Week beginning 11th June 2018
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#0ec9c2″ ]THIS WEEK’S LEARNING
SUMMER TERM 2 TOPIC: Summer’s Here
Theme: The Weather
LITERACY:
Book Focus: Rosie’s Hat by Julia Donaldson
This week we explore different types of weather and discuss how seasons occur and why the weather can be different in different parts of the world.
Group Phonics: This term we will focus on reading words and sentences containing all the phonemes the children have learnt throughout the year and we will be teaching strategies for instant blending of words and strategies for reading longer multisyllabic words.
MATHS:
This week we focus on problem solving using skills for adding and subtracting numbers
PE: Athletics – This term the children will enjoy several athletics based activities such as running, relay, hurdles (low level), and javelin (made of soft foam) [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#2de292″ ]HOMEWORK: Sent on Friday 8th June 2018. Due by Wednesday 13th June 2018
Four seasons
• Draw and label a picture about each of the four seasons.
• Can you write which months occur in each of the seasons?
READING BOOKS and WORD LISTS: Will be checked on group days [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#56f14c” ]IMPORTANT DATES:
Thursday, 28th June 2018: Reception trip to Godstone Farm
Friday, 13th July 2018: Reception Sports Day at school
Thursday, 19th July: Last day of school for children [/dropshadowbox]
Week beginning 11th June 2018
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Maths-We will be learning about the history of maths
Reading-We are continuing to read ‘A boy in Striped Pyjamas’
Writing-We will learning about persuasive writing and planning our own.
Science-We will be learning about evolution
Geography-We will be learning about Scandinavia and developing our map reading skills
R.E-We will be continuing to develop our knowledge of Christianity
DT-We will be designing and creating games to run at the Summer fair
Computing-We will continuing to design and make an APP
PE-We will be continuing to play tennis and develop of persevering skills
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f89a9a” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#fb8686″ ]Important Information[/dropshadowbox]
Congratulations to all of Year 6 who took part in the KS 2 Sports Day. It was a great day.
Summer Fair-16/06
Croydon Schools Athletic Competition 18-20/06
Week beginning 11th June 2018.
Week beginning 11th June 2018.
In Maths this week, we will collect data based on our homework about breakfast choices and present that information in tally charts, bar graphs and Venn diagrams. We will use a Carroll diagram to sort and group data
In English, we will begin our diary writing task based on the book Dream Big by Deloris Jordan.
In RE, we will learn about the importance of the turban in Sikhism.
In Science we will learn about the human body.
This week is Healthy Schools Week and we will have a shared breakfast on Wednesday morning and prepare our own muesli. Kindly bring a food item that the children can share.
Southwark News Week Beginning 11th June 2018
As you know, our topic for this term is called ”Temples, Tombs and Treasures’ linked to our HISTORY curriculum about Ancient Egypt.
Your child has taken home a homework sheet to cover the homework for the whole half term. Please choose another activity to complete for homework this week. We have had some fantastic work so far! I have attached an electronic copy of the homework below in case the paper copy is lost Homework-Egyptians
In English, we will continue developing our narrative writing with a short film called Origins; The Story of a Lone Robot in order to develop show not tell methods of writing. We will then be moving on to some work on playscripts based on a story called Jimmy and the Pharaoh.
In Maths, we will be continuing to look at formal written methods for multiplication and division, so it would be helpful for children to continue to practise their multiplication tables and related division facts. Please encourage your child to use Mathletics to revise these skills.
I have also asked children who are not yet able to tell the time to 1 minute intervals (including digital, analogue and 24 hour time) and to recognise all amounts of British coins and note variations to practise these in a practical context at home, for when we revisit these units.
The following website is useful but the most effective practise is practically using these skill in your child’s daily life e.g. counting change, counting how many minutes until bed time or what time they leave and return from the park.
P.E will continue to be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, please ensure your child has their kit for every lesson. In addition to this we will continue to run the Daily Mile to help promote the fitness of our children.
As I’m sure you all know, reading daily is essential in helping your child progress with reading and writing. Please enjoy reading a range of fun books as well as your child’s school reading books to promote a love for reading. Please remember to write a comment or sign your child’s reading record regularly. Remember that your child can keep a book for as long as they need in order to finish it. We appreciate your support to enable your child to be a fluent and competent reader.
In Science, children will begin a unit on Electricity.
Additional information-
Congratulations go to our Readers of the week from the week before half term-Jaida, Anomiga, Ciaran, Limar and Ayan as well as this week’s Azain, Limar ,Anomiga and Stefan.
Merit cards were also given to Harley, Charlie, Tyler and the whole class for their fantastic behaviour and enthusiasm for sports day yesterday.
Miss Danzey will be starting 2 after school clubs next week, teaching the children a little Latin or Ancient Greek. If you are interested in your child taking part, please let me know and I will give you a letter.
I look forward to seeing you all at next weekend’s Friends of Howard Summer Fair and thank you all for your donations of bottles for the bottle stall.
Week Beginning 11th June 2018
This week is healthy schools week. In Waterloo Class we will be focusing on the importance of a healthy breakfast.
