This week for our spelling sentences we were to focus on using ambitious connectives. Here are some wonderful examples from those of you who included them in your sentences. Well done!
Lucy S – Faithfully my mum, dad and Erin have remained off chocolate for Lent whereas I had an incident with a chocolate coin one lunchtime!
Lucas – Back in medieval times, they didn’t have paper so they had to use parchment and a feather.
Innis Unicorns are mythical animals although I still think they are real.
Chloe M – Sarah surprised her family by announcing that she was betrothed to Bob even though her family didn’t like him.
Olivia – Magically the mythical creature appeared however it was just my imagination.
Luca – At university the bashful student turned red with embarrassment as well as getting the hiccups during her presentation.
Spelling
Wow! Yesterday we retook the P7 Spelling Test and what an improvement from August! Nearly everyone increased their score but some of you blew yourselves out of the water. I am so impressed with the effort and you should be very proud of yourself, if you managed to better your own score.
Sumdog Contest
The Sumdog contest closes tomorrow at 8pm. Well done to those of you who have helped our class to climb the leaderboard. We are currently 109th out of 907 classes…that is some achievement, considering only 11 of you from our class of 28 have played so far. Ask me tomorrow to see where you rank.
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DJ cow spelling
Forest Phonics
Galatic Phonics
Variety of spelling games.
Doorway Spelling
Here are a variety of spelling games that you may wish to play at home. We will be playing these games in school throughout the year.
Remember to complete each task to the best of your ability. Please let me know if you are struggling with any task or need advice, as soon as possible.
- Reading Ch23-36 (p101-166) and 2 BD jobs – You should read the chapters and complete the Mind Map and Illuminator jobs by Friday 16th September. Click here to remind you how to complete both jobs and here to see good examples of the jobs completed pupils in our class. Remember to choose a passage from the book to read to your BD group.
- Spelling – Complete Unit/List 2 in your Spelling Homework jotters for Wednesday 21st September. Click here to practise your spelling words (not compulsory). Click here to see a good example of the completed spelling tasks.
- Personal Reading Challenge – Throughout the year, please read extra texts on top of the class novels. Record what you have read and complete the tasks on the Personal Reading Challenge sheet.
Maths
- Complete the three assigned challenges on Mangahigh. Try your best to beat your own personal best. If you have any problems, please let me know A.S.A.P. These tasks should be attempted by Friday 16th September. We will be covering this in class but visit this website for advice: https://www.mathsisfun.com/angles.html
- Use the IT room for 15 minutes at lunchtime if you need to.
Topic
- Japanese Products – please make a note of any Japanese products, logos or brand names you have in your house or see in your everyday life. Please have this for Monday 12th Sept.
- Topic personal project – This should be completed by Tuesday 27th September. Click here to access the task.
Other
- Please ask your parent/carer to complete and return the note about Parent Appointments by Friday 16th September
- Return any letters A.S.A.P.
- P.E. Monday and Thursday
After marking your first P7 Spelling Homework, there are a few points I’d like to clarify. In general, they were a good standard with neat handwriting, well laid out and the sections completed correctly. So well done. However, there were a few common mistakes I’d like to correct:
- One list/unit per fortnight. Quite a lot of you had completed Unit/List 1 and 2. You only complete one per fortnight .e.g. the spelling rule we are focussing on. The reason you sometimes have more than one unit on a spelling sheet is to save paper.
- You must write the date in the margin (2.9.16) and an appropriate title .e.g. Unit 1 ‘ac-‘ ‘ad-‘. ‘Spelling Homework’ is not specific enough because it will all be spelling homework in your Spelling Homework jotter!
- Please write the sub-headings of each section. This will help you to check you have completed them all.
- Please read the instructions carefully to ensure you are completing the task correctly. A lot of you never completed each section correctly. Please see the example below to check how it should be completed.
- Section 3 – Fill in the missing words should have every sentence copied and completed in your jotter AND choose one of the spelling words to write one sentence of your own.
- Please correct any mistakes. Remember the marking code.
Oops, I forgot that the creative spelling activities weren’t on the blog like last year. So I will issue you with the list of activities tomorrow and it the meantime here they are here:
- blue vowels: write the common words then go back and go over the vowels in blue
- bubble letters: write the common words in bubble or block letters
- consonant circle: write the common words then circle the consonants
- vowel circle: write the common words then circle the vowels
- UPPER and lower case letters: write the common words in CAPITAL letters then small letters
- words without consonants: write the common words but leave out the consonants (put a line instead) then go back to fill in the consonants
- words without vowels: write the common words but leave out the vowel (put a line instead) then go back to fill in the vowels
- mnemonic: make a mnemonic for the common words .e.g. mnemonic = My Nana Enjoys Meeting Old Neighbours In Church
- Click to enlarge the image below from www.teachitprimary.co.uk
Here is an example of what your completed spelling homework should look like (click to enlarge):
This is a pupil’s quality work from last year. They wrote the date, title and completed each section correctly. Depending on the size of your handwriting, the task should take up approximately 1.5-2 pages of your jotter.
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