23 May 2014
There will be no homework or spellings this week. Have a lovely holiday.
Half Term Break
Just a quick note to wish everybody a very relaxing half term. Although it has been short, the children have worked extremely hard so far this term and they should all be very proud of themselves. Enjoy the holidays!
Ahoy, me hearties!
Year 2 had a great day on Friday 09 May becoming pirates and travelling to a forgotten island!
We made pirate hats at the beginning of the day before setting sail on the seven seas in our boat.
After sailing around the seven seas and performing our pirate duties, we came across a message in a bottle that told of a boy name William trapped on a deserted island. Of course, we went in search of him, using our telescopes, making a raft and rowing to shore.
We found all sorts on the island – Soft leaves, straight twigs, tall trees and fluffy plants! And, of course, we found William. We joined him on the island and drew a map of where we were…
…before writing a sense poem about what we could see in the North, East, South and West of the island.
In the North I see
A leaf as green as a croaking frog.
In the East I see
A gate as black as a dark cave.
In the South I see
A building as hard as rock.
In the West I see
Miss Rushbrooke, as cheeky as a monkey!
Roundhay Football Tournament
A report from Zakir:
“In the semifinal, Year 5 played Talbot Primary School to book a place in the final. Unfortunately, we lost on penalties after a tense match. Talbot scored first then suddenly Year 5 climbed back with a brilliant goal from Harris. The final whistle blew meaning the match was going down to penalties. Unfortunately, we lost the shoot out in a heartbreaking result. Let’s see who wins next year!”
Zakir asked Mr Catherall (the head coach) for his views:
“Everyone was immensely proud of the way both teams played and the sporting manner of both their wins and their defeat.”
Roundhay Football Tournament
The Year 5 team have now won three and drawn one match meaning they’re through to the semi-final! Come on, Moortown!
Unfortunately, the Year 6 team could only draw their second match meaning that, although they finished second in their group, they’re not quite through to the semi-final.
Roundhay Football Tournament
The Roundhay 7 a side tournament is well under way. The Year 5 team have a win and a draw from their first two games!
Nothing (or little Toby)
Year 1 had another visitor this week. It was Nothing.
Nothing is the main character in the book we have been looking at in our SEAL lessons. When his family move house and leave him in the attic, Nothing becomes lonely and afraid. Helped by big Toby, Nothing is reunited with the rest of his family at their new house. We have used the story to think about how Nothing might have felt and how the children might feel if they were in similar situations, developing empathy skills. The children can certainly recognise a wide range of emotions.
‘He might have felt uncomfortable,’ suggested Pia.
‘When he was reunited Nothing would have felt brave,’ Ethan thought.
We invited Nothing to visit our class and this week the children were so excited to meet him. Making sure Nothing felt safe and welcome in the class, we introduced ourselves.
As part of the project the children will be taking Nothing home overnight and we will continue to look at how to look after Nothing – what might he want but more importantly what are his basic needs.
16 May 2014
This week’s homework is talk time.
Why is it always important to tell the truth?
This will be discussed as part of our SEAL lessons next week. If you have this conversation at home then it will give the children chance to think about it in advance.
16 May 2014
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Red Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
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these |
smoke |
beach |
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Steve |
those |
bucket |
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complete |
home |
ocean |
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theme |
explode |
waves |
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least |
note |
coast |
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treat |
wrote |
ice-cream |
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cheek |
bone |
cliffs |
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bead |
pole |
boat |
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stone |
sandcastle |
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envelope |
swimming |
Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 23 May.
16 May 2014
The spellings this week are a little different. There are only two words but these two words have been making me groan when marking the children’s books recently! The words are not hard to spell but children are getting them mixed up in sentences.
The words are:
1. are
2. our
Children should be read a sentence containing are or our and have to decide which word is correct. This is how they’ll be tested next week as well.
eg It is ___ turn to go swimming. Should it be our or are?