Year 3/4 @ Robin Hood Primary

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Africa Home Learning.

Check out our amazing Africa home learning. It's amazing!!!

Hi there! Eva and Lauren here! We are the 3/4 Numeracy bloggers and it is our job to tell you about all of the exciting things we have been learning, week by week. You might even learn a thing or two for yourself!!!

This week we have been learning strategies for adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. We have been solving worded problems using column addition, column subtraction, the grid method and the bus stop method. We have been learning these strategies because it is assessment week in a couple of weeks and we all want to get the best possible results. We have been solving problems that are level two, three, four and five. We have been solving money problems too. They are slightly harder because sometimes the pound sign and decimal point confuse you.

AFRICA!

Last week year 3/4 started to learn all about Africa. We have been creating African flags and researching different countries on the internet. We have also been creating African landscapes in art using pastels to make scenes from the lion king. We all have enjoyed making our flags and watching the lion king for inspiration to create landscapes. We are really looking forward to telling you all about what we have been up to this week in our topic sessions – you will be amazed!

By Amelie and Amelia J

Thursday, 23 May 2013

Friday 24th May 2013

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

The children did a fantastic job at representing Robin Hood and we are extremely proud of them. We have had another exciting week in 3/4 and had a visit from an Indian drummer on Tuesday afternoon, who showed the children some traditional Indian drumming and taught us all some exciting dance moves. We all had lots of fun dancing to the beats and some of us even won some prizes! We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the year 4’s on their wonderful behaviour during our residential at East Barnby last week. All of the centre staff commented on how mature and sensible the children all were and how well everyone worked together as part of a team.

Literacy

We have been looking at narrative story writing this week and the children have been describing different settings and characters using a wide range of adjectives and similes. When describing a different setting the children have used the four senses to describe what they can see, hear, smell and how they feel. The children then used these descriptions to write a fantastic opening to a story! We were really impressed with the great range of adjectives the children are using in their writing to describe. Why don’t you ask your child to write you a character description of someone in the family for you to guess who it is?

Numeracy

In numeracy this week the children have been learning about 3D shapes and their properties. We have had a great time making lots of different 3D shapes out of art straws for our shape museum and then recording how many edges, vertices, faces and parallel lines they have. Next half term we will be looking at how to solve problems involving money and position and direction.

Topic

This week the children have learnt all about the Taj Mahal and have had a go at sketching this into their art books. Why not ask your child to tell you a fact about the Taj Mahal? We have also used all of the new knowledge we have learnt about India to write a non-chronological report.

Home Learning

Next half term our new topic is Africa. For the children’s home learning we would like them to research something about this continent to share with the class when we are back after the holidays. They can present this any way they choose.

Reminders

· Next half term our PE unit is athletics, please ensure your child brings their outdoor PE kit into school every Monday morning.

· As the weather is getting warmer please make sure your child is bringing a water bottle to school every day.

Have a lovely half term!

Team 3/4

Spellings Sum2 Week2

Spellings to be tested on Monday 10^th June (the children already have their spellings for this Monday)

Please support your child in practicing their spellings every day to help them to achieve 10/10 in their spelling test every week.

Group One	Group Two
I’ve	country
she’s	busy
he’s	mystery
somebody	guess
nobody	instead
there’s	build
who’ll	enough
they’ll	language
you’ll	rough
you’re	pleasant

Friday, 10 May 2013

Friday 10th May 2013

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

LKS2 had an exciting visit on Tuesday afternoon from a Bollywood dancer, who not only taught the children different Indian style dances, but also told us all some fascinating Indian mythical stories and performed some traditional Indian songs. A reporter from the Rothwell Record came to snap a picture of the children performing an Indian dance routine and we are looking forward to reading the article when it’s out next month!

Literacy

The children have had lots of fun during literacy this week becoming real life news reporters. We started the week hot seating various eye witnesses from different news articles, asking them to tell us the events of the story from their own perspective. We then rewrote our News articles from the previous week in the form of a script including lots of fantastic adjectives to describe. The children then worked super hard practicing acting these and even brought in props to further enhance their performances. The final news reports were truly brilliant and the children really impressed us with their clear and confident performances.

Numeracy

In numeracy this week the children have been learning all about the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages and how to convert between the three. They have also learnt how to convert improper fractions into mixed numbers. Why not ask your child to demonstrate this to you? Next week we are going to be revisiting time, learning how to successfully read a 24 hour clock and how to read and navigate around a calendar.

Topic

After the children had a great time with our Indian dancer on Tuesday we then researched even more styles of Indian dance and the children have been busy practicing their own Indian dance routine. We have continued to practice our knowledge of the 7 continents and looked at the locations of the different countries.

Residential

Can all year 4 children who are going on the residential ensure they meet in the school hall on Wednesday 15^th at 8:45 a.m. Can everyone be dressed in their own clothes and bring a water bottle so they can have a drink on the journey. Can we also ensure all clothes are clearly labelled so we can return any lost property to the rightful owners.

Reminders

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

· As the weather is getting warmer please make sure your child is bringing a water bottle to school every day.

Have a lovely weekend!

Team 3/4

Spellings Sum1 WK6

Spellings to be tested on Monday 20^th May (the children already have their spellings for this Monday)