The children are all looking refreshed and ready to learn after their Christmas holidays. In year 3, it was pleasing to see that so many children have enjoyed the reading challenge. This week, the children have been practising their inference skills in reading. They have also started a new class book for guided reading. In maths, the children continue to learn their times tables and have compared multiplication facts using the greater than/ less than symbols. During art, the children have been learning how to draw a self portrait focusing on the positions of the eyes and nose.
Year 4 have been investigating forces in DT and how they can affect them. They were challenged to make a marble run from the top to the bottom in the longest time. Science was all about states of matter, surprisingly there are only three, and one interesting point of discussion centred around whether cream was still a liquid when it was whipped and looked more like a solid? In English there was a comprehension focus but answering questions on an explanation text as that is the current English topic. Anglo Saxons; who, what, where, when and why - the children should have a good idea of these after exploring each question in topic lessons.
Even though the children have only been at school for three days, they have certainly achieved a lot. What an amazing start to the spring term!