Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Week beginning 16th November
Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 1:52pm
Welcome to Goldfinches' Weekly Blog.
Star of the week: Congratulations to Amelia.
Top Table: Congratulations to Jai.
Home Reading
Wow! Well done to so many of you reading regularly at home – you are really impressing me with how much progress you are making.
Spellings
Spelling focus: words with the pre-fix ‘anti’
antifreeze, antiseptic, antisocial, anticlockwise, anticlimax, antibiotic, antibody, antidote, antibacterial, antigravity
Spelling tests are on Fridays. The spellings will be glued into your child’s diary every week.
Times Tables
3x table and moving onto the 6x table.
Try playing Hit the Button for your times tables this week.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
TTRockstars- Let’s see how many Y4 rock stars we can get on the leader board! Login details are on a sticker in your child’s diary. https://ttrockstars.com/
This week we have…
Writing...enjoyed inferring ideas about the new character Hannah in our new book, creating a plan and writing our own 5-point story. Next week we will explore the first part of the book Gorilla by Anthony Browne and use drama to support our ideas. We will learn about Gorillas and how to extend our sentences using fronted adverbials.
Shared Reading: We love our 50 Animal Stories book and have enjoyed reading and discussing the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Next week we will read animals tales from different parts of the world and focus on questioning.
Maths: Next week we will be counting in 25s and exploring negative numbers.
PE: PE will continue to be on Mondays and Fridays with Mr Ault. Dodgeball and Netball at the moment.
PHSCE: We have explored the idea of fixed and growth mindset this week using this lovely clip to help explain our very scientific word ‘Neuroplasticity’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zrtHt3bBmQ Can you think of any Growth Mindset examples?
Geography: We have worked so hard in teams to create some wonderful posters about Modern Greece. I am so proud of how beautiful the presentation is.
Science: We have really enjoyed investigating circuits in our electricity topic with more wonderful examples of great teamwork and shared ideas.
Music: Learning the Pulse to Mama Mia by Abba was a lot of fun this week.
If you haven’t yet done so, please return the Teddy permission slip or e-mail the school office to give your permission for your child to spend time with Teddy when he is in school.
Anti-Bullying week. 16th-20th November. This year the theme is ‘United Against Bullying’. On Monday 16th November your child can come to school wearing Odd Socks if they would like to. This is to celebrate and highlight the fact that everybody is unique.
We are collecting copper coins to fill a Pudsey Bear for Children In Need. Please send any spare coins into school with your child.
Finally, thank you all for your continued support, please e-mail or phone the school office if you would like to contact me about anything.
Mrs Evans