Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks W.B. 14.12.20
Date: 10th Dec 2020 @ 7:55am
Hello everyone 😊
I hope you are all keeping well and are looking forward to the Christmas holidays! I can’t quite believe we are looking ahead to the last week of the Autumn Term.
The children have worked exceptionally hard to put on a Christmas production for you, albeit a little different than normal. We hope it makes you smile and helps spread some Christmas cheer!
As we look ahead to the final week of the half term, we have lots of festive activities to keep us busy. Over the week, all of the children will have the opportunity to watch a virtual Christmas Panto. Each class will also have a Christmas party on Friday 18th December with party games and a Christmas movie.
In maths, we will begin to look at our next unit ‘Statistics’. We will be focussing on reading and interpreting tables.
In writing, we will be using everything we have learnt about Annie Edson Taylor to write an extract about her in the style of our shared reading book ‘Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls’.
In our topic lesson, we will be carrying out research to find out more about Northwich. We will use primary and secondary sources to find out about Northwich’s population, industry, employment opportunities and types of houses.
In our reading lessons, our focus remains on drawing inferences. We will continue to use our ‘thinking out loud’ and ‘visualising’ techniques to infer characters’ thoughts, feelings and motives. We will also continue to make comparisons within and across the texts we have read.
Homework
The children should complete pages 10 and 11 this week, to be returned by Thursday 17th December (We are asking for the children to return it a day early next week on Thursday so that we can have a festive, fun-filled day on Friday!)
Remember, if your child is unable to complete their homework at home, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime so that they can complete it in school. During this lunchtime, any children who may be struggling on a particular question at home can also come to ask an adult for help.
Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings/times tables in addition to their new maths homework.
Our spellings for the quiz on Thursday 17th December will be the next 10 statutory words from the Y5/6 list:
Available, average, awkward, bargain, bruise, category, cemetery, committee, communicate, community
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
If you have any questions of queries please do not hesitate to contact me via the school admin email address or telephone 😊
Miss Beattie