Skylarks W.B. 7.12.20

Date: 3rd Dec 2020 @ 7:51am

Hi everyone and welcome back to our weekly blog 😊

We have had another excellent week in Skylarks Class. The children have worked extremely hard to put the finishing touches on their Christmas production performance and carol service and can’t wait to share these with you virtually over the coming weeks.

Next week in our reading lessons, our focus remains on drawing inferences. We will continue to use our ‘thinking out loud’ and ‘visualising’ techniques to infer characters’ thoughts, feelings and motives. We will also continue to make comparisons within and across the texts we have read.

In maths we will continue to problem solve and reason using both formal written methods and mental methods of addition and subtraction. 

In worship we will be thinking about the Christmas story and will write our own poems asking God for guidance, just like the star gave the wise men guidance.

On Wednesday 9^th December the children are invited to come to school wearing a Christmas jumper or their own clothes to take part in the Rudolph Mile. School will provide antlers and a red nose for each child as they walk or run the mile. We will be collecting donations for St. Luke’s Hospice on this day 😊

Homework

As you know, the children in year 5 are now set a weekly maths homework which they should complete and mark at home before returning it to school each Friday.

Remember, 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.

The children should complete pages 8 and 9 this week, to be returned by 11^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 11^th December will continue to look at words containing the -ible suffix:

invisible, edible, flexible, resistible, responsible, impossible, irreversible, convertible

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