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Willow Tree Class Blog
Weekly Update 5.5.23
K Simms (k.simms) on: Willow Tree Class Blog
Hello everyone,
As we come to the end of another week, Willow Tree have been busy working hard and getting ready for the King's Coronation.
In maths, we have been looking at finding fractions of different quantities and the children needed to use their times table knowledge to divide by the denominator and multiply by the numerator. We will be having a big push on times tables over the next few weeks but it would be great to see children making full use of the TT Rockstars platform. Please let me know if you are unable to find your child's login at the front of their reading record.
In Guided Reading, we have read through Stone Age Boy and we are now asking the question "Was it all a dream?". We are hoping to be able to answer this question over the next few weeks.
This week also saw a very exciting opportunity for children to take part in a Guinness World Record by completing a Mini Marathon. For this, each child pledged that they would run one mile and we completed this during our PE lesson on Thursday. Well done everybody!
To celebrate the Coronation, we have been creating collages of King Charles III using some fun, colourful pictures all to do with London. Children will be able to bring these home, once dry, along with a Coronation gift from the FORP. Thank you!
Homework will be sent home this afternoon and is due in on Wednesday.
Have a brilliant weekend!
Miss Simms
Weekly Update 28.4.23
K Simms (k.simms) on: Willow Tree Class Blog
Hello everyone!
Yet again, we have had a brilliant week in Willow Tree Class! We started off the week by completing our Scooter Road Safety Training and we hope that this will encourage more and more children to get out in the fresh air and walk/scooter to school. The children were fantastic listeners and worked hard during their sessions with Leeds City Council Road Safety team.
On Monday and Wednesday, we started our new Design and Technology unit "Edible Gardens" and talked about how we find different herbs in our garden and what we can use these for. We had a look at some real basil, mint, rosemary and parsley and discussed what dishes we might use each of them in. Afterwards, we each chose a herb that we would like to plant and these are now on our classroom windowsill so we can observe them everyday to see if they start sprouting!
Earlier this week, a letter was sent home about food tasting. If your child is unable to eat any particular foods, please return this form to us as soon as possible so that we can cater for them during our future DT lessons.
In English, we have been editing and improving our instructions for "How to make a fire using flint". This links nicely to our Stone Age topic.
Homework will be sent home tonight and is due in on Wednesday.
Have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend,
Miss Simms
Weekly Update 21.4.23
K Simms (k.simms) on: Willow Tree Class Blog
Hello everyone,
What a great first week back we have had! The children have come back to school enthusiastic and ready to learn which has been fantastic.
We have started lots of new topics of learning this week and I am excited to see how the children progress in these new areas. In English, we have been looking at the different features of instructions and are preparing to write our own set of instructions.
In computing, we have been looking at the advantages and disadvantages of text and images to convey different messages to people.
In maths, we have looked at the difference between capacity and volume and have been able to identify different volumes of liquids using litres and millilitres.
In guided reading, we have focused on making predictions and used clues from our new book "Stone Age Boy" to guess what we think might happen in the story.
Reading books will be changed next Thursday. Homework will be sent home tonight and is due in on Wednesday. Our PE days for this half term are Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Have a great weekend,
Miss Simms