Week beginning 3rd February:

This week in English we have been retelling the story of How the stars came to be, we have been doing this by acting out the story. Then, we started planning our pourquoi tales. These are fun stories that explain why things are the way they are. This is based on the pourquoi story we have been reading 'How the stars came to be'. The children are planning their own version of the story with their own fun twists.

In Maths we have started our new topic perimeter, we have been looking at the different ways to work out the perimeter. We could add the sides, or add the sides and then multiply.

The children also enjoyed inviting their parents along to a maths workshop, which focused on their upcoming topic, fractions. Looking at how manipulates can be used in reasoning question, whilst also teaching their parents about SPED!

We have also gone to the church this week to talk and learn about baptism. The children role played how a child's baptism would be performed. 

Thank you for a great week Cornwall class!

Miss Bird and Ms Sham.

Our learning this week

A Typical Week in Cornwall

Home Learning

Home learning and spellings will be set each week on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday. 

Home Learning Topic Task 14.11.24 due in 22.11.24:

Our home learning task this week relates to both our whole school Christian Value of ‘Joy’ and leads us to thinking about preparing for the season of Advent in preparation for Christmas. 

Every child will be given a sticky address label to bring home on Thursday 14^th November. On this label, please write either a suggestion for finding joy in our everyday lives, or for an act of kindness that children could carry out. These are going to be used to create a class Advent calendar, inspiring us to find joy and bring kindness on each day of the Advent season. 

Please ensure your child writes their name on their label and return it to your child’s class teacher by Friday 22^nd November, to give us time to prepare the Advent calendars in class before the start of December. 

Thank you for supporting your child’s learning by completing this task, we hope you enjoy discussing ways of finding joy and showing kindness! 

Examples of finding Joy: 

1.      Look at some leaves that have fallen from the trees, can you see which tree they came from? What patterns can you see? 

2.      Curl up with a really good book today and then talk about it with a friend. 

3.      What was the most delicious thing that you ate today? 

Examples of acts of Kindness: 

1.      Look for somebody at playtime today who has nobody to play with and ask if they would like to play with you. 

2.      Ask somebody you don’t know and find out what their name is and have a conversation with them. 

3.      Give somebody a complement about themselves today. Tell them they have made you laugh or that you noticed their neat handwriting, make someone else smile!  

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 and build your knowledge 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. 

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

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.

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Spelling

Spellings will be tested in class every Wednesday. The next test is 5th February. We will practice in class. Try putting your spellings into sentences this week; especially if the word contains an apostrophe. 

Below 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).

The spelling strategies document below shows what strategies are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words: