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13 May 2016

The homework for this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 18 May.

I can tell someone my address.

In SEAL, we have been learning about safety in the home. We have looked at pictures of rooms in the home and spotted hazards and potential dangers. We discussed how we can be responsible for making our home safer, for example, picking up toys so nobody trips over them. We know what to do in an emergency in our home and know that we can call 999 to contact the police, fire brigade and ambulance in a real emergency. Hopefully, no children will ever need to call the emergency services, but if they do, it is useful (or essential if calling from a mobile) to know their address.

The children know that their address is private information and that they should never tell anyone their address unless in an emergency.

Stay hydrated!

With the hope that we will be getting warmer weather soon, please make sure that your child has a named water bottle in school.  It’s important to drink enough water all the time but essential when it is warm weather.  Water bottles must be taken home on a regular basis to be cleaned.  Here are eight reasons to drink water:

• relieves tiredness
• improves mood
• can stop you getting headaches
• helps digestion
• flushes out toxins from the body
• regulates body temperature
• helps to keep your skin healthy
• can help with weight loss

Let’s make sure that all children have a water bottle in school next week.

Look at our skills!

Some of the year 1 children were improving their skills this lunch time!

13 May 2016

This week’s homework is creative and is due 18 May 2016.

I can research my favourite musician.

In English, we’ve been learning how to write biographies with a focus on musicians. In class, we have used Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong and The Beatles as inspiration for our writing but next week we’ll choose our own musicians. To do this effectively, your child needs to research facts about their favourite musician (or group) and present them in a creative way. This could be a poster, a mind map, a quiz or a PowerPoint presentation.

Your child may include:

• when their musician was born
• where  their musician was born
• where their musician grew up
• how their musician got into music
• what instruments their musician learnt as a child
• how they became famous

13 May 2016

This week’s spellings are all common exception words. These are words that Year 3 children are expected to know. Lower down school they are often called tricky words because they don’t always follow expected phonetic rules. For example the ‘ar’ in forward makes an ‘uh’ sound.

• forward
• fruit
• grammar
• group
• guide
• heard
• heart
• height
• history

We’ve learnt some of these words before but they are still cropping up as errors in class.

Toys 

In our topic lessons, we’ve been looking at and playing with Victorian toys. The children had to reason about what the toys were and how children would have used them. If they didn’t know or couldn’t figure it out, they used secondary sources to find out. The whip and top foxed them the most! 

13 May 2016

This week’s creative homework is due on Wednesday 16 May.

To be able to name and describe the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.

Next week’s Maths will be all about shape. In Year 5, we need to be able to identify what 3D shape a net will make; identify and measure angles; and say whether a shape is regular or irregular.

Before we can do any of that, we need to be confident naming and describing 2D and 3D shapes and their properties. These are the 2D shapes we should be able to identify and describe:

• triangles (equilateral, isosceles, right-angled, scalene)
• quadrilaterals (kite, rhombus, trapezium, parallelogram)
• pentagon
• hexagon
• heptagon
• octagon
• decagon

We should be able to discuss ‘LADS’:

• Lines – how many, equal lengths, parallels?
• Angles – how many, which type, equal opposites, right-angles?
• Diagonals – how many can we spot by joining vertices?
• Symmetry – does it have any lines of symmetry? Where? How many?

We should also know the following 3D shapes:

• sphere
• cuboid
• cube
• prisms (pentagonal, hexagonal etc…)
• cylinder
• pyramid
• tetrahedron

13 May 2016

This week’s practice makes perfect homework is due on Wednesday 18 May.

To be able to describe the position of a shape, reflect it and translate it. 

These are all of the skills we’ve been learning during Maths this week. We’ve been remembering that we need to go along the x axis then the y axis for co-ordinates and making sure we know the difference between reflection and translation.

13 May 2016

This week’s spellings are to practise changing …ble to …bly. Note how each word initially ends in ‘e’ but this is removed when the ‘y’ is added.

• possible, possibly,
• impossible
• horrible, horribly,
• terrible, terribly,
• visible, visibly,
• invisible
• incredible, incredibly,
• sensible, sensibly

These words will be tested on Friday 20 May but, don’t forget, the point of learning these spellings is to spell them correctly – not to do well in a test!

The words have now been added to Spellodrome so there are plenty of different ways we can practise our spellings.

Brilliant Homework

WOW! Year 1, I am so impressed with you! You were very creative and have made some wonderful things about your favourite toy. I particularly liked Ethan’s edible homework which unfortunately had to go home, but we have a photo on the wall. Rayn’s rocket is eye-catching and he used lots of different materials to create it. Pollyanna created a marble run which you can really play! Hifza made a hobby horse which is so pretty and shows off lots of skills. Everyone should be proud of their work this week. Well done!