Language

Spelling words: This week look over the words from rows 4, 5, 6 and 7 of your spelling wall.

Choose the 6 words that you find trickiest from the 24 words /any of the rows. Write them out 3 times and write 6 sentences including one of the tricky words in each sentence (underline the tricky words). I will be testing 12 words at the end of the week.

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.

J.K Rowling group – read chapter 3    Please read the chapter before reading on Wednesday.

Roald Dhal group – read whole book   Please read p1-16 for Wednesday and p17-32 for Thursday

David Walliams group – read whole book

Number

We have been looking at number patterns this week. Everyone has their own number patterns to complete.  Remember to look at whether the pattern goes bigger or smaller and focus on the intervals between the numbers (e.g goes up in 1s, goes down in 10s.)

Try some of the different pattern and sequencing games and this site: 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=20 

I have allocated some new games on Activelearn, so please try to access the site.

 Interdisciplinary Learning – you have a fortnight for this task (due in latest 20th November)

Research a famous male or female Viking.

Find out:

·         The person’s name

·         Where they were from

·         What they have done to make them famous

·         Any other interesting facts

·         Include a drawn or printed picture of the person.

Make sure that you use your own words and understand what you have written. DO NOT just copy chunks of information from a book or the internet.

In our P.E. lesson, we practised moving into space to get away from someone marking us. There were lots of great interceptions by the markers and some groups did manage to pass into space. We tried out our skills in small team games. Look at us spacing out so that our teams have a better chance of finding the goal!

In number today we were looking at number patterns and thinking of all the clues to help us work out the missing numbers.

Today we also practised forming and sizing lower case letters correctly. This is a skill which we need to master BEFORE we can start to join letters, so we need to work hard on this skill!

Have a great weekend everyone and stay safe if you are going anywhere near bonfires or fireworks.

Today we were using our Rex and Dood skills that find and select the information to answer comprehension questions- we realised that we can find questions easier to answer when we use our reading book!!

In French we were learning to pronounce some Halloween words and revised our French colour words to make une sorcière appear.

We used the number generators to find numbers more than/less than using the place columns to help us calculate the answer.

Homework from 31/10/17 to 6/11/17

Language

Spelling words:

This week practise the words in the 7th row of your spelling wall.

Use 1 of the activities in your spelling activities leaflet to practise spelling your words.

This week I will be checking the 6 focus words on Friday.

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.

J.K Rowling group – read chapter 2

Roald Dhal group – read whole book

David Walliams group – read whole book

Number

We have been learning about counting on and back.  Please complete your number sheet counting on in 1s, 10s or 100s.

Continue practising rounding numbers on this online game-

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=DartboardRoundingv2

Interdisciplinary Learning

Guy Fawkes night is coming soon.  Please make a list of 5-10 rules we should follow to keep safe on Guy Fawkes / Bonfire/ Fireworks night.

Today in Big Writing we were thinking about how to make sentences more interesting by using different sentence openers.

Then we worked in pairs to find the sentence openers in a piece of writing and tried to make the opening words even better!

Have a happy and safe Halloween weekend !

In reading, we used our deducing skills to look for evidence and what it suggests.

We worked together to find out more about characters by looking at what they do in the story.

As usual, we have been very busy!

We were learning about traditions and meanings of the Jewish Passover meal . In our reading lesson we were practising the skills of Dood the Detective to search for links. During French we learned a new question asking how many people live in the house. We wrote our names, ages and answered the question on our colourful maisons!

Homework from 24/10/17 to 30/10/17

Language

Spelling words:

This week practise the words in the 6th row of your spelling wall.

Use 1 of the activities in your spelling activities leaflet to practise spelling your words.

This week I will be checking the 6 focus words on Friday.

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.

J.K Rowling group – read chapter 1

Roald Dhal group – read whole book

David Walliams group – read whole book

Number

We have been learning about finding the nearest 10 and nearest 100.   Please try to find 10 numbers around you ( telephone number, car registration, house number, etc) and note them down in your homework jotter.  Beside them write the nearest ten and nearest hundred.  If you really want to challenge yourself, try the nearest thousand too!!

Remember our strategy :  circle the ten if you’re looking for nearest ten, circle the hundred digit if you’re looking for nearest hundred.  Then underline the digit to the right. Then say our rule:

1,2,3 and 4 go down to the one before.

5,6,7,8, and 9 go up to the next in line.

Try this game online to practise –

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=DartboardRoundingv2

Interdisciplinary Learning

The Red Nose Design Challenge.

Use the template to design your very own red nose.  Please check the rules on the sheet and remember to fill in the name of your nose and describe its character.

Today was Eco Active Day and it was great because we did lots of activities to make a clean  environment.  It was a fun day because we did experiments to clean water, collected leaves, made mini beast headbands, went on an Eco walk, played re-cycling games and designed an energy superhero. Take a look at some photos:

Look at the school blog to see photos of other activities!

Have a great week everyone and take care.

We have been using our interactive number wall to explore place value.

Remember that it is the Eco day tomorrow. Please wear suitable outdoor clothing , suitable jackets and wellies ( if you have them)! You can wear joggies, waterproof trousers etc – any things that will help to keep you as dry and comfortable as possible throughout the day.