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11 November 2011

This week, we’re learning to spell words with the ‘ow’ and ‘ou’ sound.

These words will be tested on Friday 18 November.

11 November 2011

This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 16 November 2011.

I can use adverbs.

Adverbs often end in ‘ly’ and they describe verbs (which are actions or ‘doing words’). You could use the ones you had for your homework last week.

Here are a few ideas:

• Put adverbs at the end of a sentence: Year Two did their homework happily.
• Put adverbs in the middle of a sentence: Year Two happily did their homework.
• Put adverbs at the beginning of sentences.  Happily, Year Two did their homework.
• Create a poster of different adverbs.
• Take photographs of yourself doing something and label with different adverbs.

11 November 2011

This week’s spellings are words with ‘ea’ – this creates a long ‘eee’ sound when you say the word (unlike a short ‘e’ such as in ‘tell’ or ‘incredible’).

Your child will be tested on Friday 18 November 2011.

• speak
• steal
• cream
• dream
• team
• mean
• please
• ear
• near
• easy

11 November 2011

The spellings this week are all words which have either the prefix ‘un’ or ‘dis’. Both these prefixes mean ‘not’. Children should practise all ten spellings but will be tested on eight out of the ten. They will be tested on Friday 18 November.

Super Sculptures!

It is not only children who are involved in learning.  On Tuesday, all of the teaching staff were involved in a Art workshop and some super sculptures were produced.

Check out the new member of our school community, Sebastian.

Mrs Burke, Mrs Weekes, Mrs Maver and Miss Hewson worked together to sculpt using newspaper and modrock and this is the result.

Look out for him in the middle building.

Our class photo will be in the Evening Post on Tuesday!

Photos of the class will be in a special supplement in the Yorkshire Evening Post on Tuesday 08 November.

Doggie Heaven

Year 4 were treated to a special four-legged visitor today.

Meet Bailey, a 5 year-old dog who just loves to be cuddled!

The class were brilliant with him and Bailey definitely enjoyed his stay. Year 4 learnt all about how to be safe around dogs. They also learnt about what to do in difficult situations around dogs.

Thank you to Dog’s Trust for making it such a fun session.

04 November 2011

The homework this week is Talk Time and is due in Wednesday 09 October.

Do adverts on TV influence people? Discuss both sides of the argument.

We have researched lots of different types of adverts this week and will be looking at more next week. Discuss at home with your family how adverts affect (if at all) people you know.

• Do they have an effect on you? How do you know?
• Does anyone else think differently to you? Why?

Starting points for discussion if you need them:

• If adverts do influence people, should they be allowed?
• If adverts don’t influence people, why are they always on TV?

04 November 2011

This week’s spellings are all appealing adjectives that advertisers would use to tempt customers.

04 November 2011

Your homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday November 09.

I can show what I learnt at the Leeds City Museum.

Homework is to produce a piece of work showing what they learnt on their trip to the museum. Encourage your child to focus on the learning that took place in the Ancient Greek Workshops and the Ancient Worlds Gallery.

This piece of work could be:

• A recount
• A report
• Annotated drawings
• A fact file
• A leaflet
• 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 etc.