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14 January 2011

This week’s homework is Talk Time. It is due on Wednesday 19 January 2011.

I can talk about what I saw at the circus performance.

• What did you like?
• What did you learn?
• Would you like to do it again?
• Why did we do it?

When discussing this at home, please encourage long, full sentences.

14 January 2011

This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges all have a ‘d’ added on to the end.

Apples have some high-frequency words to remember. They will be tested on Friday 21 January 2011.

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!