Week Beginning 20th January 2020
Mordern Hall Park Trip – Thursday 30th January 2020
English – Writing
Here is the story of The Magic Paintbrush.
The Magic Brush
Long, long ago in Ancient China there lived a poor boy, who was called Chang. Although he loved drawing, Chang was too poor to have a paintbrush so he used a stick instead. He would draw in the sand or scratch marks on the walls.
Early one morning, Chang saw a large, silver fish trapped in the tall reeds by the riverbank. The fish were struggling to get free. He helped to release the fish because he felt sorry for them.
Later that day, Chang was sleeping. In his dream, a man dressed in a silver cloak spoke to him. “You are a kind boy Chang. I am giving you a magic brush. Use it to help the poor.” Chang woke with a start and lying beside him was a paintbrush.
So Chang painted the shape of a butterfly and to his amazement it changed into a real butterfly and flew away. Chang was delighted with this gift. He ran straight back to the village to see how he could help the poor people.
First, he painted a donkey for the young mother to help her carry her goods. Next he painted an ox to help the farmer pull his plough. After that he painted a hoe for the old lady to weed her garden. Everyday he found a new use for the paintbrush.
Unluckily, the Emperor heard of Chang and his magic brush. He sent for Chang and ordered him to paint a field of gold. Chang didn’t want to obey the greedy Emperor so he drew a sea with a tiny island in the distance.
“Where is my field of gold?” shouted the Emperor, angrily.
“Just here,” replied Chang, drawing a tiny field on the island.
“Paint me a boat so that I can travel to the island,” snarled the Emperor. So Chang painted a boat. The Emperor climbed onto the boat. Chang drew the north wind blowing towards the island.
“I’m going too slowly,” roared the Emperor. “Paint stronger wind.” “So Chang drew a storm. Suddenly, the waves grew rougher and rougher until the boat capsized and the Emperor disappeared. Then Chang drew a white horse so that he could ride home and tell his friends what had happened to the Emperor who wanted too much for himself.
This week we will be answering questions on the story of The Magic Brush in order to deepen their understanding. The children will have a variety of questions, including choice, retrieval and interpreting.
The children have enjoyed looking The Magic Brush’ story so far. This week we will be retelling the story through drama. We will then be using the ‘warning tale toolkit’ to box up the story into different sections.
The children will use this tool kit to innovate their own version of a warning story. We will be encouraging children to ‘show not tell’.
Maths – Division
- To divide by 10
- To recognise 2D and 3D shapes
- To count sides on 2D shapes
To make equal groups by sharing, divide 16 oranges equally between 4 families
Share 6 cookies between 2 people.
To divide by 10
Children will practically group and share objects. Children will be encouraged to use number lines to share objects between 10 people. When dividing by ten, children will be encouraged to use their knowledge of their 10 x tables.
To recognise 2D and 3d shapes
We will be investigating 2D and 3D shapes. Children will explore the difference between 2D and 3D shapes. 2D shapes are flat and 3D shapes have volume.
To count sides on 2D shapes
Children will count the sides on 2d shapes. They will see 2D shapes in different ways.
Example:
| We will continue to read The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl. We will also be learning some new reading skills as a whole class using ERIC. The children will build their repertoire of different reading skills through the year. |
When reading with your child, please use VIPERS when asking them questions on the book they are reading.
Our ICT slot is on Tuesday afternoon. We are photographers is the name of our new unit. In this unit, the children review photos online, practise using a digital camera, take photos to fit a given theme, edit their photos, and then select their best images. Children will also select images to create a comic.
Florence Nightingale. The children will continue to explore Florence Nightingale. We will be comparing the conditions in Scutari hospital before and after Florence Nightingale. The children be writing about the differences in a diary form.
Is your child an author?
If yes, head over to Grant Koper’s website. Your child has the opportunity to have their story published on his website and their story read out of YouTube by Grant himself!!!
