In Maths, we’re discussing when we need to use written methods to solve a calculation, when we can solve it mentally and when we might make some jottings to help us.
We sorted some calculations according to how we’d solve them. Discuss them at home and see how different people in the family would solve these calculations in different ways. Are any ways you discuss better than another?
As a part of our ‘Where in the World’ topic, Year One have loved using maps to name and locate the four countries of the United Kingdom. The children also used the maps to name some towns and cities in the UK.
Year 6’s first piece of Creative homework was great. We enjoyed sharing what we’d created with our table before taking a look around the whole class at everybody’s.
Here are a few of our favourites:
These are some homophones that Year 6 need to learn – remember it’s not the spellings that are tricky but knowing when to use. This means you need to practise using them in sentences correctly.
| practice practise
advice advise device devise licence license heard herd guessed guest passed past father further led lead morning mourning |
Here are some homophones that we should be using correctly already (but don’t). Practise using these correctly too.
there their they’re your you’re to too two of off which witch here hear weather whether |
There will be a spelling test on Friday 21 September. I will show a sentence with a missing word and the children will have to write down the correct spelling of the homophone in that sentence.
We’ll continue to work on the 2 times table next week on which the children will be tested on Friday 21 September. Because we should know our two times tables inside out, we’ll be working on known facts, such as:
This week, we’re focusing on being ready to learn and responding to feedback. Year 6 show they’re ready to learn by having empty hands, writing their date and learning objective quickly (but neatly), asking questions, and by ensuring they have everything they need in their trays.
We’ve talked a lot this week about responding to feedback and knowing what feedback is:
As the children had their books marked all week, we looked at how well we were responding to the feedback in them. Where we’d not responded to feedback, we recognised that this was going to mean that we were missing out on opportunities to learn from our mistakes or on receiving positive comments so that we know what to continue doing well.
As a class, we decided we were probably better as responding to feedback at home or at a club than at school. Discuss feedback with your child at home:
We continued our work with OS maps this week by learning all about grid references. Once we were confident with four figure grid references, we tested our knowledge by seeing whether we could follow an algorithm and give the four figure grid reference of the square we had landed on.
Taking these skills even further, we placed our counters onto the grids of the OS maps and challenged our partner to follow a journey we made for them, giving the four figure grid reference for where we ended up and seeing whether we were right.
A really fun lesson which helped us understand our Geography and Computing skills much better!
| Our first week of spellings in Year One focuses on your child’s name.
Rarely in life do we write just our first name so your child is required to learn how to spell their full name – this will be used throughout the year. Next Friday, your child will be tested on writing their full name accurately. |
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due in on Thursday 13 September:
I know my address.
This homework links well with our geography topic, Where in the World?
As part of our topic learning, we explored the British Isles using OS maps today.
First, we took a close at what we could see and learnt about what the different symbols, path and road colours mean.
Then, we compared the different OS maps we had, noticing the differences and similarities between them. We could tell which places had lakes, which had mountains and which were near to towns and cities.
Next week, we’ll be learning more about grid references, combining our geography learning with some computing.
This week’s homework is Creative and is due in on Thursday 13 September.
How can we make our class a good place to learn?
We’ve had a really positive start to the term in Year 6 and long may that continue. Have a discussion at home about how we can all make sure our class stays a good place to learn.