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Weekly Update 7/10/22
Posted: Oct 6, 2022 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children have been writing their recounts about their trip to Murton Park. They have included features that we have been focusing on for the past two weeks, such as: fronted adverbials, adjectives, conjunctions, paragraphs and placing events in chronological order. The children have then edited their work to improve the overall quality of their pieces. They have done a super job and written some fantastic recounts. Some of these will be on our class display board, which is situated between the Y3 and Y3/4 classroom. Well done!
Our focus in maths this week has been around roman numerals, as well as rounding to 10 and 100. The children have really enjoyed it - especially because of the links to our topic, which is all about the Romans. As usual, they have been working very hard and are always keen to demonstrate their knowledge and what they have learnt. It's great to see the progress that they have been making.
In science, the children have been learning about the digestive system, which organs are involved with the process, what it means to digest and what our body gains from digesting food. The children were fascinated and asked lots of good questions, which created a stimulating discussion. We will be creating our own digestive systems next week :)
We have continued our work on programming and the children have made great progress. It's been so lovely to see them becoming more confident to independently create the set of digital instructions and explain what they're doing. This week, we focused on additional features to what our sprite would be able to do when different keys were pressed. We added the option to change colours, depending on which way the pen was writing. We also added instructions to make the line become thicker and to also make it thinner. The children then experimented with moving the pen across their page and changing the colour and thickness as they went along.
In art, we have been looking at another European artist called Le Corbusier, who was also an architect. They learnt all about the different types of buildings he designed and his unique style. The children were then tasked with creating their own house in the style of Le Corbusier's building designs, by using a variety of different shapes. They have created some lovely, geometric designs, as can be seen below.
If you have time, please follow the link below. It is extremely useful for practising your addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
These are the times table award sheets for you to download and practise.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)