– Superhero targets – please see previous post.  Try chatting to your family about your Supehero target and talk about how you could try and achieve it at home.

– Reading will be on Monday and Wednesday this week.   Tuesday and Thursday for the pandas.

– Elephants – new words and new sound ‘ee’.   These will be issued on Tuesday. Please try making ee words using magnetic letters or scrabble letters.  If you do not have these at home you could use this website instead:  http://www.ictgames.com/foamPhonemes/index.html

You could try and spell feet, meet, keep, cheese (remind of silent e),  sleep, sheep, sweets etc.

– Pandas and Tigers.  This week is a revision week.  Please revise all sounds and words.  You could try making some three letter words using the sounds. Try using magnetic letters or scrabble letters.  If you do not have these at home you could use the website above.

We have 25 new superheroes at Cults Primary.  Each superhero has made a promise/target to try and ensure they are behaving like superheroes.  They have made promises to be kind, helpful, brave, strong or fast.  Please ask your little Superheroes what their superhero promise is and they can try hard to achieve it at home too.

We have displayed all of our flying superheroes and their targets over the city landscape that we made at the beginning of the week.  Don’t they look fantastic?!

The Superheroes also worked hard to write their targets with increasing independence.

The children are desperate to go to the forest next week.  We will now be going to the forest on Thursday 5th and Thursday 12th November.  The parent helpers that were due to help this week are still able to help next week.  We still require 1 additional parent helper for next week.  Please catch me at drop off/pick up if you are able to help.

I am aware many of you were able to help for our second forest session which was due to be next Thursday and is now Thursday 12th. If you are able to help with this please let me know.  Thank you and apologies for any confusion!

After working so hard to make our fantastic superhero cars we decided to draw pictures of them.  We labelled our pictures so that our friends can copy our ideas when they are building.  We tried hard to sound out big words like batman! We are going to use our pictures to make a big book for our construction corner and then we can use it to build other superhero cars.  More pictures to follow…

The children had asked to find out more about superhero cars.  They wanted to find out why they needed to be so fast.

Today we designed our own superhero cars using a range of construction.  There was lots of tricky problem solving to do and some very good teamwork.

Testing out our cars – do they go fast? How can we make them faster?

Measuring our cars using measuring tapes – this caused much excitement and is our new favourite tool in the construction area. 🙂

We worked hard to meet the targets that we thought we should have.  We decided the cars must be fast and that they should have a roof. 

We have been having lots of talking time this week.  We are sharing our holiday stories.  The children have been full of excitement when sharing their news!

We are learning to listen to others and to try and extend conversations by asking questions. We put our thumbs up when we want to ask a friend a question.

We carved pumpkins today with Mrs Murray, our parent helper.  We hope to take these to the forest on Thursday.  We need 3 battery operated tea lights for these.  If you have any at home that we can borrow for this week please send them in.  Many thanks.

Please collect lots of junk for superhero model making.  We need lots of kitchen roll tubes!

Pandas and Tigers – new sounds and words

Elephants – new words.  Revise all sounds please.

Please look around your house for any superhero themed toys or books that we could borrow for our superhero area in class.  Please do not send anything in that has a high emotional or financial value.

This week our language learning zone activity is to make our tricky words out of pasta.  We have really enjoyed doing this and are becoming much more confident in spelling words like the, and,  my, me, can and did.  You could try this at home too.

This term we are going to be having different challenges to try during learning zones.  This week our challenge is a superhero design challenge.  We have to try and create a superhero mask using some of the materials provided.  The trickiest bit is to work out how to cut out the eye holes.  Here are some of our superheroes so far (these superheroes are certain their families won’t be able to guess who they are!)