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10 October 2011

Practice Makes Perfect homework

I can describe a character.

Find a character in a story book and think of adjectives (describing words) to describe them. Are they a hero or a villain? You could try to put these adjectives into sentences too. Remember to think of words to describe their appearance (what they look like) and personality (what they act like).

10 October 2011

This week’s spellings are words with  ‘oi‘ and ‘oy‘. Your child will be tested on Friday 14 October 2011.

Top tip:

oi – usually if the sound is at the beginning or in the middle

oy – usually if the sound is at the end

• coin
• foil
• join
• oil
• point
• joy
• toy
• enjoy
• destroy
• employ

07 October 2011

Spelling Rule:

This week’s spellings all require your child to double up for short vowel sounds when adding ‘ing’.

The main focus of the learning is to ensure your child understands the rule. It’s up to your child which list they decide to do. However, it’s important they give themselves an appropriate challenge and don’t attempt a list which is neither too easy nor too difficult.

Can you come up with any more spellings that follow the rule?

07 October 2011

The homework this week is creative and is due in Wednesday 12 October.

I can design my ideal house.

It is completely up to your child what house they want to design. Here are some ideas:

• an underwater house that requires special oxygenated zones
• a house on a mountain that needs specialist infrastructure to keep it stable
• a mobile house
• a house from the future

07 October 2011

Your homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect.

I can use ‘add-ins’.

Your task is to create ten different sentences each with an add in.

In class, we are working on using ‘add ins’; these can be openers, middlers or enders.

Openers

• Silently, the thief approached the house.
• Panting wildly, Mark ran into the safety of the cave.

You could also use a connective opener (Later on, Because of this,) or a preposition opener (Under the chair, Further down the road,).

Middlers

• Sean, who lives in Leeds, likes chips.
• The dragon, breathing fire, stalked the princess.

Enders

• We couldn’t do wake up shake up because it was raining.
• The girls skipped along without a care in the world.

07 October 2011

This week we continue to look at words we need in maths.

These words will be tested on Friday 14 October.

Year 4 Assembly

Hello everyone,

Just a quick word to let you know that your child will be performing in their class assembly tomorrow at 2.40pm. It would be great to see you all there. We will try to put a video on the website.

Hope to see you there!

Firemen at Moortown

Year 3 and 4 have been treated to a lesson in fire safety by two professional firemen. Unfortunately, they were unavailable (for some unknown reason) during school hours but they decided to do a video instead to remind the children about what to do in case of a fire.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBEOdHlQnDQ

The children then wrote down some instructions detailing what to do if there is a fire.

We know how to stay safe in Year 1!

What a week we had last week!  It was amazing how much we learnt in such a short time.  We now know how to stay safe in many situations: 

•   around dogs
• dancing and keeping fit
• in case of fire
• when crossing the road
• when someone is hurt

SEAL statement 3 October

‘I can do something brave’ is the SEAL statement for this week. 

Following our Staying Safe themed week we are now returning to our New Beginnings SEAL theme and this week also sees the start of our new topics. 

As children are settling in to their new classes and getting more familiar with their new routines they may be more comfortable to try something brave, maybe working with someone different in their class, trying to answer a question they are not 100% sure about or attempting to move up their learning mountain.