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Times tables

Starting this Friday (18 May), we will be having weekly times table tests. This will help prepare the children for the weekly times table tests that they will have in Year 3 and beyond. There will be ten questions and it will be a mixture of the 2, 5 and 10 times table. The children that know these well will be extended with the 3 times table too.

11 May 2012

This week’s spellings are words beginning in ‘un’. Your child will be tested on Friday 18 May 2012.

• unable
• unbeaten
• unfair
• unhappy
• unkind
• unlucky
• unwell
• unwind
• unwilling
• unselfish

11 May 2012

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect: the children have to double the numbers on the sheet. There is an optional extra sheet on adding multiples of 10 also.

It’s due in on Wednesday 16 May 2012.

What is a ‘split digraph’?

This week your child may come home with more unfamiliar vocabulary to do with their phonics learning. A ‘split digraph’ is simply a long vowel sound that has been split as in the words make, lake, shake, like and bike. You might remember how this used to be referred to: ‘magic e’.  That term is no longer used as it may be confusing. The ‘e’ is not magic – it’s doing a job.

Enjoy your ‘split digraphs’!

11 May 2012

This week we’re revisiting one of the most important spelling rules: drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’. All the words in the list are adjectives that end in a ‘y’. When they are changed into adverbs you need to drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ before adding ‘ly’.

Children will be tested on eight out of the 10 words on Friday 18 May.

11 May 2012

This week, we are looking at a variety of words we need to spell correctly in our writing.

These words will be tested on Friday 18 May.

11 May 2011

This week, our spellings are all superlatives that follow the familiar spelling rule: ‘drop the y for an i’.  For example, funny becomes funniest.

11 May 2012

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect.

You’ll find a phonics and reading activity in your child’s book.

The activity requires your child to fill in the missing words in the box. We suggest that your child reads the words in the box first and then finds the sentence that they belong to. If your child struggles to read the sentence because of unknown words in it, get your child to sound the words out. They can do this by using their phonic knowledge.

This homework is due on Wednesday 16 May.

11 May 2012

The homework this week is talk time and should be completed by Wednesday 16 April:

Is it possible to be a good pirate?

There has been a lot of discussion this week about how people from the past are viewed in different ways. The same person can be seen as a hero or a villain. With this in mind, explore whether you think there is such a thing as a good pirate.

We will be having a discussion in class next week about whether it is possible to be a good pirate – so make sure you’ve got some points ready.

Abandon Ship

A few days ago, Year 3 and Year 4 received this letter:

Dear Year 3 & 4,

I be writing this here diary whilst I be gettin’ attacked from the east by those scallywags, employed by the ‘onourable Queen Elizabeth to do away with us. I don’t ‘ave much time left and I be worrying ’bout me treasure y’see. I thinks I can swim ashore but I won’t be able to carry me treasure which weighs a massive 1kg. I as got sum wood, stone and other bits and pieces but don’t have a clue what to do. ‘Elp us if ye can and make me something that help float me treasure back to shore.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be coming up with some ideas and building a device that can float the treasure back to shore. Hopefully, this pirate will let us share some of his booty if we manage to help him!