Robins week beg. 27th February

Date: 16th Feb 2023 @ 5:45pm

We had an amazing trip to Beeston Castle. It definitely helped to consolidate all the learning that we have been doing in class around the Stone Age and Bronze Age as well as giving us first hand experiences to touch spear heads, arrows, animal skins etc and to imagine what life was really like living in a roundhouse. 

Our trip also inspired the children to produce fantastic adventure stories based on our class text Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. Your child should have brought home a photocopy of their finished story today so they can share it with you. They have all worked extremely hard on these pieces of writing and have shown how much they have come on since our last long piece of writing before Christmas. 

After half term we will continue to focus on developing new  vocabulary using words from The Iron Man by Ted Hughes as well as ensuring all our reading is done with fluency and expression. We will continue to build on this next week.  

Please remember to read with your child for 10 - 15 mins daily and record in diary if possible. Also take a look at their reading target which is on a sticker in their diary, some children may have the same target for a few weeks to work on. 

You will have noticed last week that we were revising some of the spelling rules that we have covered previously and will continue to do this for a few weeks after the half term break. Spellings for next week are incomplete, invisible, disagree, disappear, unkind, unhappy, unlock, unsafe

Remember to have a go at this spelling game to revise spellings. 

https://ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/

Here is a good website to play some Maths games that I'm sure the children will enjoy. 

https://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

Thank you to everyone who has been completing the x3 times tables homework sheets this half term. We will be moving onto x4 after the half term. We have been constantly revising x2, x5, x10 in class so your child should be secure with these now.  

PE days for after half term will remain as Monday and Friday. 

HOME- Our new whole school topic 

After half term we will begin our new whole school topic - Home. This has been planned around the theme of the importance of our homes to us and the human conflicts and natural disasters that result in homelessness for others. We are hoping to use photographs of our children’s homes as part of our displays. If you would like to, please send or e-mail a photo/copy of your home into school after half term. Thank you. 

World Book Day- Wednesday 1^st March- dress up, own clothes or pyjama day. Please wear whatever makes you happy and comfortable.

Please feel free to get in touch if there is anything we can help you with,

We hope you all have a lovely restful half term, 

Mrs Whittingham, Miss Wilkinson (Friday) & Mrs Taylor