Term 4 Week 3

This week in our Literacy we have been learning about further features of newspapers. We started the week by hot seating citizens of Pompeii to hear their reactions to the devastating volcanic eruption. We then used these quotes and wrote them as direct speech, learning to punctuate it correctly. We finished the week by looking at writing formally and in the third person and wrote introductory paragraphs for our report.

This week in Maths, Year 3 have been looking at comparing and ordering non-unit fractions and representing fractions as scales and on a number line. We have also looked at finding equivalent fractions on a number line.  Year 4 have continued to look at fractions and begun to link our learning to decimal numbers. We have explored how fractions where the denominator is 10 can be converted to decimals as one of the place value columns is tenths. We have looked at how to represent tenths using a number line and explored how to represent mixed fractions as decimals.

In our History learning we explored how one of histories greatest monarchs has significance to Maidstone. We looked at how King Henry VIII bought and renovated Leeds castle for his first wife Catherine of Aragon. We thought back to some of the features we saw on our trip that have been there since Henry and Catherine once owned the castle. In Art we continued to develop our mastery of sketching by practicing drawing realistic noses and ears. We will be using all of our sketching techniques next week to complete a final portrait. In PE we looked at how the music we are dancing to can affect the dynamics of our routines. We listened to three pieces of classical music and adapted our motifs to fit the different rhythms.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Mr Saunders, Mrs Hendry and Miss Parkes.