We had a great time singing at the Nativity today. We sang We Wish You a Merry Christmas with P5, P6 and P7 and P4 wish everyone a Merry Christmas!!

Interdisciplinary Learning

Design a Christmas Jumper!

 Spelling

Over the holiday season this site has some ideas for spelling Christmas words.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/christmas/spelling.shtml

 Reading

Enjoy reading any texts! Primary Times is a great way of starting to read reports, and any Christmas/winter stories are an excellent way of keeping up your reading skills over the holidays.

 Number  

If you are stuck for ideas over the next few weeks, have a look at these sites:

http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/christmas/games2.php

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Christmas/ChristmasGames.aspx

 One of the best Christmas sites is-

http://www.santagames.net/   there is so much to do and explore – have fun!!

Christmas Party

 Please remember to bring in your contribution (just one item from the list) for the party next Tuesday– a bottle of coke (lemonade, etc) or a packet of bought biscuits/cakes or some crisps/snacks. Thank you.

 

We have noticed that we all have mental maths strategies that we might prefer to use. Some see the doubles, others bond to 10 first – it is exciting to see which strategy/strategies we will use each day!

In French we were matching the names of the animals to the correct graphic using the French words.

Here we are passing the bean bag as part of our Physical Advent Calendar activities. There was some great teamwork displayed along with small equipment handling skills.

Today as part of our physical Advent Calendar we were doing press-ups and sit-ups while counting down from 10.

In number we have been exploring the number patterns that happen when you keep adding on the same number e.g. start at 7 and keep adding on 5.

During language we are developing our comprehension skills and learning how to write clear, detailed and meaningful answers.

Please try to bring in your Nativity clothes in a named bag ASAP. Thank you.

Language

Spelling words:

This week Groups 1, 2 and 3 look over the words in the second column

Group 4 – look at the third word in each row – there will be 8 words.

For Group 5, look at the fourth word in each row – there will be 7 words

Make sure that you understand the meaning of any new words – use either a real or online dictionary and write out the meanings in your jotter!

Use an activity from your yellow sheet that you have not tried before to practise spelling your words

Reading – ongoing

You have been given a school book to read at home.  Please look after it and remember to have it in your bag each day.  Read out loud from your book to an adult to practise your word attack strategies, fluency and expression. Record any interesting VCOP that you come across in your reading.

J.K Rowling group – new home reader

Roald Dhal group – read whole book  

David Walliams group – read whole book

 Number

We have been investigating fact family addition and subtraction related facts this week. Your sheet provides practice of thinking about how you can use and apply knowledge of number and strategies to help you complete the related facts.

 This site has some different games at different levels of confidence for you to try out:

http://www.ictgames.com/numberFactFighter/onlineVersion/index.html

 We practised getting onto Activelearn in school and so now everyone should remember their password to access from home. The password in the last box is 6kwa.

 Interdisciplinary Learning  

Learn the words for our Nativity song so that you are confident and can sing out well.

 

We used dice to give us a 2 digit number e.g. 36 , then we had to work out the number to add to it to make the correct total ( either 50 or 100). Try some more related facts and home and see whether you can discover any patterns.

We worked in our reading trios to find and highlight important parts of a story, then we challenged ourselves to summarise the story in less than 100 words. This is what we came up with as a class.

 

In PE we had fun using the small equipment. The quoits were tricky to control but we had more success when we were using the bean bags in team games!

Thinking about our Nativity costumes, if possible we would like each child to bring in the following by the end of next week:

a plain white short-sleeved T shirt

a black long -sleeved top to wear under the white T shirt

black trousers

If your child has a speaking part, their costume will be provided.

Many thanks for your help with this and if there are any problems please let us know ASAP.

We now have our lovely, new class carpet! There has been some disruption while the carpet was being laid and we had to vacate the classroom but the majority of the children have been very helpful and sensible during the transitions.

This is a good time to remind everyone that a pair of indoor shoes left in class can be very useful!  Not only do we need them for P.E. but if the children have wet shoes, they can leave their outdoor shoes to dry and change so that they feel more comfortable which then helps them to concentrate on their learning.

 

 

Language

Spelling words:

This week Groups 1, 2 and 3 look over the words in the first column

Group 4 – look at the second word in each row – there will be 8 words.

For Group 5, look at the third word in each row – there will be 7 words

Use whatever method helps you to remember how to spell the words e.g. how many letters does the word have? what shape does it make?, words in words, how many phonemes? etc.

Write them out 3 times and write 6 interesting sentences WITH PERFECT PUNCTUATION!!

 Reading

You have been given a school book to read at home.  Please look after it and remember to have it in your bag each day.  Read out loud from your book to an adult to practise your word attack strategies, fluency and expression. Record any interesting VCOP that you come across in your reading

J.K Rowling group – new home reader

Roald Dhal group – read whole book  

David Walliams group – read whole book

 Number

We have been investigating different mental maths strategies this week.

 Your homework sheet provides a quick revision of different aspects of number and maths that

you have already covered (in P4 and in previous classes) and gives you practice in reading and

thinking about the word problems.  

This site has some different games for you to try out:

http://interactivesites.weebly.com/—x.html

Activelearn site. If anyone is still having problems accessing the site, please let us know.

 Interdisciplinary Learning  – due in Friday 1^st December

We were researching and noting information about the Viking Gods – Odin, Thor, Frey, Freya and Loki.

You could use the information we found out to help you with your poster OR you could choose a different Viking God. We looked at a “Wanted” poster, so everyone should be clear on what to do.

 This piece of work could be done on the computer, so that you can include cool fonts and pictures.

The poster should contain:

·         The God’s name

·         A description of what they look like.

·         Information about their powers

·         Why do you want to find that particular Viking God?

 

 

Today, we demonstrated that we can use other mental maths strategies- this time, number bonds to 10 and near doubles.

 

Before we started our story writing, we were identifying good examples of VCOP. In this example, some of the connectives have been identified.

Finally, here are some photos of the preparations for the Christmas Fayre- it looks to be the best yet! Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow or if not, then next week. Have a great weekend, everyone!