After the half term  we will be returning to school for our fantastic finish – Greek day. This is to  end the unit with a BANG! Or feast as we should say!

Following on from this, our new topic is called ‘Urban Pioneers. See curriculum map below for an insight to the unit. (Click  to enlarge):

CURRICULUM MAP urban pioneers

I have also attached a word map for you to talk through to start to familiarise yourself with key vocabulary:

word-mat

And finally our book as the hook this half term is called ‘ Welcome to Silver Street Farm’. Each child will be encouraged to read the book as part of a whole class, group, paired or 1-1 read.

Summary:

Some animal farms are up in the hills, or down winding lanes. But Silver Street Farm is different – it’s in the middle of a city, and it’s run by kids!

Even though Meera, Gemma, and Karl live in the city, they’ve always wanted a farm of their own. And it looks as though their dream may happen sooner than they imagined when Meera discovers an abandoned railway station with grounds for grazing. Next, some eggs they thought were foul hatch into ducklings, and a couple of “poodles” bought off the Internet turn out to be lambs. There’s just one problem: how can the kids – and the community – persuade the city council not to turn the old site into a parking garage? The first in a series of fun-filled stories about Silver Street Farm, here is a tale with natural appeal for kids who love animals, aim to be green, and enjoy a do-it yourself.

I am also attaching a list of home learning ideas you are welcome to do in your spare time to help you with the unit:

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To end the year 3 science unit of ‘Light’, the children made a light / shadow puppet theatre based around the Greek Myth story ‘Theseus and the Minatour’. They really enjoyed acting out the characters, retelling the story with good expression.

In year 4, we have been learning about conductors and insulators and testing out different objects to see if the bulb would light. We found out that metal was the best conductor.

Year 3 have been learning about being SUN SMART AND SUN AWARE! Lets hope we have some lovely weather as we all know what to do. We made sunglasses out of different materials and will explore opaque, translucent and transparent next week.

Star of the Week
Tedi Yordanova
Tedi has really come out of her shell the last week few weeks, she displays positive attitude every day.
She is reading every day to an adult and accessing Bug Club online. She got 10 out of 10 in her spellings where she used to score 0.
Tedi was scoring 2/25 in her times tables and after practicing daily she has now passed full marks.
In her maths cold task she scored 0 and in her hot task she scored 12 out if 14.
The effort is amazing.
KEEP IT UP WE AREVERY PROUD

Also well done to all the children who received a certificate in spellings and times tables. Our challenge next week is for everyone to pass times tables and spellings and receive a certificate.

Not o oh did Tedi receive star of the week but passed her spellings, times tables and is not on accelerated reader.