We are physicists!
This half term, we are physicists. Our topic is all about forces and magnets.
Last week, Year 3 explored which objects were/were not magnetic using magnets.
After careful observation, we concluded that some metal objects were magnetic.
We then recorded this information in a table in our books.
Help at home by asking your child what a metal needs to contain for it to be magnetic.
Living and Learning: Healthy Eating
In Living and Learning, we discussed the importance of a balanced diet and the advice of ‘five-a-day’. We looked at the different portion sizes that counted towards your five-a-day and talked about the differences in fresh, dried, tinned and cooked fruit and vegetables.
Did you know:
- you should only have 150ml of fruit juice a day?
- if you drink a fruit smoothie, it only counts as one portion no matter how many different fruits are in there?
- dried fruit should be eaten as a dessert rather than a snack to prevent tooth decay?
- it is healthier to buy tinned fruit in juices rather than syrup?
Help at home: Visit the NHS website which gives more information about portion sizes and healthy choices. Then, with this knowledge, why not try to plan, prepare and enjoy a healthy meal which contributes towards your five-a-day.
SATs Week!
After much preparation, Y6 completed their SATs tests this week. They have all worked extremely hard and should all be proud of themselves.
As a reward, we enjoyed an afternoon at Moortown park and ate some ice-creams as well!
Well done Y6 – have a great weekend!
Summer 1: Week 4
This week, we’ve been learning about tropical rainforests. We’ve been painting animal patterns, finding the Amazon Rainforest on Google Maps, making jungles in the playdough area and writing sentences about our favourite animals.
Literacy
We’ve been reading Walking Through the Jungle by Julie Lacome.
This repeating story was great for retelling. We talked about what a verb is and looked for them in the story: walking, running, leaping, swinging, creeping and wading. Click here to watch us act out the story!
Help at home: Can you hear the verbs? Can you think of a new verb to describe an action?
In our writing, we’ve been re-writing parts of the story in our own words.
Phonics
This week, we focused on reading and writing longer words and compound words. We learnt 4 new tricky words: there, when, what, one.
Help at home: Do the weekly home learning phonics sheets. You’re child will have two sheets in their bookbag.
Maths
This week, we continued to develop our understanding of the composition of numbers to 10 using different representations. We investigated different ways to represent 10 sausages from the counting rhyme, ‘10 Fat Sausages’. We also use our fingers, 10-frames and Hungarian number patterns to begin to explore ‘5 and a bit’ numbers to 10.
We used butterbeans to represent the sausages. We put 10 sausages into a cup and pretended to sizzle them. We tipped the 10 sausages onto a plate and checked how many were burnt and how many were not burnt.
Help at home: Use a frying pan/saucepan and double-sided objects (you could make your own counters out of card) to represent 10 fat sausages. Sing the song and drop your objects into the pan. How many ‘sausages’ are burnt? How many are not burnt? How many altogether?
Here’s an example
Poetry Picnic
This week’s poem was called A Little Shell. We hope you enjoy it!
Diary dates
- Monday 15 May – School closed: training day
- Monday 29 May – Friday 02 June – Half-term holiday
- NEW Learning journey drop in dates
Monday 03 July – 9am – 9.30am
Tuesday 04 July – 9am – 9.30am & 3.15pm-3.45pmFriday 07 July – 9am – 9.30am
Have a fantastic weekend. Don’t forget to email your pictures from home…
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
See you on Tuesday!
Living and learning: healthy eating
Over the last two weeks we have been learning about healthy eating in living and learning lessons. We have looked at the eat well plate which is a brilliant way of representing how much of eat food type we need for a healthy balanced diet. There is a picture of the eat well plate below with some added hints to keep a healthy lifestyle.
We also talked about how we could swap certain foods to make our breakfasts healthier.
Here are some of our ideas.
Swap the cereal for porridge or a cereal without chocolate.
Use butter or jam instead of chocolate spread.
You could drink milk or juice instead.
Maybe you could add in some fruit, like a banana.
Help at home by looking at the Eatwell guide together and thinking about any improvements that could be made. This may be having an extra vegetable a day, trying a new fruit or vegetable, switching to brown bread or pasta or having a healthier snack after school.
Living and Learning: healthy eating
Our latest Living and Learning theme has been all about healthy eating.
This video helps to explain the importance of healthy eating as part of living healthily. The Eatwell Guide is a key document to show how much of what we eat overall should come from each food group to achieve a healthy, balanced diet. The bigger the section the more food from that group we should eat. The balance of foods from each group does not need to be achieved with every meal but we should aim for the balance over a day or even a week.
We used the Eatwell Guide as part of our reading fluency text too.
