Hello everyone! Yesterday P3 brought home the “Homework Bag” with the new activities for this week. Please remember:
* The Reading Books should be brought to school everyday. On the following Monday, the books will stay at school so we can change them by new ones for Tuesday. * I would like them to bring their completed homework back to school before or on the following Monday, so I can check it and use it as another source to identify areas in which they need support during the lessons.
**Try to remind them to bring their homework bags before Tuesday so they can get the new pack home. Please, check if there are books at home from previous weeks. Thanks!
This week there are two pieces of homework: Reading – new book, and activities to practice vocabulary and/or develop their comprehension skills. Numeracy – we are working with fraction on some of this week’s Numeracy lessons (half, third, quarter). They can practice finding fractions of a shape with this week’s homework.
If you have any questions, or need an electronic copy of this week’s homework, please do not hesitate to contact me through the comments or by writing to the school email and they will forward it to me.
Hello everyone! Yesterday P3 brought home the “Homework Bag” with the new activities for this week. Please remember:
* The Reading Books should be brought to school everyday. On the following Monday, the books will stay at school so we can change them by new ones for Tuesday. * I would like them to bring their completed homework back to school before or on the following Monday, so I can check it and give them a feedback.
**Try to remind them to bring their homework bags before Tuesday so they can get the new pack home. Please, check if there are books at home from previous weeks. Thanks!
This week there are three pieces of homework: Reading – new book, and activities to practice vocabulary and/or develop their comprehension skills. Spelling – this weeks spelling homework is focused on the sounds “oy” and “ea”. They can exercise their spelling and handwriting by completing the activities sent home, and also by choosing and completing three (or more) activities from the Spelling Activities sheet (complete at the back of this week’s sheet or another paper). Numeracy – they can exercise their addition skills by solving the sums for this week’s homework using the chimney sums structure to solve them.
If you have any questions, or need an electronic copy of this week’s homework, please do not hesitate to contact me through the comments or by writing to the school email and they will forward it to me.
This week our Pupil of the week is Noah. He is a Successful Learner with a great enthusiasm and motivation for learning, able to use his Literacy skills to express respectfully his opinions; and an Effective Contributor who always shows resilience in challenging situations. Well done! 🙂
Literacy
This week during our RWI lessons, we revisited the sounds we have been working with so far, and introduced the sound “oy”. We practiced our reading, spelling and writing of words with this sound, and of tricky words too. We had fun creating nonsense words or “alien talk” using the sounds learned; they even thought of a planet’s name for the alien 🙂 You can click on the sound to practice at home too!
As part of the International Women’s Day, we watched a video which briefly explained why we celebrate this day. Then we played a game of cooperative working; at the end we rewarded the participants unequally, based on their gender. This lead us to a very interesting conversation about gender equality: they shared their ideas, opinions and experiences about the subject with the group. They have very strong opinions about it!
Numeracy
This week we have been learning (or continued developing our understanding) about Chimney Sums. We practiced our addition and place value skills during the lessons, using our previous knowledge to solve sums with a new method. They also enjoyed challenging each other with difficult calculations, and even tried with regrouping addition. They did a fantastic job!
We had a revision lesson of what we have learned so far about telling the time. They did an excellent job, and we are ready to move on to quarter past and quarter to from next week.
Topic
On this week’s lesson, we continued with out topic (Asia), linking it to the celebration of International Women’s Day. We learned about four pioneer and brave Asian women (you can find some info. below), and wrote about the one they found the most inspiring. They did an amazing job!
* Kalpana Chawla: born in India. She studied and worked hard to become an astronaut. She was the first Indian woman to go to space. * Junko Tabei: born in Japan. She became a mountaineer at a young age, and created a group of women to climb mountains. She was the first woman who climbed the Everest and the Seven Summits. * Malala Yousafzai: born in Pakistan. She fights for the women’s and children’s right to have an education. She is the youngest person awarded with a Nobel Peace Prize. * Wang Zhenyi: born in China. She successfully educated herself in the fields of astronomy, mathematics, geography, medicine, and poetry. Part of her work is compiled in a book called Simple Principles of Calculation. She also wrote poems defending gender equality.
