Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Goldfinches WB 10.10.22
Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 4:28pm
Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog
We had such fun in the forest this week!
Friday Superstar: Matthew
Top Table: Charley and Hannah
This week we have:
…loved reading the twist in the story in our Gorilla book! We had fun exploring how we can change the volume of different instruments during science. We have worked very hard on our handwriting and presentation and are trying hard to apply it in all our different subjects. We continued to build on our teamwork, persevence and problem solving skills during forest schools where we learned to tie different knots to help us make a Pendulum Paint Tripod.
Parents’ evening: Please sign up for a slot on either Wednesday 19th or Thursday 20th October.
Harvest: Thank you for all of your harvest donations so far. If you would like to make a Harvest donation to the Food Bank, the following items are currently in short supply and would be greatly appreciated: rice pudding, jam, long life fruit juice, tinned fruit, jelly, tea bags, custard, tins and mashed potatoes. Our donations will be delivered to the local food bank.
Book Fair: Our annual book fair will arrive next Thursday (13th) and be in school for 2 weeks.
Next week we will:
Writing: Continue to use our book ‘Gorilla’ to explore using adverbials of time, place and manner (e.g. later that night, beside the bed, curiously) to the front of our sentences to become fronted adverbials.
Reading: We will continue to read and discuss stories from ‘A World Full of Animal Stories’ and understand how using inference (the facts from the text + our knowledge of the world) can help us understand what we are reading.
Reading homework: Hooray! Diaries have finally arrived! Please comment when your child has read aloud to you and sign when they have read independently to themselves. Please support your child to read for 10-20 minutes daily. In year 4 it is fine to have a mixture of your child reading aloud to you and them reading quietly to themselves.
Spelling: Our spelling focus this week is words with the prefix ‘auto’
Spellings to learn for our test on Friday14th October: autograph, autopilot, automobile, automatic, autocue, autobiography, automated, autobus.
We have learned to use boxes, coloured pens and different styles of writing to help us practice
Maths: We will consolidate the 4 times table and focus on using prior facts to help us learn it out of order e.g. 7x4 =? “I know 5x4 is 20 and 2x 4 is 8 so 7x4 = 28”
Maths Homework: Colour the multiples of 4 on a hundred square (in diaries) and talk about the pattern made.
Play pass the ball and say the multiples. Can you pass a ball/pair of socks to and from each other and count up in multiples of 4. If you get really quick change this so the thrower shouts a question e.g. 4x6 and the catcher says the answer =24.
Here is a link to an online activity: https://www.timestables.co.uk/4-times-table.html
PE: Our PE day is Friday morning. Please come to school wearing appropriate PE kit- White t-shirt, black/blue plain hoodie and tracksuit bottoms or shorts, hair tied back and earrings removed or covered. As the grass might be wet first thing, please send your child with spare school shoes and socks to change in to after.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us via the office if you would like to discuss anything about your child. admin@lostockgralam.cheshire.sch.uk 01606668270
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Evans, Mrs Judge and Miss Wilkinson.