Good afternoon everyone.

Literacy

Our spelling pattern

• • Adding ly
  • This suffix begins with a consonant and therefore the root words do not change unless the root word ends in y, in which case y becomes i
  • e.g.    rapid +ly
  • e.g.    tidy + i + ly
  • If root word ends in l then simply add ly (gradual + ly – gradually – double l)

Here are the words

loudly             cheaply

foolishly         rapidly

silently           secretly

bravely           gradually

happily            tidily

easily               quietly

Our tricky words were

very                  every

Here are the children’s reflections.

Mr Bothamley

It has been another busy week of learning in P4H and we have been developing a huge number of skills.

Our Blog is a combination of our reflections .

Literacy

Reading We have reshuffled our reading groups and renamed the. We will be developing literacy skills with a combination of reading independently, out loud and reading activities as a groups.

Spelling This weeks sound is ir

first, third, birthday, thirteen , thirst, girl, thirsty, squirrel, squirt, firm

We also practiced Hallowe’en words

ghost, broomstick,spider cauldron, toffee apple, witch, scary, terrify, pumpkin

Storm .It is such an exciting book which we finished this week. It is good to follow the text as a class. We had lots of discussions with our learning partners about what we thought about the ending and what might happen next. We thought it should have a different ending. We looked for clues in the text.

We were reporters and wrote about our holiday week . We used adjectives and thought about our feelings.

We wrote an Autumn poem. We looked at poems and learned they have shorter lines, have a rhythm and often rhyme . We made a list of adjectives and Autumn words to help us. It was a bit like writing a song.

Home learning . Practise writing out the spelling words in different colours.

Look at other poems and see whether they have rhyming words.

Maths

We looked at symmetry all around us. We used mirrors to help us to see if the shape was symmetrical .We tried to draw the other half of pictures to make them symmetrical.

We contined to practise the 3 times table.

Home learning .Try to find examples of symmetry in your home and play this game https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-sorting

Practice 3 times table.. Ask someone to give you the answer and work out the sum eg 15 is 3 x ?

Art We made a pumpkin using orange and black paper. It was symmetrical. The skills we used were cutting,gluing , drawing , creativity, concentration, focus and patience ( Ms Hastie and Mrs Tulloch were very impressed with them)

PE We divided into groups and practiced a mixture of skills using the equipment.at different stations. They were bat and ball, ball skills, skipping , throwing, target practice and running .It started to rain so we had to abandon and run in very quickly!

Outdoor learning We looked for symmetrical shapes all around the playground , but then it started to rain.

HWB We looked at “The Boy, the Mole the Fox and the Hound” by Charlie Makesy . We discussed how we could make a difference and drew pictures in pen showing that.. We are going to display them next week .

Mrs Tulloch’s Lunch time chats were about how Halloween started and traditions and Mary Queen of Scots playing tennis.

Pumpkin Trail We went on a pumpkin trail to see all the fantastic pumpkins. Here are some from our class

Have a Happy Hallowe’en!

by P4H (and Ms Hastie )

Hello Magic Monkeys and Happy Friday!

In literacy we have covered:

• Single sounds of the alphabet
• Re-cap of digraph sounds covered so far in Term 1
• Tricky words (block 1 – 5)
• Sounding out/blending/spelling words (CVC, CVCC, CCVC)
• Dictation – digraph revision
• Writing ‘October Holiday’
• Writing Star Steps: use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops, using a connective word and writing 2 or more sentences
• Letter formation – cursive and non-cursive
• Reading Groups

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Subtraction within 30
• Chilli Challenge subtraction – continued in our new maths jotters!
• Time –days of the week and months of the year
• Counting in 5s
• Number formation

Reading

We have started a class novel – The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark!

• Reading groups
• Predicting the story
• Recalling the story
• Reading out loud

P.E:

• Fitness – exercise video in class
• Joe Wicks fitness
• Yoga
• What skills are we developing during P.E discussions

Morning Starters:

• Tuesday – writing name using cursive letters  
• Wednesday – literacy activity
• Thursday – picture/word recognition  
• Friday – ‘partner game  

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Marble Run
• Block Play
• Lego/construction
• Role Play
• Arts and Crafts table
• iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• smartboard games 
• Bingo – led by the children
• Listening and talking activities

Outdoor Learning

• This week we have made an ‘Outdoor Learning Journal’
• We collected leaves and decorated our own journal
• We will use this journal each week to document our outdoor learning
• Descriptive writing about leaves

We enjoyed our walk around the school to see all the pumpkins!

French

• Simple greetings

Extra Information 

• We have some unclaimed/unlabelled uniform in the classroom – please let me know if you are looking for any items.  

Enjoy the weekend, have fun and stay safe,

Miss McGhee.

