This week in English, we are completing our unit on information texts. The children have been busy planning some writing about their own imaginary creature and today we have worked on turning our notes into sentences. Tomorrow, we will begin writing our reports using the structure that we used last week.

In R.E yesterday, we listened to ‘What a wonderful world’ sung by Louis Armstrong while we watched some beautiful footage by David Attenborough. We were then inspired by the work of Sir David and that of Greta Thunberg when we expressed our ideas for helping the planet.

In maths this week, we are adding and subtracting tens and for Year 3, hundreds. We are also using our knowledge of number lines to 10 and 20 to help us to estimate the position of multiples of ten on number lines to 100.

In Art today, we have learnt about the African-American artist Alma Thomas and have produced our own paintings using similar techniques.

A quick note about Times Table Rock Stars: This program tests the children up to 12x the number and also includes the related division facts so some children may find this a bit challenging at the moment. BBC Super Movers has some nice resources for helping the children learn their tables and times tables.me.uk has online and printable resources too.
We are having a lovely week so far, can’t believe it’s already Tuesday!

Feel free to email me if you have any questions or I can be of any assistance.

Today we have designed and carried out an investigation to find out if colour influences what we like to eat and drink. We looked at 5 mystery drinks and voted for our favourite based upon the colour. Next, we tasted the drinks and voted again based upon the taste. The coloured drinks were natural fruit and vegetable juices and the clear liquid was water.

A super week so far! This afternoon, we have used oil pastels in art to produce some work inspired by Robert Delaunay.

Thank you so much for all the plastic bottles! We will put them aside for a week and then start making our planes. How exciting!
This week in English, we will be continuing to look at information texts. The children are helping me to choose an unusual pet, a pet dragon! We have watched a news clip of a possible dragon sighting and then I have shared a text about the very rare Bridgnorth Ridge-Back. We have used a text map to help us and hopefully this will inspire some brilliant writing about our own dragons. In Maths, we will be looking at addition and revising our number bonds.

Well done Yellow Class for working so hard this week! In History, we have been learning about the evacuation of children during WW2 which was really interesting. As part of this topic we would love to make some model planes so if anyone has an empty plastic water bottle that they could clean and send in, we would really appreciate it. Our Science investigation yielded some fascinating results. Some of the coins had been turned to a very pale colour, which shows how important it is to brush our teeth! Please see below for some photos from our P.E lessons. Have a great weekend. Best wishes, Miss Pinches

We would love to share some of our art work from last week that was inspired by the artist Mark Rothko.

This week in Science, we are starting to learn about teeth. We have designed and set up an investigation to answer the question ‘Which foods are particularly damaging to teeth?’

   We have put old 2p coins in the following liquids: lemon juice, vinegar, sugar solution, salt solution, cola and water. We will watch to see what happens! Some of the children are predicting an explosion!

In English we are learning about information texts. We have started by looking at the book Dogs by Emily Gravett and will compare dogs and cats in fiction with the real thing.
In Maths we will be looking at counting in 2s, 5s and 10s with more confident children also exploring counting in 3s and 50s.

Well done Yellow Class for making such a positive and enthusiastic start to the new term!

Reading

On Mondays I will collect any reading books that the children have finished, together with their reading diary. I will then send home new books on Wednesdays. Your child may also choose to read books from home too. It is important that all children try to read at home for at least 10 minutes each day and that this is recorded in their diary. All the children will read each week in school as part of a small, socially distanced Guided Reading Group although I will currently be unable to record this in their individual diaries.

Spelling

From Monday 21st September, I will start sending home a short list of words for the children to learn to spell. There will be a friendly test of these on the following Monday. I will also post the spellings on the website each week in the Spelling section.

Our Learning this half-term

English: We have been reading ‘The Huge Bag of Worries’ by Virginia Ironside and ‘Once Upon an Ordinary School Day’ by Colin McNaughton. The children have completed their own re-telling of the first book and this week we are learning about developing our sentences by adding adjectives.

Maths: We are currently learning about number and place value. For Year 2 we are using numbers up to 100 whilst Year 3 are working with numbers to 1000.

Science: Last week we investigated things that are living, things that are dead and things that have never been alive! This week we will be learning about teeth and eating.

Art: We are exploring colour. Last week we looked at the work of Mondrian and were inspired to create our own collages.

History: We will be learning about the Battle of Britain.

R.E: We will be learning about how to care for our world and why this is important.

Music: We will be following a specially designed scheme for the current times. This involves listening to and appraising music as well as playing percussion instruments.