Term 3 Week 3

This week in our Literacy we have been looking at how to create a setting and a character in narratives. We wrote character descriptions of Blue John using similes to describe his appearance and trying to include verbs to show what his personality is like. We then had a go at describing caves and focusing on our vocabulary choices to make the cave sound mysterious and magical, rather than dark and scary. 

Through Maths, Year 3 have been using place value counters to practically represent dividing with and without exchanging. We then moved onto an abstract method of representing division by counting in repeated groups of a multiple, identifying how many are left and recording this as a remainder. We are continuing to consolidate our knowledge of counting in multiples of 3, 4 and 8. Year 4 have been looking at the formal written methods for multiplying 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers. We have also looked at methods for division, including short division of 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers. Finally we ended the week by applying these methods to some problem solving questions.

In Science this week we looked at how the three different types of rocks are formed and how this influences their appearance and characteristics. In Geography this week we were learning to understand the different types of volcanos and how they form. In Music we looked at tempo and how we can change the speed of music. We looked at basic musical notation and how this links to how quickly or slowly we would play notes. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Mr Saunders, Mrs Hendry and Miss Parkes.