English: The Year 2 children this week have started their new scheme of work called ‘Read, Write, Inc’ which is something they will be doing every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from now on. This involves daily reading, daily phonic practice and different types of writing activities.They have really enjoyed this so far and have been working very hard!
The Year 3 children have been continuing to learn about prepositions and have moved onto learning about prepositions of time. They have been practising using these within their writing. They also completed a reading activity this week where they were asked to read some information and answer questions about it.
Maths: We have moved onto column addition this week. This has been very practical with the children using base 10 and counters in place value columns to help them add together two 2 digit numbers (year 2) or 2 three digit numbers (year 3). Children who have shown a good understanding of the column method for addition (no re-grouping yet) have been challenged to prove and explain their answers using pictures and verbal explanations and they have also done missing number problems and problem solving activities.
Geography: The children were introduced to our new topic of ‘Our Kingdom’. We did a number of different game type activities to find out what we already know and what we would like to find out. We found out the names of the four countries that make up the UK.
PE: The children continued with their gym lessons this week.
Computing: The children had a revision lesson on scratch this week using the ipads. They will progress onto using the laptop version next week.
The children have not been set homework this week due to next week being a busy week with the Christmas Concert performances. The children are still expected to practice their spellings and do their spelling sentences though.
Well done Class 3 for making a good start to the term!