This Week's Learning

This week´s learning:

ENGLISH

• Main and subordinate clauses
• Conjunctions
• Using VIPERS skills to analyse ´Beyond the Lines´short film
• Writing a ´show not tell´paragraph based on Beyond the Lines, then editing this work in pairs.

Homework

• Read to end of page 125 in LFTL for Tuesday 5th
• Rationing reading comprehension for Weds 6th
• No new spellings but homework on ´Conjunctions´for Friday 8th

MATHS

• Interpreting remainders from divsion as whole numbers, fractions or decimals.
• Knowing when to round a remainder up or down, according to the context.
• Finding common factors of numbers.

Homework

• 10 word problems involving remainders - do I round up or down?
• Questions 4-9 - Common Factors
• For Wednesday 6th November

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

SHOW NOT TELL

BEYOND THE LINES

This week we have been exploring how to show and not tell a character´s feelings.  we played ´Show and Tell´charades and then supported each other with paired editing.

This week's learning

ENGLISH:

• Spelling, punctuation, grammar and STAR reading assessments.
• Reading, drafting, writing and illustrating WW2 blackout poems.
• Reading of LFTL- focusing on new vocabulary
• wh and w words for spelling

Homework:

• Read to end of p 103 of LFTL for Monday
• Reading comprehension- Evacuation newspaper report for Wednesday
• Spelling of w and wh words- learning when to use wh and w is really challenging and we are all making mistakes with these.  Please practise them lots as they need to just be learnt by rote!  For Friday

MATHS

• Formal written methods of long division
• Order of operations when using more than one operation (BODMAS - brackets, order, division, multiply, addition, subtraction)

Homework:

• Questions 4-9 Order of Operations

This week's learning

ENGLISH:


  *   Drafting and writing persuasive postcards from Olive to her Mum.
  *   Reading from LFTL and VIPERS based questions.
* Reading comprehension and questions from a ‘classic text’- Just William.
  *   Revisiting the difference between phrases and clauses.

HOMEWORK:

  *   Yom Kippur reading comprehension
  *   LFTL to page 80
  *   Spelling revision

MATHS

• Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and1000
• Using this to convert metric measures, ie 250g = 0.25Kg, converting mm to m etc.
• Using the formal written method of division, including decimals

HOMEWORK:

• Double sided sheet of problem solving and reasoning involving the conversion of metric measures.

Next week we will be completing some simple in class assessments.  These should not be stressful for the children or need large amounts of revision but are helping us to assess how much they have learnt so far this year and what we need to teach next. The best preparation for tests is that your child works hard every day in class, completes their homework and reads every day!  However, they may want to also do the following:

Revise  all the spellings taught so far this year -cious/ tious, -cial/ -tial, -ible/ -able and the common exception word list (rhythm, immediately, conscience etc). The children were told that if they don’t have a record of the spellings that they have done at home then they should take home their yellow spelling books for the weekend.

They could also go over parts of speech (determiner, noun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, pronoun) and the difference between clauses and phrases.

This website might be useful, although we have only covered some of this grammar content at this point in the year!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn

This week's learning

English:

• Planning, writing and editing of a World War 2 portal story
• Reading of LFTL, focusing on how to summarise effectively
• -ible/ able spellings
• Reading comprehension linked to Judaism

Homework:

• able/ ible spelling sheet 8for Fri)
• Read to * on page 70 of LFTL (for Mon)
• Rosh Hashanah reading comprehension (for Weds)

Maths:

• Formal written methods of multiplication
• Multiplying 4-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers
• Multplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000

Homework:

• 2/3 sides of the multiplication sheets.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT HOMEWORK DIARIES WILL NOW BE CHECKED ON A MONDAY- SO PLEASE SIGN THIS WEEKEND!

HOMEWORK AND HOMEWORK DIARIES- AN UPDATE!

HOMEWORK AND HOMEWORK DIARIES

-We have decided to change the day that we look at and sign the homework diaries, to make it easier to monitor.  Instead of a Wednesday, we would like you to check your child´s homework at the WEEKEND and Mrs King or Mrs Harrison will look and sign on a MONDAY.

Each week your child should write in:
- Monday´s date
- Their Spanish, English and Maths homeworks
- What they are reading and their quiz score when they have completed it
- Their score on their Friday spelling test
- Any additional useful information (e.g. reminders)


If children do not hand in homework then we will highlight this in their diary to make it clear that they missed when it should have been handed in.

Absent children´s homework is put in their drawer ready for when they return to school.

Homework cannot be done in school breaktimes and lunchtimes.

If your child is struggling to keep on top of their homework, please let Mrs King know and she will send you a timetable to help them structure their week.


MEDICAL:
If your child has a verified medical reason not to do P.E. then of course children are allowed to not participate. However, if they are feeling a little ill or have a mild discomfort then please let us know and he will adapt the PE lesson so that as many children as possible can participate.  The children only have 1 hour of PE a week and it is an important part of their curriculum.