Oak Class is home to our Year 3 and 4 children and is taught by Miss Cameron with support from Mrs Head (Monday to Wednesday) and Mrs Murdoch (Thursday and Friday).
This half term, our whole school topic is Weather and Climate. In Oak Class, we will be learning specifically about. extreme natural weather events on Earth
We will learn more about Earth's layers and how the surface is made of tectonic plates. This knowledge will help us to understand why phenomena such as volcanoes and earthquakes occur. We will also learn more about how tornadoes form and what causes tsunamis!
In English, we will be reading The Ever Changing Earth by Grahame Baker Smith.
A small boy imagines life on Earth when dinosaurs ruled, and the sky boomed with the wild beat of pterosaur wings. Then an asteroid fell, changing the world forever. If Kûn could go back further in time, he would witness an even bigger collision, when the young Earth was struck by another planet, creating our companion moon . . .
The Ever-Changing Earth takes us on a spellbinding journey through Earth's incredible evolution, with its forgotten creatures, its buried oceans and its frozen layers. It leads us to Solveig, a little girl who lives far, far away from Kûn, where she floats in a pool heated by fires at the centre of the Earth.
Oak Class PE is on a Wednesday morning. Children should come to school dressed in their PE kit each Wednesday. We also have additional PE sessions with our sports specialists on the following dates:
Thursday 26th February
Thursday 12th March
Thursday 26th march
Spelling tests are on a Monday morning. Children should ensure they have their red spelling book with them each Monday. Spelling practice activities can be found here: spelling activity ideas or accessed online the Purple Mash website.
Spelling lists for Autumn term can be found below:
Yellow Group Spelling List Spring Term
Green Group Spelling List Spring Term
Blue Group Spelling List Spring Term
Red Group Spelling List Spring Term
Paper copies of these have been handed out to children. Please check their bags for these. Each week, children will also be given a paper copy of the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check worksheet to help them to practise their spellings at home.
Children should also be familiar with the Year 1 and 2 Common Exception Word List (words which are used frequently but do not necessarily follow the spelling patterns which they have already learnt) and the Year 3 and 4 Statutory Spelling List (a mixture of words which children use frequently in their writing and those which are often misspelt).
Reading books can be changed every day, as long as a comment is recorded in reading records by the child or their adult at home. Each time a child reads they will receive a Class Dojo point and a Regular Reader certificate is up for grabs for the most regular reader of each week!
Children can practise their times tables at home by accessing the Times Tables Rockstars website.
More information about home learning can be found here: Home learning ideas
Richmond Castle
Oak Class enjoyed a fantastic trip to Richmond Castle in October, supporting our learning about British monarchs.
