Thursday 24^th April

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 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. We also 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. We will shortly be creating a display on the ancient Romans. If you have any artefacts (including plastic Roman helmets, coins, swords etc) please could you bring them into school so that we can put them on display.

Just a reminder, that Surrey have Forest School every Thursday. The children will continue to have their PE lesson on a Tuesday, so please make sure that their labelled PE kit is brought into school on Monday.

Thank you and have a wonderful week.   

Mrs Nash, Mrs Britton and Mrs Charlwood.

A typical week in Surrey 3

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. We will keep the same spellings for Week 2.

Blue group (Mrs Nash, Miss Owen & Mrs Charlwood)

prefix super-

supersonic

superstar

superhero

superhuman

superstar

supermarket

superpower

supersize

supermodel

superglue

Red group (Mrs Whitmore) 

dislike

disagree

dishonest

incorrect

invisible

incomplete 

Purple group (Mrs Smith)

baking

riding

making

shining

racing

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: