Week beginning 7.12.20

Date: 3rd Dec 2020 @ 4:54pm

Welcome to Goldfinches' Weekly Blog. 

  Star of the week: Congratulations to Isabella.

 Top Table: Congratulations to Edward.

Christmas Cards- if your child wishes to send a Christmas card they can bring one for the friends in their Goldfinch bubble and they will be rested in school for 72 hours before being given out. 

 Break time- please support your child to bring a healthy snack to school for break time. E.g. Fruit, vegetable sticks, bread sticks, raisins, bagel, oatcakes, rice cakes, cheese crackers, low sugar cereal bars. Please also talk to your child about the importance of starting the day with breakfast. It is a long time until lunchtime for Goldfinches.

 Water Bottles- please send your child with water in their bottle to drink throughout the day. Juice should only be in their packed lunchbox to have with their lunch.

 Home Reading

Please support your child to read at home. Little and often is best with a mixture of them reading independently, them reading aloud to you and you reading aloud to them.

Spellings

Spelling focus: words from the Y3/4 statutory spelling list.

breathe, build, busy, business, calendar, caught, certain, accidentally, answer, bicycle

Spelling tests are on Fridays. The spellings will be glued into your child’s diary every week.

  Times Tables   - A challenge for you this week...

Have a go at as many tables as you can with this online grid game.

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/arithmetic

 This week we have…

Dance… we have had fun rehearsing and filming our soldier dance and can’t wait for you to see the video.

Writing...this week we have enjoyed writing a diary entry from Hannah’s point of view and are practising writing direct speech using a speech sandwich. Next week we will write our own animal stories based on Gorilla.

Shared Reading: We love our 50 Animal Stories book and have enjoyed exploring vocabulary and answering questions about ‘Why Hippo lives in water’

Maths: This week we have been adding 4-digit numbers with exchanges and have begun to look at subtracting 4-digit numbers.

PE: PE is on Mondays and Fridays with Mr Ault. Dodgeball and Netball at the moment.

Worship/PSHCE: We loved watching Mr Cliffe’s Christingle worship and making our own Christingles.

Music: Learning to sign ‘Little Donkey’ and ‘Jingle Bells’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs4uTjMOBKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W05CwgZaDUo

Today we say a temporary goodbye to Mrs Shimmin while she continues the rest of term at university before returning to train with us again in January.

Thank you all once again for your ongoing support,

Mrs Evans