Home Learning

Friday 16th September

 

English - Home learning is a tricky one this week. You’ve all been given a sheet on time and place prepositions to complete. While doing so try to remember Friday’s lesson with the posters and the music to help you. Some examples of time prepositions are on (I will see you on Monday), at (at 8.40 a.m. you should be in school) and since (I have had a cold since Monday). Some examples of place prepositions are over (the ball flew over my head), under (I found my socks under my bed) and next to (I put the lamp next to my bed). Have a go at completing the sheet, if you have tried and don't think you can then simply list on the sheet some different time and place prepositions.

 

Maths - Because the English home learning that I have given you this week is quite challenging, I will not be setting you any maths home learning. Next week however you will receive your home learning books and from then on will have a piece of Maths, English and Spelling home learning to do each week.

 

Reading - You should have received some amended pages to the reading challenge guide on Thursday. If you didn’t receive these please let me know. I, Mrs Sparkes and Mrs Hayes have all been impressed with your reading at school this week so continue to read as much as you can at home and you will continue to improve.

What we have done this week

 

 

On Tuesday of this week was Roald Dahl Day, celebrating what would have been Roald Dahl's 100th birthday! To mark this special occasion, we spent a couple of lessons on Monday looking at 5 of the famous characters that Roald Dahl created and how they linked to our school values of trust and compassion. This started with us completing some character studies in the morning before moving on to some drama in the afternoon. During our drama session each member of each group was asked to take on the role of 1 of our 5 characters. Each group was then asked to come up with a short piece of drama where their characters displayed either trust, compassion or both towards one another. The five characters being expertly portrayed in the top 3 pictures above are 'Charlie Bucket' (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), 'Matilda Wormwood' (Matilda), 'The BFG' (The BFG), 'Grandmother' (The Witches) and 'James Henry Trotter' (James and the Giant Peach).

Our Maths sessions this week have seen us focus mainly on addition. On Thursday we covered the classroom tables with post it notes with sums written on them in pink, green or black. We had to complete all of the pink sums correctly in our books before we could move onto the green, and then do the same with the greens before moving on to black. Anyone who managed to complete all of the blacks correctly earned a house point.

The bottom 2 pictures show the children practicing their football skills in a session taken by Mr Knights. Luckily it was our turn to have P.E. before lunch time and so before it started to rain!

Next week we will continue to link our English work to our topic, as we did this week when we conducted our interviews with a pharaoh.