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15 March 2013

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

double-up for short vowel sounds

With your child, compare the word with the long vowel sound in the first list (diner), with the short vowel sound in the second list (dinner). Usually, the words don’t share meaning (eg pole to pollen). However, by sounding out each word it becomes clear which word requires a double-up of the consonant and which do not.

15 March 2013

For the final time, I want you to revisit all the spellings we have learnt throughout the year. Each day we will have a randomly generated test on some of the spelling from the year plus a bigger test on Friday.

Make sure your spellings are up to date in your learning list book – if they aren’t up to date, use the website to help you fill in the gaps.

You might not remember the spelling, but see if you can apply the rules.

15 March 2013

In class we have been discussing theme parks; as a moral issue, we’ve thought about whether animals should be kept in theme parks like Chessington and Flamingoland.  Your homework this week is talk time.

Should animals be kept in theme parks?

Think of and discuss points that you agree with and points that you disagree with.  Also think about a conclusion or summary.

Make notes in your homework book to show the things you discussed.  Homework is due in on Wednesday 20 March.

15 March 2013

This week’s homework is a talk time homework and is due in on Wednesday 20 March.

Is space exploration a waste of money?

This is a moral homework and we want the children to be able to discuss, as a class, their views on the subject.

When we discuss the homework next week, we will also be encouraging the children to use different types of connectives when they make their points. See the below table.  Most have commas afterwards – this is a helpful way to show any sort of ‘add-in’.  You could encourage your child to speak using a slight pause where the comma might be – this can make any speaking more powerful.

15 March 2013

This week’s spellings are words with the ‘igh’ letter pattern which creates a long ‘i’ sound. Your child will be tested on Friday 22 March 2013.

15 March 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 22 March 2013.

Lions

Words that end in ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘x’, ‘s’ or ‘ss’ need ‘es’ instead of ‘s’ at the end when you are saying more than one of them.

• bushes
• foxes
• churches
• boxes
• brushes
• torches
• hisses
• buses
• wishes
• classes

Tigers

The rule is words ending in ‘le’.

• handle
• angle
• table
• little
• ankle
• candle
• able
• simple
• grumble
• dawdle

Zebras

These words are common words that are being spelt incorrectly.

• from
• some
• said
• went
• so
• do
• little
• one

15 March 2013

This week’s homework is talk time. It’s due in on Wednesday 20 March 2013.

How can art be a treasure?

Why do we treasure art?

What sort of art can we treasure?

Magnificent Monet

Year Six have used Monet as a stimulus for some artwork to convey the mood calm.
They looked at Monet’s style of painting in dabs and slabs with flat ended brushes and tried this technique to produce their own calm Monet-style artwork.

Jumping into art

Jumping into Art was exactly what Years 1 and 2 did today.  Splats came in today to help us with some drama based on ‘Katie’s Picture Show‘ by James Mayhew.  We explored five different pieces of art by pretending we were actually in the painting – we thought about how it would feel to be involved in the scene.  The whole day was spent making props and learning different parts resulting in a short performance for an audience.  This will be followed up in class with some descriptive writing, recounting our day.  Aaron from Splats said that this was the first school where he had time to rehearse the performance because the children were so responsive and well behaved: “An excellent school and excellent children”.

Splats drama