HAVE A WONDERFUL HALF TERM!

4CD Teachers (Fletcher) - Mrs Doinik/Mr Fenna     TA - Mrs Wright

4H (Riordan) Teacher - Miss Howard     TA - Mrs Yaxley

Homework expectations 

We will be using Seesaw. We expect the children to be reading at home 3 x a week and recording this in their reading log books; practising weekly spellings;TT Rockstars 3 x a week and looking over any work that needs completing, sent home by the class teacher.

Term 2

This term we will be focusing on accelerating progress and addressing gaps in our understanding of the core subjects.

P.E - Thursday afternoon: Floor gymnastics

Block week wb 07/12/2020 Hockey: children will need a mouth guard and shin pads.

We are taking part in Steps to Summit and our mountain is called 'Denali'. We take part in our daily activity and record it to see how much of the mountain we have climbed. We have also looked at what our own 'Denali' is and thought of our goals that we would like to achieve by the end of the year. You have received a letter about Steps to Summit with your child's log in and password where you can upload any distance walked at home on to the system so it records it as a total.

Maths

We are recapping addition and subtraction to help with perimeter and focusing on multiplication and division to help us with our conversion of measurements. 

A man called Richard Brown has published for Parents and their children a series of Arithmetic Workbooks for Reception, Years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6; as well as a Four Operations Workbook to enable all learners to access, understand and become fluent in arithmetic mental strategies and written methods. Every book uses the Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract approach to ensure the needs of all learners are met. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1795196033/ref=sr_1_5

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1677312645/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_img_8

White Rose also have their own workbooks out:

https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/product-category/workbooks/

Literacy 

This term we will be focusing on narrative verse poetry, instruction texts and newspapers, whilst continuing to read our class text and discuss picture books.

Please concentrate on making sure your children know the spellings from year 2 and the year 3/4 spelling list. Spellings such as something, everything, everybody, does and with should also be recapped as these are continually misspelt.

Topic - Biomes and climate change.

R.E - Incarnation: What is the Trinity?

Jigsaw - Celebrating differences.

Science - States of Matter