Author: Ms_Sola2022

This week our Pupil of the week is Damian. He has shown he is a Successful Learner with enthusiasm and motivation for learning; and an Effective Contributor with resilience, able to solve problems. Well done! 🙂

Literacy

This week during our RWI lessons, we have revisit the sounds we worked with during the first part of the term, and introduced the sound “ir”. We practiced our reading, spelling and writing of words with this sound, and of tricky words too. We have also been exercising our sentence composition skills, and our ability to retell a story and write about it. You can click on the sound to practice at home too!

Numeracy

Following the lessons taught during the previous weeks, we have revisited the analogue clock, the minutes hand’s function, and the half past concept. We have continued learning about digital clocks, and how they link to what we know about clocks and telling the time. They had a good time playing games about telling the time 🙂

During this week, we kept practicing number sequencing too. We talked about how we can find the rule followed by a number sequence, and learnt about how the “100 grid” can be a very useful tool for this and other Numeracy activities. We were counting on 10s using this tool, and completed a number maze.

We have also started (or continuing) developing the concepts digits of a number and place value focusing on units, tens and hundreds. They worked very hard to find the place value on numbers from 100 to 999, great job! We will continue developing this skill, and their knowledge of numbers from 0 to 1000.

Topic

During this week we focused our Topic lesson on the Great Wall of China. We learned about its location, length, how long it took to build it, who built it, and many other interesting facts about this World Wonder. They worked together and did a fantastic job “building” their own, and we added it to our Asia Topic display. You can find a picture below. Great job!

Spanish

This week we talked and learned about a how Carnavales (Carnival) is celebrated in Spain. We watched a video about the family’s parades in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and we had fun learning a choreography with the song La vida es un carnaval.

Carnavales are celebrated on the 3rd of March this year, so next Thursday we will do a small Carnaval party in the classroom during Golden Time: will play games, play carnavales music… As I mentioned to them during the lesson, we will create antifaces de carnaval (carnival masks) for the party during our next week Spanish lesson.

Next Thursday 3rd of March we will have Pyjama’s Day at school as part of the World Book Day celebration. They can come to school wearing their pyjamas (over warm clothes) ready for a bedtime story time, or dressed as their favourite book character/author. We will remind them on Wednesday about it 🙂

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.

Enjoy your holidays!
Ms Sola

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.

**Please try to remind them to bring their homework bags before Tuesday so they can get the new pack home. Thanks!

This week there are two pieces of paper homework, and numeracy online practices:
Reading – new book, and activities to practice vocabulary and/or develop their comprehension skills.
Spelling – before the break we were working with the sounds “or” and “air”. 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 telling the time to the hour (o’clock) and half hour (half past) with this game. Scroll down, click on the bear, and have fun! They can exercise their ordering and number sequencing skills by playing this game too. Click on “Play Game”, choose the mode and level, and have fun!

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.

Have a great week!
Ms Sola

This week our Pupil of the week is Maryam. She has shown she is a Successful Learner able to learn independently and as part of a group; and a Confident Individual who is achieving success in different areas of activity. Well done! 🙂

Literacy

This week during our RWI lessons, we have revisit the sounds we worked with during this first part of the term, and introduce the sound “air”. 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!

We have celebrated this week the School Diversity and Equalities Week. We created unique monsters, with different looks and abilities; shared them with our classmates; and discussed what made them different and unique, but also what things they had in common with the other monsters. You can find their lovely work below, they did a fantastic job!

Linked to that, we talked about how each of us are unique, and how rewarding is having people around us that have different interests, skills, physical appearance, personality… We read a story about the theme, and wrote about the differences and similarities between a classmate and themselves.

We also enjoyed a very interesting discussion with Mrs Henry, during which we developed our understanding of the equalities and the stereotype concepts. We had the chance to share our opinions and thoughts about it, and learned about the importance of not stereotyping people because of the way they were born, their gender, where they come from, their family structure, their believes, their abilities, their interests…

Numeracy

Following the lessons taught during the previous weeks, we have revisited the analogue clock, the minutes hand’s function, and the half past concept. We have started learning about digital clocks, and how they link to what we know about clocks so far.

They can practice telling the time at home, they will love to show you how much they have learned!

During this week, we also practiced number and shapes sequences. They created their own sequencing patterns with shapes and letters, and worked hard to find out the rule followed on different number sequences (counting in 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s, forwards and backwards). Great job!

Topic

During this week we focused our Topic lesson on the Ring of Fire, an area of the Pacific Ocean which is home to around 75% of the world’s volcanoes. We learned about volcanoes: how they are formed, the different parts, the different types, how they erupt… We watched videos about how volcanoes erupt on land and underwater, and we created our own volcanoes too! They had an amazing time getting them ready and watching them “erupt” in the playground (you can find some pictures below).

P.E. and Outdoor Learning

Our P.E. lessons will be on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays for the rest of the school year. There will also be Outdoor Learning on alternative Fridays.

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.

Enjoy your holidays!
Ms Sola

Hello everyone! Today P3 will bring home the “Homework Bag” only with the Reading Books. Please, remind them to bring the books back by Friday.

I have set some activities on Education City so they can practice their Spelling using the sounds we have been working with during this first part of the term, including the last sound introduced (“air”), and some tricky words.

They can keep practicing their Addition and Subtraction skills by playing to the allocated games on Education City too. Have fun! 🙂

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.

Have a great week!
Ms Sola

This week our Pupil of the week is Jack. He has shown he is a Successful Learner by working hard to reach high standards of achievement; and a Responsible Citizen who is always respectful and kind with everyone. Well done! 🙂

Literacy

This week during our RWI lessons, we have revisit the sounds “ar” and “or”, and practiced our reading, spelling and writing of words with this sounds. You can click on each sound to practice at home too!

We also wrote a short text about a child making a cake to exercise their handwriting skills, and introduce (or increase their understanding of) the use of commas and apostrophes. We tried to recognise the verbs on it, and put special attention on the space between words, spelling and full stops too. They have done an excellent job!

We have celebrated this week the Languages Week, discussed how enriching is having different languages speakers in our everyday life, and learnt about popular meals on various countries around the world. They created posters in teams using different materials and textures (Art), wrote the recipes on different languages, and its English translation. You can find a picture of these posters below, they have worked very hard and done an amazing recreation of the meals! 🙂

Numeracy

We focused on the development of our understanding of the analogue clock, and the minutes hand function. We have revisited last week’s contents, and worked through activities and games the half past concept. They had a great time playing the Time Bingo!

They can practice telling the time at home if you have an analogue clock too, they will love to show you what they have learned!

During this week, we also revisited and practiced number sequencing. They worked hard to find out the rule followed on different number sequences (counting in 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s, forwards and backwards). Great job!

Topic

This Tuesday was the celebration of the Lunar New Year in many Asian countries. We had a visitor in the school that explained us the traditions around Chinese New Year celebrations.

As part of the Vietnamese Tết Festival for New Year, and following the Li Xi tradition, we created Lucky Money envelopes and gave it to a classmate to wish them luck, happiness and health for the year of the Tiger. They even wished each other Happy New Year in Vietnamese, well done everyone!

Rights Respecting School

During this week, we revisited the concepts of wants and needs, and the differences between them. We also talked about some rights (such as going to the doctor when needed, or eating healthy food) and how important is to have grown ups around that make sure they can enjoy their rights.

Spanish

We practiced greetings, telling your name and age as a warm up game. Then, we continued learning the name of the colours, and improving our understanding of questions about the colour of things. Their pronunciation is improving every day! 🙂

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.

Have a lovely weekend!
Ms Sola