Friday 24th May 2013

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

The children did a fantastic job at representing Robin Hood and we are extremely proud of them. We have had another exciting week in 3/4 and had a visit from an Indian drummer on Tuesday afternoon, who showed the children some traditional Indian drumming and taught us all some exciting dance moves. We all had lots of fun dancing to the beats and some of us even won some prizes! We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the year 4’s on their wonderful behaviour during our residential at East Barnby last week. All of the centre staff commented on how mature and sensible the children all were and how well everyone worked together as part of a team.

Literacy

We have been looking at narrative story writing this week and the children have been describing different settings and characters using a wide range of adjectives and similes. When describing a different setting the children have used the four senses to describe what they can see, hear, smell and how they feel. The children then used these descriptions to write a fantastic opening to a story! We were really impressed with the great range of adjectives the children are using in their writing to describe. Why don’t you ask your child to write you a character description of someone in the family for you to guess who it is?

Numeracy

In numeracy this week the children have been learning about 3D shapes and their properties. We have had a great time making lots of different 3D shapes out of art straws for our shape museum and then recording how many edges, vertices, faces and parallel lines they have. Next half term we will be looking at how to solve problems involving money and position and direction.

Topic

This week the children have learnt all about the Taj Mahal and have had a go at sketching this into their art books. Why not ask your child to tell you a fact about the Taj Mahal? We have also used all of the new knowledge we have learnt about India to write a non-chronological report.

Home Learning

Next half term our new topic is Africa. For the children’s home learning we would like them to research something about this continent to share with the class when we are back after the holidays. They can present this any way they choose.

Reminders

·        Next half term our PE unit is athletics, please ensure your child brings their outdoor PE kit into school every Monday morning.

·        As the weather is getting warmer please make sure your child is bringing a water bottle to school every day.

Have a lovely half term!

Team 3/4

Spellings Sum2 Week2

Spellings to be tested on Monday 10^th June (the children already have their spellings for this Monday)

Please support your child in practicing their spellings every day to help them to achieve 10/10 in their spelling test every week.

Group One	Group Two
I’ve	country
she’s	busy
he’s	mystery
somebody	guess
nobody	instead
there’s	build
who’ll	enough
they’ll	language
you’ll	rough
you’re	pleasant

Friday 10th May 2013

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

LKS2 had an exciting visit on Tuesday afternoon from a Bollywood dancer, who not only taught the children different Indian style dances, but also told us all some fascinating Indian mythical stories and performed some traditional Indian songs. A reporter from the Rothwell Record came to snap a picture of the children performing an Indian dance routine and we are looking forward to reading the article when it’s out next month!

Literacy

The children have had lots of fun during literacy this week becoming real life news reporters. We started the week hot seating various eye witnesses from different news articles, asking them to tell us the events of the story from their own perspective. We then rewrote our News articles from the previous week in the form of a script including lots of fantastic adjectives to describe. The children then worked super hard practicing acting these and even brought in props to further enhance their performances. The final news reports were truly brilliant and the children really impressed us with their clear and confident performances.

Numeracy

In numeracy this week the children have been learning all about the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages and how to convert between the three. They have also learnt how to convert improper fractions into mixed numbers. Why not ask your child to demonstrate this to you? Next week we are going to be revisiting time, learning how to successfully read a 24 hour clock and how to read and navigate around a calendar.

Topic

After the children had a great time with our Indian dancer on Tuesday we then researched even more styles of Indian dance and the children have been busy practicing their own Indian dance routine. We have continued to practice our knowledge of the 7 continents and looked at the locations of the different countries. 

Residential

Can all year 4 children who are going on the residential ensure they meet in the school hall on Wednesday 15^th at 8:45 a.m. Can everyone be dressed in their own clothes and bring a water bottle so they can have a drink on the journey. Can we also ensure all clothes are clearly labelled so we can return any lost property to the rightful owners.

Reminders

·        Please ensure your child’s PE kit is kept in school from Monday-Friday every week.

·        As the weather is getting warmer please make sure your child is bringing a water bottle to school every day.

Have a lovely weekend!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Team 3/4

Spellings Sum1 WK6

Spellings to be tested on Monday 20^th May (the children already have their spellings for this Monday)

Please support your child in practicing their spellings every day to help them to achieve 10/10 in their spelling test every week.

Group One	Group Two
Friday	Wrong
Saturday	Wrinkle
Sunday	Wrist
May	Wreck
June	Wrapper
July	Write
August	Wrote
September	Wrap
October	Necessary
November	Especially

Friday 3 May 2013

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

What an exciting week we’ve had in year 3/4! The children are thoroughly enjoying our India topic so far and are also making great progress with learning the Big Dance routine, which has a ballet focus this year so it isn’t easy! We’ve also been enjoying the warmer weather and have enjoyed taking our PE lessons outside for the first time this year!

Literacy

This week, the children have been learning to extend their ideas into compound and complex sentences. They wrote some fantastic news articles about Miss Pyatt’s accident, which happened during the Easter holidays and also reported on an event that has happened at school this year. These were then copied up to form a Robin Hood newspaper that will be displayed in our classrooms for everyone to read. We are all very impressed with the children’s attitude towards their journalistic writing and all children now have a good understanding of the different elements of a news article. Why not ask you child what orientation and reorientation mean?

Numeracy

In numeracy this week the children have been building upon their knowledge of 2D shape. They have been learning the names of different polygons, as well as identifying right angles and classifying different types of triangles. They have shown great enthusiasm in describing the different properties of 2D shapes, including the number of edges, vertices, right angles, lines of symmetry and whether the shapes are regular or irregular. See if your child can remember the four different types of triangle we also learned about this week!

Topic

Well, we have had an exciting week with our topic learning! We are sure you’ve probably all seen your child’s henna design already! They thoroughly enjoyed designing and then painting their own patterns. While some used stencils, some were able to paint their own designs free-hand and the results were fantastic! The children were also lucky enough to try on Indian saris with a partner and continue their PowerPoint presentations about India in ICT.

Reminders

·        Please ensure your child’s PE kit is kept in school from Monday-Friday every week.

·        As the weather is getting warmer please make sure your child is bringing a water bottle to school every day.

·        Can all year 4 children going on Residential make sure they have paid their any outstanding money to Mrs Smith in the office by next Friday 10^th May.

Have a lovely weekend!

Team 3/4

 

 

Spellings Sum1 Wk5

Spellings to be tested on Monday 13^th May (the children already have their spellings for this Monday)

Please support your child in practicing their spellings every day to help them to achieve 10/10 in their spelling test every week.

Group One	Group Two
They’ll	Knowledge
You’ll	knock
You’re	knee
It’s	knight
It’ll	knit
I’m	knew
Monday	knife
Tuesday	know
Wednesday	known
Thursday	knuckle