The children have really enjoyed learning how to write kennings poems using the characters from our book The Way to Impossible Island.  Ask your child what the features of a kennings poem are!

We have continued our Place Value learning by comparing and ordering numbers up to 10,000.  We have begun to look at how to round numbers to the nearest 10, using the rule ‘if the ones number is lower than 5 it rounds down to the previous tens number, if it is 5 or more it rounds up to the next multiple of ten’. 

We also had fun learning how to write Roman numerals, learning the key symbols of I, V, X, L, C and how to make 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers. 

Times Tables (Drop-down please) 

We have been learning the 4 x tables this week and have recorded them in our blue books.  Please make sure these come into school each day in your child’s backpack.  Here are some useful websites to help make learning fun! 

Daily Ten (click through to level 4 multiplication) 

TT Rockstars

This week, we have been studying the long ‘I’ sound and all its representations. The children have a sticker in their Spelling Journals but here are the words for this week: 

by, buy, surprise, bicycle, arrive, library, height, describe, style, highlight

Remember, Tracey’s group do not have to learn the class spellings. 

This week, the children have been learning how to create and save a WORD document.  We also learned how to insert a picture from a folder. 

We have time travelled to the Bronze Age and have been learning about how metal replaced stone as technology advanced.  The children looked at artefacts and weapons to identify their uses and learned about the Amesbury Archer and the clues left behind in his grave.