GOOD VIBRATIONS

Year 3/4 explore the Sound Exploratorium.

Children at Lister School completed a Science Exploratorium full of over 20 wonderful sound activities. The music room and surroundings were transformed for the day.

Each child in the class was responsible for leading an activity and encouraging other children to explore questions such as:

What is sound?

How can sound travel?

How does sound change?

Children used musical instruments, old bottles ,echoey toilets buzzers, balloons…even dominoes to demonstrate different features of sound.

All the classes paid a visit and some parents were able to visit before picking up their children. Lots of positive comments were left in our visitor’s book.

The children all agreed it was their best science experience of the year so far.

A high spot of the afternoon was Josie presenting her Gramaphone player to the class.
Go Josie!

This week..

Tenner Challenge update

Having pitched our ideas to the class we then chose some to work  with.

1.Several children suggested selling cookies.We made Cookies to sell at home. We costed out our expenses for ingredients. We packaged our product and wrote a persuasive letter to parents.

We took a class vote on how much we should charge (2 euros) based on our costs and profit margin.

2. Harry ‘pitched’ the idea of a lemonade stall. He supplied lemonade and a chilling cooler. The class sold cups for 20 cents at the Year 3 cake sale. Sometimes businesses have to use other events and spot a ‘gap in the market’. We made over 10 euros profit.

We also tested out our new school sensory trail...

Week beginning 17-3-14

Maths success criteria.

Mental Multiplication and division.

Know the 4 times table is double 2x.

Know the 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 times tables by heart and use known facts to derive others.

Know multiplication and division facts for the 9 times table.

Divide whole numbers by 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 or 10

Find factors of numbers up to 40.

Know which calculation to perform (multiplication or division) in order to solve a word problem.

Multiply single-digit numbers by multiples of 10 and 100. E.g. 6x70.

 Tenner challenge

As part of our DT curriculum the children

 had to present a dragon’s den style pitch

 for a business proposition. 

We have a tenner (12 euros) to spend . 

How can we turn it into profit?

Tenner Challenge update-

Thank you so much for your input

 on this task. Superb presentations

from the children. This week we will

be developing our business

plan. 

Pancake Day

To mark the beginning of Lent the children celebrated with pancake races. PALS supplied chefs hats and pancakes and the sun came out!

KARNIVAL TIME

World Book Day.

Enjoy a few photos from the day

This week’s success criteria 10-3-14

Literacy : Persuasive writing.

I started by stating the issue and my opinion of it

I supported my arguments with reasons and factual evidence

I used logical and cause and effect connectives to link arguments in paragraphs

I summarised my arguments

I used some/all of the following persuasive devices: ·        emotive language ·        rhetorical questions ·        cause and effect connectives ·        daring the reader to disagree ·        making my opinions sound like facts

Maths: Time,angle and grids.

Tell the time to the nearest minute, past and to. Convert between reading analogue and digital times.

Begin to understand concept of 24-hour clock.

Find times that are 30, 40 and 45 minutes later, crossing the hour.

Understand angles as degrees of turn. Know that a right angle is a quarter turn and four a complete turn.

Plot and write co-ordinates in the first quadrant.

Complete polygons by giving missing points.

Describe translations of shapes on a grid and write new co-ordinates.

Wider Opportunities Music Performance

Lots of hard work by the class and, especially, Mr Boothroyd led to a terrific performance in front of the parents.

Who would have known we’d hear ‘What does the fox say’, on the recorder!

Success criteria -Week beginning 3-3-14

Success criteria – Maths Week beg 3-3-14

Add two 3-digit numbers using expanded addition Layout for expanded addition for 458 + 274                                400    50   8                                          200    70   4                                           100    10                                          700    30    2

Use compact addition to add three 3-digit numbers. Layout for compact addition for 128 + 435:   128 +435 __1__   563

Use compact addition to add amounts of money.

Subtract using counting up on the empty number line (Frog), numbers within a century.

Subtract pairs of three-digit numbers using expanded decomposition (one ‘move’ and two moves).

Add and subtract decimals

Use addition or counting up subtraction to solve a word problem.

Literacy

Year 3/4 Classic and Modern Poetry

Objective

I copied rhythm and rhyme patterns where appropriate

I used repetition for effect

I used powerful verbs and adjectives

I used some of the following: ·       alliteration ·       personification ·       onomatopoeia ·       similes