Music
During the last few weeks, Mr Madine and the P3 class have been practicing their musical skills and learning about percussion instruments, specially about the xylophone. The last two music sessions have focused on the melody, and they used Nursery Rhymes to work on this concept (Twinkle Star and Old MacDonald). Mr Madine played on the xylophone the first few notes of the nursery rhyme and, in small groups, they had to figure out the rest of the melody. They had a great time and did a fantastic job!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me through the comments or by writing to the school email and they will forward it to me.
Hello everyone! Yesterday P3 brought home the “Homework Bag” with the new activities for this week. Please remember:
* The Reading Books should be brought to school everyday. On the following Monday, the books will stay at school so we can change them by new ones for Tuesday. * I would like them to bring their completed homework back to school before or on the following Monday, so I can check it and give them a feedback.
**Try to remind them to bring their homework bags before Tuesday so they can get the new pack home. Thanks!
This week there are three pieces of homework: Reading – new book, and activities to practice vocabulary and/or develop their comprehension skills. Spelling – this weeks spelling homework is focused on practicing the Set 2 sounds, which we just finished. They can use the vocabulary learned during the lessons to complete the list of words. Then they can exercise their sentence composition by writing sentences using the words of their own list. Numeracy – they can develop the skills learned by completing the place value activities on this week’s Numeracy homework.
If you have any questions, or need an electronic copy of this week’s homework, please do not hesitate to contact me through the comments or by writing to the school email and they will forward it to me.
This week our Pupil of the week is Jameela. She is a Confiden Individual with self respect, able to achieve success in different areas of activity; and a Responsible Citizen with respect for others, and able to understand and participate on different cultural events. Well done! 🙂
Literacy
This week during our RWI lessons, we revisited the sounds we have been working with so far, and introduced the sound “ou”. We practiced our reading, spelling and writing of words with this sound, and of tricky words too. You can click on the sound to practice at home too!
As part of the World Book Day, we have had a lovely time reading a wide variety of stories along the week, and listening to a visitor in the class who read poetry for us (thank you!). We all enjoyed celebrating this special date by wearing a book character’s costume, pyjamas, and/or reading together some of their favourite stories. You can find some pictures below 🙂
Numeracy
Following the lessons taught during the previous weeks, we have revisited the analogue clock, the minutes hand’s function, the half past concept, and the use of digital clocks. They had a great time working of different task/stations, and did a fantastic job! 🙂
We have also continued developing the concepts digits of a number and place value focusing on units, tens and hundreds. We have been working with blocks to find the place value of each digit in a number, decompose a number in tens and units, draw a blocks representation of numbers… They have tried their best in every lesson, great job!
Spanish
This week we learned about how people in Spain get part of their costumes ready: the antifaces de carnaval (carnival masks). We saw some examples, learned the steps to follow and created our own antifaces. They did a excellent colourful job! Then we celebrated Carnavales during Golden Time, played games, and dance to Spanish songs. You can find some pictures of them having a great time below 🙂
Rights Respecting School
During this week, we discussed the importance of appreciating our differences, and being respectful with everyone, no matter their appearance, beliefs, skills… we all have the right to be loved and respected. They wrote three things they like about a classmate on a set of leaves, and each of them coloured a bird of their choice. We put all together and put it on a mural on the corridor next to the class. You can find the pictures of the result below, they’ve done an amazing job!
This Week’s Homework
**Please try to remind them to bring their homework bags before Tuesday so they can get the new pack home. Thanks!
This week there were three pieces of paper homework sent home on Tuesday: Reading – new book, and activities to practice vocabulary and/or develop their comprehension skills. Spelling – this week we are focusing on the sounds “ir” and “ou”. They can exercise their spelling and handwriting by completing the activities sent home, and also by choosing and completing three (or more) activities from the Spelling Activities sheet (complete at the back of the sheet or another paper). Numeracy – they can practice their time telling and pattern sequencing skills with this week’s Numeracy homework.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me through the comments or by writing to the school email and they will forward it to me.
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