Spellings

There will be two spelling lists per week. Select the list most appropriate for your child. If they would like, they can have a go at learning the other list at home too. We will do spelling gym style activities over the coming week to help the children learn these spellings. If you would like to do your own spelling test at home with your child, please feel free to do this!

List 1:

1) potatoes   2) pressure  3) probably   4) promise   5) purpose   6) quarter   7) question 

8) recent   9) regular   10) reign

List 2:

1) horse   2) hot   3) how  4) I'll   5) I've   6) inside   7) its   8) jumped   9) key  

10) king

Maths

This week we are working on Addition and subtraction.

Your child has been given a paper copy of the homework for this week. We will mark this together in class next week on Friday. 

Column addition and subtraction

Reading

1) Please try to read with your child for at least 10 minutes per day and make any comments in their reading record. We are trying to check reading records regularly to ensure that each child is reading something appropriate for their level. Do let me know in your child's Reading Record if you feel that they need to change their book.

2) Below is a link to a reading comprehension. Have a go at the comprehension marked with one star and mark your answers afterwards.

Advent

Other things we have been learning this week:

- English - The Mousehole Cat (setting descriptions and inverted commas for direct speech)

- P.E. - Throwing skills in basketball

- Geography - Tornadoes

- History - The Bronze Age

- Science - Forces (How strong in my magnet?)  

- R.E. - The real meaning of Christmas

- Art - Andy Warhol and portraits

Spellings

There will be two spelling lists per week. Select the list most appropriate for your child. If they would like, they can have a go at learning the other list at home too. We will do spelling gym style activities over the coming week to help the children learn these spellings. If you would like to do your own spelling test at home with your child, please feel free to do this!

List 1:

1) opposite   2) ordinary   3) particular   4) peculiar   5) perhaps   6) popular   7) position 

8) possess   9) possession   10) possible

List 2:

1) grandad   2) great   3) green  4) grow   5) hard   6) hat   7) has   8) he's   9) head  

10) home

Maths

This week we are working on Addition and subtraction.

Your child has been given a paper copy of the homework for this week. We will mark this together in class next week on Thursday. If your child struggles to do the column subtraction with exchanging, focus only on the sheet without exchanging.

Column subtraction with and without exchanging

Reading 

1) Please try to read with your child for at least 10 minutes per day and make any comments in their reading record. We are trying to check reading records regularly to ensure that each child is reading something appropriate for their level. Do let me know in your child's Reading Record if you feel that they need to change their book.

2) Below is a link to a reading comprehension. Have a go at the comprehension marked with one star and mark your answers afterwards,

The Story of Arachne Reading comprehension

Other things we have been learning this week:

- English - Fly, Eagle, Fly (writing about our future plans and time conjunctions)

- P.E. - Team games

- Geography - Tsunamis (writing and performing a news report)

- French - Numbers 1-10 and saying how old we are

- Science - Forces (What is magnetic?)  

- R.E. - The real meaning of Christmas

- Art - Tertiary colours

Spellings

There will be two spelling lists per week. Select the list most appropriate for your child. If they would like, they can have a go at learning the other list at home too. We will do spelling gym style activities over the coming week to help the children learn these spellings. If you would like to do your own spelling test at home with your child, please feel free to do this!

List 1:

1) material   2) medicine   3) mention   4) minute   5) natural   6) naughty   7) notice 

8) occasion   9) occasionally   10) often

List 2:

1) fox   2) friends   3) fun  4) garden   5) gave   6) giant   7) girl   8) going   9) gone  

10) good

Maths

This week we are working on Addition and subtraction.

Your child has been given a paper copy of the homework for this week. We will mark this together in class next week on Friday.

Column addition - 2-digit and 3-digit numbers

Reading 

1) Please try to read with your child for at least 10 minutes per day and make any comments in their reading record. We are trying to check reading records regularly to ensure that each child is reading something appropriate for their level. Do let me know in your child's Reading Record if you feel that they need to change their book.

2) Below is a link to a reading comprehension. Have a go at the comprehension marked with one star. 

