This morning we wrote rules to keep us safe on Bonfire Night. Then we created our own firework displays in ICT.

Reading

• The Dump – pages 1-15
• The Boy who (nearly) had everything – Chapters 4, 5, 6
• Kipper’s Balloon – whole book

Spelling

Words with igh letter pattern e.g light, night, highlighter.

Fairtrade Homework Competition

The Fairtade committee are going to focus on specific Fairtrade products throughout the year this  year and are starting with cotton.

They are running a  competition to design a Fairtrade T-Shirt, the winning entry will be made into a real t shirt to be worn for Fairtrade activities and during Fairtrade Fortnight.

A template for the T-shirt competition has gone home today.

Today we had a first listen to our P3 songs for the Nativity.   Children from P3-7 can audition for parts in the Nativity.  Children who wanted to try auditioning have got scripts home today to learn for next week.

This afternoon we did some fun activities for Halloween.

We used the paint program in ICT to create Halloween pictures. We had to control the mouse to make our pictures.

This morning we were identifying wow words in a story that could help us with our writing.

Reading

• The Boy who (nearly) Had Everything – Ch 1-3
• Sam and the Tadpoles – whole book
• The Foggy Day – whole book

Sounds – ie making the I sound – fried, lie, tie, diet. Explore other letter patterns that make the I sound.

In writing today we started our spooky stories. We used our picture plans to write about the setting.

We have been practising our typing skills in ICT. We used dance mat typing to try touch typing then opened a word document and tried typing and changing the size and font.