We love to write!
Reception children can’t stop writing! Keep encouraging your child at home to write letters, lists, notes and birthday cards. Fold a piece of paper to make little books for story writing. Let them see you write, too!
Welcome!
Welcome to Hassan who joined Year 1 this week. He has made a positive and enthusiastic start at Moortown Primary. The children in Year 1 are very pleased to have a lovely new friend!
20 April 2012
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 25 April 2012.
I know about push and pull forces.
We’ve started a new mini-topic for science; we thought it would be good to see what children know about forces.
Children should show creatively something they know about the topic. Some ideas:
- a poem
- a poster
- some facts
- an observational drawing
- research using ICT
- own idea
20 April 2012
This week’s spellings are emotive WOW words that could feature in a persuasive text. Your child will be tested on Friday 25 April.
| LO: emotive vocabulary |
| verbs |
| implore |
| despise |
| insist |
| plead |
| adjectives |
| disgusted |
| astonished |
| delighted |
| stunned |
| inhumane |
| heartless |
20 April 2012
This week’s spellings are all emotive words which we’ll be using in our persuasive writing next week. Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words.
The spellings will be tested on Friday 27 2012.
| 1. | unfair |
| 2. | cruel |
| 3. | stunned |
| 4. | wicked |
| 5. | heartless |
| 6. | disgusting |
| 7. | delighted |
| 8. | overwhelmed |
| 9. | inhumane |
| 10. | astonished |
If you have an iPod, iPad or iPod touch, read on!
There is a fantastic app available on itunes called imaths. This is an excellent resource for helping your children with maths…. or helping yourself with some maths!
Here’s a link to give you an idea about the app and what it can do to help in maths.
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/i-am-learning-ks2-maths/id432536261?mt=8
20 April 2012
Homework this week is some practice makes perfect and it’s for maths.
Children have been given four mental maths tests to complete. I suggest they don’t leave all four until Tuesday night! Instead, I would recommend they do them on different nights throughout the week.
The tests will help the children with their mental maths speed and skills.
Homework is due in on Wednesday 25 April.
20 April 2012
This week, your child has been given an extensive spelling list of about 50 different words. All the words are the type of spelling have previously appeared in the spelling SAT test. The children will be tackling their spelling SAT in early May, though we don’t know which words will be tested when it comes to the real test.
Children will be given mini spelling tests based on the words they have been given to learn, but won’t know which ones are happening on which days.
It’s important that the children learn the words and the rules associated with the spellings.
The words that the children have been given will be their spellings for the next three weeks.
25 April 2012
The homework this week is creative and is due in Wednesday 23 April.
I can show what I know about forces in the world around me.
It is completely up to how your child decides to present their homework. Here are some ideas:
- a diagram
- pictures/photographs
- video
- a report
- a conversation between two people
Welcome!
Welcome to Alex and Katarina who recently joined Year 2. Both children have made a positive and enthusiastic start at Moortown. Katarina is already impressing us with her excellent range of vocabulary in literacy and Alex is wowing us with his reading skills. Year 2 are very pleased to have two lovely new friends!