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23rd - 27th January
Posted: Feb 24, 2017 by: Teachers (BishopTeachers) on: What's been happening in Discoverers & Voyagers.
On Monday of this week, the Year 3's and Year 4's across both classes shared their autobiographies with one another. The children enjoyed reading eachother's work and offering feedback in the form of 'two stars and a wish'. This was a valuable experience for children who had opportunity to think about what they could include in their writing next time. Also in Literacy this week, we began our new story-writing topic based on the award winning picture book, Flotsam by David Wiesner. Children have explored the book and the text-type of a story. Children are now preparing to write by producing story plans and word mats. We are looking forward to reading their stories!
In Maths, we have begun a sequence of work on fractions. We began the sequence by looking at a photo of a delicious cake and listing all the ways in which it could possibly relate to Maths. Some interesting ideas were shared! This week, we will be finding fractions of numbers, adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator and comparing and ordering.
In Science, we have continued our work on States of Matter, looking particularly at the processes of evaporation and condensation. We made observations of cold and boiling hot water in glasses to help our understanding. The children then went on to create posters explaining each of the processes.
Our topic has also continued this week. Discoverers enjoyed acting as archaeologists and discovering how artefacts found can give clues and develop our understanding of what life was like in the Iron Age. We concluded that life was very different to how it is now and most of us probably wouldn't want to have lived during those times.
