Term 2 Week 5

This week in our English learning we have been looking at using conjunctions and prepositions in our sentences and how we can vary these to make our writing more extensive. We also looked at summarising and picked our the main points in the story of Marcy, before looking at how to write accurately in paragraphs. 

In Maths Year 4 have been doing consolidation work on column method for addition and subtraction. We also looked at using inverse operations to check our calculations. Year 3 have been looking at multiplication and division facts for the 4 times table, and started to look at the 8 times table. 

In our History we were learning about the importance of religion to Egyptian civilisation. We did this be looked at their belief in the afterlife and created PowerPoints on the mummification process. In our Music we were learning to create repetition in songs. We listened to some Latin music and identified the sections of the music that were repeated in a 4 beat rhythm before creating our own songs with a repeating rhythm using a range of instruments. In our Art learning we were learning to improve our master of painting. We did this by looking at how different sized paint brushes can be used to add base layers or add details and used this to paint our clay treasures from last week. 

For swimming on Thursday, please send your child in with a pair of cotton pyjamas (no onesies or thick fluffy materials) along with their normal swimming costume as we are learning about water safety. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Mr Saunders, Mrs Hendry and Miss Parkes.