In our next Living and Learning session, we thought about the 5 a day message. Having at least 5 (ideally different) portions of fruit and vegetables keeps us healthy. These could be different types of fruit and vegetables.
A portion is about a handful.
Here were some tips for achieving your 5 a day.
You could have some banana on your cereal.
If you put some cucumber in your sandwich, that would be an extra portion.
You could add some sweetcorn or peas to your pasta for tea.
Have some fruit or vegetable sticks when you get home from school.
We also thought about our recent design and technology food preparation of overnight oats and how we used a variety of fruits (frozen, tinned, fresh and dried) in that recipe.
Help at home look at the Eatwell guide together and think about any improvements that could be made. This may be having an extra vegetable a day, trying a new fruit or vegetable, switching to brown bread or pasta or having a healthier snack after school.
More healthy eating ideas can be found by signing up to these Healthy Steps emails from Better Health (formally Change4Life).
Road Safety!
Hello!
Year 4 have been visited by Leeds City Council to receive a master class in road safety! The first session consisted of talking through the different ways that we can travel to school and how we can be safe on each mode of transport. For example, when travelling in a vehicle:
- Sit with a seatbelt on always!
- Don’t distract the driver.
- Be sensible.
The children learnt the Green Cross Code for when walking out and about:
- THINK
- STOP
- LOOK
- LISTEN
Each group then ventured out into Moortown to put it to good use! Here’s some of them in action…
Help at home by practising the Green Cross Code when you are out walking!
Living and Learning – I know the importance of having my ‘five a day’.
Our living and learning statement this week is ‘I know the importance of having my ‘five a day’.
As a school, we promote a happy and healthy lifestyle. In class, we have been discussing how, as individuals, we can maintain this lifestyle ourselves. This includes making sensible choices with our eating and drinking plus keeping an active body and mind. We realised that if we didn’t do these things, we might start to feel a bit low in our body and especially, in our mind.
Eating and drinking healthily doesn’t necessarily mean we can ONLY eating fruit, broccoli and peas but it means having a balanced diet. This means we can choose to eat lots of healthy things and then sometimes, we can have a treat! Aiming to have at least five pieces of fruit and vegetables a day means that our body is getting the important nutrients and vitamins that it needs. We also discussed that we should be drinking 2 litres of water a day to stay hydrated, especially as the weather is getting warmer.
In our lesson today, we discussed how our eating and drinking habits can be influenced by lots of different things such as;
- environmental issues,
- likes and dislikes,
- family and friends,
- adverts.
For example, wanting to have a cookie just because all your friends are having one doesn’t mean it’s the sensible thing to do if you’ve already had two!
The more healthy choices we make, the more our bodies will thank us for it later!
Help at home: Challenge your child and see how many different fruit and vegetables they can name!
Meet the weather!
Today, Year 2 were lucky enough to have another author event. Online, we listened to Caryl Hart and Bethan Woolvin introduce their new book ‘Meet the weather’. This is the third book in the series. We enjoyed ‘Meet the oceans’ in Year 1 so knew we’d like this book too.
Caryl Hart read the book to us and we enjoyed seeing all the wonderful illustrations by Bethan Woolvin. The book is a great introduction to all the difference types of weather and supports our science learning.
During the online event, we sang a weather song, listened to the story and did a draw along with Bethan.
Help at home by talking about the weather and seasons. What is the weather like today?
Herd Farm 2023
Hello all!
Year 4’s residential to Herd Farm was absolutely fantastic! For some of the children, it was their first time staying away from home but they all were incredibly mature and were having too much fun to worry about much else. After we arrived, we made our beds, had dinner and went for a moon walk. The children found some geocaches, which are hidden, by GPS.
They all completed three different activities; the giant swing, the zip-wire and bushcraft. The most nerve-wracking activity was the giant swing but nearly everyone overcame their fears and had a go, even if that meant just sitting on it. Some went to the very top!
The zip-wire was great fun because they could go down in pairs. They could share the nerves and the excitement. Who could get to the bottom first?! The trickiest part was having to run back up the hill to pass the rope back!
Finally, bushcraft consisted of three activities; foraging, den-building and fire making. We foraged for different plants that we could eat such as nettles, wild garlic and ‘Jack By The Bush’. We learnt that if we can’t identify it, we can’t eat it! The children then made dens in the woods with anything they could find and finally, we used flint to build a fire and roasted marshmallows. Look who also found an antler!
All of the staff were impressed at how enthusiastic and brave our class were. At each meal time, the children helped to set the tables. They sat and ate their amazing food and some helped to tidy and clear up too!
I hope the children managed to get a good nights sleep on Friday night – I know we did!
Miss Birch, Mrs Charlesworth, Miss Gilliland and Ms Canning