Term 4 Week 3

This week in our Literacy we have been learning about further features of newspapers. We started the week imagining what life was like for citizens of Pompeii and thought about their reactions to the devastating volcanic eruption. We wrote these ideas as direct speech, learning to punctuate it correctly. We began understanding the difference between direct and indirect speech and how to punctuate this also. 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 started to develop mastery of sketching techniques by practicing drawing realistic eyes. We will be using all of our sketching techniques later on in the term to complete portraits. In PE we worked in partners to create battle scenes using choreographed dance moves. One of us portrayed The Nutcracker Doll and the other portrayed the Mouse King. Walnut Class put on great performances!

Have a fabulous weekend,

Mrs Daniells and Mrs Ali.