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Class Assembly

Thank you for coming to see our class assembly on Thursday. We appreciate the positive feedback, too. Here are a few of the comments:

• “Informative and lots of fun while learning.”
• “Lovely clear voices and beautiful singing.”
• “Well done. I learnt lots about electricity. What a wonderful performance.”

01 February 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 08 February 2013.

Lions

This week’s spellings are adding ‘ing’ to verbs. Because there is a short vowel sound, you need to double the consonant after it.

• running
• swimming
• skipping
• hopping
• stopping
• rubbing
• shopping
• dropping
• putting
• digging

Tigers/Zebras

This week we are learning to spell words with double consonants after the vowel.  The double consonant often mean the sound before is a ‘short’ sound (think of the difference between dinner and diner, supper and super, for example).

• better
• daddy
• dinner
• happy
• letter
• supper
• lolly
• button
• summer
• rabbit

01 February 2013

This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 06 February 2013.

Your child will have one of the following homework objectives depending on which one they are beginning to learn:

• I know the 5 times table.
• I know the 3 times table.

01 February 2013

The homework this week is Talk Time and is due in Wednesday 06 February.

I can talk about when I think time began.

Before we started our new Big Topic (Blast Off!), the children came up with some questions that they wanted to find the answer to by the end of the topic. A large proportion of the class wanted to know the answer to the following question:

“When did time begin?”

I’m sure you’ll all agree this is a fascinating question as well as being one that I would struggle to answer! Therefore, we’ve decided that this is a great opportunity for your child to share their beliefs, ideas and/or theories on when and how time began. Make sure your child has some points ready to bring to our discussion next week.

01 February 2013

This is the second week of investigating words which contain silent letters. This week, we’re looking at words with a silent h and words with a silent b.

01 February 2013

This week’s spellings are plurals where the route word ends with an f. However, when the word is pluralized, the f is dropped and replaced with ves.

For example, leaf becomes leaves.

01 February 2013

We’re continuing to look at suffixes. This week, we’re spelling words with the suffix al.

Children have the following words to learn and need to find four more that fit the rule.

• medical
• traditional
• personal
• capital
• seasonal
• historical
• exceptional
• occasional
• national
• sensational
• additional

Spellings will be tested on Friday 08 February.

01 February 2013

This week in class we have been writing from specific points of view. Your homework is to write a diary of a visit to a theme park expressing your point of view of the day.

• Was your day excellent?
• Was it disappointing?
• Was it a mixture?

Remember to include events and feelings. Make your diary as entertaining as possible. Interest your reader by combining interesting events and feelings. Make your events realistic. Link your opening and closing paragraphs with your feelings about your day.

Complete your plan  on the planning sheet you were given in class and write your diary in your homework book.

This practice makes perfect homework is due in on Wednesday 06 February.

Punctuating sentences with the iPads

This afternoon, we’ve been correcting sentences which had missing punctuation using the Smart Notebook app. The children then had to email their completed sentences to me to check.

Have they hatched?

…Not yet, but we’re keeping a close eye on them.