Skylarks W.B. 16.11.20

Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 7:50am

Hi everyone and welcome back to our weekly blog 😊

It was wonderful to speak to so many of you yesterday during our parents evening phone calls. I would like to reiterate that if you have any further questions or queries please do not hesitate to get in contact.

Next week in our writing lessons we will be recapping our knowledge of fronted adverbials. We will begin by writing fronted adverbials to describe Annie Edson Taylor and will then use these to help us plan and write a letter in role as her friend. Our other big focus in our writing lessons is taking account of the audience and purpose for which we are writing and so we will be practicing using an informal tone when we write our letters.

In maths, we will be consolidating our understanding of column method for both addition and subtraction. We will also look carefully at mental strategies for these operations, and practice deciding which method is most appropriate for the question.

In our reading lessons next week, we will continue to explore our new text ‘Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls’. Our focus remains on drawing inferences based on information stated and implied, including characters’ thoughts, feelings and motives.

In our topic lesson next week, we will be thinking about ‘ourselves’. The children will create an autobiography which will become the starting point for our study of where we live.

In science, the children will be set a task to plan an investigation that answers the following question: Which material is the best thermal insulator to keep a lunch box cold?

Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 20^th November will continue to look at words with the silent letter b:

climb, subtle, bomb, lamb, doubted, plumber, crumbling, numbing

Reminder: On Monday, we will be holding our school council election in Skylarks Class. If the children wish to be considered for school council, they should prepare a short speech to present to their classmates explaining why they want to represent our class. We will then hold a vote to elect two children😊

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

If you have any questions of queries please do not hesitate to contact me via the school admin email address or telephone 😊

Miss Beattie