Term 4 Week 5 – 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 ukulele lesson with Mr Lawrence this Monday.

Spelling and grammar – we will be revising words from the statutory year 3 and 4 list..  We will also be working on standard English – I or me, should have not should of.

In English, we will continue to practise persuasive techniques in preparation for writing a letter about plastic pollution of the oceans.  Last week we thought about how we go about persuading and began by practising rhetorical questions.  We will continue by looking at emotive language and exaggeration, as well and carrying out some research to back up our arguments.

In Maths we will move on to area and length by refreshing our understanding of equivalence of metres and kilometres.  We will thenbe calculating perimeter on a grid.

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 Salvation which leads us up to Easter.  We will be thinking about how christians show their beliefs about Jesus in their everyday lives.

Mrs Atkinson will be teaching Science on Monday afternoons.  This term’s topic is animals including humans and will involve the human digestive system and food chains.

In computing we will continue our unit on data logging by looking at how data can be logged on a computer.

We will continue painting our sculptures.  They need a really solid white base in order for the designs to really stand out.

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