Year 3/4 Weekly Update: Monday 5th May

Welcome to this week’s blog spot. Finally the weather is slowly improving and the children enjoyed doing PE/Games outside. Thank you to everyone who made sure their child had the correct kit.

This week we received the basic skills renewal for Literacy and Numeracy in our school. The feedback from the senior adviser Derek Barnes was phenomenal and extremely positive. He visited every classroom and spoke to children of all ages about their learning. He was very impressed with how the children are so enthusiastic about their learning and motivated too.

LITERACY

We have started doing a big write every week. Most weeks we give a detailed teaching session on a style of writing and then let the children write for thirty five minutes in a silent, calm atmosphere. Some weeks we talk to the children about what they will write and some weeks we will give them no help and ask them to write independently. This week the children will be writing their own myth independently.

By the end of the week the children:

COULD be able to write a myth independently with a natural phenomena, time phrase and a traditional opening and ending.

SHOULD be able to write a myth using adjectives, adverbs, time phrases and ambitious vocabulary.

MUST be able to write a myth using a beginning, middle, climax and end.

http://myths.e2bn.org/create/

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/writing/storymaker/storymaker.asp

SCIENCE/TOPIC
We are still looking at the environment and are looking at the problems of pollution in our society. The children will be taking what they already know and creating a town that is the most polluted town they can think of.

We will be also reviewing the organs of the body.
By the end of the week the children
COULD know all the major organs of the body and their functions.
SHOULD know where major organs of the body are.
MUST know where the heart, lungs, and brain are.

http://www.ehc.com/vbody.asp

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/systems.html

NUMERACY

In Mrs Harding's group we will be reviewing work for the exams at the end of May. We will be having a look at the four rules again which is a topic that we have to keep reviewing to make us even better at our Maths!

By the end of the week the children:

COULD be able to answer problem questions to do with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

SHOULD be able to decide what method to use to solve problems.

MUST be able to do all four operations with ninety percent accuracy.

To get some extra help please see:

http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/maths/ks1-2/resources/units/documents/word_probs/yr4-5_word_probs.ppt#258,3,Year 4 / 5

http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/maths/ks1-2/resources/units/documents/word_probs/yr5_word_probs.ppt

http://www.channel4learning.net/sites/puzzlemaths/md_machine_game.shtml

http://www.freewebtown.com/weddell/mw/short_multiplication/3x1contents.swf

In Mrs Bethell's and Mr Slavin's group this week they will be learning about finding the area and perimeter of shapes.

By the end of the week the children:

COULD be able to answer questions to do with area and perimeter.