Class trip to Temple Newsam Home Farm
Don’t forget to bring a packed lunch, drinks, sunhat and suncream if needed – or a raincoat! Children can bring £1 for an ice-cream.
This week’s ‘Tricky Words’
The ‘Tricky Word’ spellings for this week are:
- all
- are
- the
- to
01 July 2011
The spellings this week are a mixture of ‘ing’ words.
- Some follow the ‘double up for a short vowel’ sound rule.
- Some follow the drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’ rule.
- Some just need ‘ing’ adding to the word.
The spellings will be tested on Friday 08 July.
1. trail trailing
2. crave craving
3. love loving
4. drop dropping
5. admit admitting
6. brave braving
8. complete completing
9. decide deciding
10. convince convincing
01 July 2011
The home work this week is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Wednesday 06 July.
I can write a poem.
Children can choose to write either a kenning poem, cinquain poem, or adverb poem about a subject of their choice.
We have been writing these types of poems this week in our literacy lessons this week.
Examples of each type of poem are listed below:
Kenning
Kenning poems describe something without giving their name away:
A buzzing beast
A stinging stinger
A buzzing insect
A bug eyed beast
A flappy winged
A colourful monster
A crawling feeder
A flower raider
Adverb
Sadly, the black line slowly winds
Sadly, the cold wind splits the pines
Sadly, the grave site dark and cold
Sadly, the truth – we all grow old.
Cinquain
A cinquain is a five line poem that has a specific number of syllables on each line. The first line has two syllables. The second has four. The third has six. The fourth has eight. The fifth has two.
Friendship
Understanding
Talking, caring, sharing
Taking and giving all at once
Best pals
01 July 2011
The homework this week is ‘Talk-Time’ and is due in Wednesday 06 July.
I can talk about my trip to Roundhay Park.
- A discussion of the wildlife observed in the park.
- Your child’s favourite animal at Tropical World.
- The thing (including eating ice-cream!) that your child enjoyed the most.
- A discussion about thoughts on animals living in places like Tropical World.
Use the following openers to help you:
My opinion is that…
We have animals in Tropical World because…
I feel that having animals in places like Tropical World is a good thing / bad thing because…
01 July 2011
This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges are words that have a letter that doubles up followed by a ‘le’ ending.
Apples have words all ending with ‘ed’.
They will be tested on Friday 07 July 2011.
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Apples |
Bananas and Oranges |
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LO: Words with ‘ed’ ending. |
LO: Double up ‘le’ endings. |
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Bike Week
Last week, during Bike Week, over 120 journeys were made to and from school by bike.
All the names of children who cycled to school have now been entered in the Leeds City Council prize draw to be held on Monday 04 July with tickets drawn by the Lord Mayor.
Good luck to all those children.
It’s great to see children continuing to use their bike after bike week has finished as a healthy way to travel to school.
01 July 2011
Once more, spellings for all groups are based on wow words the children should be using if they are to be consistent level 4 and 5 writers.
Spellings and word meanings will be tested on Friday 08 July.
- gorgeous
- delightful
- scrumptious
- delicious
- fabulous
- succulent
- luscious
- extraordinary
- charismatic
- charming
- elegant
01 July 2011
Homework this week is creative.
I can promote our forthcoming Year 5 and 6 production of Bugsy Malone.
It could be:
- a radio advert
- a poster
- a TV advert using your windows movie maker skills
- an interview with one of the cast, or
- your own idea!
Homework is due in on Wednesday 06 July 2011.
01 July 2011
This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 6 July 2011.
I can calculate time intervals.
A time interval is the time between something starting and finishing. For example:
- A bus journey
- A TV programme
- A train journey
- A lesson
- A cake baking in the oven
You can use number lines to calculate time intervals.