Monday 28th January

Welcome to this week’s blog spot.
Unfortunately Miss Robinson was admitted back into hospital on Thursday and has taken a set back. Obviously, we are no nearer to knowing when she will be back. Our thoughts and prayers are once again with her. Mr Slaven will continue to teach in the Three/Four team.

This week it is going to be an exciting week as it is

BOOK WEEK!
This means that we will be concentrating on lots of activities to do with books and poetry.
On Monday and Tuesday David Horner will be teaching every class doing poetry. The children will have a great time and produce some fantastic POETRY work.


HOMEWORK
Homework will be a bit different this week and will centre on a book week activity sheet. The children will have a choice of what activities they want to participate in.
They need to do at least five activities. They will need to collect evidence of what they have done and colour in the sheet to record what has been done. There are lots of activities like:

Designing a book cover
Writing about a character
Writing a blurb
Writing a book review etc
If five activities are done they will get a star.
If ten activities are done they will get three stars.
If they do all the activities/most of them they will get five stars.
The children will have a show and tell session on Friday when they can bring in everything they have done/made. They also need to bring in their signed sheets.
To see the homework sheet please see:

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/pdfs/2bookweek.pdf

BOOK FAIR
On Wednesday the book fair arrives and is open from 3pm on wards. The children will have already had a browse of this and may even be able to show you their favourite books and the books that they have chosen for the class’s wish list. People will have the opportunity to purchase a book for their child’s class library. There will be a name plate put in these books to remind us of your generosity. This year we will get 60% commission on any books purchased all proceeds will go to buying resources for our school.
On Friday we will have the traditional dressing up as a book character. Please remember that if your child does not come dressed up then they need to wear uniform.

READING
Lots more children have been heard read last week. Please remember to write a comment in their diary. The percentages of how many children have been heard read this week are:

READING RESULTS
In Mrs Harding’s class 86 % were heard read this week at least once.
In Mrs Bethell’s class 50 % were heard read this week at least once.
In Miss Robinson’s class 76 % were heard read this week.

LITERACY
Lots of our class work this week will be centering around book week and book activities.
We will be writing a class adventure story together and using some memory techniques to help us and inspire us writing the setting of the story.

One sun location
Two shoe close by
Three tree in the distance
Four door sounds
Five hive feel something
Six sticks smells and other senses
Seven heaven something moving/something moving you.
Eight gate/kissing gate emotions and feelings
Nine wine looking from a different vantage point high/low

To learn more about story writing please see:

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/powerpoint/how_to_write_a_story.ppt


http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/powerpoint/settings.ppt


http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/powerpoints/discuss_setting.ppt

We will be doing all sorts of book reviews and the children need to bring into school a favourite book to share with their class. We will be doing art /craft work making book marks and designing front covers of different books.

NUMERACY

In Numeracy this week Mrs Harding’s class will be doing more work on fractions and decimals. We will be concentrating on decimals again. We will be learning how to order decimals looking at their value and rounding decimals to the nearest tenth/hundredth.
We will also be practising adding and subtracting decimals and moving onto dividing too.
By the end of the week the children :

Could be able to round a decimal to the nearest tenth/ hundredth.
Should be able to add and subtract decimals.
Must understand decimal place value and to be able to change decimals into fractions.

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/powerpoint/y5_t1_w5_tenths_hundredths.ppt

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/powerpoint/beginning_decimals.ppt

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/powerpoint/writing_decimals.ppt

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/BigCalculator.html

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/maths/files/decimals.jpg

In Mrs Bethell’s and Miss Robinson’s group the children will be doing number bonds work. They will also be thinking of money and giving change from £5.oo and £2.00.
By the end of the week the children :

Could be able to solve number problems related to number bonds to 500 and 200.
Should know pairs to 200 and 500.
Must know their pairs to 100 with rapid recall.

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/docs/LH_change_from_2pounds.doc

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/docs/numberbonds_100_SS.doc

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/docs/numberbonds_to_100.doc

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/BigCalculator.html

Please remember that we all do weekly timetable tests when the children have an opportunity to win a bronze, silver or gold award. Don't forget it is still so important that you keep learning your times tables. Check out the links below for some good games to help you remember them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/multiplication/timestables/flash1.shtml

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/

That’s all for this week. Have a good one.
From the Three/Four team.