Term 4 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)will earn a star.  Remember that 10 minutes’ of reading each day makes a huge difference to overall literacy and especially expanding vocabulary!

Our ukulele lesson will take place on Tuesday morning with Mr Lawrence.

Spelling and grammar –we will be revising spelling words from this term and looking at the suffixes sion, ssion, tion and cian and standard English.

We will be reading, discussing and answering questions about our new guided reading text, Lob.  Lob has somehow made his way to Chelsea Flower Show and been captured by an exhibitor who wants to use him to do lots of his tough gardening tasks!

In English, we will be creating senses poems and trying to incorporate some rhyming patterns.

In Maths, we will be dividing 3-digit numbers and completing an end of unit assessment.  We are also practising times tables every day and setting a class target to beat each week.

In RE, our new unit of focus is ‘Salvation’ and we will be considering the big question, ‘Why do Christians call the day Jesus cried Good Friday?’  This week, we will think about our own values and things we believe in standing up for

In Science, we will be completing an end of unit assessment for states of matter.

In Geography, we are rounding off our unit with a fieldwork trip to the park to map human and physical geography around us.

PE is on MONDAY MORNING and THURSDAY AFTERNOON with Mr Luckhurst.  

Reading records have been sent home with most children choosing a book from the selection in class or from the reading scheme.  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 Tuesday and Friday mornings.  

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,