Oui, bien sûr!
An exciting new French project for Year 4 children will be starting this week.
A teacher of English from a school in the Champagne region of northern France contacted Moortown Primary to see if we could write back to the 30 children in one of their classes so they could practise their English writing skills.
We replied, “Oui, bien sûr!”
We have received 30 wonderful postcards from the children from their village school in Grauves, and Year 4 will be individually responding to each child. We’ll reply first of all to their questions in English and then, to put our skills to the test, we’ll be replying with one or two of our own.
As-tu des frères ou des soeurs? par exemple.
It’s a great way to bring our French learning to life and the teacher, Monsieur Jérôme Eyffred, has sent us some pictures of their beautiful setting, library, classroom and even classwork so we can compare notes! Already we know the school has 130 pupils, five classes (Year 2 to Year 6) and only one interactive whiteboard – it’s a relatively new concept in France, says Jérôme.
We’ll keep up the correspondence until the end of this term and provide any further updates on this new partnership between Moortown and Grauves.
18 May 2012
Our spelling list this week looks at words that end in ‘nk‘.
These words will be tested on Friday 25 May 2012.
| bank |
| pink |
| ink |
| drink |
| sink |
| tank |
| blank |
| oink |
| plank |
| think |
18 May 2012
This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 23 May 2012.
I know about labels and captions.
Your child has been comparing fiction and non-fiction books this week. Labels and captions can usually be found in non-fiction books, close to photographs and diagrams.
By the way, it’s useful to encourage your child to read a wide range of books, both stories and factual.
18 May 2012
This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘ed’ for the past tense. Your child will be tested on Friday 25 May 2012.
- served
- stroked
- refused
- replaced
- dawdled
- included
- grumbled
- surprised
- behaved
- pleased
18 May 2012
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect: the children have to read the text and answer the questions.
It’s due in on Wednesday 23 May 2012.
18 May 2012
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 23 May.
I can talk about a time when I have felt proud of someone.
In keeping with our SEAL theme this week, the homework is to discuss a time when they have felt proud of someone else. This could be a friend or relative.
Remember, with talk time homeworks there is no need to write anything in the homework books; a few notes might be helpful but not essential.
18 May 2012
This week’s spellings are all tricky words which have been misspelled in our writing recently.
| 1. | opened |
| 2. | through |
| 3. | friends |
| 4. | around |
| 5. | between |
| 6. | different |
| 7. | brought |
| 8. | favourite |
| 9. | whole |
| 10. | together |
18 May 2012
This week’s spellings are all tricky words which have been misspelled in our writing recently. Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 25 May.
| 1. | people |
| 2. | asked |
| 3. | could |
| 4. | because |
| 5. | went |
| 6. | once |
| 7. | which |
| 8. | thought |
| 9. | believe |
| 10. | favourite |
Creating a mood
Tomorrow is the final SAT of the week: long writing.
Today in class we have been discussing how to create a mood ready for the writing tomorrow.
Here are some mood words that the children might want to create WOW words and phrases about. This will help them in creating a mood and interesting their audience with their writing tomorrow.
- relief
- worry
- anger
- mystery
- shock
- excitement
Who said exercise was boring?
As part of our PE we went into the front playground to use the equipment. Our muscles got a good work out; there was lots of climbing, jumping and hanging around! Look at these two children strengthening their arm muscles and showing great balance and what an amazing leap from another!
