Our week
This week, as ever, has been a very busy one.
We have started rehearsals for our production in a few weeks. The children are learning their parts well and the songs are coming along nicely, too.
A tennis coach came to deliver a lesson on Thursday and he was very impressed with how the children listened and followed instructions well. An extra well done goes to Isaac and Kai for their tennis skills, great partner work and the support they gave to one another.
World Book Day went well. We had a classroom full of book characters dressed in fantastic costumes. It was great to see how much thought and effort the children had put into their outfits.
Talking of books, our Friday session of reading for pleasure continues to be a big success. Please remember that children are invited to bring a book from home to add to our library if they wish.
During our SEAL lesson and homework review, Year 4 were able to suggest some very good ways in which to help a group to work co-operatively. As well as suggesting these ideas, I have seen lots of children demonstrating these within a lesson. An extra special well done to Thomas, Martha, Lewis and Isaiah for doing just that.
As always, please feel free to pop in and see us if you have any concerns or general enquiries regarding your child.
03 March 2017
This week’s Talk Time homework is linked to a visitor we’ve got next week.
How do rollercoasters work?
Going to theme parks is also a great form of entertainment today so it links to our Time Travel – Entertainment topic. Many of us love them but why and how are they made? Discuss this as a family, with friends, over dinner or in the car and be ready to join in our class discussion on Thursday 09 March.
03 March 2017
This week, Year 6 have a mini Maths test and a reading comprehension for their Practice Makes Perfect homework.
The children could complete it independently, with you or a bit of both by doing it themselves then going through it together. Make sure they make note of anything they’re struggling with as we’ll discuss this as a class in our homework review on Thursday 09 March.
03 March 2017
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 10 March.
03 March 2017
This week’s spellings now focus on the prefixes on the left hand side.
Create and practise words with these prefixes and see how many other prefixes you can think of that are not on the list. Be prepared to discuss what adding the prefix does to the meaning of the root word.
You’ll be tested on words with prefixes on Friday 10 March.
03 March 2017
The homework this week is creative and is due in on Thursday 09 March.
I know that houses in other countries may be different to our houses.
Think about your own experiences or ask friends or family who have been to or lived in other countries about the houses that people lived in.
How are they different to the houses we live in? How are they the same?
You could draw and label a picture of the houses, write an estate agent promotion for a house, create a model of the houses with labels.
03 March 2017
The spellings this week are all words which contain a silent w.
| write |
| written |
| wrote |
| wrong |
| wrapper |
| wreck |
| wriggle |
| wrinkle |
03 March 2017
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect:
To learn your lines and songs for the school production.
It’s going to be a busy few weeks in Year 3 getting ready for the Year 3/4 production. Children should start to learn their lines now off by heart and learn all the songs, too. Thank you for all the support you have given to your children already. You can tell they’ve been practising and it’s going to be a great show!
World Book Day
We’ve had a great morning celebrating World Book Day. It’s been great to dedicate so much time to reading and, for some of us, getting dressed up has been great fun, too.
Already today we’ve crammed in lots of great learning:
- A special World Book Day celebration assembly.
- Mrs Burke came in to read a couple of her favourite children’s books to us.
- We had the chance to particpate in group discussions about the books we’ve brought in.
- We did ‘speed dating’ but with books where we had one minute to recommend our favourite book to a friend.
- We spent time reading someone else’s book to see if we enjoyed it
- And, this afternoon, we’ll enjoy some time relaxing and reading just for pleasure.
Here’s a few pictures from our day so far…
03 March 2017
| Word Families
This week’s spellings activity is to explore some common word families. Words we use every day but might not stop to think about. Children will not be given a list to learn but should explore the following word families: |
| graph |
| phone |
| auto |
| micro |
| tele |