- In mathematics we will be completing our work on shape and then working on statistics. We will create bar and tally charts and Venn diagrams based on what we eat for breakfast. We will also create Carroll diagrams to help us choose ingredients for muesli.
- In English we will learn about the features of diary writing before writing diary entries based on Dream Big by Deloris Johnson.
- In topic time we will learn about the importance of a healthy breakfast. We will taste and evaluate home made muesli. We will then plan and create our own muesli recipe.
- Chase from Crystal Palace Football Club will work with us on Wednesday. This week he will lead PE activities.
Congratulations to all the children for their fantastic participation at Sports Day on Thursday. Please remember to return PE kits to school for our lesson on Monday. Our breakfast celebration is on Wednesday. Please remember to bring some food to share with the class.
Week commencing 11th June
Our topic for this term is called ”Temples, Tombs and Treasures’ linked to our HISTORY curriculum about Ancient Egypt.
Your child has taken home a homework sheet to cover the homework for the whole half term. Please choose another activity to complete for homework this week. We have had some fantastic work so far! I have attached an electronic copy of the homework below in case the paper copy is lost Homework-Egyptians
In English, we will continue developing our narrative writing with a short film called Origins; The Story of a Lone Robot in order to develop show not tell methods of writing. We will then be moving on to some work on playscripts.
In Maths, we will be continuing to look at formal written methods for multiplication and division, so it would be helpful for children to continue to practise their multiplication tables and related division facts. Please encourage your child to use Mathletics to revise these skills.
We have also started to use a mental Maths game called Daily 10 which you can find a link to below
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
I have also asked those children who are less confident to continue to practise time (including digital, analogue and 24 hour time) and money, including coin recognition, for when we revisit these units.
P.E will continue to be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, please ensure your child has their kit for every lesson. In addition to this we will continue to run the Daily Mile to help promote the fitness of our children.
As I’m sure you all know, reading daily is essential in helping your child progress with reading and writing. Please enjoy reading a range of fun books as well as your child’s school reading books to promote a love for reading. Please remember to write a comment or sign your child’s reading record regularly. Remember that your child can keep a book for as long as they need in order to finish it. We appreciate your support to enable your child to be a fluent and competent reader.
In Science, children will begin a unit on Electricity.
Additional information- I hope to do some papier mache with the class so I would appreciate if you could send in any old newspapers we could use.
I am starting 2 after school clubs next week, teaching the children a little Latin or Ancient Greek. If you are interested in your child taking part, please let me know and I will give you a letter.
week beginning 11th June 2018
Please remember to practise your phonics using the words provided or playing the free games on
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html
http://more2.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm
P.E.
A gentle reminder P.E sessions are now on…
Lambeth Class : Monday & Wednesday
Vauxhall Class : Wednesday & Friday
Our Mathletics champions for this week are…
Gold Award
Vauxhall Class: Taliyah
Bronze Award
Lambeth Class : Maxwell, Patrick, Kamil, Francis, Tanush x2, Martin, Shaira, Zofia x2, Dominic, Alvin x2, Zuzanna, Alexandru, Suden x2
Vauxhall Class: Abigail, Dhiyanesh, Yashal
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class: Maxwell (3320 Points)
Vauxhall Class : Taliyah (3640 Points)
Our learning this Half- term…
English
We will continue to learn about the different features of poems – stanza, repetition, rhyming words, onomatopoeic words, rhythm… Children will recite, read poems and identify different features. We will continue to focus in a poem called ‘The Sound Collector’ by Roger Mc Gough.
Maths
This week we will be looking at Time-o’clock, half past, days of the week, months of a year, seasons, simple problem solving and reasoning tasks. Please continue to practise doubling and halving .
We will use the story ‘The Doorbell Rang’ by Pat Hutchins for our division problem solving.
Science
Chn will continue to learn about the different plant parts they eat.
ICT
We are learning to create and debug programs. Please support your child to develop their skills by using ‘Lightbot’.
http://lightbot.com/hour-of-code.html
Art
Children will continue to learn about the British nature artist Andy Goldsworthy and create their own nature sculptures.
P.E
Children will continue developing their skills to skip and using a skipping rope with increasing control. This week, the children will learn to play stuck in the mud.
PSHE
Our topic is called ‘Relationships’. Children will be talking about feelings – how to deal with it.
Music
We will continue to sing using our voices creatively and learn about rhythm and tempo.
R.E.
We will be continuing our learning about different religions focusing on basic principles of Hinduism.
Homework
Homework is sent home every Friday and should be promptly returned on Wednesday please. Homework is also set weekly related to the concepts children are learning. Please continue to do your Mathletics. Looking forward to more Gold Award winners this term.
