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Perfect planter

Having worked so hard on planting our seeds and making sure they’ve got the best environment to grow, we’ve now planted them outside in our new Y1/2 planter. Come down past the dining room to see how they’re doing. We’ve got nasturtiums, sunflowers, courgettes, tomatoes, lettuce, peppers and broad beans growing. Hopefully, we’ll have another planter soon to get all of our seedlings outside.

What’s happening this week?

Green Fingers continues and we’re moving our growing outside. New school planters have arrived so this week will see us building and planting in these. We’ll move the seedlings that have been getting on so well in the shared area into the planters to see how they do in the outside world. On Wednesday we’re going to go to the park as our learning moves from flowers to trees. We’ll be exploring the local environment to see what trees we already know the names of and which we can identify using the shape of their leaves.

Maths – Returning to multiplication means times table practice is, as always, extremely helpful for our learning in class. Go counting crazy as you walk up the stairs, travel in the car, walking to school; you could even try the 3 and 4 times tables in preparation for moving into Year 3. As part of multiplication, we’ll also be working with money so if you go to the shop and buy 3 oranges at 50p each, see if we can tell you how much by using our 5 times table knowledge.

English – Entering the world of SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar), we’ll be recapping nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Use Post It notes to label your house’s nouns then go round again and add an adjective to each one. Play verb charades then make it harder by adding an adverbs.

• common noun – a thing (you can precede with ‘a’ or ‘the’) like ‘the table‘ or ‘a dishcloth‘
• adjective – add information to the noun like ‘a square table’ or ‘the wonderful garden’
• verb – an action like ‘to sing‘ or ‘to dance‘
• adverb – describes how, where or when you perform an action like ‘I sang beautifully‘ or ‘I danced on the table’

19 June 2015

This week’s homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 24 June 2015.

I can show what grows around me.

Get out and about, either into your garden or walking through the streets and parks, to see what plants you can see.

• Are there flowers, trees, fruit or vegetables growing in the world around you?
• Which can you name and which can you not?
• Are there any plants you see over and over again?

Show us in any way you like what grows around you.

Maybe you want to…

• Draw pictures.
• Take photographs.
• Create an information booklet.
• Film walking around and noticing plants around you.
• Describe the plants you find.
• Make a quiz to see if others can name what you see.

Reception enjoyed being ‘Little Movers’!

19 June 2015

The spellings this week are all words with silent letters. The silent letter in each word is in bold.

19 June 2015

The homework this week is creative.

I can show and explain what a half is. 

In maths lessons this week, we’ve been learning about fractions. For their homework, I’d like children to prove to me that they know what a half is. To do this they must also think about what a half isn’t. They should show their explanations in any way they like: annotated diagrams, pictures, photographs, videos, a story.

Are you getting our tweets by text?

Many of you don’t use Twitter but still receive our tweets in a different way: as a text message on your mobile phone.  If you don’t yet receive our tweets by text, here’s how:

send follow moortownprimary to 86444

If you have signed up for this, please do bear in mind there can sometimes be a delay (that’s the reason why some of you think I send tweets at some crazy hour in the night!).

This message on the Twitter Help Centre might be useful for some of you who have said sometimes they don’t get the tweets:

Missing Twitter SMS updates? This does happen occasionally. If the Twitter SMS queue is too overloaded with text updates, some may be dropped. This means you may experience occasional missing updates from certain people at busy times. If you’re missing updates from the same or all account(s) consistently, this may be a different problem.

Things to check:

• Make sure your phone number is added to your account. You can check this under the Mobile tab in your Settings page on the web.
• Make sure your time zone and your online sleep settings are correct.
• Verify that your Twitter mobile update preferences are set to ON; text ON to Twitter to get a confirmation message that updates are ON.
• Make sure you’re following the person whose updates you’re missing and updates for that specific person are turned on. The default phone setting is OFF until you visit the person’s profile page and turn text updates ON, or text FOLLOW username from your phone, like this: FOLLOW Oprah

If all of the above are correct, then:

• Try unfollowing and refollowing the person whose updates you’re missing. Text OFF [username], then ON [username] to your Twitter code to do this, or visit their profile on the web and turn SMS updates on.
• Try resetting your mobile preferences by texting the word OFF to your Twitter code. Wait a few minutes, then text the word ON to your Twitter code.

If you’re still not getting updates from that person:

• Submit a support request with the details about what’s happening. Don’t forget to include the following info:

1.  Your username and the username of the person you’re missing updates from.
2. The URL of the missing update, e.g. http://twitter.com/coates/status/1114430687
3. Your mobile phone number and mobile service provider.

A carousel of learning

Whilst I read with a group (‘guided reading’), there are lots of other learning activities going on in a carousel arrangement across the week. Activities included volcanic top trumps, a pairs memory game, free reading, group reading, Mathletics and great use of the Maths challenge table.

A spot of gardening

Thanks to Zeewa and Edward for volunteering to help Mrs Edwards tend to the front garden.  Clearing out of weeds and watering to do done!

19 June 2015

This week’s homework is talk time.  Please make sure that your child is ready to talk about the homework by Wednesday 24 June.

Why do we need to treat all living things with respect?