Homework this week is 2 maths worksheets based on number sequences, spelling and a reading challenge.  For the reading challenge, access the following website which relates to our Scottish Wars of Independence topic:

http://medievaleurope.mrdonn.org/plague.html

Read the section which begins ‘Have you ever heard the nursery rhyme……….’ and fill out the next page in your Reading Passport.  For those who have lost theirs, just use a notepad.  The sections you need to complete are Book Title (which would be The Plague), Author (the name of the website), the date you read it, your star rating out of 5 and What you thought of it (summarise what you learned and your opinion of the piece).  Also, think about the reading challenge you set yourself on p.4 of your Reading Passport.  Have you stuck to it? Make a comment underneath and try to come up with a second reading challenge for yourself.  Fill it out underneath your first one on p.4.

The spelling words are as follows:

Green and Yellow:

accident

accidentally

arrive

arrival

complete

forward

heard

extreme

bicycle

mention

Red:  Adding ‘ing’, ‘er’ and ‘ed’ to words with a short vowel sound

running

chatted

drummer

nodding

tapping

sobbing

shopped

wrapped

hummed

slipping

Our news reporters this week are Zach Gillan and Lucy McInroy.

Last week Lewis Harris brought us a really interesting story about how most people are overfeeding their cats and instead of feeding them two big meals a day, we should give them five smaller meals as it makes them more active and healthy.  Kiera also told us of an amazing story about a young girl called Anya who is impressing everyone with her climbing skills and it is possible that she will compete in the next Olympics.

Homework this week is 2 worksheets based on fractions, spelling and a challenge based on your Reading Passport.

For the reading challenge, you need to read a newspaper article, either a paper copy or access one online (e.g. www.childfriendlynews.com).  Fill out the author and date details in your Reading Passport.  Again in the ‘What I thought’ section, use your note taking skills (ABC-LOU) to summarise what the story was about and briefly state your opinion on it.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WEEK, 10 PEOPLE DID NOT HAVE THEIR READING PASSPORT WITH THEM.  THIS IS A SCOTLAND WIDE SCHEME AND IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT WE ALL TAKE PART!

The spelling words are as follows:

Green and Yellow

believe

business

caught

certain

continue

difficult

experiment

minute

pressure

remember

Red:  Adding ‘ing’, ‘er’, ‘est’ and ‘y’ to words ending in ‘e’

hoping

riding

sliding

writing

wasting

biting

riper

nicer

shining

having

Our news reporters this week are Kiera and Lewis Harris.

Last week Christiana reported on the news that Tim Peake is planning another space trip.  We watched a video about how other children have reacted to this news.  Good job Christiana!

Homework this week consists of one maths worksheet on time, spelling and topic.  Your science project is also due in this Friday.

For topic you need to click on the following link:

http://www.viking.no/e/info-sheets/scotland/largs.htm

Once you have read the article then fill in the next page in your Reading Passport.  When it comes to the ‘What I thought’ section, use the note taking strategies we have been learning in class i.e ABC-LOU (Abbreviations, Bullet points, Caveman Language – Lists, One word for many, Use your own words).  If anyone is unable to access the above document online then please ask Mrs Duffy for a paper copy.  The spelling words for this week are as follows:

Green and Yellow – Homophones

grate

great

hear

here

knot

not

meet

meat

past

passed

Red – Adding endings to words ending in consonant and ‘y’

spied

spying

copied

copying

replies

happiest

bumpier

angriest

carried

carrying

Our news reporters this week are Martine and Christiana.

We are all looking forward to hearing what you find out about!

Homework this week is spelling and two maths worksheets on time.  Please remember that you also have your Science project to work on.

If you have any spare time you could also research Robert Burns, in particular examples of Scot’s language, or the Chinese New Year, as we will be looking at both in class this week.  The spelling words for this week are as follows:

Green and Yellow:  Prefixes ‘im’, ‘il’ and ‘ir’

impure

imperfect

immobile

irrelevant

irresistible

illiterate

illogical

irregular

irreversible

irreplaceable

Red – making plurals when words end in y

babies

ladies

puppies

jellies

parties

pennies

hobbies

cities

bunnies

poppies

This week we have introduced News Reporters to our classroom jobs.  Each week, two of you will be chosen to find out about a current issue and report back to the rest of the class via the Blog.  Underneath ‘Useful Links’ you will find a direct link to the Newsround website by clicking on ‘News’.  Our reporters will simply reply to this post in order to share their findings with the class.  Our first reporters are Jessica Murphy and Aidan.  Good luck and we look forward to hearing what you find out about!

Homework this week is spelling and maths.  There are two worksheets based on revision of time.  You also have a science homework task based on Space which will run for the next few weeks with a final submission date of Friday 3rd February.  You have been issued with an information sheet which gives more details on this.  This week’s spelling words are as follows:

Green and Yellow – prefixes ‘mis’, ‘in’, and ‘dis’

misunderstand

misread

misplace

insecure

insufficient

indirect

disconnect

dislike

disbelieve

dismounted

Red – words ending in ‘y’ as ‘ie’

cry

dry

fly

sky

fry

try

my

shy

why

reply

Thank you so much to the parents for my lovely gifts.  They were so very much appreciated.  I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and New Year.

With thanks

Mrs Duffy