English – At the start of the week the children edited and improved a set of instructions about how to make a pizza. They were asked to include the following features: time conjunctions (e.g. Firstly…), adverbs (e.g. carefully) and check for spelling and punctuation errors.
In read, write, inc the blue group have been reading ‘Jay’s clay pot’ and writing a short explanation text about how to make a clay pot. The red group have been reading ‘The poor goose’ and writing about winning a race from one of the other character’s point of view. The rest of the class have been focusing on using contractions – e.g. wouldn’t, shouldn’t, can’t, don’t….They have been matching words with their contraction form and using these words in their own sentences.
Maths – In maths we have started to look at fractions. The children started by finding two equal parts of shapes and a group of objects, then they were asked if they could find more than one way of making equal groups (e.g. using 12 bears they found 2 groups of 6, 3 groups of 4, 4 groups of 3 and so on). They demonstrated good use of number/multiplication knowledge to help them find groups of equal numbers. They were then introduced to the fraction ‘half’ (1/2) and found half of a range of shapes and group of objects and explain how they knew this.
Science – This week the children worked in groups to find out ‘Which fabric was the stretchiest?’ They tested a range of fabrics and discussed how they would ensure their experiment would he kept a fair test (e.g. all fabric to measure the same length, stretch from the same point – 0cm). They then stretched each fabric to see which one stretched the most and compared them at the end of the lesson.
Spellings – To be tested on Friday 12th April. 05.04.19
Please write at least three sentences into spellings books using the focus for this week.
Well done Class 3 for a fantastic performance in the celebration assembly this morning! They all enjoyed performing the song and we hope you enjoyed watching it too. Thank you for all your help with providing costumes for them – they all looked amazing!
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Thomas and Miss Moran