Super Science Day Talk Time
We don’t normally set specific homework tasks in the holidays, but we encourage you to spend some time discussing the nine science activities your child will have taken part in, especially considering what they have learnt. The learning objectives were:
- I know that dyes are made up of other colours
- I know why objects float
- I can create a gas with a solid and a liquid
- I know that static electricity creates a charge
- I know about irreversible changes
- I know the effects of a chemical reaction
- I know what exercise does to my body
- I am aware of acids and alkalis
- I know what happens when you mix water with oil
Check out the pictures from the day to help jog your child’s memory of each activity… Can they match the learning objective to the photo?
More Super Science Day
Is it magic? No! We learnt that opposite charges attract so the balloon’s negative charge is attracted to positive charges on clothes, hair and walls. This is what makes them stick to each other.
Super Science Day
We used static electricity to make the can roll without touching it!
The end of another busy term!
We’ve reached the end of another busy term in Reception. The time has flown!
Here are just some of the ways the children continue to impress us:
- Manpreet, Sachpreet and Noorpreet have been busy practising their letter formation and form all letters beautifully.
- Ismail, Albert, Theo, Josh and Ethan are making great progress with their independent writing.
- Isaiah has become the ‘King of Challenges’, by being so busy with his learning and engaging in every activity on offer.
- Dylan is well on his way to becoming an author! He writes stories every day.
- Ripley, Alex, Martha and Mia are becoming great mathematicians and love to challenge themselves in this area.
- Isaac and Thomas are fantastic readers and if you want to know about ‘split digraphs’, ‘Shy i and Tuffy y’ they are the people to ask.
- Lewis continues to impress us with his creativity and has given us lots of ideas.
- Gabby, Ishaan and Nicky have impressed us by the way they keep trying even when they find things hard.
- Humairah and Ben are consistently helpful and polite.
- Lori and Karam have tried really hard this term with their phonics and writing.
- Kai and Farai are the ‘kings’ of model building and storytelling with their models.
- Filip has become a confident talker and shown great knowledge and interest in our topic on minibeasts.
- Grace, Pia and Phoebe have made great progress in all their learning and become confident members of the class.
Have a great break and see you next term!
22 March 2013
This week the spellings are all ‘double up words’ because they have a short vowel sound before the double letter (think of comma / coma or dinner / diner).
These words also have an ‘le’ ending. This ending is commonly misheard and misspelled as ‘el’ or ‘ul’.
The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Thursday 28 March.
| 1. | middle |
| 2. | giggle |
| 3. | ripple |
| 4. | cuddle |
| 5. | paddle |
| 6. | guzzle |
| 7. | muddle |
| 8. | fiddle |
| 9. | bottle |
| 10. | wriggle |
22 March 2013
The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 27 March.
I can show what I have learnt about division.
Your child has a sheet stuck into their book which has some division problems which they have to solve.
22 March 2013
This week, we are spelling words we use in our everyday writing.
They will be tested on Thursday 28 March 2013.
| come |
| an |
| this |
| is |
| was |
| here |
| then |
| for |
22 March 2013
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect. Your child will have a literacy worksheet to complete. It’s due in on Wednesday 27 March 2013.
Remarkable recounts
To bring our recount writing to a close, I thought I would upload some amusing recounts performed by the children. The children have demonstrated some really fantastic ICT skills.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOjUIVUkVbA&feature=youtu.be
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac6X5P_9IhI&feature=youtu.be
Can you tell which words would be in brackets in this recount?
22 March 2013
The homework this week is Talk Time and is due in Wednesday 27 March.
I can talk about ways to make amends if I have upset someone.
Unfortunately, there are times when we may have hurt someone’s feelings. We may have said or done something unkind. Next week, we’ll be looking at ways to make those situations better. For your homework, talk with an adult about ways to make amends if you’ve done something cruel or unkind.
Really good discussions will involve some reason and result connectives:
- As a result,
- This results in…
- Consequently,
- As a consequence,
- Because of this,