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14 June 2013

The homework this week is Talk Time and is due in Wednesday 19 June.

I can reflect on my learning.

As we approach the end of the year, this is a great chance to reflect on what the children have achieved over the three terms. Discuss with your child what they think they have got better at concerning their learning. You may want to consider:

• their proudest achievement
• their most challenging learning
• what they think they will have to focus on next year

Nothing needs to be written in books as it’s talk time homework. However, make sure your child has considered their strengths and weaknesses over the year and that they are ready to discuss them by next Wednesday.

14 June 2013

Over the next couple weeks, we’re going to be learning about suffixes.

This week’s spellings all end with the suffix ‘ful’, Notice how when ‘full’ is added on to the end, it loses one of its ls. For example, wonder and full becomes wonderful.

A couple of the words follow a similar another familiar spelling rule when ‘full’ is added. Do you know what it is?

14 June 2013

This week’s spellings look at adding a suffix where the root word does not change eg. care – careless (care has not changed in any way when the suffix has been added).

• careless
• thoughtless
• homeless
• lifeless
• fearless
• jobless
• thankless
• headless
• speechless
• endless

14 June 2013

This week’s homework is talk time.  It’s due in on Wednesday 19 June 2013.

Why do some farmers prefer to make their farms organic?

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

We had a great day at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

Fun in the sun

Well done to the all the Year 1 children who took part in the Roundhay Primary Schools’ Fun Run.  Here are a few who I saw cross the finish line.

Tennis competition

Well done to the Year 3/4 tennis team who fought off all the local opposition and got through to the Leeds City Finals.

The finals took place last Wednesday, at John Charles Sports Centre, where the Moortown team did us proud and took fourth place overall.

Well done to the whole team – you played some fabulous tennis!

07 June 2013

This week’s spellings are a revisit of words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word. I’ve noticed that children are still struggling to read these words and / or write them correctly.

07 June 2013

Homework this week is creative. It’s the third of three homework tasks this school year when we invite children to respond to something from a cultural or spiritual perspective (we’ve timed these so they fall close to religious festivals, from Eid to Easter).

I can respond to a piece of art.

This week, we’d like children to present their responses about a piece of art. Your child might think about the colours used in the artwork or the line or shapes. They may discuss the mood of the piece and decide if they like or dislike it.

However, your child might prefer to do the following:

I can show how I celebrate an occasion.

We invite children to respond to the sentence above – they might include a recount (like a diary entry), a report, draw pictures or use photographs to show how they celebrate an occasion.

07 June 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 14 June 2013.

Lions: Drop the e for ing

This is one of our three main spelling rules.

• explore
• exploring
• decide
• deciding
• hope
• hoping
• write
• writing
• dive
• diving

Tigers / Zebras: For short vowel sounds double up for ing

This is one of our three main spelling rules.

• tap
• tapping
• hop
• hopping
• skip
• skipping
• pop
• popping
• get
• getting