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17 May 2013

The homework this week is talk time and also a little bit of creative and is due in on Wednesday 22 May.

I know that I’m special and others are special too.

The theme for this half-term’s learning on developing children’s social, emotional and behavioural skills is ‘Good to be me’. We are exploring how children can motivate themselves in their learning and across the school. This week, we have been finding out what is special about us and what is special about our classmates.

In your child’s homework book there is an activity to complete. This activity doesn’t necessarily need to be done with a parent. It can be done with any adult that your child has a close relationship with.

The activity doesn’t have to be stuck in the books. In fact, it might be something you wish to keep. However, it is important that your child comes prepared to speak about their homework.

17 May 2013

The spellings this week all contain the ending sion. You’ll notice that this ending makes the same ‘shun’ sound as last week’s spellings.

Can you also spot the words which have a double up for a short vowel sound?

This curry is the best…

Year 5 and 6 have been creating vegetable and chick pea curry.  Here are some of the quotes about what we thought:

‘Amazing…awesome…surprisingly nice…I don’t usually like curry…this curry is the best…really, really enjoyed this.’

In conclusion, this is a quick, easy and flavoursome recipe so we encourage you to try it yourself.  If you don’t like some of the ingredients, you can change them.  Next time, we might add extra spice, chicken, tomato, quorn, peas or sweetcorn.  We hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

Vegetable curry

Ingredients

• 1 onion
• 1 pepper
• 1 courgette
• 150g mushrooms
• 1 clove garlic
• 1x15ml spoon oil
• 2x15ml spoons curry paste
• 2x15ml spoons tomato puree
• 200g chickpeas, canned (drained)
• 1 can coconut milk (reduced fat)

Method

1. Peel the onion
2. Slice the mushroom, courgette and pepper
3. Heat the oil in a saucepan and fry the onion, garlic, mushrooms, pepper and courgette for 5 minutes
4. Stir in the curry paste, tomato puree, chickpeas and coconut milk
5. Simmer for 20 minutes
6. Serve with rice and / or naan bread.

17 May 2013

This is the last week we’ll be focussing on a familiar set of letters. The letter string this week is ou. Again, these letters are pronounced differently dependent upon which word they feature in (eg out, pour).

17 May 2013

This week we are looking at a trigraph: a three letter grapheme, where three letters represent one sound (phoneme), as in air (three letters making one sound).

These words will be tested on Friday 25 May 2013.

17 May 2013

We’ve started our Big Topic about farms! In only two weeks, children have already learnt about how butter is made, where corn is grown and in which country people eat mielies.

Our homework is Creative:

I can show what I know about a farm.

Here are some suggestions:

• poster
• poem
• picture
• map with information on
• photographs of the animals on a farm with captions or labels
• build a model
• research different types of farms

Homework is due on Wednesday 22 May 2013.

Learning futsal skills

10 May 2013

The familiar set of letters this week are going to be ea that are pronounced differently dependent upon which word they feature in (eg bear, fear).

Understanding of the World

Reception enjoy exploring and discovering the world around them.

10 May 2013

This week, we’re learning to spell words with alternative spellings for the ‘long i’ phoneme – the ‘long i’ sound in words such as those in the list.  Some words use igh, some use i-e, some use a y (often at the end of the word).

You can help your child’s spelling:

• look out for these when reading, or anywhere in the home, in shops etc
• prepare labels with igh, i-e, y – read out words and see if your child can say which spelling pattern (which grapheme) they use
• think about other words which use igh, i-e or y to create a ‘long i’ sound – how many can your child find?
• are there other ways to create this sound?

These words will be tested on Friday 17 May 2013.