Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Goldfinches WB 15.11.21
Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 8:27pm
Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog
We have had a wonderfully busy week and have enjoyed a wide range of activities and lessons.
Star of the week goes to: Violet
Top Table award goes to: Thomas
Reminders:
As the weather is turning colder and wetter now, please ensure your child has a coat in school every day.
It is lovely to hear that choir club is returning and that so many Goldfinches are keen to be involved. All rehearsals for the Christmas light switch on will be during school time for the next two weeks.
Worship: This week in worship we have focused on Remembrance and remembered those who gave their lives in the World Wars and who are still serving their countries today. We had a wonderful Remembrance service with Mrs Kendrick and Mr Cliff after planting our Poppy seeds into our new garden of Remembrance.
Next Week:
Reading and Writing: This week we have focused on writing accurate simple and compound sentences based on our book Leon and the Place Between. Next week we will use our skills to help us write a diary entry.
Reading homework- I am continuing to encourage the children to choose from a range of books around the classroom. We have just had a delivery of 50 of the top 100 recommended books for Year 4 as well as a lovely gift of books from Mrs Esling and her grown up children. So many choices!
Spelling homework: This week our spelling rule continues with the ei, ey and eigh patterns. As lots of them are homophones, please support your child to understand the meanings.
This week’s words: drey, whey, convey, survey, eighth, eighteen, weight, neigh, neighbour, sleigh
Your child has brought a blank spelling doodle home as another way of practising.
Maths: This week we have begun our unit on addition and subtraction and have been exploring how the number bonds to 10 and 20, support us to find number bonds to 100 and 1000 e.g. 74 + 26 =100 so 740 + 260 = 1000
Times Tables Homework:
Try Hit the Button and choose the division 6x table facts to help prepare for our Gold x6 tables test which lots of children are now working on. The next times tables will be 9x tables.
Have a go at Maths Fishing this week to help you practise https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication
Science: We have continued our new Teeth topic by learning about the parts of a tooth and the importance of enamel. Next week we will predict what happens to a tooth left in acid and record the results over a few days.
Geography: We have mapped the countries Ancient Greece used to be in on a map of Europe and have located some of the important city states: Athens, Sparta, Crete, Corinth and Olympia.
History/Art: We will look in detail at the artwork from ancient Greek pots and try to tell the story of the legacy they have left to learn about what life was like in Ancient Greek times. We will use the Greek pots as inspiration for our own designs and learn to sketch a human figure in proportion.
RE: Good News stories from the Bible.
German: Use our number knowledge and tell people our age.
PE: Our Dance lessons on Wednesday afternoons will help us prepare for our Christmas play and Mr Ault will teach Netball on Fridays. Please remember to tie long hair back and remove earrings on PE days.
PSHCE: Our Heart Smart focus is: Don’t forget to let love in.
Music: We are enjoying learning the words to the songs for Hoodwinked.
Mrs Shimmin has been a wonderful part of Goldfinches class this term and we know she will continue her amazing work in the Nest. We welcome Mr Beswick to the Goldfinch team from next week and are looking forward to working with him.
As always, please don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss your child. Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Evans, Mrs Judge and Mrs Shimmin.