Friday 19th April

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

We’ve had a lovely first week back in year 3/4, we can’t believe it the children’s final term before the end of the year, it has gone so quickly! It was great to see such wonderful home learning across the three classes. From a model of the Taj Mahal, to a fantastic painting of Indian Gods and Henna designs, a lot of children had clearly spent lots of time and effort on their learning at home, which is fantastic!

Literacy

This half term we are learning about journalistic writing. The children have kicked off this topic by looking at language effects to create catchy headlines as well as how to write the different sections of a newspaper article. They have all written an article which included: a headline, orientation, main text, reorientation, picture and a caption. Why not ask your child to explain what these different words mean? They have also been practicing how to change sentences between the past, present and future tense, see if they can show you at home!

Numeracy

In numeracy this week the children have begun their learning around fractions! They have been finding fractions of numbers using the division methods they learned last half term and have then been practicing how to apply these to word problems. This was tricky as they had to read the questions very carefully, but we were really pleased with their attitude, no one gave up! Next week, we will be learning about time. The children should already be able to tell the time to the nearest hour and half hour so why don’t you ask them this weekend?

Topic

The children have been very excited about our new topic of India this half term! This week we have looked at where India is and what the capital city is. We’ve also looked at comparing life in Bangalore with life in Great Britain. The children found it very interesting to look at photographs of different places in India, and see the difference in lifestyle within the country itself. We have lots of exciting activities coming up next week, including some cooking of Indian food!

Reminders

·        Year 4 swimming will restart next week, the 25^th April

·        Please ensure your child’s PE kit is kept in school from Monday-Friday every week.

Have a lovely weekend!

 

Team 3/4