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18 January 2013

This week’s spellings for Lions and Tigers end in ‘ge’ or ‘dge’. A useful tip is that if the word has a short vowel sound followed by the ‘j’ sound then you use ‘dge’. If the word has a long vowel sound followed by the ‘j’ sound then you use ‘ge’.

• bridge
• hedge
• huge
• damage
• village
• badge
• stage
• judge
• message
• badger

This week’s spellings for Zebras are words with the split digraph.

• take
• make
• bike
• like
• spoke
• came
• cake
• ride
• spike
• broke

Spellings will be tested on Friday 25 January 2013.

18 January 2013

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 23 January 2013.

You will be practising using adjectives. An adjective is a describing word – it describes nouns. It gives more information to your sentences, making them more interesting to read. You will find the activities in your homework book.

If you have any questions, please come and see me or Mrs Weekes.

18 January 2012

This week we look at words with the split vowel digraph a-e: two letters, split by a consonant, which make a ‘long a’ sound.

These words will be tested on Friday 25 January.

18 January 2013

This week we are continuing to look at words with ful as a suffix. The words on the list can also become adverbs with the addition of an extra suffix: ful and ly.

For example: mercy   merciful   mercifully

Children will be tested on Friday 25 January on the root words with both ful and fully added as a suffix.

• beauty
• delight
• sorrow
• disgrace
• boast
• fear
• help
• spite
• power

The Paperclip Dance

Do you know how we are making the paperclips dance? Ask the scientists from Year 1!
Click on the link below to see ‘the paperclip dance’.
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18 January 2013

This week’s homework is creative.

I can show what I want to know about theme parks.

In class, children have discussed how they could present this homework, but the main thing is to get loads of questions and / or ideas down. This will mean that we can base lots of our Theme Park Big Topic lessons on children’s interests.

An excellent learner

Getting a certificate for always demonstrating excellent learning behaviour.

SEAL star

Getting the ‘I can take a safe risk’ certificate for confidently trying new shapes in gymnastics.

18 January 2013

All the spellings this week contain the letter string ough. It’s important to practise reading these words as well as writing them down as there are a variety of sounds that the ough words can make.

Children will be tested on all eight words on Friday 25 January.

18 January 2013

The homework this week is creative and is due in Wednesday 22 January.

I can show what I already know about space.

As you all know, our new topic is Blast Off! To launch this topic we would like you to show us everything you already know about space. You could tell us about the history of space travel, the different planets, the Milky Way or even discuss whether there is life on Mars! As always, you can be as creative as you like, but if you’re struggling why not try:

• an annotated photo collage of different pictures from space
• a PowerPoint presentation
• a comic strip
• a podcast