A great start
We’ve started the Big Pedal today with an impressive 40% participation rate on Day 1. Did you cucle or scoot to school? If not, there are another nine days to go.
Here are today’s totals.
A big thank you to Dom Jacques for supporting the event and organising the bike and scooter donations. These donations have meant that even more children can take part in the event.
Also, thank you to the Year 6 helpers who are coordinating the data gathering on a daily basis.
Residential information evening
A quick reminder that on Thursday 23 March at 6pm there will be an information evening for the families of those children attending the residential in April. This is a good opportunity to find out more about the venue, the activities, the necessary items to bring and of course to ask any questions you may have.
Look forward to seeing you at 6pm on Thursday.
The meeting will be held in the Year 4 classroom.
17 March 2017
The spellings this week are homophones and near homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but have different meanings and often spellings.
| sea |
| see |
| one |
| won |
| quite |
| quiet |
| here |
| hear |
| blue |
| blew |
17 March 2017
The homework this week is creative.
I can design a house or room of the future.
Think about what houses may look like in the future. What would yours look like? What would you have in your room? Consider how it will make our life easier or be better for the environment. Annotate your design with notes to explain the different features.
17 March 2017
Homophones
This week, the children have been given a spelling activity on a worksheet. This will help them learn their spellings from the list given last week. The spellings will be tested next week on Friday 24 March.
17 March 2017
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect: To understand the spelling rules for plurals.
I would like children to revise the different spelling rules for plural words. It was highlighted in our recent Year 3 grammar test that this is something all the children need more practice on.
The task the children have been given is to:
- Walk around your home and look for things you have more than one of. Make a list of all the plurals you can find.
- With your help, discuss how these should be spelled. How many things have you got on your list?
- Can you find at least one thing for each spelling rule?
- Just add ‘s’ (cups)
- Add ‘es’ (bunches, boxes)
- Change ‘y’ to ‘ies’ (stories)
- Change the word completely (mice, children)
- Change the ending to ‘ves’ (halves)
Topic celebration
To celebrate our topic learning, Time Travel: Transport Through The Ages, we invited parents, carers and families into our classrooms. The children showcased their learning well and were willing, and able, to answer questions about it in great detail.
Adults and children were free to wander into both classrooms to view all the learning. A few of the examples on display were; chariots, hot air balloons, Viking ships, Titanic information, cave paintings, futuristic transport sorting activities, big topic book and much more.
Well done to all the children and thank you to all those who came in to share this with us.
17 March 2017
Spellings for this week are words, chosen at random, from the Year 3/4 statutory list.
It is important to check that your child knows the meaning of each word and can use it correctly within a sentence.
To help:
- say the word
- say it in a sentence
- say the word again
- write the word
- write the word in a sentence
- check it’s spelt correctly
- repeat – lots!
The spellings are:
- various
- question
- guard
- calendar
- famous
- peculiar
- medicine
17 March 2017
This week’s homework is creative and is due in on Thursday 23 March.
To design a quiz to show what I’ve learnt about our topic.
To celebrate bringing our current topic to an end, I have asked the children to design a quiz. They will need to think about a period of time throughout history and create questions about it. It is important that some of these questions are transport related as this has been our focus throughout. We discussed in class how to present a quiz and how to vary the answers. For example, multiple choice, use pictures, lift the flap and so on.
During our homework review session, the children will be able to try out their quizzes on their friends.
17 March 2017
“i before e except after c!”
Many of us have heard this rule but just how true is it? Children should investigate this ‘rule’ and find out how true it is. Are there many exceptions? Can you find examples where the rule does help? Children should evidence their investigation on the spelling page of their homework book.