English – Writing
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| We will continue to read The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl. We will also be learning some new reading skills as a whole class using ERIC. The children will build their repertoire of different reading skills through the year. |
When reading with your child, please use VIPERS when asking them questions on the book they are reading.Maths (Multiplication)
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- To use arrays to solve multiplication problems
- To learn the 2x tables
- To learn the 5x tables
- To learn the 10x tables
- Using arrays to solve multiplication problems
Arrays can be used for building multiplication facts in a meaningful way. Before drilling and memorising tables, children must understand how these facts are derived. For example, by progressively adding another column of three objects, children can build the three-times tables for themselves.
To learn the 2,5 and 10 x tables the children will:
– Look at patterns and rules – 2 and 10 times tables the numbers are even. In the 5 times tables, they end in a 5 or 0.
| -Look at the rules of commutativity – Oral activities – songs, rhymes and raps help young children to memorise multiplication facts -Practical activities – flashing 5 fingers |
Examples of living things – baby, butterfly, oak tree, goldfish
Examples of things that were once alive – leather bag, cotton jumper
Examples of non-living things – plastic bag, metal
Our ICT slot is on Tuesday afternoon. We are game testers. During this unit, the children will play and evaluate simple scratch games. We will discuss age ratings and increasing game addiction.
Florence Nightingale. The children will write a factfile about Florence Nightingale.
Art
We will continue to explore line and tone. The children will draw different facial parts by taking a line for a walk. They will draw a mouth, an eye, an ear and a nose without lifting their pencil form the paper. The children will apply this to Florence Nightingale. The children will draw a portrait of Florence Nightingale by taking their pencil for a walk.
Is your child an author?
If yes, head over to Grant Koper’s website. Your child has the opportunity to have their story published on his website and their story read out of YouTube by Grant himself!!!
Week beginning 20th January 2020
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”10″ border_color=”#3834f4″ ]What are we learning this week?[/dropshadowbox]
Maths – This week’s maths learning objectives are:
- Compare fractions with unrelated denominators using equivalence;
- Know decimal equivalents for halves, quarters, fifths, eighths, tenths and hundredths;
- Use mental division strategies to find non-unit fractions of amounts;
- Recognise equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages;
- Find percentages of amounts;
- Calculate and interpret the mean as an average.
English – This week, we shall be starting our new unit of Non-chronological reports. We shall be basing our learning this half term on our class text, Holes by Louis Sachar. This week, we shall be planning, writing and editing our non-chronological reports based on a rattlesnake.
Science – We shall be starting our new unit Animals, including humans.
PE – Swimming is on this week. On Fridays, we shall be doing boxercise sessions.
Reading – We shall be continuing to read our class text, Holes. We shall be completing some skimming activities this week, as well as completing a past reading paper.
Geography – This term, we will be learning all about Scandinavia. This week’s learning objectives are:
• To understand key aspects of the climate zones of Scandinavia.
• To understand the position and significance of the Arctic circle
• Use graphs to identify physical features.
History – We shall be learning about how the role of propaganda during WW2.
Key dates – We shall be visiting Kew Gardens on Monday 3rd February 2020.
Week beginning 20th January 2020
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”10″ border_color=”#3834f4″ ]What are we learning this week?[/dropshadowbox]
Maths – This week’s maths learning objectives are:
- Use place value to add and subtract numbers with 3 decimal places;
- Multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000;
- Round numbers with 3 decimal places to the nearest whole, tenth and hundredth;
- Use written addition to add numbers with 3 decimal places in context of measures (litres, km, kg);
- Use rounding to estimate totals and round answers to a given level of accuracy.
English – This week, we shall be starting our new unit of Non-chronological reports. We shall be basing our learning this half term on our class text, Holes by Louis Sachar. This week, we shall be planning, writing and editing our non-chronological reports based on a rattlesnake.
Science – We shall be starting our new unit Animals, including humans.
PE – Swimming is on this week. On Fridays, we shall be doing boxercise sessions.
Reading – We shall be continuing to read our class text, Holes. We shall be completing some skimming activities this week, as well as completing a past reading paper.
Geography – This term, we will be learning all about Scandinavia. This week’s learning objectives are:
• To understand key aspects of the climate zones of Scandinavia.
