14 January 2011
The home work this week is a talk time homework and is due in on Wednesday 19 January.
I know some facts about the planets.
Talk to somebody at home about the planets. What can you find out?
I’ll look forward to talking to you about your planet facts. Good luck.
14 January 2011
The spellings this week are all time connectives. We are going to be practising using these connectives as openers to sentences in our new literacy unit. This is why they all start with a capital letter and have a comma at the end of the word.
Spellings will be marked wrong if the capital letter and comma aren’t present!
1. Before,
2. After,
3. Then,
4. Later,
5. Just then,
6. Finally,
7. Next,
8. Suddenly,
9. Meanwhile,
10. Afterwards,
Spellings will be tested on Friday 21 January. Good luck!
14 January 2011
Homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect.
In class, we have been learning how to vary the start of sentences. The children have some work to complete on trying to start sentences in different ways:
- With a word ending in ‘ing‘: Holding Fizah’s hand as tightly as she could, Wendy stepped forward.
- With an adverb: Carefully, Harry carried the delicate china cup to the fountain.
- With a connective: Because of the traffic, I was late for school.
- With a preposition: By summer, the plant had produced beautiful petals of a golden yellow.
Homework is due in on Wednesday 19 January 2011.
14 Jan 2011
Spellings this week are to tie in with our Arctic Habitat topic. Choose eight words from the list to learn and be tested on next week. Spellings will be tested Friday 21 January.
omnivore
herbivore
carnivore
predator
consumer
producer
organism
mammal
amphibian
reptile
environment
habitat
Arctic
Antarctic
A Review of Last Term
Last term was very successful with lots of learning taking place in all curriculum areas and SEAL. When we asked the children what their favourite learning was, many said it was the opportunity to dress up and experience Victorian Day. The children have also enjoyed the opportunity to use the Year Six Forums on the website.
Here’s looking forward to another busy, eventful and successful half term!
SEAL statement 10 Jan
This week we are focussing on our second ‘R of learning’, risk-taking, and our weekly statement is “I can take a safe risk.”
As part of our 7 Rs topic we will be looking at how taking a ‘safe risk’ can have an impact on learning. This may include ‘having a go’ in class, for example:
- asking a question
- putting your hand up to answer a question
- working with someone different in class
- making suggestions in group work
Storytime!
Would you like to read to a small group of children or the class?
Do you have a favourite story from your childhood you would like to share?
We are learning traditional stories in our Literacy sessions this term and would like to provide the children with a wide range of stories read by a variety of people. If you would like to read to the children at story time please let us know.
We would particularly like to hear stories from a variety of cultures, not necessarily from a book.
Games to play at home
Memory
Memory, also known as concentration, is a fantastic game that can be played by even the youngest children, making it a very enjoyable way to learn the phonemic code. Because children generally excel at memory-based games, it also allows them to compete easily with older players.
The player to the dealer’s left starts. On each turn, a player must turn over two cards and pronounce each phoneme. If they match and are a pair the player may keep them if he or she can pronounce the phoneme correctly. If playing with the advanced code phoneme cards, then a word containing that phoneme has to be said in order to keep the pair. Because that player was successful, he/she also gets to take another turn. If, however, the two cards that he/she turns over do not match, then the player must turn them face down again and the next player takes his/her turn. The game is over when all of the pairs have been found. The person with the most pairs is the winner.
Word Card Winners
Place all the cards face down and take it in turns to pick one. If your child says the word correctly they keep it. Read a few words wrongly and encourage your child to spot the mistake. The person with the most cards is the winner.
Have fun!
Topic
“It was great fun going to the museum!”
“I liked making the solar-powered cars.”
These are just a couple of the positive comments from the Year Fours about our last topic, ‘All Aboard’.
We have kick-started this year with a mini-topic on South Africa. The children have already used the atlases to locate South Africa and its surrounding countries. The African animal art work has really brightened up our classroom too!
Our main topic this term is ‘To Infinity and Beyond!’ As we will learn all about space, this topic is mostly science-based. However, there will be links with some other subjects such as literacy, DT and ICT.
Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas break! Parents’ evening will be held at the end of the half term but in the meantime if you have anything you need to discuss, please feel free to come and see me.