Term 4, week 2
This week we are looking forward to World Book Day on Thursday and there are plans to enjoy this all week! As you will probably already know, the theme for this year is ‘You are a Reader’ and the children have been invited to dress up as a book character on Thursday. I am very excited to see what they decide to dress up as, but would like to remind everyone that we also have PE on Thursday, so do be mindful that the children will need to change into PE kits.
On the subject of PE kits, we do seem to have a number of children who regularly arrive on PE days without their kits, which can make it tricky sometimes for them to safely take part. Please remind your children to bring suitable sports wear on both Thursdays and Fridays.
In maths this week, we will be looking at more formal methods to multiply 2-digits by 1 digits, moving on later in the week to the formal methods for division.
In English this week, we will have a World Book Day emphasis, joining an online session and looking at specific authors and illustrators. This will continue to increase our awareness of persuasive text writing.
Whole class reading will be based on Leon and the Place Between, a beautifully illustrated book by Grahame Baker-Smith.
In RE this week, the children will continue with the Salvation Unit, building on identifying why Christians call the day Jesus died ‘Good Friday’.
Maple class have PE on Thursdays and Fridays, both sessions will be with Mr Luckhurst.
On Friday, Mrs Tompsett will continue the touch typing unit in ICT, do the spellings and times table tests and continue with the artwork started last week.
Homework will be sent out on Tuesday as usual, with details also on the class blog. Reading Records should come into school daily and will generally be changed on a Monday and Thursday. We ask that the children aim to read daily, ideally with an adult, and please do write a comment in their reading records to tell us how they are getting on. We are encouraging the children to be more independent with their homework and reading records, so please do remind them to put the relevant books in the basket in class.
As usual, I am happy to answer any questions you may have, so please do contact me if you have any queries, using the class email address:
Best wishes