11 November 2011
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 16 November.
What makes a house a home?
- Is it the things you have in the house?
- Is it the people who live there?
- Is it the location of the house?
- Is it the house itself?
11 November 2011
This week’s spellings are all two words that are joined together with a hyphen to form one adjective.
All the adjectives fit with our current literacy learning: promotional writing. Look out for words like these in adverts and leaflets.
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Adjectives made up of two words. |
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action-packed |
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mouth-watering |
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breath-taking |
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jam-packed |
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mind-blowing |
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spine-tingling |
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gob-smacking |
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hair-raising |
As part of Takeover Day, the children contributed some of these words.
11 November 2011
This week’s homework is Talk Time. It’s due on Wednesday 16 November.
My favourite story / fairy story is…
Talk Time homework doesn’t need lots of evidence in the homework books; sometimes, just a comment from an adult to say you’ve discussed it is enough.
Here are some tips:
- Ask other family members to give their opinions and to use the ‘because’ word.
- Ask your child his / her opinion and ask them to use the ‘because’ word.
- Link the topic back to something you remember from when you were a child and say why things may be different now.
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.
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cow |
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out |
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town |
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shout |
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down |
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loud |
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.
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unwell |
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2. |
unhappy |
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3. |
dislike |
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4. |
disagree |
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5. |
unlucky |
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6. |
unable |
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7. |
disobey |
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8. |
dishonest |
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9. |
unusual |
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10. |
disappear |
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.
