Learning about plants that provide food in Jet Class

We have been busy working in groups to sort foods into groups. We learnt that plants provide food from their different features.

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Ruby Class

Ruby Class today learnt about how children were used in Bronze Age times to mine metals underground.  The children pretended they were in the mines themselves and acted out how to mine the metal.

Homework – Summer 1 Week 1

For homework this week, we would like you to do the following:

1. Make sure you continue to read every day (and at the weekend). Record a comment in your reading diary each time.
2. Practise your spellings from this week (please fill in the appropriate section in your reading diary).
3. Practise the times table you are working on for a test next week! (please fill in the appropriate section in your reading diary)

As reminder if the reading and the spelling sections are not complete each week, children will receive a yellow card the first time and  subsequently receive a detention.

Spelling words:

mistake, disagree, mislead, unlock, disbelief, untie, disrespect, mistreat, unfair, misunderstand

Exploring Plant Growth

This week Pearl class have begun to investigate the structure of plants in Science. Today the children were exploring the function of each constituent part. Here are images of the some of the children in the process of constructing their plants.

Homework – Spring 2 Week 6

For homework this week, we would like you to do the following:

1. Make sure you continue to read every day (and at the weekend). Record a comment in your reading diary each time.
2. This week we re-tested the first 40 year 3 and year 4 spelling words. For your spelling we would like you to practise any 10 of the first 40 words from the year 3 and year 4 spelling list that you have got incorrect. You can use the look write check section in your reading diary to help you. Although there will not be a formal test, we will be continuing to check children’s understanding throughout the coming weeks.
3. Practise the times table you are working on for a test next week! (please fill in the appropriate section in your reading diary)

As reminder if the reading and the spelling sections are not complete each week, children will receive a yellow card the first time and  subsequently receive a detention.

Next 40 spelling words:

forward, forwards, fruit, grammar, group, guard, guide, heard, heart, height, history, imagine, increase, important, interest, island, knowledge, learn, length, library, material, medicine, mention, minute, natural, naughty, notice, occasion, occasionally, often, opposite, ordinary, particular, peculiar, perhaps, popular, position, possess, possession, possible, potatoes

Ruby Class exploring the Stone Age

Ruby Class had an exciting school trip yesterday to Waltham Abbey Gardens.  They learnt about how people used to live in the Stone Age.  In the morning they explored the local fields to look for plants Stone Age people used to use for food or materials.  In the afternoon they, very carefully, made fire using flint stones!

Homework – Spring 2 Week

For homework this week, we would like you to do the following:

1. Make sure you continue to read every day (and at the weekend). Record a comment in your reading diary each time.
2. This week for you spelling we would like you to practise any of the next 40 words from the year 3 and year 4 spelling list that you have found challenging. You can use the look write check section in your reading diary to help you. We will be retesting all of these words next week.
3. Practise the times table you are working on for a test next week! (please fill in the appropriate section in your reading diary)

As reminder if the reading and the spelling sections are not complete each week, children will receive a yellow card the first time and  subsequently receive a detention.

Next 40 spelling words:

forward, forwards, fruit, grammar, group, guard, guide, heard, heart, height, history, imagine, increase, important, interest, island, knowledge, learn, length, library, material, medicine, mention, minute, natural, naughty, notice, occasion, occasionally, often, opposite, ordinary, particular, peculiar, perhaps, popular, position, possess, possession, possible, potatoes

Jet class trip

Yesterday we went to Waltham Abbey Gardens and took part in Stone Age activities – we made fire, created charcoal pictures by candle light, gathered plants that the Stone Age people would have used, looked at fossils and were rubbish archaeologists!

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Stone Age Explorers

Last week Pearl class travelled to Waltham Abbey in Essex to explore life in the Stone Age. The children foraged for food, produce some stunning stone age cave art, created sparks and identified animals that would have existed in the Stone Age.

Here we are having fun!

Homework – Spring 2 Week 4

For homework this week, we would like you to do the following:

1. Make sure you continue to read every day (and at the weekend). Record a comment in your reading diary each time.
2. Practise your spellings from this week (please fill in the appropriate section in your reading diary).
3. Practise the times table you are working on for a test next week! (please fill in the appropriate section in your reading diary)

As reminder if the reading and the spelling sections are not complete each week, children will receive a yellow card the first time and  subsequently receive a detention.

Spelling words:

fair, fare, heel, he’ll, heal, knot, not, rain, reign, rein