18 November 2011
Your homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 23 November.
I can show what I learnt at the Eureka Museum.
Produce a piece of work showing what you learnt on your trip to the museum.
This piece of work could be:
- A few sentences
- A picture
- Annotated drawings
- A list of facts
- A poster
- Another idea, even more creative!
Remember, homework should stick to one page of the Homework Book, but the page can be extended with flaps, pull out sections or some other creative way.
18 November 2011
This week, we’re learning to spell words we can use to join sentences (conjunctions).
These words will be tested on Friday 25 November.
Can you think of one of your own and use it?
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and |
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but |
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because |
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then |
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after |
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until |
18 November 2011
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 23 November. This week has been national anti-bullying week and the class assembly also had an anti-bullying theme; consequently, the homework is about bullying, too:
I can give advice to a victim of bullying.
It is totally up to you how you give this advice. Some ideas are:
- a poster giving tips and advice
- a playscript between a victim of bullying and a person giving advice
- a storyboard or comic strip
- a picture story
- a poem
18 November 2011
The spellings this week are all words which have either the prefix re or pre. The re prefix means ‘again’ and the pre prefix means ‘before’.
Children will be tested on Friday 24 November. They will be tested on eight out of the ten words.
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prefix |
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2. |
predict |
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3. |
prepare |
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4. |
previous |
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5. |
rebuild |
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6. |
recycle |
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7. |
return |
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8. |
rewrite |
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9. |
recede |
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10. |
precaution |
Our class assembly…
…is today at 2.40pm – friends and family of pupils in Y3 are welcome to attend.
Eureka!!
As you know, Year 1 and Year 2 went to Eureka museum in Halifax on Tuesday 15 November. The main focus of our day was in the learning area known as “Me and My Body.” Our learning included the way our mouths work, how fast we breathe and how our skeletons move.
What a tiring day…
…just time for a snooze on the way home.
Animation at Allerton Grange
Year Six were lucky enough to have the opportunity to go to the City Learning Centre at Allerton Grange to try their hand at animating. Their work included making models, backgrounds and using ‘I Can Animate’ to create Mini Movies about Greek Myths.
The work they completed was excellent. Here are some pictures to give you an idea of how great their marvellous models were.
Measuring!
This week Reception have been busy measuring everything in the classroom!
This week’s phonemes
This week, the new phonemes are g, o, c and k. The children will be taught that c and k together make the same sound. They will look at words with ck and identify that this usually occurs at the end of a word.
When learning a digraph (two letters making one sound), the children will be encouraged to join-up the two letters when they write.
This week, the high frequency word to learn is ‘and‘.
Thanks for voting…
We’re very proud that Bronwen, a Year 6 pupil here at Moortown Primary, was selected as one of ten finalists for the Leeds Children’s Mayor competition. Year 6 children completed a manifesto of what they would like to change if they could become Mayor for the Day and Bronwen was chosen as our entrant for the competition.
Voting for the finalists closed on Friday 04 November. Sadly, Bronwen did not win. Well done to Joe Smith from Strawberry Fields Primary School who won.
This whole programme is about encouraging children to show an interest in democracy and to get them into the habit of voting on issues that affect them.
We know children at Moortown Primary already make a positive contribution to the school and their community through the School Council, litter-picking, raising money for charity etc. It’s great individuals like Bronwen want to go the extra mile to have their views heard!
Perhaps Bronwen has her sights on bigger, national levels of leadership. Friday 11 November was Takeover Day, where schools are encouraged to allow children to take over any aspect of school or work life. Moortown Primary had children take over in the office, the kitchen and in assembly. Children in lessons took over some teaching and took over writing some of the newsletters. Missing from the day was Bronwen – she was in London, where she had taken over the role of Children’s Commissioner for the day!