Term 3 Week 4 – overview

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

Spelling and grammar – We will be practising the year 3 and 4 spelling list in spelling sessions and as handwriting.  In grammar sessions we are looking at

correctly setting out direct speech.  This feeds directly into the work we are doing in English as we create our own rainforest dilemma stories.

In English, we continue our work on The Great Kapok Tree.  We will be choosing the creatures that will feature in our own stories and considering what their arguments are against deforestation.  We will then be looking at persuasive techniques and identifying them in texts.

In Maths we will continue our multiplication and division journey looking at 7 times tables and division facts, factor pairs and multiplying by 100.

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 new unit of focus is gospel.  We have thought about things that are precious to us, routine activities we do and how we would feel if we had to give them up.  We will now be learning about the calling of the first disciples and how significant it was.

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

In computing we will be on lesson 3 of our unit on repetition in shapes where we are using snippets of code to draw shapes and debug faulty codes.

PE is on MONDAY MORNING with Mr Luckhurst.  Swimming will commence this 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