11 December 2015
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect and is due Wednesday 16 December.
Your child will have been given an extract from our class novel “Five on a treasure island” with the speech punctuation missing. Can your child add it back in?
They will also have a comprehension sheet to complete. To help your child with this, ask them to highlight the key words in the question and find the clues in the text before they go to write an answer.
11 December 2015
This week’s spellings link to measurements which will be our maths focus next week. Your child will need to know the spellings and the appropriate abbreviations.
1. metre – m |
2. centimetre – cm |
3. millimetre – mm |
4. litre – l |
5. millilitre – ml |
6. grams – g |
7. kilograms – kg |
8. weight |
9. height |
10. capacity |
Bedtime reading
We like these top tips to promote bedtime reading from Book Trust.
Although these are specifically for children who are starting to read by themselves, there are plenty of tips to support children of all ages.
(The Book Trust’s advent calendar is brilliant, too!)
Students become teachers
I was able to put my feet up earlier this week as the children became the experts. First, we recognised what aspects of our learning we were stronger and weaker at. We then practised how to teach somebody else something we were confident with. Finally, we paired up and had a go at teaching.
Both student and teacher were positive about this approach and asked if we could do it more often.
8Rs for learning
Resilience, resourcefulness, readiness, responsibility, risk-taking, responsiveness, remembering and …reflection.
This week we complete our 8Rs SEAL theme. Children will have the opportunity to not only reflect on their learning in general but also reflect on how the 8Rs supports their learning.
Talk with your child about what they’ve learnt, asking questions about how they learnt, why they learnt it, when they’ll use their learning, how they would teach this to someone else, what learning might link with what they’ve learnt today…
Can your child remember the 8Rs and the associated animal?
04 December 2015
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 09 December.
I can show what I know about the 8 Rs of learning.
The 8 Rs of learning are:
taking risks, being responsive, being responsible, being resilient, showing readiness, being resourceful, being reflective and remembering.
04 December 2015
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 9 December.
I can show what I know about the 8 Rs of learning
The 8 Rs of learnng are:
taking risks, being responsive, being responsible, being resilient, showing readiness, being resourceful, being reflective and remembering.