In today’s science learning, children were given the following components:
– two wires
– one cell
– one lightbulb
Without any instruction, children were asked to make the light bulb turn on.
See if your child can remember the components needed to make a complete electrical circuit that turns a lightbulb on!
This week’s spellings are the alternative graphemes for the ‘oa’ and ‘ue’ phonemes:
smoke, throw, floating, through, peculiar, refuse, loosest, barbecue
Practise spelling these words in short, purposeful chunks ready for a test on Friday 21st January.
Good luck!
This week’s spellings are based on the alternative graphemes ‘ay’, ‘ee’ and ‘i’.
Practise spelling these words at home for a test on 14th January.
neighbour, reign, believe, increase, guide, bicycle, tried, exercise
In this week’s L&L session, we learned what perseverance means.
‘persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success’
We watched a clip that showed a Llama who had to persevere in tricky situations and it didn’t give up! We discussed the sort of things we could try when persevering:
– trying a different approach
– taking a break
– celebrating the small successes
– think about why you started in the first place
We then created a poster to illustrate our knowledge of perseverance and what it means.
We can see people trying to climb mountains and learn how to ride a bike – two things which definitely require perseverance!
In Living and Learning over the last few weeks, we’ve spent time talking about what being healthy means, the effects of exercise on our bodies both physically and mentally and what choices we can make to be healthy.
”Exercising regularly can improve your concentration and help you learn better,” said Soham.
”It can also help you sleep at night,” added Hidayah.
”Doing exercise releases a chemical called endorphins in your brain which makes you feel really good,” commented Safi.
We also learned that doing at least sixty minutes of exercise every day is a healthy approach.
Remember that your child is allowed to bring a healthy snack on a Wednesday to enjoy after swimming!
Practice adding -ed, -er, -est and -ing to these words:
busy cry
reply funny
naughty carry
marry copy
ugly worry
sorry happy
creepy
This week, we’d like you to practice changing these words to plural:
address(es)
century(ies)
group(s)
church(es)
lorry(ies)
jelly(ies)
wolf(ves)
roof(ves)
In this week’s living and learning session, we spoke about what bullying is and what we can do to prevent or stop it happening.
“Bullying is when you hurt someone physically or emotionally several times on purpose.”
We use the following acronyms to remember what bullying means and what to do if we know bullying is happening:
S – several
T – times
O – on
P – purpose
S – start
T – telling
O – other
P – people
If bullying is happening to us, someone we know, or if we have seen or heard it happening to anyone, we must tell a teacher or a trusted adult.
Ask your child at home to tell what you what they should do if they are aware of any bullying!
For this week’s spelling, we’d like you to practise adding the suffixes -er and -est to these words:
nice
late
rude
brave
happy
funny
tall
hot
In this week’s art lesson, we explored the colour wheel.
We were confidently able to identify the three primary colours and the three secondary colours they make when mixed together!
Primary colours: red, yellow and blue
secondary colours:
red+blue=purple
red+yellow=orange
blue+yellow=green
Quiz your child at home to see if they can remember our learning!