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!)
Shared area learning
Lots of learning happens in the shared area!
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.
03 December 2015
The spellings for next week are:
Maths and English
Maths
This week in maths, we’ve been looking at mental methods of subtraction. We started the week by looking at a method called “forcing bonds”. Let’s have a look at this in practice…
To make this calculation easier, we can start by subtracting down to the previous ten. This would mean we would subtract four to get to thirty.
Having subtracted four, how much more would we need to subtract the full eight?
We would then subtract the remaining four which gives us an answer of twenty six.
We’ve also looked at the “add and adjust” method of subtraction which we usually use when subtracting nine.
To start, we add one to our nine which gives us ten. As a class we agreed that finding ten less is much easier than subtracting nine.
We would then use a blank number line to clearly record our methodology.
We then have to “adjust” our answer because we want to subtract nine not ten. To do this we add one back on.
English
In English, we’ve been looking at how to punctuate direct speech. Here is an example of correctly punctuated direct speech.
We use inverted commas (speech marks) before and after speech in a sentence. Ask your child how their “speech hands” can help them punctuate speech.
Direct speech is always finished with punctuation – usually a comma. Can your child think of any other punctuation that could be used at the end of direct speech? Since this punctuation is part of the speech it must come before the closing inverted commas.
After speech we often see the word said or a synonym of said. We’ve been exploring said synonyms in class.
To make our speech sentences more interesting, we’ve also looked at adding in adverbs. Adverbs describe a verb and in this sentence the verb is said.
Library
I hope your child has enjoyed having a book from our library. Please could you make sure they bring their library books back to school next week as we are having a rotation of stock.