Welcome to Jellyfish Class!
We are Jellyfish Class and we are Year 3 and 4.
Our teacher is Miss Kelly and our brilliant teaching assistant is Mrs Drake!
Our novel this half term is The Nothing to See Here Hotel by Steve Bulter.
Blurb:
Welcome to The Nothing to See Here Hotel! A hotel for magical creatures, where weird is normal for Frankie Banister and his parents who run the hotel. When a goblin messenger arrives at The Nothing to See Here Hotel, announcing the imminent arrival of the goblin prince Grogbah, Frankie and his family rush into action to get ready for their important guest. But it soon becomes obvious that the Banister family are going to have their work cut out with the demanding prince and his never-ending entourage, especially when it turns out the rude little prince is hiding a secret...
By the end of this unit I will be able to write…
Literary devices I will be practising throughout this writing journey:
Place Value :
Year 3: The small steps include represent numbers to 100, partition numbers to 100, number line to 100, hundreds, represent numbers to 1,000, partition numbers to 1,000, flexible partitioning of numbers to 1,000, hundreds, tens and ones, find 1, 10 or 100 more or less, number line to 1,000, estimate on a number line to 1,000, compare and order numbers to 1,000 and count in 50s.
Year 4: The small steps include roman numerals, round to the nearest 10, round to the nearest 100, count in 1,000s, 1,000s, 100s, 10s, 1s, partitioning, number line to 10,000, 1,000 more or less, compare 4-digit numbers, ordering numbers, round to the nearest 1,000, count in 25s and negative numbers.
Addition and Subtraction:
Year 3: The small steps include add and subtract multiples of 100, 3-digit numbers and ones, add 3-digit and 1-digit numbers, subtract 1-digit from 3-digits, 3-digit number and tens, add 3-digit numbers and tens, subtract tens from 3-digits, add and subtract 100s, pattern spotting, 2-digit and 3-digit numbers, add 2-digit and 3-digit numbers, subtract a 2-digit from 3-digits, add two 3-digit numbers 1, add two 3-digit numbers 2, subtract 3-digits from 3-digits 1, subtract 3-digits from 3-digits 2, estimate answers and check answers.
Year 4: The small steps include 1s, 10s, 100s, 1,000s, add two 4-digit numbers 1, add two 4-digit numbers 2, add two 4-digit numbers 3, subtract two 4-digit numbers 1, subtract two 4-digit numbers 2, subtract two 4-digit numbers 3, efficient subtraction, estimate answers and checking strategies.
Multiplication and Division:
Year 3:
History: Alexander the Great
Geography: Climate and biomes
Religious Education: Judaism 3: The kings, the temple and living as Jew
Living things and their habitats (Beach focus):
Children will be taught to recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways. They will explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment. Children will recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.