Term 3 Week 6 – overview

Reading challenge – we have made a visual display to track our home reading.  Each week when reading records are checked, every child who brings their record (completed with their weekly reading) they will earn a star. Remember that 10 minutes reading each day makes a huge difference to overall literacy and especially expanding vocabulary!

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

Spelling and grammar – we will be working on personal spelling targets identified in our writing and will continue to work on expanded noun phrases to add interest to our writing. 

In English, we continue our work on The Great Kapok Tree.  We will be completing our own stories, editing them in pairs and seeing how we can correct and improve them.

In Maths we will continue our multiplication and division journey looking at dividing 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 current unit of focus is gospel.  We will be thinking how Christians try to live out the word of the Gospel and reflecting on our big question:  What kind of world did Jesus want?

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 every 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