IPC
Year 4
LiteracyIn literacy this week, we continued our film review learning. We already had the knowledge of the features of a film review, and had practised summarising, recommending, giving our opinions and describing settings and characters. Now it was time to put it all into action. First of all, of course, we needed to watch a film! We watched The Curse of the Were-Rabbit which was funny but also kept us on the edge of our seat. Afterwards we did lots of speaking and listening to practise retelling the story and made group story maps. Finally, we wrote our own film reviews. Some will be on display very soon...watch this space! | MathsThis week in maths Year 4 have been learning what happens to a number when you multiply it by 10, 100 or 1000; this helped us to consolidate our place value skills. We were even able to answer the class challenge question: 450 x 10,000! We have engaged with peer-assessment and self-assessment to determine how confident we feel about our times tables. We have also learned about how to the partitioning method can help us when multiplying two digit numbers. We can apply this mental strategy when using the written grid-method. We have been showing resilience whilst trying to remember our times table facts. |
Year 3
LiteracyIn literacy this week, Year 3 have been looking at comic strips. We started by finding the features of them. We found that they were always quite funny. It also became clear that the story was being told through pictures. Speech and thought bubbles are added for extra detail. We had to practise writing in this style to entertain the reader. | MathsIn maths we have been learning about the units of time such as minutes, hours, seconds, years and many more. We practised comparing ages and lengths of sport matches. We also had a go at estimating how long a minute is by closing our eyes and sitting down when we thought a minute was up. It was a lot longer than we thought! We counted in seconds clapping on every beat. |