Term 5 Week 4 – 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!

This week, Year 6 will be completing their SATS and we will be moving out of the year 4 room for the mornings so that they have space and quiet to focus.  We will be using this opportunity to create and perform music with Year 5.

Spelling and grammar – we are revising words from the statutory year 3 and 4 spelling list.  

In English, we will be working on using the power of 3 in our descriptive writing, with a focus on the story setting from Beowulf.

In Maths we will continue our unit on fractions with a focus on mixed numbers and improper fractions.

In guided reading we will be continuing our new text, Varjak Paw by SF Said.  The first chapter has created a real sense of mystery and we are very curious as to what is going to happen to the main character next.

We will continue painting our sculptures using the bold designs we have created.

In Computing we will be carrying out our fourth lesson on photo editing.

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 Tuesday because of the Bank Holiday.

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