Fables

Last week, we acted out the different fables that we had been studying in the classroom! 

Weekly Review/ Preview

	This Week	Next Week
English	We talked about our holidays, and reviewed the features of a personal recount, focusing on using the past tense and putting events in chronological order. We wrote, edited and published a personal recount of our holidays to put on display.	We will start our unit on ‘Fables’ to read, compare and contrast many different fables. We will look at the features of a fable and work towards writing our own.
Math	We explored geometry looking at acute, obtuse and right angles; parallel and perpendicular lines and began to review the properties of regular and irregular 2D shapes.	We will continue to look at regular and irregular 2D shapes and learn about lines of symmetry.
UOI	We began a new unit ‘How the World Works’ by designing and creating a title page for our journals and collaboratively worked on preparing the board to help focus our inquiry.	We will continue to unpack the central theme and main idea, finding ways of recording what we know and need to know about the structure of the Earth.
Notices and Events	*Please ensure that your child is keeping up to date with his/her homework. New homework will be allocated every week. *Please encourage your children to do extra reading and Mathletics at home!

Happy Holidays!

Weekly Update

	This Week	Next Week
English	We will explore a range of advertisements and then consolidate our understanding by producing our own persuasive advertisement.	We will end off our ‘persuasive writing’ unit by making advertisements and then do some holiday related activities
Maths	Use expanded written subtraction and compact written subtraction to subtract pairs of 3-digit numbers (one ʻexchangeʼ); use expanded column subtraction and compact column subtraction to subtract pairs of 3-digit and 2-digit numbers from 3-digit numbers (one ʻcarryʼ); learn the 7× table and ʻtrickyʼ facts; use the vertical algorithm to multiply 3-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers; solve simple money problems with decimals to two decimal places	Use mental multiplication and division strategies; find non-unit fractions of 2-digit and 3-digit numbers; find equivalent fractions and use them to simplify fractions (halves, thirds, quarters)
UOI	We will continue exploring case studies of migrants and further developing our debating skills.	We will end off our UOI by planning and writing a fictional story on migration.
Notices and Events	*Please ensure that your child is keeping up to date with his/her homework. New homework will be allocated every Monday. *Times table test on Wednesday will be the 4 times table. Please revise. *Please encourage your children to do extra reading and Mathletics at

Parent Open Day

Games

This week, we took some time out of our busy schedule to relax and have some fun! :)