Term 5 Week 3

Dariya's hand painted eye

Dariya's digital eye

Anaya's hand painted tree

Anaya's digital tree

Mia's hand painted flower

Mia's digital flower

This week in our Literacy we have been looking at describing the amazing experience of visiting Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Using clips from the films, extracts from the book and a "Let's say"  lesson exploring the chocolate room, we wrote diary entries about our experience. We used our learning on writing in the past tense and writing in 1st person to help us. 

In Maths, Year 3 consolidated their understanding of fractions, recapping how to find equivalent fractions using multiplication and division, how to add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and how to find unit and non-unit fractions of an amount. We finished the week working collaboratively to put all of those skills to the test through problem solving. Year 4 have moved on to looking at money. We started the week with some retrieval of the value of different coins and notes. We then converted between pounds and pence and looked at ways of partitioning money. We used this to compare and order different amounts of money. We ended the week by looking at solving problems involving money.

In Geography we looked at symbols on OS maps. We used OS maps of Maidstone to identify some of the key local features labelled on the map. In music we looked at the rhythm and beat of Samba music, and used different parts of our body to make a call and response to the music. In Science we looked at how magnets act at a distance, we used paper clips and string to test how far magnets worked from a magnetic object. Finally in computing we compared using digital devices and painting by hand to create art work. We recreated the same picture on both and then discussed which we preferred and why. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Mr Saunders, Mrs Hendry and Miss Parkes.