Term 2 Week 4

This week in Literacy we have been looking at using the writing features we have been learning about recently to write a setting description. We edited our vocabulary to set a scary mood and decribe the part of the story where Marcy sees the terrible monster which has her dad. We also looked at using our retrieval skills to find information within non-fiction texts to find out about the Egyptian Gods. We linked this to our art learning where we were learning to master our skills in sketching and did this by creating sketches of the God Ra. 

In Maths Year 4 have been looking at their recall of all the times table facts, and learning how to multiply and divide by 1 and 0. Year 3 have been looking at multiplying and dividing by 3 and 4, and how this linked to our learning on grouping and sharing. 

In our History we were learning about the significance of the River Nile to the Egyptian civilization. We researched the ways in which the Ancient Egyptians used the river, and linked this to our previous learning about the importance of rivers to Stone Age, Roman and Viking settlements. In Computing, we were learning to create simple algorithms and programmes.  We did this by creating mazes on Scratch and coding our Sprites to move through the maze. As part of our Art/DT project we were learning to improve our mastery of sculpting. We did this by using clay tools to sculpt our Ancient Egyptian treasures which will soon be painted and buried inside our tombs. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Mr Saunders, Mrs Hendry and Miss Parkes.