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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.

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.

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,

22 March 2013

This week, we’re revisiting a familiar spelling rule. The spelling rule to chant is:

double-up for short vowel sounds

All the spellings here are high-frequency words. That means they are all words that are used often. Like last week, continue to sound out the vowel sounds with your child so that they associate the short vowel sound with the doubled-up consonant.

Science day warm-up

Getting the balance right – What should we eat to stay healthy? and Cough, sneeze, sniff and wheeze – How do we breathe? were two interactive sessions led by Leeds University students to Key Stage 2 classes this afternoon.

As part of the science in school initiative, two students delivered a variety of interactive activities and informative learning.

Year 3 and 4 focussed on What should we eat to stay healthy?

This session covered the important components of our diets – the major components which provide us with energy, and the building blocks that we need for growth and to maintain a healthy body, and the minor components – the vitamins and minerals.

Year 5 and 6 investigated How do we breathe?

• What causes us to breathe?
• How the lungs function under normal circumstances and after exercise
• The danger to the lungs of smoking or passive smoking

All in preparation for a packed science themed-day tomorrow!

22 March 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Thursday 28 March 2013.

Lions

The spellings are plurals ending in ‘ies’. When we change singular words that end in ‘y’ to make plurals, we need to drop the ‘y’ and add ‘ies’.

• tries
• cherries
• stories
• flies
• berries
• babies
• lorries
• ladies
• families
• cities

Tigers

This week’s spellings are words that make the ‘f’ sound using ‘ph’.

• graph
• phonics
• dolphin
• elephant
• sphere
• nephew
• alphabet
• telephone
• photo
• phase

Zebras

• bony
• greasy
• lazy
• scary
• shiny
• tasty
• slimy
• wavy
• nosy
• spiky