Toucans week beg. 28.9.20

Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 4:11pm

Week beg. 28.09.20

Welcome to Toucans Class Blog. We will be in touch weekly to keep you updated with all that is happening in our class.

We are continuing to work on our ‘All Together Now’ topic. The children have been sharing their memories of lockdown and have been thinking about what makes them happy to create a Happiness Recipe.  Toucans have worked hard this past week. We have seen some excellent pieces of diary writing and their place value work in Maths has been fantastic. Well done Toucans!

In Maths we have finished our work on Place Value for the moment and will move on to look at the four number operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).

In English we are using the books ‘Of Thee I Sing’ and ‘Young, Gifted and Black’ as a stimulus for our writing. The children will be participating in discussions, summarising main ideas, writing cohesive paragraphs and revising various sentence structures and tenses. The children have been enjoying learning about Jackie Robinson, the first black African American baseball player. We have been talking about the movie that was made based on his life '42'. Unfortunately, we cannot show this in school as its rated 12A but you may want to watch it together as a family. Here is the trailer that we have been using in our writing lessons 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9RHqdZDCF0 

In RE our topic is Diversity and we will be celebrating the impact of immigration on our food, music and sports in the UK.

In Science, we will continue our work on Light by thinking about sources.

Home Reading

Thank you to everyone who has been reading at home. We have had lots of diaries signed and consequently the children have been receiving their first raffle tickets for our reading draw.

This week I have sent home your child with a reading book and their new homework diary. 

We have been enjoying quiet reading time in class this week so the children have the opportunity to immerse themselves in their new books.

Our PE day is Friday so please send your child to school wearing their PE kit on that day. Mr Ault will also be running an after school club for Year 6s after school on a Friday.

Kind regards

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing and Mr Beswick