Maths
Try this activity at home to help your child with understanding addition and partitioning:
Spot the difference
Draw a row of six coloured spots.
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- In turn, one player closes his/her eyes.
- The other player hides some of the spots with a sheet of paper.
- The first player says how many spots are hidden.
- Try with other numbers of spots.
- Show your child how to count on.
Reading Activities
Here are some ideas when reading with your child:
1. Introduce the book.
2. Look at the front cover illustration and ask your child to predict what the book is about.
3. Ask questions eg “What can we see on the front cover?”
4. Look through the book at the illustrations.
5. Read the blurb – the description on the back of most books.
6. Ask questions about the text as you read.
7. Explain unfamiliar vocabulary and new words.
8. Ask your child to find words in the text and discuss them.
Other questions and prompts you might use are:
- Show me where you start reading.
- Show me how you point to the words as you read.
- Point to a capital letter.
- Point to a full stop.
- Can you find a word that starts with___?
- Can you see any speech bubbles / exclamation marks?
- Can you find a long word on the page and count the syllables?
Well done!
Congratulations to Archie and Isabella for their election to the school council. I’m sure they’ll do a great job.
Also, well done to all the other children who stood in the election. I was very impressed with all the candidates’ presentations.
Don’t forget the class assembly on Thursday at 2.45pm.
The Forum
Keep your eye on the Forum over the weekend for another set of puzzles.
Why not try to add your own topic for discussion like Bethany and Yutaro?
School Council
Congratulations to Rosie and Yutaro for their election to the school council. I’m sure they’ll do a great job.
Also, well done to all the other children who stood in the election.
Production
Year Three and Four’s production will be on Wednesday 30 March at 2.00pm and Thursday 31 March at 6.00pm. We hope to see you there!
Topic – To Infinity And Beyond!
Can your child tell you how long it takes for the Earth to orbit the sun?
How about how long it takes for the moon to orbit the Earth?
Year Four seem to be really enjoying the Space topic! Last half term, the children produced some fantastic drawings of some of the space artefacts we have in school – take a look at our space display in class! This half term we will be developing our sewing skills to create alien hand puppets.
We have an exciting visit from a space dome to look forward to at the end of March when the children will experience an interactive virtual tour of the solar system!
Ideas for helping your child with maths
This week we are learning to recognise and write the numerals 0-9. Here are some ideas for helping your child at home.
Choose a number for the week eg 2
Encourage your child to look for this number all the time, at home, in the street and while out shopping.
Choose a different number each week and encourage your child to write the numeral.
Try this website for games to help your child to recognise numerals.
Roald Dahl Book Fair
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B8nkKYmWcE
TAG rugby
For the next half term, Year 6 will be taking part in five weeks of tag rugby coaching on Monday afternoons. The programme has been set up by Leeds Carnegie and we are one of a small number of local schools selected to take part.
Please ensure children have their outdoor PE kit at school for these sessions.