Week beginning 4.1.21

Date: 17th Dec 2020 @ 9:27pm

Welcome to Goldfinches' Weekly Blog. 

Wow! The end of our first term as Goldfinches and what a busy one it has been! Well done to each and every one of you for your hard work, enthusiasm and fun. You are a wonderful class to work with and I can’t wait to see what we can achieve next term.

  Star of the week: Congratulations and Good Luck to James.

 Top Table: Congratulations to Gia.

 Home Reading

Goldfinches are really loving time in the day to ‘disappear into a book’ please support your child to continue this lovely way to relax over the Christmas holidays.

Spellings

Spelling focus: Spellings will start again in the new year which will be a mixture of words with a particular spelling pattern and words from Column 2 of the Y3/4 Statutory word list.

  Times Tables

Have a go at as many tables as you can with this online grid game.

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/arithmetic

 This week we have…

…had a lovely mixture of working hard in our lessons and the rewards of watching the pantomime, completing our beautiful calendars and cards, doing some lovely Christmas colouring and making our gorgeous reindeer decorations today. We hope you like them!

In RE we thought about the role of the shepherds and the awe and wonder they would have felt as they visited Jesus. In History we researched different city states in Ancient Greece. Science was great fun when we were learning to make our own switches. This will help us later in the year in DT when we make our own torches. Once again, we have loved reading a story from the 50 Animal Stories from around the world and using pictures to help us predict.

Coming up next term….

English: Staring our new class book ‘Leon and the place between’ and using a linked book ‘The train to impossible places’ in shared reading.

Maths: Applying addition and subtraction strategies to solving problems.

Science: Learning about sound and hearing.

History and Geography: Ancient Greece- the way of life and the legacy left.

Art: Using Ancient Greek art as our inspiration.

Music: Ukulele lessons.

PE: Mondays and Fridays- Team building and problem solving activities.

We hope you have a safe and peaceful holiday. Thank you for all of your support this term and for all your kind wishes and generous gifts.

Merry Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all in January,

Mrs Evans, Miss Randles and Mrs Whittingham