Cornwall

Thursday 18^th April 2024

Dear Parents and carers,

Welcome to Term 5 and another busy yet exciting few weeks ahead.

In English this week, the children were introduced to our new class text: Krindlekrax by Philip Radley. So far we have been introduced to our main protagonist Ruskin and the local bully Elvis. The children have written wonderful character descriptions and included expanded noun phrases and conjunctions to add detail.

In Maths we have started our second topic on Fractions. We have looked at adding and subtracting fractions and re-capped how many parts make a whole e.g. 1/3 + 2/3 = 3/3 = 1. Next we will be looking at finding fractions of a set of objects e.g. 1/3 of 12. Our next topic will focus on money and problem solving involving money.

Our History topic for the next two terms is the ancient Romans. We have already looked at how timelines work and discussed the meanings of BC and AD. Today, we turned our classroom into a museum and set up various artefacts from ancient Rome. The children then studied each artefact in turn and noted down their features. Please see the photos below.

Just a reminder, that Cornwall have PE on Tuesday and Wednesday, so please can your child bring in their PE kit at the start of the week.

Thank you so much and have a wonderful week.

Mrs Britton, Mrs Nash and Mrs Charlwood  

Home Learning Term 5 Week 1  

Red Spellings:

Words ending in -el

The ending that sounds like l can be spelt -el

travel

tunnel

level

cancel

label

jewel

towel

snorkel

Topic words:

mosaic

empire

Blue spellings:

prefix -super

superman

superwoman

supersize

supersonic

superhuman

superglue

supertanker

supermarket

Topic Words:

mosaic

empire

Attached is a list of the 100 most common words that your child is expected to know how to spell by the end of Year 4 (please see attachment).

* SpellingWordList_Y3-4.pdf

Times Tables Rockstars! 

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account. 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score, build your knowledge and watch your confidence sore, as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

Reading

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading Book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading, children are asked to complete a quiz before changing their book. 

We recommend children in Year 3 read for at least 20 minutes a day.  Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week.

Please note: pupil login details have changed slightly due to an upgrade that has taken place on the Accelerated Reader platform. Pupil login details (user name and password) should now be entered in all lower case (no capital letters at all). These login details are used each time your child quizzes a school reading book which carries an accelerated reading quiz code.