Show and Tell
Tuesday’s Show and Tell is changing this term to make it a bit more focussed and structured. Instead of bringing in objects from home, children will bring in their favourite books and talk about them. This could be their favourite story, fact book, poetry collection, recipe book, religious book. If your child has a favourite author, they could talk about this person and their books.
Children will be told the Tuesday before if it’s their turn. This gives them some time to decide what book they will choose and what they are going to say. I’m not expecting a ten minute presentations, just a minute or two. They won’t need to prepare slides but they might like to make a few notes to help them remember what they are going to say.
A general structure for their presentation could be:
- Introduce the book – What is it? What is it about? Who has written it? Illustrated it?
- Why do you like it?
- If it’s a story, what are the main characters like?
- What are your favourite parts of the story, favourite recipe, fact page, etc.
- Who would you recommend the story to and why?
A big thank you!
Thank you to all the people who donated money at the end of the Whoops-a-Daisy Angel performances. Altogether, we raised a fantastic £287.78! This will be split between our two charities: St Gemma’s Hospice and Cancer Research.
08 January 2016 – Green Group
This week’s spellings for the Green Group:
08 January 2016 – Red Group
Here are the Red Group’s spellings for this week:
08 January 2016 – Yellow Group
Here are the spellings for yellow group this week.
Library books
This week, we visited our lovely school library and the children chose books to take home for the week. They were really enthusiastic about choosing their own book and were allowed to choose any book they wished from the Key Stage 1 choice of books. Please ensure your child looks after their book and returns it to school on Friday 15 January. If your child wishes to keep the book for longer then that is fine, but please note that a new book will not be issued without the return of the old one! I hope you enjoy reading together.
Have a lovely weekend!
Squashed sentences!
The first week of the new term is over and the class have settled well into their routines again. We have been learning to add two 1-digit numbers by bridging 10 (see previous post), reading and writing words with the suffix -ing, and learning how not to ‘squash’ our sentences.
A squashed sentence is when two sentences are squashed together without any punctuation.
An example: I went camping it was fun.
This should be: I went camping. It was fun. (…or some other punctuation, but not a comma)
We can also join two sentences with conjunctions.
An example: I went camping and it was fun.
This week, we were focusing on separating two squashed sentences with a full stop. Children found it easy to identify where the full stop should go to separate the sentences when listening to a squashed sentence being read, but found it less easy to do this in their own writing.
To help at home, you could ensure that children are pausing at full stops in their reading. You could also write two sentences which are separated by a full stop in the incorrect place, such as I went. Camping it was fun. Read the sentences together and see if your child could fix it.
‘Squashed sentences’ are something which spoils some older children’s writing, and it’s hard to get out of the habit later on. Please practise this lots at home!
08 January 2016
The spellings this week follow a similar pattern, involving changing a t to a c.
| innocent – innocence |
| decent – decency |
| frequent – frequency |
| confident – confidence – confidential |
| observant – observance – observation |
| expectant – expectance – expectancy |
| tolerant – tolerance – toleration |
| substance – substantial |
These spellings will be practised throughout the week before being tested on Friday 15 January.
08 January 2016
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework is due on Wednesday 13 January.
I have been assigned three Mathletics tasks.
The children need to log on to Mathletics where they will find that they’ve been assigned three tasks.
- multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000
- dividing by 10, 100 and 1000
- adding capacity
These tasks must be completed by Wednesday and if there are any problems with accessing Mathletics, I need to be told before so that they can be given time in school.
08 January 2016
This week, we also have Practice Makes Perfect homework:
I can find missing angles around a point.
This continues on from maths lessons recently. Children have learnt how to calculate missing angles in a straight line and should should apply this knowledge to the worksheet.
This homework is due on 13 January 2016.