Maths- Shapes and patterns.
In maths this week our wonderful Year 1s have been learning about Shapes and patterns. They learnt how to fill in a template of a shape with different shapes, without going out of the template’s lines or overlapping them. The children did really well in this and some even showed off their artistic flair! Well done Year 1.
Guided Reading Week 3
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 28th November.
The Girl of Ink and Stars – up to page 125 (Chapter 14)
Kensuke’s Kingdom – up to page 117 (Chapter 8)
Extra time – up to page 113 (Chapter 25)
Flood and Fang – up to page 137 (Chapter 9)
Rooftoppers – up to page 162 (Chapter 18)
We’re skippers!
Today, Year 4 were lucky enough to receive a visit from Leeds Skipping School who ran a brilliant session. This is I’m preparation for our attendance at the Leeds Skipping Festival in the spring. We had such a fun morning!
The skips we learnt were…
- double bounce
- single bounce
- side straddle
- side swing
- cross over
- pretzel
We learnt and practised all of the skips that we’ll be performing in the festival. I was so impressed with the amazing skipping skills Year 4 could already demonstrate and we can’t wait to keep practising even more!
Help at home: if you have a skipping rope, ask your children to show you the six skips we learnt today.
Guided Reading Week 3
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 28th November.
Divine Freaks: up to page 128
Spirit Walker: up to page 140
How to Train your Dragon: up to page 159
The Considine Curse: up to page 104
The Switch: up to page 136
PE – Gymnastics
This week in Gymnastics we were all very excited to get out the big climbing frame. The children thoroughly enjoyed challenging themselves to climb to the very top. I was very impressed by their resilience, especially on the ropes which proved to be very difficult. We also practised our movement, balance and jumping skills on the other equipment in the hall. We are working up to composing, practising and performing a routine using the mats and benches.
Help at home by talking to your child about their routine and practising their balance at home.
Autumn 2: Week 3
In Literacy, we read Night Monkey, Day Monkey by Julia Donaldson. For our writing activity, the children drew and labelled pictures showing things they see and do during the day and at night time.
In provision, we investigated shadows through hands-on exploration. The children used torches to discover how shadows changed size when they moved the light source closer to and further away from objects. The chilli challenge to create shadow puppets captured the children’s imagination in the creative area, leading to lots of talk about shadows.
In maths, we introduced the children to composition by focusing on the preliminary skills: the concept of ‘wholes’ and ‘parts’. We investigated composition using own bodies and familiar toys. We used this stem sentence My […] is a part of me and the whole of me is [name] to explain our parts. We hope you enjoyed watching our maths session on Tuesday!
Help at home: Look at the pictures. Can you see the parts?
Thank you for attending Tuesday’s maths stay and learn session. I hope you enjoyed watching our maths sessions all about composition. Your feedback is important to us, so please complete the parent feedback form when you can. If you couldn’t attend, you can view the slides here. As always, if you have any questions, please speak to me at the end of the day.
On Wednesday, we thoroughly enjoyed watching a live production performance called Hare and Tortoise.
Am – I liked it when they were singing.
Ayy – I liked it when we had to clap.
Im – That show was awesome! I enjoyed the clapping.
Sat – I liked it when the Hare went to sleep.
Fin – I enjoyed the running race.
Learning Journey Drop In’s
Monday 1st or Thursday 4th December 3.00 – 3.30pm
A sign-up letter is in your child’s bookbag. Please return the slip by Thursday 27th November. We look forward to sharing your child’s books with you.
PE: infant agility event
Today, all of the class have enjoyed taking part in the infant agility event as part of our involvement in the Leeds Well Schools Partnership.
The event was designed around a set of twelve activities and the children rotated around these activities, that support the core physical skills of coordination and agility, core stability, spatial awareness and more.
It was fun and not about winning.
I liked it as we did lots of activities.
We got to do lots of exercise and my heart was racing.
It was fair because everybody got to do everything.
It was healthy for us.
Writing: Formal vs Informal
Next week, Year 6 will be writing a review about their trip to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Their audience will be people who might be interested in visiting and therefore it will need to be a formal piece of writing.
The children looked at the difference between formal and informal writing.
Formal language is used for more official and serious purposes. The correct grammar and standard English should always be used. Whereas, informal language is used for more casual and less serious purposes. Slang words and chatty language can be used.
Help at home: What situations might you use formal or informal language in?
Can you swap these sentences into informal language?
- I guarantee your flight experience will be a positive one.
- The two boys were rather curious.
Can you swap these sentences into formal language?
- You’re going to have a dead good time!
- What time is that TV programme on?
Science: we’re chemists!
In Science this half-term, Year 4 are chemists! Our new topic is all about states of matter.
We began by exploring the properties of solids, liquids and gases.
Solids have a fixed volume and a fixed shape. You can cut them into pieces and they’ll still take up the same amount of volume.
volume: the amount of space a solid, liquid or gas takes up.
A liquid has a non-fixed shape but a fixed volume. They can flow or be poured but are hard to contain. They change shape depending on the container but always keep the same volume.
Gases have a non-fixed shape and a non-fixed volume. They’re very hard to contain. They don’t keep their shape or volume and often we can’t even see them. They fill whatever space they are in.
Help at home: watch this video (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zsgwwxs). Can you name 5 solids, 5 liquids and 5 gases?
PE – gymnastics
This half term, we’re using gymnastics to practise some of our core movement skills.
We’ve focused on travelling from one end of the mats to the other. We added in challenges like only having our hands and feet on the mats or using a balance.
We’ve now added in the benches! Here the children are having to balance and use the bench to explore different movements such as, jumping off the end of the bench.
Help at home: Can your child remember the routine they created and performed in our PE session? Can they perform it for you at home?
Here they are in action…