• To understand the position and significance of the Arctic circle
• Use graphs to identify physical features.
History – We shall be learning about how the role of propaganda during WW2.
Key dates – We shall be visiting Kew Gardens on Monday 3rd February 2020.
Week beginning 20th January
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will begin work on length. We will estimate and measure accurately and compare units of measure.
- In English we will plan new characters before writing our own version of Magic Dogs of the Volcano.
- In science we will find out how igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks are formed.
- In geography we will create posters on famous volcanoes,
- In RE will learn how Muslims care for our world.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#eed75a” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]We would be grateful if children would bring in newspapers to use in making volcanoes.[/dropshadowbox]
It is already the 2nd week of the Spring Term
After an eventful week with our workshop, we are having a busy week ahead, which sees us start our new Class Novel (Room 13).
Maths:
- Dividing 4- by 1-digit numbers with remainders.
- Using the inverse to check and correct my calculations (multiplication & division of 4- by 1-digit numbers).
- Identifying square and cubed numbers.
- Solving mathematical problems using multiplication and division of 4- by 1-digit numbers.
English:
- Writing, editing and reflecting on our instructions.
- Making predictions using a range of evidence from a text.
- Empathising with and exploring characters through role-play.
- Orally retelling a story using boxing-up.
Science: Further exploring forces (friction and air-resistence).
Spanish: Using the Spanish names for pets.
ICT: Exploring prior knowledge of coding and Scratch.
Geography: Locating places of interest on a UK and World-Map.
Week beginning 13th January 2020
The children, and all adults, thoroughly enjoyed our trip to see Goodnight Mister Tom at BFI Southbank last week. As well as watching the film, we took part in an interactive workshop looking at different aspects of WW2 – using literary film clips to support our learning.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”10″ border_color=”#3834f4″ ]What are we learning this week?[/dropshadowbox]
Maths – We shall be looking place value over the next couple of weeks, including:
- Place value in 7-digit numbers (PV + and -, compare numbers)
- Add and subtract 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000 to/from 7-digit numbers
- Place 7-digit nos on number lines and round to the nearest 10,000, 100,000 or 1,000,000
- Calculate intervals across zero
English – This week, we shall be starting our new unit of Non-chronological reports. We shall be basing our learning this half term on our class text, Holes by Louis Sachar. This week, we shall be identifying and evaluating key features as well as editing and up-levelling an existing non-chronological report.
Science – We shall be continuing our topic of Light. We shall be planning and conducting an investigation to look at what affects the size of a shadow.
PE – Swimming returns this week. On Fridays, we shall be starting our new unit- boxercise.
Reading – We shall be continuing to read our class text, Holes. We shall be completing some skimming activities this week, as well as completing a past reading paper.
Geography – We shall be starting our new unit – learning all about Scandinavia. This week, we shall be using maps to locate countries and major cities.
History – We shall be learning about how the role of women changed during WW2.
Key dates – We shall be visiting Kew Gardens on Monday 3rd February 2020.
Week beginning 13th January 2020
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#3853f0" ]THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
SPRING TERM 1 TOPIC: Transport
LITERACY:
Book Focus: The Naughty Bus by Jan and Jerry Oke
The children really enjoyed reading about the mischievous adventures of the naughty bus. This week they will develop their ideas through role play and discuss alternate adventures for the naughty bus. Where else could the naughty bus go?
We are also beginning to focus on developing the children’s ability to break the flow of speech into words and write these as short phrases or sentences by encouraging children to listen for the initial and dominant sounds in words as they spell and write.
GROUP PHONICS: Group Phonics will continue this week with each group focusing on reviewing the sounds learnt and decoding new words as well learning how to spell and write these words.
KEY WORD LISTS: The children have all received their animal word lists. These are the key words that occur most frequently in books your child will read in Reception and beyond. The word lists are designed to encourage your child to learn to read these words in a fun and engaging way so they can instantly recognise them in the books they read.
Please check bookbags for animal word list folders which contain a useful information sheet for parents. Please only send in lists on group reading days.
