Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks WB 22.11.21
Date: 18th Nov 2021 @ 8:39am
Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?
We have had another super week of learning in Skylarks Class. The children have loved using their learning from our trip to the Lion Salt Works in their topic and science lessons. Our rehearsals for the Christmas play are also well underway and we can’t wait to show you what we have been practicing.
Reminders:
- Christmas Play Costumes - Our class will perform a party scene dance so your child will need to wear party clothes (e.g. a colourful t-shirt and jeans/legging, a dress, sparkly shoes, etc.). Please do not go out and buy anything new for our performance, any type of party wear your child already owns will be perfect. We would like these costumes to be in school for Monday 29th November 2021.
Next Week (W.B. 22.11.21)
In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our book ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray. We will be exploring characters more closely by completing a Venn diagram to compare the appearance and personality traits of 3 characters, before role-playing and writing out a conversation between these characters using inverted commas.
In our reading lessons next week, we will continue to explore our shared reading text ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti. We will be focussing on evaluating the authors’ language choice, including figurative language. This will link nicely with our writing lessons where we have been learning all about personification, similes, metaphors and alliteration.
In maths we will continue to look at line graphs. We will look again at how to draw our own line graphs and will work collaboratively with our peers to solve reasoning and problem-solving questions about statistics. We will also continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.
In RE we will continue to explore the titles given to Jesus at Christmas time. This week we will look at the titles ‘The Word’ and ‘Light’ and will explore what we think these titles might mean.
During our topic day, we will continue to work on our information leaflets about the Lion Salt Works. We will look at the process of making salt, the importance of the salt works and the effect the salt industry had on Northwich.
Our PE days for the Autumn will continue to be Thursday (Swimming) and Friday (Athletics) so your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue. On Thursday your child will also need to have their swimming costume and towel in a plastic bag.
Homework
In year 5 the children will be set a weekly maths homework that they should complete and mark at home using the answers in the back of the homework book.
If your child is finding the homework tricky, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime for your child to ask any questions or receive some support to complete their homework.
The children should complete pages 70 and 71 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 26th November. This homework is looking interpreting and drawing line graphs.
Please also encourage your child to read for 20 minutes each evening and practice their spellings/times tables. The following websites are both great for times tables practice:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 26th November will be the next 10 words in the Year 5/6 word list:
Competition, conscience, conscious, controversy, convenience, correspond, criticise, curiosity, definite, desperate
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?
Miss Beattie x