Thursday, 21 March 2013

Friday 22 March 2013


Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

We have had a lovely time this week in year 3/4! The week got off to a great start with the children’s super numeracy home learning- it was really great to see that so many children had really tried to continue their learning at home and we are very proud of them. We chose all of the children for our achiever this week- they have blown our socks off with their outstanding figure drawings of Egyptian Gods that we simply had to celebrate everyone’s success. They showed so much attention to detail in making sure that their drawings were in proportion and were very careful with their watercolour painting!

Literacy

In Literacy this week, we have been developing our ideas into complex sentences, focussing on the main clause and embedded clause in a sentence and making sure the children remember their commas in the right places. The children have been applying this into their diary writing this week. They imagined they’d been marooned on a desert island and then wrote a diary about a day on the island- we had some great ideas, from swimming with dolphins and eating coconuts to looking for shooting stars at night!

Numeracy

This week we have been using our multiplication and division knowledge to answer word problems. The children have been successful in identifying the key parts of information in a word problem, before deciding what operation they need to use (add, subtract, multiply, divide) and what strategy they need to use to find the answer. The children have then been given different assessment-type questions to tackle, in preparation for our assessment week next week. We have been really pleased with how they have been able to apply their learning to solve these!

Topic

As mentioned earlier, the children have produced fantastic art outcomes in our topic sessions this week. They have all produced an accurate human figure and then displayed great skill in their use of watercolour pencils. Look out for them on display in the classrooms and mall when you come in for parent consultations!

Have a lovely weekend!

 

Team 3/4

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