English – In Read, Write, Inc this week the Green group have been reading the book ‘Tag’ and the Yellow group have been reading ‘My sort of horse’.  They have discussed the story and different features of the text as well as writing sentences based on what they have learnt from the story.  The rest of the class have been focussing on using co-ordinating conjunctions (and, or, but) to join clauses and add more detail to their sentences.  They also wrote short stories, trying to use as much detail as they could.

Maths – This week the children have been using their number bonds to 10 to help them find number bonds to 100.  They started by adding multiples of 10, then went on to add other numbers, remembering to add the ones and then the tens.  Then they have been adding together three 1-digit numbers, using numbers bonds to 10 to help them add more efficiently.

RE – In RE today we looked at the nativity scene and discussed who was there at the birth of Jesus. The children then worked together to look at various parts of the story to think about what the different characters might have been thinking.  They came up with lots of great ideas.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 14th December

7.12.18

A letter went out today about collecting junk materials for DT.

Friday 7th December 2018 letter

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas &  Miss Moran

English – At the start of the week the children edited and improved their recounts about their trip to Chester zoo.  They all worked really hard to improve their writing by using a range of conjunctions to extend their ideas and using different punctuation.  They then planned another recount based on their own experiences and will be writing these up next week.  In Read, Write, Inc red group have been reading the book ‘Do we have to keep it?’ and blue group have been reading ‘The dressing up box’.  The rest of the class have been focusing on adding extra information to their sentences using the subordinating conjunctions when, if, that, because.

Maths – This week we have been subtracting a 2-digit number from a 2-digit number, first of all not crossing the tens, then crossing the tens by subtracting ones and tens.  The children have been using equipment such as Base 10 and number lines to help with their working out and they have solved problems linked to this work.

Science – We looked at and discussed the life cycle of a frog.  The children were shown a short video to explain how a frog grows from frogspawn, to a tadpole, to a froglet and finally a frog.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 7th December

30.11.18

The children have also been trying really hard with their nativity rehearsals this week in church.  We thank you for all your help and support with your children learning all their lines.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Thomas & Miss Moran