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It’s the holidays…

…so there are no spellings or homework activities.

Instead, enjoy a winter walk, the marvellous Muppets movie, some cool culture at a gallery or museum… Enjoy the half-term break.

03 February 2012

This week’s spellings are slightly different. Instead of a list of words, I simply want your child to be able to distinguish between the two forms of no:

no – For example: No, I don’t want to play.

know – For example: I know my times tables.

We’ll be looking at this through the week, but if you could practise these activities at home it will ensure your child has a thorough understanding:

1. On piece of paper, write no on one side and know on the other. Read out a sentence and they have to show the correct no.
2. Have some sample sentences where they write the correct form of no. For example:

• I know my spellings.  (know)
• There is no way through.  (no)

If you have any questions, feel free to speak with me any time.

03 February 2012

This week’s homework is Practice makes Perfect: the children have a text to read and then answer the questions to show their understanding.

It’s due in on Wednesday 08 February 2012.

03 February 2012

Your homework this week is a mixture of creative and talk time combined and is due in on Wednesday 08 February.

I can talk about an animal from either the Arctic or Antarctic.

Next week, we are having a session called ‘Just A Minute’ in class. Children have been asked to prepare a talk that they will give to the rest of the class about an animal who lives in the Arctic or Antarctic. This talk is to last one minute and has been set to develop the children’s skills as confident and creative speakers.  The children will need to research facts about their chosen animal and rehearse their speeches at home to build up their confidence.

Any materials they prepare to help them – maybe a bullet point list as a memory aid – must stick to the homework rules of not going over one page of A4.

03 February 2012

Spellings this week are all words with a double letter in them.

They will be tested on Friday 10 February 2012.

Chickwatch 2012

We now have nine little chicks! Three to go (hopefully). Most of the chicks are now out of the incubator and in the brooder box.

Click the link below to see a picture of the chicks in the brooder box:

http://moortownprimary.posterous.com/tired-chicks-were-waiting-on-four-others-to-h

03 February 2012

This week the spellings are words where you have to drop the y for an i  when adding ly. Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words in the right hand column.

03 February 2012

The homework this week is talk time and your child should be ready to discuss the topic by Wednesday 08 February.

Is it acceptable to test on animals for medical research?

Encourage your child to justify their opinions and try to present a balanced argument. It’s likely  that your child will have a strong opinion one way or the other, but helping them to understand an alternative viewpoint will develop their social and emotional skills (such as empathy) as well as their speaking and listening skills.

Encourage your child to use all of the following connectives at least once during the discussion:

• however
• on the other hand
• because
• but

New Residents

Here are the first chicks to hatch in the incubator. There are currently nine chicks that have hatched.

Feel free to come and have a look after school. They’d love to meet you! Be prepared to wash your hands though. We’ve already had a few accidents!

03 February 2012

We’re still practising words which have split digraphs. This week, we’re looking at ‘u –e‘, for example, tub (with a short ‘u’ sound) changes to tube (with a longer ‘u’ sound).

These will be tested on Friday 10 February.