Skylarks W.B. 21.09.20

Date: 17th Sep 2020 @ 8:29am

Hi everyone and welcome to Skylarks first weekly blog!

We have had a great couple of weeks settling back into school life and the children have already adjusted really well to our new routines.

In our Writing lessons we have been exploring the text ‘Of Thee I Sing’ by Barack Obama. The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the inspirational people written about in the book. Next week in our writing lessons we will focusing on famous baseball player Jackie Robinson. We will start by reading and retrieving information about him, before using this to write our own articles about ‘Jackie Robinson Day’.

In Maths we have been focussing a lot on our Times Tables and Place Value. We will continue with our Place Value lessons next week looking at numbers up to 100,000. We will be discussing the value of each digit, as well as placing numbers on a number line.

Next week in our reading lessons we will be focussing on retrieving and recording information. We will be using our skimming and scanning techniques to find the information quickly.

On Thursday, we will have a computing day where we will begin to look at our new topic ‘How computers impact our lives’. In RE we will be revising what we already know about the teachings of Jesus and how Christians should live their lives. We will also be practicing our sketching skills in art to draw our own Skylarks.

Home Reading/Homework

This week I have sent home your child with a reading book and their new homework diary. Over the next few weeks, we will assess the children in their reading in class but for the time being, we have given the children a banded book or free reading book based on their attainment levels from March. The children are all reading a wide range of additional books and texts in class and we are encouraging them to continue to read their own choice of books at home each day to develop their love of reading. If you can read aloud to your child too, this would be great! Please note that homework diaries will not be written in by your child’s teacher, instead they will stamp the page to acknowledge your child’s home reading.

Times tables are also up and running in Skylarks Class and you will be kept up to date with how your child is doing in their diary.

At the minute, PE is on a Monday. Please send your child to school wearing their PE kit on this day. 

As always, if you have any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact the office who will arrange a phone call with myself.

Miss Beattie