Week Commencing 29.11.2010

Literacy – Next week we are continuing with using dialogue in stories.  Remember dialogue is a posh way of saying speech.  This weekend look through some of your books and practise your character and narrator voices.  Look at how the Author is using  punctuation to show speech.

Phonics– Read this week’s phonics book.  Can you read and write all the red and green words?

Did you manage to read three times last week and write it in your blue reading diary?    Bring it in on Friday to share with us.

Keep learning your spellings out of your spelling logs.  Can you get someone to test you at home?

Numeracy – In Numeracy next week we are going to be learning about fractions.  Have a look around this weekend can you see any fractions anywhere? Bring in some examples of fractions and find out what a fraction is…Keep practising dividing on a number line.

This weekend challenge yourself to solving lots of different questions like 12 x 2=   24 + 28 =   

34 – 19 =  and 48 ÷ 6 =   Get someone to write you lots of different questions to solve

Years 3 are now officially movie makers!  Next week you are going to be preparing to make your own Bollywood film in groups.   Have you thought about your props, sets, actions, dance and song ideas? Watch a movie this weekend look at how the actors talk and look.  How do they use their faces and body to show their emotions? What is happening in the background and is this important? Be ready to share ideas with your group on Monday.