Spring Term 2 2023

Week ending 31st March
 
A busy final week. Year 4 have finished their decimal topic A and we will continue to develop decimal knowledge straight after Easter. Year 3 have continued recalling tables facts, both as multiplication and division with remainders. We played our final group game of handball with excellent communication and team tactics. We have found out about the Easter story and made 3D Easter cards.
 
Please keep reading over the holidays. In your child's reading record we have asked if a short "speech" can be prepared on a character from a book they have read.
 
Thank you for your continued support with reading and home learning over this Spring term. 
 
Have a relaxing holiday, the weather forecast looks good!!
Class Tamar
 
 

Weekending 24th March

This week Year 3 have continued with mass and capacity and Year 4 have started the new topic on decimal fractions and looking at tenths. In history we have completed our end piece where we created and information sheet about Romans including mosaics. Within RE we found out about the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. People of the Jewish faith have sweet things, like honey cake and apples and honey so hopefully they will have a ‘sweet’ new year. We have also been using the computers for research.

Have a lovely weekend,

Class Tamar

 

Spellings  for this week:

Year 3   (gue / que)                                          Year 4

1.league                                                                 1.phone

2.plague                                                                 2.phonics

3. rogue                                                                  3.microphone

4.vague                                                                   4.telephone

5.fatigue                                                                5.homophone

6.unique                                                                  6.real

7.antique                                                                7.reality

8. mosque                                                               8.realistic

9.cheque                                                                 9.unreal

10.technique                                                           10.realisation

Weekending 17th March

This week we have been doing our termly tests in the mornings. Year 3 have also finished the NFER digital trials.

This week we have continued to develop our handball skills in PE and due to the rain did circuit training on Wednesday. In geography we made sketch maps of our local area and then looked at a plan of our school and created a key for the different classrooms and areas. Mrs Norton also shared with us the original plan of the school and even though it was a lot smaller there was 264 children in it!

Please keep recording in the reading record when your child reads. This is SO important to continue to help reading skills.

Hopefully we will have some dry weather over the weekend,

Class Tamar

 

Spellings  for this week:

Year 3   (bi=2  and re= again / back)                      Year 4 (soft c spelt ci)

1.bicycle                                                                   1.circle

2.biplane                                                                  2.decide

3.bisect                                                                     3.medicine

4.bilingual                                                                4.exercise

5.biannual                                                                5.special

6.reappear                                                               6.cinema

7.redecorate                                                           7.decimal

8. reapply                                                                8.accident

9.repay                                                                    9.city

10.rebuild                                                              10.citizen

 

Weekending 10th  March

Year 4 have finished the topic on fractions including adding and subtracting simple fractions with the same denominator. Year 3, have started the new topic on mass and have looked at scales and measuring using different scales. Within English we used our senses to describe ‘The Shirt Machine’ and have  designed our own fantastical shirt and explained how it works.

We found out about St Piran and how and why he came to Cornwall and about the Cornish Flag, the Cross of St Piran. We did a test in science that investigated whether the length of our Femur impacted on how far you could jump. RE, we considered the Jewish festival of Shabbat and we learnt that during Shabbat nothing electrical can be used. On Tuesday morning we took part in an aspirations talk via Teams where a nuclear engineer, a web designer and media presenter and the director of the Headlands Hotel in Newquay told us about what they did and the skills needed. 

This week the class have been doing tests on the computer which will be finished in 2 weeks time.

 

Please remember the login and password for Times Tables Rock Stars is in your child's reading record book.

Have a lovely weekend,

Class Tamar

 

Spellings for this week:

Year 3                                            Year 4

1.scent                                           1.centre

2.sent                                             2.century

3.vain                                            3.certain

4.vein                                           4.recent

5.rode                                          5.experience

6.road                                           6.sentence

7.steel                                          7.notice

8. steal                                          8.celebrate

9.waist                                          9.ceremony

10.waste                                      10.certificate

Weekending 3rd March

We have continued learning about fractions in our maths with Year 3 finding out about unit and non-unit fractions as well as scales. Year 4 have compared and ordered fractions, including using number lines. Within English we have carried on with our ‘Shirt Machine’ topic and have written a dialogue between the girl and her uncle. On World Book Day we considered our favourite book and wrote our own comprehension.  We also finished our class book, ‘The Boy in the Dress’ and started our next book, ‘Charlie Turns into a T Rex’ by Sam Copeland.

During other subjects we have thought about celebrations and friendship groups. In addition, we found out about Hadrian’s Wall and that it was nearly 80 miles long with forts every mile. Soldiers wrote letters on thin pieces of wood asking for wine, socks and underpants! Mrs Green taught us on Friday afternoon.

Enjoy your  weekend,

Class Tamar

 

Spellings for this week:

Year 3                                           Year 4

1.grate                                           1.science

2.great                                           2.crescent

3.grown                                         3.discipline

4.groan                                          4.fascinate

5.plain                                            5.scent

6.plane                                           6.scissors

7.peace                                          7.ascent

8. piece                                          8.descent

9.rain                                             9.scientists

10.reign                                        10.scenery

Weekending 24th February

This week we started our new English topic, “The Shirt Machine”. We have highlighted features of an explanation text and have written questions using the 5Ws; Who, what, why, where, when. We have also found out that prepositions can describe position. Even though we started looking at fractions before half term, we have fully started our topic this week. On Friday we continued with using our tables facts to solve division problems.

On Tuesday we started learning handball and passing to each other and how to defend. We looked at friendships and words that describe them. Science this week we found out about the advantages and disadvantages of types of skeletons. We used SWFGL Swiggle as a search engine that does not have adverts and is KS2 friendly to find out information about the Romans.

Enjoy your  weekend,

Class Tamar

 

Spellings for this week:

Year 4                                                     Year 3

1.girls’                                           1.scheme

2.boys’                                          2.chorus

3.babies’                                       3.echo

4.parents’                                     4.character

5.teachers’                                    5.ache

6.women’s                                    6.chaos

7.men’s                                          7.stomach

8.children’s                                   8.chemistry

9.people’s                                      9.orchestra

10.mice’s                                      10.technology