Pet Care of a Bearded Dragon Reading comprehension

Other things we have been learning this week:

- English - Fly, Eagle, Fly (writing a letter in role, present perfect tense e.g. She had worked)

- P.E. - Throwing skills

- Geography - Tsunamis

- French - Numbers 1-10

- Science - Forces 

- D.T. - Keyrings / sewing 

- R.E. - Christianity: The Holy Trinity

Spellings

There will be two spelling lists per week. Select the list most appropriate for your child. If they would like, they can have a go at learning the other list at home too. We will do spelling gym style activities over the coming week to help the children learn these spellings. If you would like to do your own spelling test at home with your child, please feel free to do this!

List 1:

1) history   2) imagine   3) increase   4) important   5) interest   6) island   7) knowledge 

8) learn   9) length   10) library

List 2:

1) fast   2) feet   3) fell  4) find   5) first   6) fish   7) floppy   8) fly   9) food  

10) found

Maths

This week we are working on Addition and subtraction.

Your child has been given a paper copy of the homework for this week. We will mark this together in class next week on Thursday.

Reading 

1) Please try to read with your child for at least 10 minutes per day and make any comments in their reading record. We are trying to check reading records regularly to ensure that each child is reading something appropriate for their level. Do let me know in your child's Reading Record if you feel that they need to change their book.

2) Below is a link to a reading comprehension. Have a go at the comprehension marked with one star. The answers follow. Please mark it yourself once you are done. 

Fidget Spinners reading comprehension WITH ANSWERS

Other things we have been learning this week:

- English - Fly, Eagle, Fly (writing a diary entry)

- P.E. - Throwing skills 

- History / Computing - The Stone Age (Researching information online to produce Skara Brae information leaflets)

- French - Numbers 1-10

- Relationships and Health / Science - Germ experiment 

- Art - Painting a scene from Fly, Eagle, Fly

Some Half Term activities you could have a go at:

Make natural art

Look for natural art materials. Collect fallen leaves, petals and sticks and use them to make a picture or sculpture. Please make sure you don't pick wildflowers, however, as they are important for wildlife and some are protected by law.

You could even use the objects as 'stampers' or paintbrushes - dipping them in paint and rolling, brushing or stamping them on paper to create interesting patterns and effects.

Write a story inspired by woods and trees

Get those creative juices flowing with a story challenge.

Choose one of the ideas below to write a short story about:

• A tree has fallen in the woods
• A character has gone missing
• An animal is shouting an alarm call
• There are some mysterious footprints to follow.

You could have a go at writing a story each as a family and share them together before bedtime.

Which one was the funniest?

Maths activity

Spellings

This week we looked at our spelling words in class, as well as some other commonly misspelled words and came up with some ways to remember them:

February - Feb-ru-ary (say it as it is spelt)

fruit - Fru-it (say it as it is spelt)

guard - guard my Jaguar

height - We thought of someone who was eight foot tall and then we add an 'h' to the beginning

because - Big Elephants Can't Add Up Sums Easily

beautiful - b-e-a-utiful

List 1:

1) February   2) forwards   3) fruit   4) grammar   5) group   6) guard   7) guide  

8) heard   9) heart   10) height

List 2:

1) duck   2) eat   3) each   4) eggs   5) end   6) even   7) ever   8) every   9) everyone  

10) eyes

Could you come up with some other ways to help you remember some of the other words, especially the ones you find tricky?

Maths

This week we are working on Addition and subtraction.

Have a go at the worksheet below. There are three levels of challenge. Choose the one most appropriate to your child. The answers are at the end of the document:

Adding and subtracting three digit numbers and ones, tens and hundreds

Reading

1) Please try to read with your child for at least 10 minutes per day and make any comments in their reading record. We are trying to check reading records regularly to ensure that each child is reading something appropriate for their level. Do let me know in your child's Reading Record if you feel that they need to change their book.

2) Below is a link to a reading comprehension. Have a go at the comprehension marked with one star. The answers follow. Please mark it yourself once you are done. 

Nelson Mandela Reading Comprehension

Other things we have been learning this week:

- English - Reading comprehension skills, writing a recount

- P.E. - Football control skills

- History - Black History Month: Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela

- French - Writing a conversation in French using basic greetings, asking someone's name and saying what our names are.

- Relationships and Health - Exercise and heart rate

- Geography - Volcanoes

- Art - Drawings of our hands, shading the positive and negative space  

Equator