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Welcome!

Welcome to Fatima who joined Year Four on Monday. We all hope Fatima has had a great first week at Moortown!

Autumn Walk

We had a great time on our Autumn walk !

Finding right angles in the playground!

A few reminders…

PE Clothes

Please make sure that your child has their PE clothes in school.  PE lessons are on Tuesday and Wednesday; if they do not have the correct clothes they miss out on this vital part of the curriculum.  The children are getting much quicker at getting changed but please make sure that their clothes have their names in – it makes life much easier before and after PE lessons.

Reading Books

We’re really pleased with the children’s progress in reading and would like to thank you for your support at home.  When you hear your child read at home, please write a comment in the book – this shows your child a good partnership between home and school as well as indicating to us who has read at home.

We now have a ‘New Reading Books’ basket in the classroom; if your child has read the book really well at home they can put their book and reading record in the basket. We can then talk to them about the book and change it if we feel they are ready for a new book.  Please remember that reading other things apart from the reading book is very valuable. This could include library books, comics and of course a favourite story book from home.

Thank you for your time and support.

Mrs Weekes & Mrs Maver

Healthy packed lunches

We have been using the Eat Well Plate to see if our packed lunches are balanced.  Here is an example with the correct proportions of food in each food group.

SEAL statement 11 October

‘I can do something brave’ is the new SEAL statement for this week.  This could be anything from having a go answering a difficult question in maths to joining a new after school club.

Learning letters and sounds

This week we’ll begin to learn letters (graphemes) and the sounds they make (phonemes).  There are several websites that contain information and activities which you could try at home.

Your child will be taught how to pronounce sounds correctly to make blending easier. Each week, we’ll let you know which sounds we’re learning.  This weeks sounds are s, a, t, p.

Sounds should be sustained where possible (e.g. sss, fff, mmm) and where this is not possible, ‘uh’ sounds after consonants should be reduced as far as possible (this means, try to avoid saying ‘buh’ for ‘b’, ‘cuh’ for ‘c’ etc.)

For a demonstration of how to pronounce the phonemes visit the Get Reading Right website and click on free resources.

Remember to practise little and often, and have fun!

08 October 2010

The homework this week is Creative and due in Wednesday 13 October.

I can show that I know about 2D shapes.

• What does a 2D shape look like?
• Can I find any around the house?
• Draw some 2D shapes.
• You could cut and paste.
• You could make a list.
• You could take a photo.

It’s up to you!

08 October 2010

This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges all include the sound ‘ur’.

Apples have some high-frequency words to remember. They will be tested on Friday 15th October 2010.

08 October 2010

The learning objective for this list is to spell words with the ‘sh’ sound.

These words will be tested on Friday 15 October.