Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Goldfinches WB 3.2.22
Date: 3rd Feb 2022 @ 8:19pm
Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog
Gorgeous focus and concentration this week!
Friday Superstar: Destinee
Top Table: James and Jake
This week:
Worship: We have celebrated Chinese New Year and had the chance to reflect by making our own lanterns. We shared and compared a bible story and modern story about forgiveness.
Next Week:
Writing: we will build up our understanding of the present perfect tense, expanded noun phrases and the use of paragraphs to write a recount of the events in Pompeii in AD79.
Reading: We will answer retrieval questions, choose a section of the Volcanoes book to read and make up our own questions for.
Reading homework- Well done to all of the children who are working hard to meet my challenge. I’m so proud of the reading you are doing regularly at home.
Spelling homework: This week’s spellings are a revision of words with double consonants in the middle. Have a go at playing the double consonants game!
This week’s words: shattered, giggly, collector, wettest, fitter, travelled, fizzing, stopped, planning, terrify
Maths: Monday with Mrs Judge will be learning about fractions of Kilometres and Maths with Mrs Evans will continue with our new focus of multiplication. We will recap multiplying by 1 and 0 and move on to multiplying by 10 and 100.
Times Tables Homework:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples use coconut multiples to have a go at 7x tables this week.
Use MATHSFRAME to begin to get used to the way the multiplication tables check will be carried out later in the year.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
Try times tables memory to practise 9x and 7x times tables
https://www.timestables.co.uk/times-tables-memory.html
RE: We will learn about how belonging to a community is important to Muslims.
Science/DT: We will tinker with and explore what components are needed to make a simple working circuit.
Computing: In our e-safety lesson we will learn how to keep our data private and learn how to choose sensible passwords. Tuesday is National Online Safety day where we will have a visit from PCSO Phil.
History: We will place the stages of the Roman Empire on a timeline.
PE: Monday and Friday- Mr Ault Team-building and Dodgeball. Thursday- Swimming
Music: We will continue to learn Ukulele.
German: We will learn the seasons of the year.
As always, please don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss your child. Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Evans and Mrs Judge