The Circus is Coming to Moortown!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5xbFm6KvhA
Testing nets to make cubes
Practical Maths
Testing nets to see if they make cubes
What a great 3D dodecahedron!
Golf opportunities
Today Year 5 have taken part in a tri-golf session hosted by golf professional Paul O’Donnell.
The class were very enthusiastic and skillful and as a result Paul has invited all of Year 5 to take part in a free morning of golf at Cookridge Hall golf club 9am – 11am Tuesday 5 April in the Easter holidays.
A letter with more information will be sent out after the half term.
Cross-country
The Year Four cross-country competition that was due to take place in November has been rescheduled for Friday 18 February. The children will have their lunch as usual at school and then be taken in mini buses to Cardinal Heenan. We’ll return in time for the end of the school day. Children will need their PE kits in school that day. It should be a fun end to the half-term!
How to help with phonics at home
We are beginning to learn vowel digraphs such as ai, ee, igh, oa, and oo. Encourage your child to say the letter names as this is less confusing at this stage.
Here are some examples of words they will be reading. Their confidence from the daily experience of practising and applying their phonic knowledge to reading and writing is really paying off!
tail, week, right, soap, food, park, burn, cord, town, soil.
Tricky words
The number of tricky words is expanding. These are so important for reading and spelling: he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you, her, they, all.
Continue to play with magnetic letters, using some of the two grapheme (letter) combinations:
r-ai-n = rain blending for reading rain = r-ai-n – segmenting for spelling
b-oa-t = boat blending for reading boat = b-oa-t – segmenting for spelling
h-ur-t = hurt blending for reading hurt = h-ur-t – segmenting for spelling
PLEASE continue reading to your child even when they are reading independently. This is very important – your child needs to practise their reading skills every day, and needs the support of an interested adult.
Symmetry in Shapes
Splendid Symmetry