*If your child attends an After school sports club and takes their P.E kit home, kindly return the P.E kit the next day. A lot of the children have been upset and disappointed as they have missed their P.E sessions as a result of not having kits
School photograph is on Friday 25th May, 2018
Change in P.E. Session Days…
Lambeth Class : Monday & Wednesday
Vauxhall Class : Wednesday & Friday
Our Mathletics Champions this week are…
Silver Award
Lambeth Class : Rebeka
Vauxhall Class :
Bronze Award
Lambeth Class : Sheznin, Alexandru, Martin, Kamil, Tanush, Francis, Zofia, Monae, Alvin, Zuzanna, Vera, Suden Shaira
Vauxhall Class: Abigail, Dhiyanesh, Liming, Taliyah
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class: Suden (3670 Points)
Vauxhall Class : Taliyah (2190 Points)
Our topic for this term is called ‘Let It Grow’ linked to our science curriculum about plants.
English
In English, we will be reading the text called ‘Katie’s Picture Show’ by James Mayhew. Children will be editing their character descriptions of Katie against the Year 1 Writing criteria. They will also plan and write their own narrative which is based on the painting – Tiger in the Tropical Storm by Henri Rousseau.
Maths
In Maths, we will be revisiting division using sharing and grouping.
Science
We will continue our learning about different plant and tree parts as well as naming and identifying flowering plants and trees in the local area. Children will be planning and writing a non-chronological report about ‘Spring’-animals, plants and trees, weather and clothes, length of day and any other facts.
Art
Children will be making collages of a tropical jungle for a tiger and use it as a setting for their creative narrative in English.
P.E
Children will continue developing their throwing and catching skills using a ball or a beanbag. They will practise bouncing, dribbling, rolling, under arm throws, over arm throws and catches using correct posture and skills. They will also create their own dance movements.
PSHE
Our topic is called ‘Relationships’. Children will be talking about feelings – how to deal with it.
Music
We will continue to sing using our voices creatively and learn about rhythm and tempo.
R.E.
We will be continuing our learning about different religions focusing on basic principles of Hinduism.
Home work
Homework is sent home every Friday and should be promptly returned on Wednesday please. Homework is also set weekly related to the concepts children are learning.
*If your child attends an After school sports club and takes their P.E kit home, kindly return the P.E kit the next day. A lot of the children have been upset and disappointed as they have missed their P.E sessions as a result of not having kits.
Week beginning 11th June 2018
Writing
We have moved onto a new piece of writing which will be based on a picture book called Tuesday by David Weisner. Have a look at the paper frogs we made. Did you know that they each have their own super power?
Our end goal is to write a police report based on the story.
Reading
We have chosen to change our class read. We are now reading Aristotle by Dick-King-Smith. It is a story about a cat who gets himself into all kinds of trouble.
Maths
We are now looking at measurement including mass, capacity and temperature.
PSHE
Zippy’s Friends- our current unit is titled ‘Saying Goodbye’.
P.E
Monday: real PE.
Real PE is an initiative that focuses on cognitive, creative, social and personal skills as well as technical skills. It is something new that I am very excited to use with the class.
Wednesday: tennis.
Week Beginning 11th June 2018
Writing
We will be continuing to work on the text Tuesday.
We will be sequencing the story and writing the ‘would-be’ story together as a class using all our great vocabulary and grammar knowledge 🙂
Reading
We are still really enjoying Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. We are able to talk about the story & characters and are able to make predictions about what may happen in the text.
We will also be looking at key reading comprehension skills as a whole class using pictures and short passages of text as a stimuli.
Maths
We are continuing to work on Statistics. This will include learning about tally charts, pictograms and block charts. The children’s knowledge of counting in 2s,5s and 10s will support this learning as the information on the pictograms and block charts gets more challenging.
PSHE
We will be continuing with our new module of Zippy’s Friends.
P.E
We are going to be doing tennis skills on a Monday and doing Real PE on Wednesday.
Science
We will be moving on to look at ways we can keep ourselves healthy. This week we will be thinking about a balanced diet.
D&T
This week is Healthy Living week and so we are going to be linking this with D&T to design and make smoothies or fruit salads in class.
You should have received a letter asking for nominal donation of 50p to cover the cost of buying fruits, yoghurt etc.. Thank you in advance for your contribution.
Week Beginning 4th June 2018
Writing
We will be starting a new text this week called Tuesday by David Weisner.
We will be getting to know the story really well and thinking about the kind of text it could be as it has no words!!
As a hook into the story we will be making frogs… I wonder how this could be linked?
Reading
We are still really enjoying Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. We are able to talk about the story & characters and are able to make predictions about what may happen in the text.
We will also be looking at key reading comprehension skills as a whole class using pictures and short passages of text as a stimuli.
Maths
We are finishing off the last of our measurement unit looking at capacity and temperature before moving on to complete our work on Statistics. This will include learning about tally charts, pictograms and block charts. The children’s knowledge of counting in 2s,5s and 10s will support this learning as the information on the pictograms and block charts gets more challenging.
PSHE
We will be continuing with our new module of Zippy’s Friends.
P.E
We are going to be doing tennis skills on a Monday and doing Real PE on Wednesday.
Science
We will be moving on to look at ways we can keep ourselves healthy. This week we will be thinking about a balanced diet.
Geography
We will be recapping work on the continents and oceans of the world before focusing on the UK and it’s capital cities. We will be using atlases appropriately to find information.