Happy Halloween from the Jolly Jellybeans!

 

Please bring in a palm sized pebble next week for painting in class.

Here is a summary of our learning this week: 

Literacy:

We wrote a story inspired by a spooky picture and focused on using vocabulary which was ambitious. We tried to build suspense in our stories.

We completed a reading comprehension about The Bristol Bus Boycott related to our learning about Black History Month.

We have been planning our class assembly for next Friday on Black History Month. We split into groups and were assigned roles: presenter, script writer, film manager, production manager.

We consolidated our learning on commas to add extra information to sentences with Miss Martin.

Literature Circle reading to be completed by next Wednesday:

• Beetle Boy: read up to page 51.
• Our City: read up to page 49.
• Game Boy: read up to Page 11.
• How Kirsty Jenkins Stole The Elephant: read up to Chapter 5.
• The Accidental Time Traveller: read up to Chapter 6.
• How Brave Is That?: read up to Chapter 3
• Framed: read up to page 52.

Spelling for next week:

The spelling rule is the ‘er’ suffix. Take each word back to its root. Note that the silent e which must be dropped before the er suffix is added. Some spelling words relate to previous rules.

Super: angler teacher rambler customer adapter builder painter quieter cleaner baker

Fantastic: rambler gardener accuser admirer adviser dazzler divider stranger angler adapter

Tricky words: maize maze

Home Learning Ideas:

• Practise your spelling words at home.
• Look out for ambitious vocabulary in your reading books. If you don’t know their meaning, use a dictionary to find the definition.
• Practice writing sentences with commas to add in extra information.

Numeracy:  

This week in Numeracy we consolidated our learning on reflective symmetry with Miss Martin.

We learnt about the divisibility tests. We can use these to test whether a number is divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,8,9 or 10. There is no test for 7. Here is a poster to explain the divisibility tests.

We continued out Numeracy Ninjas to practise times tables and key maths skills. We discussed what it means when a number is cubed and when a number is squared.

We practised our division and multiplication fact families e.g. 3×6=18, 6×3=18, 18÷3=6, 18÷6=3

Home learning:

• Topmarks / Hit the Button
• Choose 5 two or three digit numbers and test their divisibility.

Other:

We revised our French colours in outdoor learning with Miss Martin.

We completed Halloween anagrams.

Amber and Eve presented a super presentation about Space.

In P.E. we developed our running fitness.

In assembly this week we focused on keeping ourselves safe on Bonfire Night. We are looking forward to our assembly next week.

   Have a lovely weekend!

Please read our summary of learning this week. Thank you to the pupils who created this. We also include a list of our spelling words.

Reflective Friday – 30.10.20

Literacy – William, Belle, Ariana and Aysu

This week in literacy the spelling pattern was ‘ily’ for example gloomily, unnecessarily, momentarily and extraordinarily.

We also write a persuasive article about selling a spooky, mansion house. We had to give lots of details about the mansion, we had to use persuasive language to help us sell the spooky house.

Numeracy – Katie, Korey, Connie and Alfie

In Numeracy we looked at calculating the perimeter and area of shapes. We looked at finding the area of a right-angled triangle.

We learnt that to calculate area you have to times the measurement of the width by the length and to calculate perimeter you have to add the measurement of the sides. We also tried to solve word problems with area and perimeter.

IDL – Jessica, Iggy, Darcey and Tosia

In topic we researched about Hurricane Katrina and wrote a case study about it. The case study was on the social, economic and environmental impacts.

In PE we tested our speed by marking how far we could run in 10 seconds then we tried to beat ourselves.

Our highlight this week was taking a walk around the school to see everyone’s pumpkins.

Home Learning options – William, Belle, Darcey and Tosia

We could ask a parent to draw a 2D shape and then we need to work out the perimeter and area of the shape.

We could search up some words ending in ‘ily’ and ask someone to test us.

We could practice our times tables.

Thanks!

We hope you all had a great October break and we enjoyed welcoming you all back to class this week. Another busy week of learning.

Literacy

• Reading in our reading groups and in BEAR time
• Continuing to enjoy the story of James and the Giant Peach as a class
• Listening to and then sequencing a funny Halloween themed story: A Magical Muddle
• Spelling sounds:
• Team Jewel- single sounds i, s and m
• Team Gold: the aw/au sound for example paw, jaw, yawn, haul, haunt, Paul; Tricky words: do, as
• Team Treasure: igh/-y revision; Core list: right, sight, flight, sunlight, goodnight, spy, trying, why, frying, sty; Challenge list: bright, slightly, frighten, sunlight, goodnight, spying, trying, why, frying, shyly; Tricky words: what, when
• Writing about a favourite holiday activity using super sentences
• Continuing to work on handwriting, focussing on correct formation
• Practising alphabetical order

Ideas for home learning

• Help your child to learn the alphabet…lots of us know the first part but get in a muddle after L!

