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15th-19th May
Posted: May 19, 2017 by: Teachers (BishopTeachers) on: What's been happening in Discoverers & Voyagers.
Another brilliant week of learning in Years 3 and 4! We have started a sequence of lessons on the infamous 'Gangsta Granny' written by David Walliams. We have been reading the book in class, and children have used the text to create adjectives, similes and metaphors to describe Granny's appearance and personality. We have looked at the requirements of a character description and have also practised using a thesaurus to 'upgrade' our adjectives. We hope that this preparatory work will pay off in our writing next week.
In Maths, children have been practising adding and subtracting money, which has required converting pounds to pence and solving word problems. Some children have even tried their hand at party planning! We moved on to missing number problems towards the end of the week, and hope to continue this next week.
We have had GREAT fun in Science this week, investigating the durability of rocks. Children used sandpaper to wear down the rocks and identify the rocks which generated the most dust. We used our findings to suggest appropriate uses for each rock type.
We have also been preparing for next term's Sports Day! All will be revealed...
