ANCIENT GREEK OLYMPIC DAY

 Children in Year 3/4  went back through time to Olympia in Ancient Greece in 700BC.

After much research, the children planned a schedule of events to represent  the week of Olympic competition.

They represented Ancient city states as they paraded through all the classes at school.

Next they gathered in the temple of Zeus where they swore an athlete’s oath and made an offering to the gods.

Then it was onto the games.

Chariot racing traditionally opened the games

The athletes competed at javelin

 the standing long jump

 and hopolite racing(in armour).

The champions were presented with an olive leaf crown in assembly.

When the sports were over it was on to the ‘Feast of champions’ 

at local Greek restaurant ‘Socrates’.

We all had a fabulous fun day and learnt a lot by bringing our topic alive.

NB Many thanks to everyone for such a great effort with the costumes.Please keep the costumes safe because we will need them again after half term.

Spooky Halloween Disco.

Can you recognise these members of the class?

The week ahead

Of course we're all looking forward to our Ancient Greek Olympics day on Thursday. The children have planned the day and we're looking forward to seeing their costumes on the day

Linking in with this,the children will be making 'Horrible Histories' style comedy sketches in Literacy. This is part of the play scripts genre. We will be filming the sketches to use as part of our class assembly.
The success criteria are as follows:

Our script includes a cast list at the start.

It has a narrator.

The speakers’ names are on the left.

We have not used speech marks.

We started a new line for each new speech.

Our play script has scenes.

We wrote stage directions in brackets.

We used adverbs and powerful verbs.

Maths. This week we will be using our knowledge of place value to speed up our mental addition and subtraction.

Congratulations to the children who climbed up a bit higher up tables mountain last week. Who will be climbing this week?

The success criteria are:

Add or subtract 1s, 10s or 100s to a 3-digit number, without crossing the tens or hundreds boundary

Add a near multiple of 10 to a 2-digit number e.g. 35+29(30)

Add a near multiple of 10 or 100 to a 3-digit number without crossing the tens or hundreds boundary.

Subtract a near multiple of 10 or 100 from a 3-digit number without crossing the tens or hundreds boundary..

Decide on the most efficient mental methods

VISIT FROM ARCTIC EXPLORER

Anthony Jinman, arctic explorer got a very warm welcome when he visited. Unfortunately, this will be the last time he's warm as he sets off to walk ,unaided, to the South Pole. We will be following his progress as he uploads to his blog. The children tried on expedition equipment, learnt about glaciers and the wildlife of the Antarctic.

This week's marking ladder for Literacy.

Year 4 Poetry on a Common Theme

Objective

I used an expanded noun phrase Eg The slightly curling petals of the flower

I have kept to a rhyme pattern using sensible rhymes

My verbs are powerful

My adjectives are strong

I used alliteration

I used similes

This week's success criteria for maths.

Marking /success criteria.

Use place value to add or subtract 4-digit numbers; Add and subtract 1, 10, 100, 1000 to and from 4-digit numbers.

Say what each digit represents in a 4-digit number.

Write place value related additions eg 345+ 30(only the tens change)

Write place value related additions and subtractions eg 345-30

Use place value to find which numbers have been added or subtracted eg 345 - ? = 325

Use this knowledge to add and subtract 1 and 1000 eg 4567-1001

Use this knowledge to add and subtract 10 and 100 eg 4567-32

This week's success criteria for Maths.

Objective:Double two-digit and three-digit numbers using partitioning; Halve two-digit and three-digit numbers using partitioning; Know 3, 4, 6, 8 times tables and associated division facts

I can double and halve all numbers to 10

I can double and halve all numbers to 20

I can double and halve 2 digit numbers using partitioning    24   -      20  +  4 .                                   /        \                                   10  +    2  =  12

I can double and halve 3 digit numbers using partitioning.

I can double the 4x to get 8x and double 3x to get 6x.

I can give a division fact for 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 times tables 3x6=18 so 18/6=3

The children are busy climbing Tables Mountain (See their homework and ask them for details).

Literacy: Our new genre is Poetry. This week we will be learning how to use a selection of poems to explore how to create images using words.

The children will find and use adjectives and adjective phrases (eg ‘the really slimy worm’) to convert a poem to prose.

They will use their voice to add excitement to a poem performance and, next week, compose poems using the themes of animals & weather.

Creative Curriculum: In our time travellers topic we will be learning about the Ancient Olympic Games and planning our own event.

SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES FROM OUR INSTRUCTION WRITING.

Today marked the end of our Literacy lessons focused on Instruction writing. Our Guided Reading has involved the use of recipes and we created recipes for Rocky Road. Of course that was a great excuse to make some (yummee!).

This week we have switched our attention to designing an Ancient Greece board game and making rules for how to play it. The children wrote some great instructions using bossy verbs they'd practised for their spelling test. Of course the best bit was playing the games. Hey....no cheating!

MANY APOLOGIES FOR THE LACK OF UPDATE THIS WEEKEND. THIS WAS DUE TO MR FESSEY RUNNING THE BERLIN MARATHON.........3 HOURS 38 MINUTES AS YOU'RE ASKING.