Year 3/4 Blog 27.01.23

 Dear Parents,

Happy Friday everybody! It has been a very busy beginning of the Spring Term in Year 3/4 - we have been continuing to write our biographies to their conclusion in English. In Math's, we have been looking at length Part of our lesson involved measuring our feet and using cm and mm to accurately do so. We also ordered and compared these measurements as seen in the photo below. The children came up with a thought provoking question. Does the tallest person always have the largest foot?

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Wednesday 1st FebruaryMust Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday is super important. You will have taken your Reading Record home for your parents to comment on. These will be collected by teachers and checked regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.
• Please make sure that your child is continuing to read and work on the Year 3 and 4 spellings which can be found in their reading record books. 

HOMEWORK PAGES

Year 3

English -  Pg 67

Maths - Length questions ONLY

Pg 46-47

Year 4 

English - Pg 67

Maths - Pg 50-51

• Accelerated Reader - when you are finished your book your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level
• Times table practice - this week we are learning our 7/8 times tables. Please practice these as we do in school.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRS, Sumdog and Myon or Big Cat - your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.
• Maths - Year 4 will be completing their statutory Multiplication Tables Check in June this year. To this end, please can you ensure your child is regularly accessing and practicing these at: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

This activity exactly mirrors the 'Multiplication Tables Check' that will be given to children at the end of Year 4. They are tested on their multiplication tables up to 12 x 12. There are twenty-five questions and children have six seconds to answer each question and three seconds between questions. The questions are generated randomly using the same rules as the 'Multiplication Tables Check' 

Watch this video together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct5cDctLVTI

YEAR 3 - feel free to do this as well!

Have a fantastic weekend,

With love from the Year 3/4 teachers

Year 3/4 Blogpost 20.01.23

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a wonderful week. It flew by! The children are continuing to work really hard on their division in math's. It is great to see all their hard work in learning their times tables now paying off. In English, we are writing our own biographies about Sir Ranulph Fiennes. He is the greatest living explorer of our time. We hope to be able to show you these at some point. 

As you may have noticed, we are taking part in Cross Country in PE.  This week, many children went home covered in mud. Next week, if your child would like to bring in a second pair of (old) trainers to change into, specifically for Cross Country then please feel free to send them in.

On Wednesday 24th, a group of children will be performing in The Primary Dance Festival at The Palace Theatre in Southend.

Lots going on in the next few weeks!

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Thursday 26th January
Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday is super important. You will have taken your Reading Record home for your parents to comment on. These will be collected by teachers and checked regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.
• Please make sure that your child is continuing to read and work on the Year 3 and 4 spellings which can be found in their reading record books. 

HOMEWORK PAGES

Year 3
English 
Page 50-51 - Apostrophes for Missing Letters
Maths 
Page 51 - Time (we haven't covered this in class but I'd like you to have a go with this task. Please ask you parent for help if you need it)

Year 4 
English 
Page 50-51 - Apostrophes for Missing Letters
Maths 
Page 58 - Time (we haven't covered this in class but I'd like you to have a go with this task. Please ask you parent for help if you need it)

• Accelerated Reader - when you are finished your book your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level
• Times table practice - this week we are learning our 6/7 times tables. Please practice these as we do in school.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRS, Sumdog and Myon or Big Cat - your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.
• Maths - Year 4 will be completing their statutory Multiplication Tables Check in June this year. To this end, please can you ensure your child is regularly accessing and practicing these at: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
• This activity exactly mirrors the 'Multiplication Tables Check' that will be given to children at the end of Year 4. They are tested on their multiplication tables up to 12 x 12. There are twenty-five questions and children have six seconds to answer each question and three seconds between questions. The questions are generated randomly using the same rules as the 'Multiplication Tables Check'.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Hurley, Mr Greenfield & Miss Harvey 💚

Year 3/4 Blog Post Friday 6th January 2023

 Dear Parents,

Welcome to 2023 and a new term at Down Hall Primary School. We hope that you all had a wonderful festive break and are now ready to settle in to the Spring term.

PROJECT

This term we will be looking at the story Around the World in 80 Days. The children will be learning a variety of things such as features of countries, longitude and latitude before beginning to look at different cultures within these countries. If you have any connections at all to any of the countries visited in the story and their culture please let us know as it would be great to have you share your experiences. The countries are as follows:

• France
• Italy
• Egypt
• India
• Singapore
• China
• Japan
• USA

HOMEWORK
Due to it being the first week back and the children only beginning to look at Division, we will not be setting any homework for this week to ensure that they are feeling more confident to complete homework at home. Next week however, we will be writing a biography for Ranulph Fiennes. It would be great if the children could collect any information that they can find and put onto a Google Doc to share with their teacher. 

Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes at least 3 times a week is super important. You will have taken your Reading Record home for your parents to comment on. These will be collected by teachers and checked from time to time. Please make sure you bring your book back when you are finished and your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3x 100% scores to move up a level.
• High Frequency Words - Learn the words in your Reading Records. Practice spelling them out loud and writing them down.
• Times table practice - this week we are looking at 4's. Please practice these as we do in school.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRS, Sumdog - your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.
• Create a shape poem to do with Bonfire Night. It could be in the shape of a firework or a bonfire. Please bring into school to share.

Welcome Back Mrs Hurley

Mrs Hurley will be returning back to school on Monday. We would like to take this moment to thank Mrs O'Connor for all her hard work in Moonstone class.

Have a fantastic weekend and stay safe!

Mr Greenfield and Miss Harvey