Term 1 Week 5 – overview

Reading challenge – we have made a visual display to track our home reading.  Each week when reading records are checked, every child who brings their record (completed with their weekly reading) they will earn a star.  Remember that 10 minutes reading each day makes a huge difference to overall literacy and especially expanding vocabulary!

Our ukulele lesson with Mr Lawrence will be on Monday morning.  Ukuleles are provided by school.

Spelling and grammar –we will be practising words ending with ‘sion’.  We will also be working on using present tense and deciding between simple past and present perfect tenses.

In English, we continue to focus on the book ‘Escape from Pompeii’ by Christina Ballit.  This week, we will start to plan our own versions of the story, beginning with developing our own main characters.  We will also think about the signs our character see to tell them that something is wrong, how the volcano erupts and how they escape.

In Maths we will be comparing and ordering numbers up to 10,000, revisiting Roman numerals and learning to round to the nearest 10.

In guided reading we will be continuing with our text ‘The Magic Finger’ by Roald Dahl.  This is a very fun text to use to develop our skills of comprehension.

In RE our unit of focus is ‘Creation’ and we will be considering what we can do to care for creation.

In History we will continue our learning journey investigating how the Romans changed Britain.  We are now moving on to consider why the Romans invaded Britain, with a particular focus on the terms ‘invaders’ and ‘settlers’.

In Art, we are looking at the still life paintings of Giorgio Morandi.  We have completed some sketches of a selection of his paintings and will be arranging our own still life objects based on his style.

PE is on MONDAY MORNING and THURSDAY AFTERNOON with Mr Luckhurst.  

Reading records have been sent home with most children choosing a book from the selection in class or from the reading scheme.  All children have an additional book in their tray for reading sessions in class.  Please could we have reading records in school to be checked on Tuesday and Friday mornings.  

Homework will be issued this Wednesday and is due in on the following Monday.

Please contact me if you have any queries using the class email address:chestnut@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk

Have a lovely week!

Best wishes,

Mrs Barter