Author: Mr Roundtree

08 July 2016

This week’s spellings have been chosen by the children from an end of year test we did, identifying those which we’ve made mistakes on or find more difficult.

Think about what other spellings are similar to this: adding ‘ed‘, ‘ing‘ and any homophones that we might get confused with.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 15 July.

  • marvellous
  • interfere
  • sincere
  • comb
  • secretary
  • accommodate
  • stationery
  • category
  • confidence
  • suggest
  • island
  • reasonable
  • relevant
  • dough
  • physical
  • principle
  • essential
  • compliment
  • proceed
  • environment

08 July 2016

For our Talk Time homework, we’re focusing on next week’s SEAL theme.

I can make a healthy change.

Think about what changes you could make next week which will help you to be healthier and write down some notes to help you discuss this in class.

 

 

08 July 2016

This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 13 July and is an exciting national competition. wonderlab

Think about how you can present this creatively and we’ll be having a look at everyone’s and then we’ll need to decide which one of our class’ work we want to enter into the competition.

 

24 June 2016

This week’s spellings highlight some words which require a hyphen along with some other simple words which have tricky spellings which we often forget.

  • to co-operate
  • co-operated
  • co-operating
  • to co-ordinate
  • co-ordinated
  • co-ordinating
  • to co-own
  • to re-enter
  • re-entering
  • re-entered
  • queue
  • rhythm
  • rhyme
  • shoulder

These spellings will be tested on Friday 01 July. Spelling should be practised at least four times a week for about ten minutes each time and we’ve created lots of different ways to practise spelling while in class which children can use at home.

24 June 2016

This week’s Talk Time homework is due on Wednesday 29 June.

I can cope with an unexpected change.

This is our SEAL statement next week as part of our Changes SEAL theme. Discuss – perhaps over dinner – what unexpected changes might happen to people and suggest ways we can deal with these changes calmly and confidently.

We’ll be discussing this in our circle time next week so don’t forget to write a few notes to focus your discussion in class.

17 June 2016

This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework is due on Wednesday 23 June.

To experiment with vocabulary for effect.

We’ve been practising using a thesaurus in order to expand our vocabulary this week, making sure that we check the meaning of words and that we know how to use them in a sentence.

I’m asking the children to find ten new words that they wouldn’t normally use in their writing but are more ambitious choices for them to remember in the future. For each word, they need to be able to explain what it means (this could be verbal rather than written down) and they need to have written it into a sentence.

As an extra challenge, see if you can find all ten words and their meanings without using the internet. It is an undeniably useful resource, but how else can we learn new things?

17 June 2016

This week’s creative homework is due on Wednesday 23 June.

I can show what I know about the EU referendum.

We’ve learnt lots about the EU referendum this week resulting in some fabulous debates. There were convincing arguments for both the vote remain and the vote leave campaigns. In any way they wish, children should show what they know about the EU and the upcoming referendum. They may choose to express an opinion on which way they feel people should vote, or they may wish to remain neutral and offer both sides of the argument.

Here are some ideas to get you going but, as usual, I’m sure the children will have much better ideas of their own:

  • Create a campaign leaflet to go through people’s letter boxes informing them of the debate.
  • Write a speech convincing the class to vote one way or another.
  • Create a voting booth that the class can cast their votes to.
  • Generate a quiz which tests our knowledge on the EU referendum.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

 

17 June 2016

ei words and homophones
This week, we have a combination of words with ei in, as well as some more homophones.
deceive receive ceiling ascent – assent cereal – serial
conceive perceive weird bridal – bridle alter – altar

What other words can children find that have ei in? Lots come after a c, but some don’t. Homophones should always be practised in sentences.

What is peer pressure?

As part of our RSE learning, we talked about peer pressure and used our ever-improving dramatic skills. We discussed what peer pressure is, when it might happen, different ways it can happen and how we might deal with it.

In groups, we then acted out scenarios in which somebody is being put under pressure by their peers but in all sorts of different ways.

EU. Are you in or are you out?

We’ve had a heated couple of lessons over the last two days exploring the key issues that are central to the most topical question in Britain right now:

Should Britain remain in the European Union?

We started off by making sure we all knew what the EU was and what the referendum was all about before discussing five key issues: immigration, terrorism and security, jobs and employment, economy and the cost of being in the EU. In groups, we found out more about the remain and leave opinions on these matters and started developing our own opinions.

The following day, we decided which side we’d like to debate on (and interestingly had a 50:50 split) and prepared our group for a debate.

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We’re all seasoned debaters now so we took to the stage like naturals to argue it out with our opposition and convince the audience to vote like us.

Then, having learnt about both sides ourselves and debated our hearts out, we gave our final vote.

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