WC 27th February 2017
Date: 21st Feb 2017 @ 8:50pm
I hope you are all having a lovely half term.
The first week back is a very busy one. Firstly a reminder that we are back to school on Monday 27th February. It is our Roman trip to Chester on Tuesday 28th February. Please make sure the children are dressed warmly as we will be outside for part of the day when we march as Roman soldiers. In our topic lessons we have started to look at how the Roman Empire spread and how it took three attempts for them to finally gain control of part of England. We will be completing our newspaper reports about the first attempt during our first week back.
In maths we will be looking at shape which will include naming, drawing and describing 2D shapes and creating 3D shapes with modelling materials. In addition, we will be learning about angles including right angles, acute and obtuse angles. We'll also be identifying horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines.
In literacy, Mr Stanway and I are very much looking forward to starting our next unit on adventure stories using the text, 'Adventures at Sandy Cove'. We have lots of exciting activities planned including drama, which always inspires the children's imaginations leading to some super writing. As part of the literacy lessons, SPAG (spelling, punctuation and grammar) is also included in each lesson. To help at home these are some games that you can play:
- Word tennis: this is a two player game and can be done with different word classes. E.g you could play this with nouns. Partner A says a noun, partner B has five seconds to say another noun and so on. You can make it harder by adding rules such as each word must start with the letter 's', or the next word starts with the last letter of the word before.
- Alphabets: write the alphabet down the side of your page. Can you think of a noun/verb/adjective for each letter of the alphabet?
- Silly sentences: choose a letter, then think of a noun, adjective, verb and adverb starting with that letter. Next, make up a silly sentence using as many of the words as you can. E.g. The large leopard laughed loudly.