This week we have been learning the story “Scruffy Bear and the Six White Mice” by Chris Wormell. We have been using pictures and actions to commit the text to memory! We even acted out the events.
Tomorrow we will magpie all the exciting WOW words and collect these for our working wall. We will then use these in our own stories. We look forward to sharing our stories with you soon.
Year 1 looked amazing today dressed up as their favourite book characters!
We are taking inspiration from our favourite books to re-design the Year 1 reading area and create a fantastic reading space where everyone will want to come and snuggle down to enjoy a book…or two!
We would be extremely grateful if anyone would like to donate materials for our book corner such as blankets, cushions, drapes, bean bags, battery powered fairy lights, chimes…so that we can make the space as peaceful and inviting as possible.
In Year 2 our current project is Master Chef. This project looks at how food is made and where the ingredients come from. First we look at plants and what they need to grow. Today we got to do our learning outside as we set up our class experiments to test whether plants actually need water, soil and light. After that, we got to plant our own sunflowers! Here are some pictures of our outdoor learning…
We all got to take our sunflowers home today. Let’s see who grows the tallest sunflower!
Today we dressed up as book characters for world book day! We were so excited to go into the book corner and read stories about some of our characters. Here are some photos from our day. Can you guess who we are?
The police came to visit to tell us how important 999 calls are and the dangers of prank calls. They also discussed graffiti and the importance of looking after the environment. The children listened very carefully.
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word).
Some letters which are no longer sounded used to be sounded hundreds of years ago: e.g. in knight, there was a /k/ sound before the /n/.
c:
incandescent
isosceles
miscellaneous
muscle
obscene
resuscitate
scenario
scene
scent
scissors
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
The suffix – ation
The suffix ation is added to verbs to form nouns.
information
adoration
frustration
levitation
admiration
preparation
elation
rotation
formation
restoration
Project
Next week we are doing a special one week project for world book week.
Our author for world book week is Anthony Horowitz who has written some great age appropriate books for year five, such as Stormbreaker.
Can you research and create a poster about Anthony Horowitz. Including some key information such as; age, family, hobbies and any interesting information you can find out e.g. when did he start writing? What was his first book? How long did it take for him to write any of his books?
Maths
Your child has a maths task stuck in their homework book with a squared sheet of paper to complete the task on.
A shape has an area of 15cm, what size could its length and width be?
Draw and write down the length and widths the rectangle or square could be.
Remember area = width x length.
A shape has an area of 20cm, what size could its length and width be?
Draw and write down the possible shapes and length and widths it could be. The shapes can be regular or irregular.
Remember area = width x length.
Today the children (and adults) came in dressed as book characters. They was a wonderful variety of characters from Rapunzel to Harry Potter.
We had circles to talk about which character we were and which story they are from.
We look forward to reading our favourite stories on Friday when we come to school in our pyjamas for Bedtime Stories Day.
We had a great time last Wednesday learning about the different animals at the Safari Park. We met Becky our guide who told us all about the animals that live there. The monkeys jumped on our coach too, which was very funny! Some of us stroked a snake and we all enjoyed meeting the elephants. Thank you to all our parent helpers for your help during the trip, we had a great day!
