This week in class...

Our Deep in Science and Geography had its launch assembly this week.World renowned experts(hmmm they look familiar) Dr Everlost and Professor Brainstorm were flown in at great expense!

Asteroid lollies?

Great teamwork on the Penny Challenge

2000 pennies and cents collected!

Week beginning 19-5-14

Convert between whole/half litres and millilitres.

Measure in millimetres.

Draw a bar chart where one square represents 2 units.

Measure perimeters of 2D shapes to the nearest centimetre.

Use co-ordinates in the first quadrant and join to draw posited polygons.

Realise that shapes with the same area do not necessarily have the same perimeter

Compare time durations.

This week in Literacy (remember your

Space artefact homework) we will

be writing information signs for our

Space museum, writing a set of instructions

For our Electricity quiz and making a power

Point to explain our Space Rules aboard our

Space Station.

Convert between whole/half litres and millilitres.

Measure in millimetres.

Draw a bar chart where one square represents 2 units.

Measure perimeters of 2D shapes to the nearest centimetre.

 Use co-ordinates in the first quadrant and join to draw posited polygons.

Realise that shapes with the same area do not necessarily have the same perimeter

Compare time durations.

This week in Literacy

Can you capture the alien? How will you do it? Design a device or trap. Using your avatar character, you will also be writing an exciting part of an adventure story, describing the attempt to capture the alien.

In Maths we will be continuing with the previous success criteria.

Week beginning 5-5-14

As part of our Deep in Space topic our astronauts have landed on an alien planet.

Can they send back a message to Mission Control describing it? Even better can they

include some of the success criteria below!

Year 3/4 Planet description and short narrative.

Objective

I used paragraphs.

I used great adjectives

I used noun,verb,preposition and adjective starters.

I used commas for lists.

I used a ? and a !

I used the first person and past tense.

I used 3 different connectives.

I used a drop in clause.

I used adverbs.

  Maths : addition and subtraction

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(jumps) on the empty number line , numbers within a century eg 94-38=

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

Add and subtract decimals

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

Action shots from this year’s Lister races.

Week beginning 28-4-14

This week we begin our exciting new Deep in Space topic. There will be a real cross curricular approach with virtually the whole curriculum being taught through the subject. For example, this week in Literacy, we will be blasting off  with a persuasive radio advertisement for a trip into space, and we will be creating (avatar) characters to use in our Space adventure writing. Here are the success criteria for writing this week.

Year 3/4 Character description and adventure story.

Objective

I used paragraphs.

I described my avatar/character with adjectives and simile.

I gave it a certain personality.

I used commas for lists.

I used a ? and a !

I used speech and “ “

I used the third person and past tense.

I used 3 different connectives.

I used a drop in clause

I used adverbs(including one at the start of a sentence.)

In Maths we will be revising place value and adding

and subtracting amounts of money using decimal

notation.

Watch this 'SPACE' for our next creative curriculum topic.

THE DAY JEREMY STRONG VISITED OUR SCHOOL...WOW!