This week in maths, children have been continued learning about division. They have been applying their knowledge into short division questions. Additionally, children have been using dienes or coins to divide amounts into 2,4,5 or 10 equal parts using bar models.

In English, children have written their own rags to riches tale. Children have been independently writing this and using a checklist to edit and improve their work. This will then be published as part of our take care writing.

Children have also been working hard on making their Egyptian death masks. Children have used Papier Mache to build up the strength of their mask. In the next few lessons, children will be adding decoration and evaluating their artwork.

For this week’s spellings, we are learning about the prefix -mis to create words with a negative meaning.

Children will take part in a spelling quiz on these words on WB 30.01.23

This week in maths, children have been learning about division. Children have been using place value counters to divide amounts, focusing on exchanging and identifying remainders. Children will then be transferring this to the bus stop method.

In English, children have continued with their learning about the Egyptian Cinderella. We have created a class box up and then written our story in 5 parts. Children have decided on sentence starters and used their in their writing.

Children have also been exploring Chinese New Year. On Wednesday, children completed a workshop learning all about how is this celebrated. Children then practiced writing a greeting and creating a picture of a blossom tree.

For this week’s spellings, we are learning about adding the vowel suffixes (-er, -ed or -ing) to words with more than one syllable where the last syllable is stressed.

Children will take part in a spelling quiz on these words on WB 23.01.23

This week in maths, children have been learning about column multiplication. Children have been using place value counters to understand how this is broken down and have then transferred this into columns.

In English, children have been learning about our new text ‘The Egyptian Cinderella’ Children have been acting out the story, exploring the characters and using a thesaurus to build a bank of interesting vocabulary. This will support with our writing over the next few weeks.

Children have also been exploring our new topic about the Ancient Egyptians. Children have been exploring artefacts and questioning what they are, what they are used for and how this tells us more information about what life was like for people during this period of time.

For this week’s spellings, we are learning about adding the vowel suffixes (-er, -ed or -ing) to words with more than one syllable where the last syllable is unstressed.

Children will take part in a spelling quiz on these words on WB 16.01.23

This week in maths, children have been dividing by 3,4 and 8. They have been using their existing knowledge about sharing and grouping to help them decide the most suitable and easiest way to work out calculations.

In English, children have been learning about Limericks. Children have been identifying features and deciding what makes a good poem. Then, they have been creating their own rhyming couplets, boxing up and writing their poem in a small group.

For this week’s spellings, we are looking at Year 3 statutory spelling words.

Children will take part in a spelling quiz on these words on WB 9.01.23