Friday 5th October 2012

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

This week has been a very busy and productive week in year 3/4. The children have enjoyed learning more about the Victorians and their independence and attitude to their learning has been just fantastic!

Home Learning

Every week, the home learning is for the children to practice their spellings ahead of our weekly test on Monday morning. We would also like the children to continue reading as often as possible at home. Please ensure you are noting in the children’s reading records when they are reading at home- if we can see they have read every day they will earn five house points for their team. We were extremely pleased by how many signed reading records we receive on Monday – thank you! Your child may also have some extra home learning in preparation for our Harvest Festival Performance (Friday 19^th October at Lofthouse Church). Everyone needs to be learning the words to ‘Food Glorious Food’ which has been sent home with them. Some children in 3/4M have ‘Pease Pudding Hot’ to practice on the recorder and some children across all three classes have lines to practice if they are a reader or an actor.

Literacy

In Literacy this week we have been finding out all about Victorian leisure and play. The children were VERY excited to discover that Blackpool Pleasure Beach was built during the Victorian era and that the first ever ride is still there today! We have been watching videos and reading books to practice our note taking skills before putting all our facts and information into some super rainbow paragraphs. The children are getting great at using engaging features (questions, alliteration, brackets) and VCOP (WOW words, connectives, sentence openers, punctuation) in their writing. Next week, the children will be writing their own poems about Harvest. We will be performing these at our harvest celebration on Friday 19^th October at Lofthouse Church.

Numeracy

This week, we have been looking at rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 as well as finding the range, median and mode of a set of data. The children learned Woody’s Round Up rhyme to help them with their rounding skills. Ask your child if they can remember the words! Why not ask them to round some numbers for you when you go shopping? Next week, we will be learning how to make sensible estimations.

Next Week

Next week, we have two very exciting days planned! On Monday, we will be taking part in the Big Draw event. Please ensure your child has an art shirt to cover their uniform for when they are artists in the hall. On Wednesday, we will be taking part in an ICT day, which will see the children developing their ICT skills to create their own IBooks about the Victorians and learn about computer programming to make their own video games. We are very excited about these events and are privileged to be able to offer such diverse learning experiences for the children.

Reminders

·        PE kits need to come in on a Monday and taken home on a Friday. Miss Thackeray’s and Mrs Moore’s class will now have PE on Tuesdays. Miss Snowden’s will have PE on Thursday