This week’s spelling focuses on the ie and oe sounds. Practise these spellings – use the spelling strategies that are stuck into your homework book. There will be a test on Friday 4 October where ten of these words will be tested.
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Author: Mr Roundtree
Maths in the trees
Continuing our treehouse design, we got down to the nitty-gritty this week, thinking about how wide our platform would need to be to fit on our mini tree and how tall our ladder will have to be to reach the branches.
First, we had to measure how high and how wide our tree is before measuring certain parts for the different design criteria we need to meet.
Go Ape – What a Great Day!
Year three and four had a brilliant day at Go Ape in Temple Newsam last Friday – and not just because we were very lucky with the weather.
For half of the day, we explored the woodlands, creating mazes out of sticks and mini dens which helped us think about constructing from natural materials like we will be when making our treehouses. Some of us chose to create some art inspired by nature.
The other half of the day was spent amongst the branches on the Go Ape course. The children had a great time with many conquering fears around every corner. Lots of the children noticed how the equipment had been constructed too and talk about how they could use that idea to help their treehouse construction at school.
Finger Spaces
Today, we worked in pairs to help each other write sentences about our class novel, ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. The particular focus of our writing this week is to use a finger space between each word. In the pictures below, you will see the children pointing out to their partner where they should use a space in their sentences
20 September 2019
This week’s spellings are words that contain the digraphs ‘sh’, ‘ch’ and ‘th’.
| shop |
| shell |
| lunch |
| chip |
| thin |
| thank |
20 September 2019
This week’s homework is Talk Time.
Is it OK to cut down trees to make paper?
Again, this week’s homework is linked to our science topic, ‘Materials’. As a class, we have discussed the many different ways in which we use paper in everyday life. However, the paper making process involves cutting down lots of trees. Discuss the question above with your child.
Refer to the homework policy for how to complete Talk Time homework.
The homework is due on Thursday 26 September.
20 September 2019
This week’s spelling activity focuses on the ‘ie’ and ‘oe’ sounds and the alternative graphemes for them:
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ie, y, i, i-e |
oe, oa, o, o-e, ow |
See how many words you can think of that include the ‘ie’ or the ‘oe’ sounds and record them in your homework book – try sorting them according to the grapheme use to make the sounds. I;m looking for useful spelling practice like the examples show on the sheet that is now stuck in the back of the children’s books. This homework is due on Thursday 26 September and there will be no test on Friday.
Leeds Playhouse
Today, we brought our class novel ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ to life with a drama session led by Sam from Leeds Playhouse. The children took part in lots of fun games and loved becoming some of the characters from the story. Each child got to act out being a ‘wild thing’ just like Max in the story. All the children were extremely creative in their acting and will hopefully use today to inspire them to do some amazing writing.
Super Homework
We’re enjoying our weekly homework reviews where we share our home learning with each other and Miss Rushbrooke gets to enjoy it too. When our homework has impressed, we get stars which we can add to our star charts.
Here’re some examples of homework and spelling practice that has impressed us so far this year.
The Design Process
We’re moving ever-closer to making our treehouses. Today, we found out the groups we’re working in and the ‘tree’ we’re working with. Having explored the sorts of materials and tools that will be available to us, we had a go at a first design.
