This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 5 December 2019.
Having learnt all about Scotland in our topic learning this week, the children have a text t0 read and answer questions. We’ll read it together and mark our work in our homework review on Thursday 5 Dec.
This week’s spelling focuses on adding er and est. Practise these spellings – think about how creative you can be. There will be a test on Friday 06 December where ten of these words will be tested.
| adding er and adding est | |
| nice
late ripe rude brave big happy silly |
funny
hot tall weird fat hot scary pretty |
This week is Community Week so we’ve been talking about who we are, how we’re the same and different and learning more about our community and the people in it.
At home, ask us to tell you about:
Don’t forget, the children can come dressed in clothing which symbolises their personality tomorrow: a Brownie uniform, a football team kit, religious/cultural dress and whatever else represents who they are.
We’re all enjoying a community themed week at Moortown Primary this week. We’re learning all about identity and community.
As part of the week, Year 2 pupils visited Donisthorpe Hall, just down the road from us. After our visit, we received this lovely email:
Dear Mr Roundtree, Mrs Weekes and all the staff and year 2 pupils involved in the outing to Donisthorpe Hall earlier today.
What a fantastic afternoon which the older residents at Donisthorpe clearly enjoyed. Their joy at seeing and meeting the year 2 children was lovely and the children fully engaged with them. The residents and children had a lovely time. Thank you for organising such a worthwhile community activity.
Year 4 combined their computing and geography knowledge today to practise learning counties and using compass language.
We created algorithms using compass directions to get from one county to another, gradually making our algorithms more complicated and challenging each other to follow our algorithms to see where they turned up.
At home, see how many cities and counties we can name and whether we can tell the eight points of a compass.
#Ditto is a downloadable e-safety magazine for schools, organisations and parents to keep you up to date with risks, issues, advice and guidance related to keeping children safe online, with a view to enjoying and learning about technology.
There’s a lot of interesting information in the November edition. We especially liked the articles on Deepfakes, Influencers and Notifications and Immediacy.
A distressing message appeared in Year 4 this week informing us that someone had abducted Miss Rushbrooke’s highland cattle!
We had to use our knowledge of compass directions to find the correct envelopes that would lead us to the location of the cow before the end of the day.
Year 4 worked incredibly hard to ensure they redeemed the cow and I am happy to inform that he is now safely back in Miss Rushbrooke’s house.
This week’s spelling activity focuses on adding the suffixes er and est and is due in school on Thursday 28 November.
When we add er to a word like nice, it creates the meaning of more. So, nicer means more nice. Adding er to a word like build, creates the meaning of someone who. So builder means someone who builds.
When we add est to a word like nice, it creates the meaning of most. So, nicest means the most nice.
Think of 8 words which you can add the suffix er to and use three in a sentence. Then, think of 8 words you can add the suffix est to and use three in a sentence.
This half term, our focus in Science is working scientifically. During our last session, the children were using their observations and ideas to suggest an answer to a question.
Which car will roll the furthest?
First, the children were given a range of cars of different shapes, sizes and weights. Their first job was to roll them and start to think about which type of car rolled the furthest.
We asked ourselves these questions:
Was it the heaviest? Was it the lightest? Was it the one with the biggest wheels? Was it the one made from metal?
After, the children were shown three cars.
The children had to decide (based on their observations) which car would travel the furthest down a ramp.
Once they had made their predictions, we carried out the test.
We can all agree that reading is important, but do you realise just how important reading actually is?
The Reading Agency outlines the powerful impact reading can have for your child, for you and for society.
The benefits of reading for pleasure for your child (and you!):
We’re often asked how you can support your child more at home. We think one of the best ways to help is to make sure you build into the daily routine some time for reading. For many families, this is a bedtime story every night just before lights out.
Happy reading!