Skylarks W.B. 30.11.20

Date: 26th Nov 2020 @ 1:08pm

Hi everyone and welcome back to our weekly blog 😊

We have had another super week in Skylarks Class! The children have been busy making props and rehearsing for our Christmas Play and Carol Service and cannot wait to share these with you virtually before the Christmas holidays.

Next week in our writing lessons we will be focussing on Annie Edson Taylor’s journey down the river towards the edge of Niagara Falls. We will work collaboratively to create a story map of her journey before writing our own first person account.

In maths we will be problem solving and reasoning using our knowledge of addition, subtraction and inverse operations. The children will work together to solve word problems, carry out investigations and give reasons for their answers.

In reading our focus remains on drawing inferences. We will be using our ‘thinking out loud’ and ‘visualising’ techniques to infer characters’ thoughts, feelings and motives. We will also continue to make comparisons within and across texts.

In RE, we will be thinking more about the titles given to Jesus at Christmas time. We will be looking specifically at the title ‘Emmanuel’ and discussing what we think it means.

Assessments

Over the next few weeks in school, the children will complete NFER assessments in maths, reading, spelling and punctuation and grammar. We will be taking it at a slower pace than usual this year by spreading these out across the next 3 weeks. We will also balance these days with lovely Christmas activities to ensure the children’s wellbeing remains a priority.

Homework

In Year 5 we are going to start setting the children a small amount of maths homework to be completed each week. Homework will be set on a Friday, starting tomorrow 27^th November. The children will be told which pages they need to complete and I will also include these on our blog. The children are then asked to mark their own work at home using the answers provided in the back of the book.

If your child is unable to complete their homework at home, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime so that they can complete it in school. During this lunchtime, any children who may be struggling on a particular question at home can also come to ask an adult for help.

Children are expected to return their completed and marked homework to school the following Friday when it will be stamped by a teacher and new homework set.

The children should complete pages 6 and 7 this week, to be returned by 4^th December.

Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings/times tables in addition to their new maths homework.

Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 4^th December will look at words containing the -ible suffix:

possible, terrible, legible, horrible, sensible, reversible, credible, visible

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