Another busy week, here at 3/4M. 

We have been continuing our learning in addition and subtraction. This week, our focus has been on subtraction and exchanging. We have also been looking at reasoning and problem-solving questions, to develop our reasoning skills using the think, prepare, discuss and share method. 

In English, we have planned and written our first draft of a persuasive post focussing on promoting a toy. 

In Geography, we have looked at urban and rural areas, deciding on the things that we would find in each of these areas.

In History, we have continued our learning about the Ancient Egyptians, where we have looked at their beliefs and how they believed in various gods and goddesses alongside the afterlife. As well as this, we discussed vocabulary such as mummification.

In Science, we looked at animal migration. We discussed how some animals do not always migrate. Instead, they hibernate. We discussed the reasons as to why animals migrate, including food, warmer places and to reproduce.

We had an inter-house competition where all pupils used their skills in hockey to compete against one another. 

In Art, we used oil pastels to create a drawing of a still-life pear. We discussed shades, tints, for m and how to create a cast shadow.

Another busy week in 3/4M.

In Music, we continued with the song Love What We Do, where we spoke about the song together, explored its musical style through the style indicators of this music and its performers, and we also used the glockenspiel to practise the song.

In R.E, we looked at symbols and their meanings to Christians. We looked at the stars, candles, holly and other symbols and identified what they represented. We discussed the three wise men, Jesus and where he was born.  In pairs, children worked together to fill in the missing words all about Jesus, where he was born and whose son he was.

In Maths, we have been looking at subtracting 1s, 10s, 100s and 1000s across a boundary. We have looked at partitioning numbers, using our knowledge of number bonds to support this.

In Science, we looked at how plants change through the seasonal cycle. We discussed how temperature impacts plants and how some plants are known as dormant.

In Handwriting, we practised our ascending letters.

In History, we started our unit on the Ancient Egyptians where we located where Egypt is and which continent it is on. We also learnt and discussed the importance of the River Nile.

In Geography, we started looking at settlements and the difference between a village and a city.

We have had a very busy final week of term.

We have been working hard on creating our draft version of our alternative version of fairytail story where pupils continued with the plot and the wolf escaping jail. Pupils used incredible adjectives to add description to their writing. We then editied and rewrote our story.

In Guided reading, we focused on vocabulary where pupils used dictionaries and thesaruses to find definitions, synonyms and antoyms for words. We also looked at inference skills.

We also revisited rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. 

In Science, History and Geography we completed multiple choice quizzes as part of our assessments and discussed what we had learnt from each of our topics.

In Maths, we have been continuing our learning on place value, where we have focused on rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, learning the rules of rounding up or down.

In Art, we decorated our own feathers as part of a project.

In PSHE, we looked at a letter from Sam, who had never been to school. We discussed why he might be scared to start, the responsible actions and choices we could make to help him and how he might feel once he is settled in. Pupils come up with ideas about our school values, such as diversity and celebrating everyone's differences. Pupils also shared how they would respect him and look after his wellbeing, as well as getting to know him and show him around the school. Pupils came up with amazing ideas and there were really lovely discussions.

In Geography, we looked at Kings Lynn and San Francisco and compared physical features, where we identified Kings Lynn was flat, and San Francisco is built more on hills. We also compared the temperature and rainfall using graphs to support this. We identified peninsulas, the strait and a bay.

In Science, we looked at how the brain and mouth start the digestive process. We also look at the importance of our teeth and the type of teeth that we have in our mouths. We looked at the different roles of the different types of teeth.

Another busy week in 3/4M with lots of learning taking place. 

In History, we looked at the Stonehenge monument where pupils discovered what it was used for, the types of stones that it was created from and the history behind it. Pupils had to draw their own picture of Stonehenge and label the different stones.

In English, we have been continuing with our sentence stacking lessons based on 'The True Story of the Three Little Pigs'. This week we have focused on creating sentences with similes, using adverbial phrases, adjectives, complex sentences and onomatopoeia.

In Guided reading, we have looked at retrieval questions and developed our vocabulary by finding out the word class, dictionary definition, a synonym, an antonym and writing the word in a sentence. We have been developing our skills by using dictionaries and thesauruses. 

In Maths, we have been focussing on using concrete resources to help us understand the concept of 1, 10, 100 or 1000 more or less. We have also worked on our arithmetic skills.

In Geography, we looked at map scales where pupils had to then use the scale to work out the distance between 2 places on the map. 

In R.E, we continued our learning of Sikhism and developed our knowledge of the Amrit Ceremony and the Guru who created the first celebration and what this celebration entailed.

In Maths, we have been continuing our learning with place. This week we have looked at representing numbers to 1000 and 10,000, partitioning numbers and discussing various problems relating to these areas. We have used the concept of thinking about the problem, preparing what we are going to say using our whiteboards, discussing and then sharing our thoughts.

In Science, we looked at involuntary muscles being the muscles that we cannot control, including our heart. We also looked at voluntary muscles, the muscles that we can control. Pupils had to write about what a voluntary and involuntary muscle was and then organise the muscles into either voluntary or involuntary.

In Geography, we looked at what a compass was and how these are used to support navigation. Pupils had to label a compass with all 8 points.

In English, we have been continuing our sentence stacking lessons where we have looked at what the wolf's inner thoughts might be when he realises that he has no sugar. Pupils have had to use complex sentences to show how the wolf was walking to the straw house and repetition in sentences for effect.

In R.E, we have started our learning on the following enquiry question: Does joining the Khalsa make someone a better Sikh?  The pupils discussed clubs they belong to and what it feels like to belong to a group/community. Pupils discussed what they had to do to be part of their chosen club, how they have a sense of belonging and the feelings they felt throughout, such as; proud, happy, excited, respected. Pupils had the opportunity to watch a video where a child went to a martial arts club and shared the feelings she felt before joining and when she had joined. As well as this, the child shared how they represent their club, the uniform they wear and how they feel wearing the uniform.