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Using atlases

We used atlases to find places.

Fantastic Fantasy!

Where do you start when you want to write a fantasy story? We started with reading some fantasy stories; then, we looked at lots of fantasy settings which we described (come and look at our fantasy tree to look at the vocabulary we came up with!).  It was time to come up with our own fantasy settings. We used the iPads to help us. Not only that, we learnt how to email our work so that Mrs Weekes can print it out! Check us out….

Super space homework

Well done to everyone in Year 4 for some fantastic homework this week. Everyone learnt so much on Friday afternoon (as well as having lots of fun!) because of the effort put in by children (and parents, perhaps!) to do something a bit different. I can’t wait for the next piece of creative homework!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62gRGuUJp2Q&feature=youtu.be

Any doubts about whether the moon landings were faked are put to bed with this re-enactment of NASA’s mission to the moon.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDpH2-RedLk&feature=youtu.be

Reception class playing and learning in the snow!

“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” (John Ruskin)

Class Assembly

We invite you to join us for our class assembly on Thursday 31 January 2013 at 2.40pm.

Apologies for the previous mix up with the date.

25 January 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 01 February 2013.

Lions

The rule is ‘drop the e for ing’, so, for example, ‘make’ becomes ‘making’.

• liking
• riding
• waving
• taming
• smiling
• hiding
• moving
• having
• writing
• shaking

Tigers

• girl
• bird
• burger
• hurt
• first
• after
• her
• return
• turn
• dirt

Zebras

Zebras are working on their split digraph spellings again this week.

25 January 2013

This week’s homework is talk time. It’s due in on Wednesday 30 January 2013.

 I can say what I know about electricity.

Friday literacy

On Friday afternoons, we practise grammar, punctuation and spelling. The lessons are short, snappy and fun with lots of games and quick activities.

25 January 2013

For the next couple of weeks, we’ll investigate words which contain silent letters. This week, they are mostly at the start of the word. Can you spot the one which isn’t?

25 January 2013

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 30 January.

I know the different parts of a sentence.

The children have a sheet stuck in their homework books. They need to read the sentences and identify the different types of words in the sentences.

They might need to spot all the nouns and verbs or some children might also have to identify the adjectives and adverbs as well. Underline/highlight each type of word with a different colour.

• Noun: a thing, object, person or place.
• Verb: an action or a ‘doing word’.
• Adjective: is a ‘describing word’. It describes the noun.
• Adverb: describes how something is done. It describes the verb.