English: This week the Year 2’s have been focusing on command sentences. They have learned that these are sentences which tell someone to do something. We have practised saying these, spotting them and writing them.
The Year 3’s have been practising using inverted commas in their writing this week. They have also been thinking about other words they can use for said and applying these to their writing.
Towards the end of the week we started to learn about the coordinating conjunctions ‘and’ ‘but’ and ‘or’ and practised applying these to sentences to join them together.
Maths: The children have continued their work on multiplication this week. The Year 2 children have been practising making arrays with counters, matching pictures of arrays to a written multiplication sum and have begun to draw their own arrays to represent a multiplication problem.
The Year 3 children have revised work on arrays and have begun to apply this to solving different worded problems. They have also been given a wider variety of problem solving activities where they have been expected to explain their answers. We have just moved on today to learning about related multiplication and division facts.
Science/Art: This week we have been learning about waterproof materials through our art work. We have just started the art work this week and will finish it off next week – the children have used wax crayons to create a picture of space and next week they will see what happens when we do the background with watered down paint and cover the whole picture with it…!
RE: We have been revising our understanding of the Christmas Story this week and the children have been reminded of the parts of the story where Joseph has a dream and the part where the wise men come. The children role played the various parts and the rest of the class had to guess the part of the story they were acting out.
History: The children have been learning about Neil Armstrong this week – they have been finding out about his life and learning about why he is famous. This will help us with some very exciting English work next week….
PE: The children have continued with their games lessons this week.
PSHE: The children have been thinking about what makes a good friend.
Well done for working hard this week Class 3!