Please note that there isn’t any rush for your child to race through the lists. It is more important that they have secure recognition of these words before moving onto the next list.
MATHS: This term we focus on securing number skills within 0-10.
This week we will focus on:
• Recognising and forming numerals 6-10
• Counting up to 10 objects with accuracy
TOPIC: We will discuss different forms of transport such as land, air and water transport [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#28ebac" ]IMPORTANT DATES
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Week Beginning 13th January 2020
Mordern Hall Park Trip – Thursday 30th January 2020
English – Writing
Here is the story of The Magic Paintbrush.
The Magic Brush
Long, long ago in Ancient China there lived a poor boy, who was called Chang. Although he loved drawing, Chang was too poor to have a paintbrush so he used a stick instead. He would draw in the sand or scratch marks on the walls.
Early one morning, Chang saw a large, silver fish trapped in the tall reeds by the riverbank. The fish were struggling to get free. He helped to release the fish because he felt sorry for them.
Later that day, Chang was sleeping. In his dream, a man dressed in a silver cloak spoke to him. “You are a kind boy Chang. I am giving you a magic brush. Use it to help the poor.” Chang woke with a start and lying beside him was a paintbrush.
So Chang painted the shape of a butterfly and to his amazement it changed into a real butterfly and flew away. Chang was delighted with this gift. He ran straight back to the village to see how he could help the poor people.
First, he painted a donkey for the young mother to help her carry her goods. Next he painted an ox to help the farmer pull his plough. After that he painted a hoe for the old lady to weed her garden. Everyday he found a new use for the paintbrush.
Unluckily, the Emperor heard of Chang and his magic brush. He sent for Chang and ordered him to paint a field of gold. Chang didn’t want to obey the greedy Emperor so he drew a sea with a tiny island in the distance.
“Where is my field of gold?” shouted the Emperor, angrily.
“Just here,” replied Chang, drawing a tiny field on the island.
“Paint me a boat so that I can travel to the island,” snarled the Emperor. So Chang painted a boat. The Emperor climbed onto the boat. Chang drew the north wind blowing towards the island.
“I’m going too slowly,” roared the Emperor. “Paint stronger wind.” “So Chang drew a storm. Suddenly, the waves grew rougher and rougher until the boat capsized and the Emperor disappeared. Then Chang drew a white horse so that he could ride home and tell his friends what had happened to the Emperor who wanted too much for himself.
This week we will be answering questions on the story of The Magic Brush in order to deepen their understanding. The children will have a variety of questions, including choice, retrieval and interpreting.
The children have enjoyed looking The Magic Brush’ story so far. This week we will be retelling the story through drama. We will then be using the ‘warning tale toolkit’ to box up the story into different sections.
The children will eventually use this toolkit to help them plan their own warning tale.
Maths – Division
Children will practically share cubes and counters between different people or they will group these objects in different ways.
- To make equal groups by sharing
- To make equal groups by grouping
- To divide by 2
- To divide by 5
To make equal groups by sharing, divide 16 oranges equally between 4 families
Share 6 cookies between 2 people.To divide by 2
Children will share objects between 2 people. Practically, they will also group objects into two groups.When dividing by two, children will be encouraged to use their knowledge of their 2 x tables. We will also explore the relationship between halving and dividing by 2.
To divide by 5
Children will share objects between 5 people. Practically, they will also group objects into five groups. When dividing by 5, children will be encouraged to use their knowledge of their 5 x tables.
| We will continue to read The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl. We will also be learning some new reading skills as a whole class using ERIC. The children will build their repertoire of different reading skills through the year. |
When reading with your child, please use VIPERS when asking them questions on the book they are reading.
Our ICT slot is on Tuesday afternoon. We are game testers. During this unit, the children will play and evaluate simple scratch games. We will discuss age ratings and increasing game addiction.
Florence Nightingale. The children will continue to write a fact file about Florence Nightingale.
Is your child an author?
If yes, head over to Grant Koper’s website. Your child has the opportunity to have their story published on his website and their story read out of YouTube by Grant himself!!!
