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A brilliant week of learning in Dolphin Class!

Our English learning this week has been focused around a new writing genre, first person alternative recount.  We began reading a new story within our text called Cinderayla. We discovered that it was loosely based on the traditional fairy story of…

Another week has passed in Y4 Manatees and as we edge closer to half term the children continue to produce some fantastic work! Take a look below to see what we have been learning about all this week.

Grammar

In Grammar this week we have focused on tense. In particular we focused on using…

This week, we learnt about our houses and homes. We looked at different types of houses and discussed which type of house we live in. We also explored what types of materials houses are made from. The children looked at materials and described their textures, whilst also thinking about what makes…

Writing 

In Grammar this week we have focussed on writing in the past perfect and past progressive tense. We understand now that past perfect is used to showcase a complete action in the past, whereas the past progressive tense is used to talk about an action that occurred over a period of time…

This week we have moved our learning on, discussing where we live. The children know they live in a house and our learning has focused around the material of the house. We have learnt the house is made of bricks, it has glass windows and maybe a plastic door. 

The children have explored a…

We have had a very busy but excellent week in Jellyfish this week. We have been working hard on ways to demonstrate our value of the week this week, which has been excellence and there have been some fabulous examples from all of us! 

English

In our English lessons this week we have spent…

This week we are learning all about emotions through the song 'If you're happy and you know it', one of our treasure books is 'Colour Monster' so it something which we have discussed already this half term but something which we wanted to learn about further. Colour Monster shows his emotions…

What another brilliant week of learning we have had in Turtles class this week! 

We cannot believe that next week is our last week before half term, our first half term in Year 3 has flown by. We have really enjoyed building new relationships with your children and getting to know their unique…

For Children’s Mental Health Week, we have practiced some mindfulness breathing to keep a calm and focused minds. It was fantastic to see the children so involved and enjoying the process :)

In English, we have planned to write an alternate ending to The Girl of Ink and Stars before practicing…

In English we had an exciting trip to the local forest to prepare us for our Setting Description next week. We walked sensibly and thought about our senses as we crept through the forest pretending to be Little Red Riding Hood. Luckily, we didn't bump into the big, bad wolf but we did see lots of…

This week has been a very busy week and we have worked hard to progress our learning in our lessons. We are becoming more confident every day and Miss Smith is very proud of us!

In English we had an exciting trip to the local forest to prepare us for our Setting Description next week. We walked…

This week, in English, we have been working on challenge words as part of our spelling lessons. We have been learning how to train our brains to remember tricky spellings using pneumonic and rhymes. This has really helped us to understand the Psychology behind learning. 

To show off our…