Numeracy

• Ordering numbers from smallest to largest
• Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s forwards (and backwards for a challenge) from different starting numbers
• Finishing our learning about information handling
• Practising our addition skills by solving some Halloween themed puzzles

Ideas for home learning

• Practise your counting with these catchy songs

Other Areas

• Cosmic Yoga- we enjoyed the Ruby Broom adventure
• Pumpkin Trail- we had so much fun looking at all the different designs
• Resilience- revising what we have already learnt about being resilient

Here are some Halloween themed activities in case you are looking for some inspiration!

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Tweedie and Mrs Graham

P4W Wonderful Woodland 30 October 2020

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s blog. We are all delighted to welcome Mrs Ling to our P4W Learning Team.

We have had another busy week, developing skills across the curriculum.

Literacy

We are becoming Reading Detectives as we continue to read our class novel ‘Ottoline and the Yellow Cat’.

Looking for clues in a text – deciding what is important and what might be misleading.

Giving our opinion on a text and discussing a variety of texts (including our home texts) with a partner and in a team.

Sharing and discussing a selection of non-fiction texts.

We are finding information about the characters and asking questions- taking notes in ‘Reading Detective’ notebook.

Spelling- words with ‘ir’  and ‘ur’

FANTASTIC– third thirty first

SPECTACULAR– firstly thirteen return occurred

Tricky words- work  know

Ideas for home learning: Use Autumn colours to write out your words. Write them inside a big, orange pumpkin.

Maths

Writing additional calculations in the traditional way, so that we are adding the tens then adding the units.

Laying these calculations out carefully and accurately, just as Mathematician would do.

Mental Agility

Quick and accurate recall of number facts.

Jigsaw numbers to 100 and using the skill to give change from £1.

Doubling 2- digit numbers.

Ideas for home learning-Make your own ‘ five-minute frenzy’ by drawing a 10 X 10 grid using a ruler. Put the numbers 1 to 9 across the top and the same down the side. Put the answers to the calculations in each box. For an extra challenge- time yourself doing it!

Health and Wellbeing

We are exploring strategies to help us become more resilient.

Developing our fitness, listening and quick thinking skills.

Developing our coordination, rhythm and sequencing skills.

Learning in our outdoor environment.

Social Skill

Please find attached our Reflective Friday blog sharing our learning from the end of the week. Thank you for a great week P4W and well done for lots of super learning!
In the blog you will find the spelling lists from Monday.

Mrs Williamson, Mrs Ling and P4W

Happy Halloween!! Please find below a brief overview of what we have done this week.

HOME LEARNING WILL BEGIN ON MONDAY

Please remind your child to bring in a pebble from home to paint in class – many thanks!

Hello everyone, we hope you all had an enjoyable break last week. It was lovely to welcome the children back to school and to hear about all the things they were doing.

This week we have been learning:

MATHS AND NUMERACY

In mental ,maths we were counting backwards in ones, twos and tens, starting from different numbers.

We began looking at different subtraction strategies and started by counting back by one, two and three. Some of us challenged ourselves by using larger numbers.

We talked about fact families looking at the link between addition and subtraction-

eg 6 + 3 = 9

3 + 6 = 9

9 – 3 = 6

9 – 6 = 3

We talked about fact families having the same three numbers and making sure we always start with the largest number when we are using subtraction.

We also linked our health and well being discussion to maths and completed a graph based on different emotions. Afterwards we discussed how different our graphs were because we all experience similar situations differently.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

Use two dice to to get three numbers in a fact family-

If you threw a 6 and a 5, your fact family would be 6, 5 and 11.

Write the two addition facts and two subtraction facts you could make from these three numbers.

Challenge

Throw the two dice twice to make two 2 digit numbers.

Eg 2 and 6 become 26, 3 and 4 become 34.

The fact family would be 26, 34 and 60

Write the two addition facts and two subtraction facts you could make from your three numbers.

LITERACY

We are all really enjoying our Secret Seven class novel.

We made predictions about what might happen next in the story and wrote our ideas down.

We used our imaginations to write a mixed up fairy tale (just like the play in the Secret Seven book) and had some great ideas for our stories.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

We are really looking forward to listening to the children review their favourite book. We will be starting this next Monday 2nd November. (Please see previous blog post for further information.)

PE

We are continuing to improve our fitness levels and have been working on running skills this week,

ART AND CRAFT

The children enjoyed making some Halloween crafts and worked together well to share resources and help one another.

We loved looking at all the different pumpkins on our Buckstone pumpkin trail.

Here are some ideas to do at home for Halloween:

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-he-648-halloween-family-fun-activity-pack

Have a lovely weekend everyone.