Week Beginning Monday June 13th , 2020
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#b1f8f2″ border_width=”3″ border_color=”#f59feb” ]We are happy to be back at school and all the children have settled back in and are ready to learn and have fun. This is an exciting term where we are learning about Space, Moon and Neil Armstrong.[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#def55d” border_width=”3″ border_color=”#bb72f4″ ]Your children are super learners. Please support us by enabling your child to be confident, independent learners by leaving them at the door in the morning to get on with organising themselves with their book bag and coats and promptly starting their Early morning work which consolidates their new learning. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f2ef7a” border_width=”3″ border_color=”#379736″ ]Our context for learning is ‘Now you see me, Now you don’t’. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#a1f525″ border_width=”3″ border_color=”#6c3697″ ]Our Mathletics Champions from Week beginning 16th December 2019 to 5th January 2020. [/dropshadowbox]
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class : Yusuf (6051 Points), Aliyah ( 2640 Points)
Vauxhall Class : Yigit Emre (2340 Points), Ishmael ( 3290 Points)
Silver Award
Lambeth Class : Aliyah, Yusuf
Vauxhall Class : Fabeha
Bronze Award
Lambeth Class : Tome x 2, Aliyah x 2, Brady x 3, Bonnie, Emily, Barin, Shauna, Carlotta, Stanley, Hasan x 2, Yusuf x 2, Kevin
Vauxhall Class :Ishmael, Yigit x 2, Hamza, Elena, Fabeha, Rayyan x 2, Logan
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fcf0b4″ border_width=”3″ border_color=”#bb72f4″ ]Our Learning this week… [/dropshadowbox]
English
We have enjoyed watching Baboon on the Moon.
Children will be introduced to the features of a comic strip. They will then make their own comic strip based on the Baboon on the moon.
Please share any comic books you have at home with your child.
Maths
We continue our learning about time – days of the week, months of the year, Seasons, using a clock – o’clock, half past . Please practise with your child yesterday was, today is, tomorrow will be.
o’clock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TA5z_DE204
Half past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIgzCOZNT6o
We will also be learning about weight – What is heavy/ light, heavier than / lighter than /
heaviest / lightest.
Science
In Science we will continue learning about the winter season – weather, what clothes we wear, plants and animals ( what happens to them), length of the day as well as explore Space focusing on the Earth and the Moon.
PE
Children will be learning about – ‘Dynamic Balance to Agility’- jumping and landing.
RE
We continue our learning about Christianity: We will be discussing about lifestyles and celebration: Where do Christians go to worship?
ICT
We continue our learning about e-safety. Check out the Hector’s World website.
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/4_7/hectorsworld/Episode1/
Our new topic is ‘We are collectors’. where we find images using the web to help with our learning.
PSHE
We revisit the Zones of Regulation. Your children are amazing at calming down using a range of breathing techniques. Please ask your child to demonstrate the hand breathing, lazy eight breathing, hexagonal breathingg etc..
Music
Children learn to use voices expressively and creatively. They will also develop an understanding of rhythm and tempo.
Phonics
Please continue to practice sound recognition with your child. Encourage them to apply their phonic knowledge every time you read or write with them.
Homework
Please support your child to complete their homework – a Space poster.
Handwriting
Please continue supporting your child to form numbers correctly as well as letters – the correct size and shape. – orientation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NQ6uS8blwY&t=1s
Week Beginning 13th January
The children have settled back into school well following the holiday. This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will continue our learning on time. We will learn the number of days in each month and year and how to use 12 hour digital time with am and pm.
- In English we will are exploring Magic Dogs of the Volcanoes by Manlio Argueta. This week we will retell the story in writing.
- In science we will sort rocks according to their properties.
- In geography we will learn about the effects of volcanoes.
- In RE we are beginning a multi-faith unit on why we should look after our world. We will look at whether we would include volcanoes in our ideal world.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#e8f214″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Homework is set each Thursday and it is important that it is handed in the following Tuesday. Children are given their new times table on Monday to learn at home before Times Table Challenge on Friday. Children should read at home each evening and complete tasks on mathematics.[/dropshadowbox]