Author: HannahRiordan

Year 4 Weekly evaluation – 12.11.21

What a fantastic and busy week we’ve had!

 

In English, we used our chromebooks to find synonyms for verbs and adjectives in order to add interesting and ambitious vocabulary into our writing.  Also, we finally finished our story writing and included some ambitious vocabulary, adverbs, similes and personification.

 

In Maths this week, we used column method to add and subtract 3 digit numbers and looked for patterns in numbers.

 

In Topic, we planned our Children in Need day and researched different charities.  I now know that a charity is an organisation that provides help, time and money to those in need.  Furthermore, I have learnt that giving to different charities makes a difference to those less fortunate and making a choice of which charity you give to personal to an individual based on their own experiences.

Year 4

Year 4 Weekly Evaluation Week beginning with 27th September 2021

What a fantastic week! In English this week, we have continued with our work on the story ‘King of the Birds’. We have begun adding actions to the story to help us retell the story and have completed story maps of our own.

In Maths, we have been working on our multiplication and finding patterns in the 9 times tables.  We have also been applying our knowledge of the times tables to multiply larger numbers using grid  method.

My favourite part of this week was swimming every day and we had a fun session today to celebrate the end of our swimming block! We hope we get to go again soon!

Happy weekend all!

Year 4

Evaluation of the week beginning with 9th March

In Topic this week, we have been exploring NASA’s website to find out about Space inventions that we now use in our everyday lives. An example of this is an infrared ear thermometer. Originally, the technology was used to measure the temperature of distant stars.  Now, we use the technology to measure ear temperature to check for high temperatures.

 

In English this week, we have been looking at instruction writing and choosing adverbs and bossy verbs for our writing.  Also, we have been working on our Oracy skills preparing to present our instructions on how to wash your hands properly to Nursery children.

 

In Maths this week, we worked on our data handling skills and created, extracted and interpreted pictograms and bar graphs. Also this week, we have been working on measurements of weight.  Did you know, we measure weight in grams and kilograms? 1000g=1kg.

 

Year 3.

Eavluation of the week beginning with 24th February

In Welsh this week, we have been working on our third person profiles.  We researched and wrote about our patron Saint, Saint David.

In English, we we finished writing our story, The Legend of Alltwen. We included lots of adjectives, adverbs and complex sentences to make our stories more interesting.

In Maths, we have using expanded column addition to solve problems.

Finally, we have been practicing for our class assembly and we are looking forward to performing it for our parents and siblings next Thursday.

Blwyddyn 3.

Evaluation of the week beginning with 10th February

What a busy last week of term.  This week in topic, we have been learning about shadows and have carried out an investigation on light and shadows.

In English, we have been looking at simple, complex and compound sentences using interesting vocabulary to improve out writing.  As well as this, we innovated the story of Gelert, changing it to the Legend of Alltwen.

 

In Maths, we have been working on addition using the expanded column addition to add 3 digit numbers. This was challenging.

 

Year 3

Evaluation of the week beginning with 20th January

We have had a great week! This week, we have enjoyed going swimming.  In topic this week we have been doing missions and our major task was to solve words problems involving adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.

In English, we have been learning the story of Gelert and writing our story maps.

In Maths, we have begun to look at our times tables using arrays to help us multiply and divide.

Next week, we are looking forward to another week of swimming.

Year 3

Evaluation of the week beginning with 13th January 2020

Waw! What a busy week! This week in topic, we have started our mission work on the solar system. These included cracking codes, finding information about the planets, working out clues to order the planets and creating our own planets.

 

In English, we have begun to Pie Corbett the story of Gelert using actions.

In Maths, we have been ordering 3 digit numbers on a number line and using Freddie the frog to help us subtract by adding on.  Furthermore we have been using our knowledge of place value to round numbers to the nearest 100 and 10.

 

Next week, we are looking forward to our swimming lessons!

 

Year 3.

Evaluation of the week beginning with the 6th January

What a great start to 2020! This week in topic we have been looking at our new topic The Third Rock from the Sun. During our topic lessons we have been activating our prior knowledge and creating our EPIC questions of things we would like to find out this term.

 

In English, we have been learning about the story of Gelert which is a Welsh legend. In lessons we have been looking at features of a legend story and we have begun to pie corbett the story.

 

In Maths, we have been measuring length and capacity.  Did you know you measure length in mm, cm, m and km and capacity in ml and l?

 

We are looking forward to learning more about our topic next week!

Year 3

Evaluation of the week beginning with 25th November 2019

Another busy week.  This week we have been looking at facts about Henry VIII and we have used the facts to write a personal profile in Welsh.

 

In English, we worked on compound sentences and have innovated the story Nail Soup in preparation for writing our own stories.  Also, we have used the story mountain to plan our own stories and have begun to write the opening of our story.

 

In Maths this week, we have been learning about fractions like 1/2, 1/4, 1/3 and 1/6 and have been finding fractions of amounts.  This was challenging.  Also, we used our knowledge of fractions to solve a puzzle.

 

Year 3.

Evaluation of the week beginning with 11th November

Another jam packed week!  This week the Riverside teachers came to teach us in our Garden of Learning.  We played some fun games and made crafts out of wood. In Topic, we started our art work and have decided to make collages of Henry VIII.

In English, we have learnt about similes.  Similes contain the words as or like in them and they are used to describe something as something else.

In Maths, we have been using Freddie the Frog to help us subtracting by counting on.  We have also been working on positioning numbers on a number line.  This was quite hard.

Until next week…

Year 3.