to see how much their fluency has progressed. I wonder what we will read next!
Reading
I am pleased to announce that last week Class 3 had 100% reading percentage – I wonder what we will get this week? As a reward we were able to choose fifteen pounds worth of books from the book fair and as the books were all half price – we spent a long time using our addition and subtraction skills to get the best deal.
Spellings
Homework
This week both year groups have begun work on multiplication. In year 3 the expectation is to know by heart the 2, 3, 4, 8 and 10 times tables and in year 4 the expectation is all times tables to 12×12.
This week the Year 4s have been working on their 6 times tables and the Year 3s consolidating the 2, 5, and 10 times tables. Next week the Year 4s will be learning their 9 times tables and 7 times tables and the Year 3s their 3, 4 and 8 times tables.
For homework this week I would like you to work on spending some time practicing your times tables. Please choose a times table to focus on and use times table rockstars/purple mash or the websites below to practise.
Or, if you want to be a little more creative, you could make your own multiplication game. You will find some ideas below. Have a look around the house to see what you can find to use, choose a times table to focus on and create a game. When your game is finished grab someone to play your game with. I can’t wait to see photographs of your ideas and of you playing your game.
Next week…Don’t forget Christmas Jumper day and Christmas Dinner Day on Wednesday.
