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30 January 2015

This week’s homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 04 February.

I can write a story set in a Norman castle.

R2s (our ‘remember to’ reminders…):

• capital letters and full stops
• adjectives
• conjunctions

Before you write your story think about these questions…

• Who would live in the castle?
• Do you have a goodie and a baddie?
• What does the castle look like inside and out?
• What main event happens to put one of your characters in danger?
• How do they get out of this danger?
• Is it a happy ending?

Thanks for coming to our class assembly…

…and thanks for your compliments!  Here are just three of them…

• “Very entertaining assembly.  Impressed by how talented the class are.”
• “Lovely assembly – kids had great fun sharing their talents with the school.”
• “Good work by Year 1 – very committed performances by all the children.”

Phonics

Thank you to everyone who attended the phonics sessions last week. We hope you found them useful.

Following on from the feedback you gave, here are some captions and sentences your child can write at home. More will be added as we introduce new phonemes.

Phase 2 captions with tricky words: to, the, no, go

• socks on a mat
• an egg in an egg cup
• a hug and a kiss
• on top of the rock
• to the top of the hill
• get off the bus
• no lid on the pan
• pack a pen in a bag
• a doll in a cot
• sit back to back

Phase 3 sentences

• We can get the bus to the fish and chip shop.
• Gurdeep had a chat with his dad.
• Max and Vikram sail a wooden boat.
• Yasmin sits on a rock and looks for fish.

Thackray Medical Museum

Check out how we got on learning about medicine from the past and how our bodies work…

23 January 2015

The homeworks this week are Practice Makes Perfect and Talk Time.

The Practice Makes Perfect homework is a couple of Mathletics activities linked to our learning on fractions.

The Talk Time homework is a SEAL themed one, asking children: Why is it Good To Be Me? Lots of children (and adults) find it difficult to talk about things which they are good at. I’d like children to have a conversation about their strengths and why it is good to be them. We’ll talk about these next week in class.

23 January 2015

The spellings this week are (almost all) proper nouns which link in with our new Time Travel topic. As these words are proper nouns, they need a capital letter.

The final word is conquer. I would like the children to learn this word and any other words in its ‘family’, eg conquered. Children could be tested on any of these ‘family’ words.

23 January 2015

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.  Please make sure it is handed in by Wednesday 28 January.

I can describe my house and I know my address.

There have been lots of adjectives used this week to describe different types of houses.  It would be great if the children could write a description of their house or their favourite room.  This is also an ideal opportunity for the children to learn their address – it is important that they know where they live even if it is just the number of the house and the street name.

Please make sure that homework books are handed in by Wednesday – there are a small number of children who are not doing their homework or not handing it in.

23 January 2015

Her are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 30 January.

23 January 2015

This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Wednesday 28 January.

Which house would you live in and why?

All of the houses in your book are from different periods in time. Have a look. Imagine what they would be like inside and what it would be like to live there. Then, decide which house you would choose to live in and explain why you have chosen this.

Talk Time homework encourages discussion at the dinner table but please write a couple of notes explaining your choice to help you when we discuss the subject in class.

Fantastic Samba Homework

Some fantastic, creative homework from Year 3 today.

Here are a few samples: