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8th - 12th May
Posted: May 12, 2017 by: Teachers (BishopTeachers) on: What's been happening in Discoverers & Voyagers.
We have had another fantastic week in Years 3 and 4.
We started the week by responding to feedback and reflecting upon our targets generated through our non-chronological report writing. We then shared our reports across classes, which was a lovely way of peer assessing. We then moved on to punctuating direct speech using 'Gimme 5!' Why not test your child at home and see what they can remember! We were very impressed with how quickly children grasped this, as it is a very difficult skill to master!
We have emphasised the importance of estimating using rounding this week as a way of checking our answers. Children have really got the hang of this and love discovering how close they were to their original estimate. Some fantastic discussions have taken place particularly concerning how we can make our estimates more accurate. We have practiced this skill with addition and subtraction calculations and have even progressed to word problems!
We have continued in our learning about the rainforest, looking particularly at each of the layers, the ways in which the rainforest is being destroyed, and how it can be protected. Athletics has also continued. This week, children have been looking at how to jump for distance.
Next week, we will be beginning a sequence on character descriptions in Literacy and rocks in Science!
