Class News

Topic: compass language

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.

22 November 2019

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.

Outdoor PE

This half term, we welcome Leeds Beckett Sports Coaching students who are beginning their placements delivering PE to the class.

We aim to be outside for PE, when we can, so please ensure your child has their outdoor PE kit at school.

Great Lexia learning

Lexia, a computer based program to build reading skills, is a valuable learning tool that we access in school. It is also beneficial for your child to access Lexia outside of school, too.

Each child is progressing at a different rate – one that is specifically tailored to your child’s needs.

For your information, by the end of Year 2 your child should be aiming to achieve Level 9. This will ensure the Year 2 learning has been covered.

We have been particularly impressed with the children’s positive attitude to Lexia with 15 Lexia certificates awarded so far this month. Well done, Year 2.

If you are not set up already please see below for information in helping to set up:

For use on a computer, go to www.lexiacore5.com for Lexia Reading® Core5® or http://www.lexiastrategies.com/ for Lexia Strategies™

If you’re experiencing some difficulties with setting Lexia Core 5 up on your tablet or device, use the following email address when prompted:

y2@moortown.leeds.sch.uk

Your child can then log in using the student username and password. This is the same username and password used at school (these details can be found inside their reading record book).

A typical home session may last from 10-15 minutes.

It is important your child works without any help while using the program. All of the work your child does at home is recorded and reported to school. This means we can see when help is needed and provide additional instruction at school.

Thank you for your support with this learning at home and please come and see us if you have any questions about using Lexia.

Working Scientifically

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.

Homework Champions

Last week, the focus for the  homework task was I know how to STOP bullying.

This homework was set in response to our learning  during anti-bullying week.  Today, we discussed each others work and celebrated some super ideas of how to spread the all important message;

• Start
• Telling
• Other
• People
• 

  

  

 REMEMBER

Bullying is when you hurt someone, physically or emotionally, several times on purpose.

Homework Heroes

Yet again, the homework in Y6 has been varied, delivered enthusiastically and worked hard on. We had drama, posters, videos, poems and comic strips. Here are some of many highlights.

We know how to STOP bullying!

There’s an astronaut in Year 2!

Over the last couple of weeks, we have been focusing our writing lessons on the children’s book ‘Man on the Moon.’ As the title suggests, it is about a day in the life of Bob, a man who lives on Earth but works on the Moon.

All the children have been really engaged with this learning and we’ve even had a look at the first moon landing in 1969!

This week, the children thought about appropriate questions (using inferred events) they would like to ask Bob.

Is it cold on the moon?

Where do you sleep?

Do you enjoy your job?

Why do you need to wear a special suit?

We decided to see if we could send our questions to Bob. However, Bob is a busy man so instead he sent us a prop to help with our queries.

All the children were excited to try the suit on.

Questions and answers

The children took it in turns to ask the astronaut a question and shake hands.

Learning and exploring through drama allows the children to be actively involved. It is a great way to spark imaginations and creativity and this helps to build  ideas for writing.

We even enjoyed a spot of moon walking!

Writing: taking on a character

We’re going to write a character description of a pirate this week so, to get us in the mood, we got ourselves into character through some drama.

After a few warm-up games, we started to move around the room slowly, with big strides, like a clown and then we posed as different characters we read about last week.

We were Peter Pan. We were The Evil Stepmother
We were Fantastic Mr Fox

We were Cinderella.

To get us into a piratey mood, we then thought about what our pirate was like and created scenes as a group of our piratey adventures.

We sailed across the seven seas.We attacked any boats that got in our way.

Some fab drama from Year 4 who are now very much looking forward to writing their pirate character descriptions. Watch this space.

Living and Learning: My Community

We’re looking forward to lots of learning about identity, diversity and our community in our next whole school themed week, My Community.

Here are some key events taking place next week.