Thank you Alex for opening your heart and dialogue to read a story to us all!
This week year 2 have been writing about the Lantern Festival. Here are sections from a few children’s writing:
“I felt excited because I saw fireworks.”
“It was dark at the festival and we had to achieve, work hard and do well.”
“I was nervous performing in front of the parents.”
“I felt happy because it was an amazing night.”
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in –fer. The r is not doubled if the –fer is no longer stressed.
circumference
conference
deference
difference
indifference
inference
interference
misreference
preference
reference
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Anti– means ‘against’.
antifreeze
antibody
anticlockwise
anti-virus
antibiotic
antiseptic
antisocial
anti bias
anti bug
anticipate
Literacy:
World Book Day
As part of our celebrations for World Book day this year, we are asking the children to think creatively and use their imaginations to answer the following question:
Where does your reading take you?
We could even win a prize as good as £10,000 of books and a library makeover! Here are some ideas below, you can find even more on the World Book Day link below:
Create a mural, poster. Write a poem, rap or song. Make a video, trailer, large book. Perform a play, song or dance.
http://worldbookday.com/wobod/?dm_i=35S3,3C9E,2AGLP1,9XO8,1
We can not wait to see your wonderful ideas and share some of them on the website!
Maths – Area, perimeter and volume
The shapes for this activity are drawn on their homework sheet in their homework book.
Squared number = number timsed by itself. E.g. 4 squared = 4 x 4 = 16
Squared numbers help us find the area of squares as we know that the length x width = area. Using that information can you find out the area of these different shapes.
The perimeter is the distance around a two-dimensional shape. Example: the perimeter of this rectangle is 3+7+3+7 = 20.
Cubed number = number timsed by itself 3 times. E.g. 5 cubed= 5 x 5 x 5 = 125
Cubed numbers help us find the volume of a cube as we know that length x width x height = volume.
Using that information can you find out the volume of these different shapes.
A huge congratulations is in order for earning your pin and fully embracing life at Brooklands Farm School. You are a great role model to the other children because you work hard and are a kind and caring friend.
In Early Years we look at how children develop skills to be good learners. These are the characteristics of effective learning.
Year 1 have come to the end of their Great Fire of London project. This project has seen the children not only emerge themselves in the time through our incredible Ignite day and fantastic role play area, but has also sparked some amazing learning. The children have gained so much knowledge and really blossomed into insightful Historians. In order to summarise our project we decided to create our very own timelines to track the key events and here are our results:
A huge well done for the past few weeks and I can’t wait to see how our new project of the Three Little Pigs goes!
I’m so proud of our children for their work on the dragon and it was great to see some of them weilding him around at the lantern festival. To the children’s relief, he is back in the classroom where he belongs!
This week in Year 1 we are learning how to peer review learning. The children have started visiting the review stations in their classrooms and asking key questions to review learning against success criteria.
Key questions we need to remember are:
What learning have you completed?
Have you followed each step of the success criteria?
What have you done well?
What do you need to grow?
What is your next step?
Today year 1e have shown how responsible and determined they can be by starting to peer review each other’s learning!
Using the success criteria they could identify what to gold (got it!) and what their partner needed to grow. They also started to give each other some next steps, for example remembering full stops or using connectives!
It was fantastic to see them being such responsible learners and helping each other to take their next steps.
I just wanted to say a huge congratulations to everyone in 5A who has been working hard on the golden mile challenge. Last week we ran the most out of every class in the whole school and have received a great trophy for all our hard work. Keep on running and lets keep the trophy!
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