Reading Records
This term, some fantastic pieces of homework have been brought in. Have a look at these amazing examples of reading records.
How creative can your next reading record be?
Help at home: Read daily with your child and sign their reading record each week.
Debate team winners!
Last week, three Year 6 students went to Wigton Moor to represent Moortown at a debating competition. The group argued for the abolition of zoos. Each member had 2 minutes to talk and present their reasons. They did amazingly well and won their debate. Congratulations!
Big walk and wheel update
We’ve had a great start to the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge this week.
After the first five days, we are currently in 19th place (out of 549 schools) in the small primary category with an average of 84.76% of our journeys to school being active. This is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
To keep up with the leader board for the rest of the challenge, it can be viewed here.
The Big Walk and Wheel challenge continues until Friday 22nd March so we look forward to seeing our progress over the upcoming week.
Help at home: By walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.
Spring 2: Week 4
Literacy
This week, we’ve been reading the traditional tale Jack and the Beanstalk. We planted our own beans and talked about what a bean needs in order to grow. After planting our beans, we wrote a set of instructions about how to plant a bean.
Yesterday, we introduced the children to life cycles and talked about what a life cycle is.
What is a life cycle?
EB – small to big
BT – Something is a baby then turns into an adult.
RN – Baby chicks grow into a mummy and daddy.
SW – When babies are small they keep growing.
AG – Bugs start off as an egg and they get bigger and bigger.
RZ – They grow and grow and grow!
We watched a video about the life cycle of a bean and talked about the 4 stages.
Help at home: Can your child remember the life cycle of a bean?
Maths
This week, we consolidated our understanding of the composition of numbers by investigating the numbers within 7. We investigated the whole number using the part–part–whole model, e.g. 5 is a part. 2 is a part. 7 is the whole. We used cubes to show that 7 can be made by combining parts in different ways. We also played a game called Missing parts. Mrs Wood hid some cubes (a part) behind her back and we had to think about the missing part. This is something called partitioning (splitting the whole it into parts).
Help at home: Practise partitioning numbers up to 7 into two parts. You could use your toys, fruit or pencils.
Phonics
This week, we continued to read and write longer words including words ending in -ing.
Help at home: Practise writing these words: looking, marching, farming, waiting, morning, winking, singing. Don’t forget to use your phoneme fingers to segment!
What else have we been up to?
This week, our chilli challenges were linked to our focus story.
Poetry Picnic
Click here to watch this week’s poem.
Finally…
Thank you to all the parents/carers who came to watch our class assembly on Wednesday. We were blown away by how many of you turned up! We hope you enjoyed it.
REMINDER!
- Learning journey drop ins – Tuesday 26th & Thursday 28th March
9-9.30 & 3.15-3.45
Please return your sign up slip by Friday 22nd March.
Guided Reading Week 4
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 22nd March:
Divine Freaks: up to chapter 17/page 162.
Street Child: end of book.
How To Train Your Dragon: end of book.
The Considine Curse: up to chapter 19/page 167.
Extra Time: up to chapter 34/page 159.
The London Mystery Eye: up to chapter 34/page 259.
Science and computing: the circulatory system
In today’s science lesson, we created stop motion animations to illustrate how oxygenated and deoxygenated blood travels around our body.
We learnt that deoxygenated blood travels through the veins to the heart. It then gets pumped to the lungs where it picks up oxygen. The blood is now oxygenated and travels through arteries back to the heart where it is pumped around the body. This process repeats infinitely.
What makes a good promotion?
Over the next two weeks, we’ll be writing a promotion about our Scratch games that we’ve been making in computing.
Here’s an example of the code for a program we made which is similar to Times Tables Rockstars.
In writing, we’ve analysed what makes a good promotion including the features that it should have.
Help at home by writing some persuasive sentences when practising your spellings. Could you incorporate any of this half term’s words into this piece of writing?
Living and Learning – I know friends and family are important.
During our Living and Learning lesson, Year 3 talked about friends and family and how they are important. Friends and family support us and care for us throughout our lives and we discussed how we can also show our love and support back!
Being kind to people that we meet and spend time with, is important even if it’s people that we see all the time.
For example: if you have a sibling, sometimes you might argue or have a problem with them because you spend so much time together. We reassured each other that this is normal! As long as you come back together and are kind to each other afterwards.
How can we show our love and appreciation to family and friends?
- Hug them!
- Give them a compliment when they do something well.
- Apologise if we’ve done something wrong.
- Help them!
- Spend time with them.
Help at home by encouraging your child to do one kind thing for a family member or friend each day. Can you tidy a room in the house? Can you give your sibling a compliment about a talent they have?
World Book Day
Year 4 love reading and we enjoyed being able to share this love of reading with the Year 2’s on World Book Day!
Help at home and tell your child about your favourite book. When did you first read it? Why is it your favourite?
DT food technology – fruit salad
Yesterday, we had our spring term DT food technology session. We made a fruit salad and we had a brilliant time. We had to use lots of different skills including, measuring, claw grip, bridge hold, mixing and peeling. The children listened really carefully and made sure they kept safe during the cooking.
We washed our hands to make sure we didn’t spread germs.
We used the claw grip when we were cutting.
We made sure the knife was pointing away from us.
We listened to the adults carefully and followed their instructions.
We used lots and lots of different types of fruit and there was even some we haven’t tried before! When it came to eating, everybody (well most!) loved it and there was lots of clean bowls!
Help at home by talking about healthy eating as well as trying out the fruit salad recipe that was sent home.
