Hello everyone!
Another busy and productive week in the Year 3/4 class. Below are a few highlights from this week’s learning.
A few reminders: Clubs will start next week—I hope you’ve had a chance to sign up! Next Thursday, we will be celebrating Seollal, and it would be wonderful to see your child wearing a hanbok or traditional dress from their home country.
You can view an overview for the learning for each subject by clicking on the following link Mr Dunn’s Termly Curriculum Plan.
You can also view the presentation I gave at the start of the academic year which informed you about the learning and classroom expectations for the year by using this link Curriculum Overview.
In Literacy this week, we continued our learning around Winter’s Child by Angela McAllister. The children explored the main characters by creating a “role on the wall” diagram—writing the character’s personality traits inside the outline and their appearance, thoughts, and possible dialogue on the outside. Since our text is set in winter, we went outside to engage our senses and help the children create similes. We also examined another fantasy story, comparing and contrasting it with Winter’s Child.
In Maths, we continued our unit on multiplication. The children learned different methods to solve three-digit by one-digit problems, both with and without exchange. We then explored related multiplication and division calculations. To end the week, we focused on solving division problems using partitioning. The children did a fantastic job using mathematical equipment to support their learning.
For IPC and our unit on Forces, we investigated how to measure forces using a Newton meter. The children revisited their friction experiment, this time using the Newton meter to pull a shoe across different surfaces and measuring the force in Newtons. We also had a lesson on gravity, where we discussed this fundamental force and explored the relationship between mass and weight, again using a Newton meter for hands-on learning.
