Friday 16^th December

Home Learning

Seeing as this is the last Friday before the Christmas break, there is no home learning for you to do this weekend (or in the 2 weeks after that). I do however have a surprise for you all on Tuesday that I hope will test your brains (hopefully in a fun way) whilst you’re enjoying your well-deserved rest.

What we have done this week

This week has been jam packed with rehearsals, performances, the circus (which was brilliant) and Christmas dinner, as well as much else on top of all this. On Monday morning we went straight to the village hall where we did a full run through of Key Stage 2’s Christmas performance. This was our last rehearsal before the dress rehearsal and so it was a case of putting the finishing touches to everybody’s hard work.

Tuesday was our whole school trip to the circus. We went to the Hippodrome in Great Yarmouth to see their ‘Christmas Spectacular’ and it definitely lived up to its name. There were acrobats (on the ground, up high and in water), dancers, comedy acts and a motorcycle act that had to be seen to be believed.

Wednesday was dress rehearsal day where we got to see everybody’s fantastic costumes for the first time. It also allowed us in Key Stage 2 to watch Key Stage 1 and Reception’s Christmas performance for the first time, which was great fun. It was then onto Thursday and Christmas performance day. It was a long day but I’m sure everyone who saw any of the performances will tell you how well both Key Stage 1, 2 and Reception did and how worthwhile this made all of their hard work.

Friday meant Christmas lunch at Wenhaston Primary School. The pictures in this week’s blog show Class 3 making their Christmas hats ready for the lunch. It was really nice to see the whole school eating lunch, pulling crackers, telling jokes and singing songs all together.    

Friday 9th December

Home Learning

English: This week I want you to solve a Christmas crossword. Use the clues to work out which words fit into the spaces on your puzzle. If you think you can’t spell one of your answers to the clues, try using a dictionary to help you. Remember to be sure on your words before you write them in, because if one word is incorrect then you’ll find that some of your correct answers won’t fit where they should.

 

Maths: For Maths this week I want you to use your maths skills to uncover a secret Christmas message (I designed this one myself and have tried to make it quite tricky to decode). Work out the sum underneath the line, find your answer listed at the top, look above the number to discover the letter to match and write that letter on the line above the sum. Keep doing this with each of the sums until the Christmas message is revealed. Good luck! 

Spellings: I am not going to give you anymore spellings this term as I want us to just work on the ones that I have given you so far.

What we have done this week

Seeing as this past week has mostly been made up of rehearsing for our Christmas performance and completing our end of term assessments, I have decided to post some of the pictures that we have, so far, uncovered on our in class Christmas calendar. Each day we choose one of us in Class 3 to open a door on the calendar we made and behind that door is a picture of one of us dressed up in our Christmas finery. I think you'll all agree that there are some excellent pictures hidden behind those doors!

Friday 2nd December

Home Learning

English: This week I want you to see if you can say what type of conjunction is shown in each of the six sentences, which I have stuck in your book, by circling the correct answer. Help yourself remember how the different types of conjunctions are different from each other by trying to explain to someone else how you know which is which.

Maths: This week I want you to see if you can complete the fraction mazes by reaching the finish line? Your job is to solve each fraction problem, draw a line from the problem to the answer, and follow the path that the answers lead you on all the way to the finish line.

Spellings: I am not going to give you anymore spellings this term as I want us to just work on the ones that I have given you so far.

What we have done this week

The top two pictures you can see in this week's blog show some of us trying to match some French words to some English words. On each of the five tables we have in our class we positioned the English and French words for the days of the week, the months of the year, numbers 1-10, numbers 11-20 and some common colours. Each group of words were all muddled up on each table and we ourselves got into groups of 4 or 5 and went from one table to the next trying to match them up. There was an answer sheet on each table that we were allowed to turn over at the end of our time on a table to check our answers.

The next 3 pictures show one of our maths lessons from this week. We've been learning about fractions and in this particular lesson our objective was to understand how fractions are simply a whole that have been split up. We often work with different colour challenges in Class 3, challenges that vary in difficulty depending on the colour, and on this day our hardest challenge was an orange one which some of us managed to have a go at before the end of the lesson.

The last two pictures show some of us completing a starter to one of our English lessons this week. We have been learning all about conjunctions and how there are three different types. All of them have quite big names (subordinating, coordinating and correlative) but, once you know what they are, they are actually fairly simple to identify, as we found out when we tried to sort them.