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Weekly Update 10.3.23
K Simms (k.simms) on: Willow Tree Class Blog
Hello everyone!
Even though our week has been cut short, we have still completed a fantastic amount of learning and the children’s enthusiasm to learn new information continues to grow.
In maths, we have started our new topic of mass and capacity and the children investigated the mass of different objects in both grams and kilograms. Perhaps during this snowy weather, they could practise measuring out the different ingredients of a delicious recipe!
In English, we have been writing our draft non-chronological reports all about natural disasters and the children have had lots of opportunities to research some interesting facts all about their chosen topic. We are looking forward to writing these up in neat next week to share with you.
Homework has been sent home during the week and will be due in next Friday. Children should continue working on their projects and I would like to see that children are including lots of key information about their chosen volcano so that they are able to present this on Monday 27th March.
I hope the children are enjoying the snow (safely!) and I will see you all when we return on Monday.
Best wishes,
Miss Simms
Weekly Update 3.3.23
K Simms (k.simms) on: Willow Tree Class Blog
Hello everyone,
What a busy week have had in Willow Tree Class! We have finished our current fractions topic (although we will be revisiting this in the Summer term), we have read the next few chapters of our new whole class guided reading text, looked at the importance of being safe online and how we have to be careful when searching as some website adverts might be dangerous and of course, had an action-packed day on World Book Day!
On World Book Day this week, we added the final details to our t-shirts and showed them to our classmates and then we took a trip to Italy in the afternoon and attended a Book Tasting! During the afternoon, children took part in a carousel of activities looking at different genres of books. Each table had a different genre including: non-fiction, fantasy, poetry, action adventure and mystery. The children spent time reading and discussing lots of the examples of these genres and it was fantastic to see how engaged they were in this reading session. Pictures from the day can be found here.
Homework has been sent home this week and is due in on Wednesday. Please make sure books are completed and handed in each Wednesday so we can mark, attach the new homework and send them home that night so children have access to the research project information as much as possible. We will be doing the TT Awards test next Thursday.
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Simms
Weekly Update 24.2.23
K Simms (k.simms) on: Willow Tree Class Blog
Welcome back everyone!
We have had a great first week back in Willow Tree Class and the children have had some very exciting learning opportunities this week.
We have started our new topic of Fantastic Fossils and began to look, in detail, at the life of the fossil hunter: Mary Anning. In guided reading we have read the first 6 chapters of our new book 'Kidnap in the Caribbean' by Lauren St John and in maths we have looked at fractions and how we can find out what fraction of a shape is shaded in.
On Friday, we started out World Book Day t-shirt designs and we will continue to work on these next week so we are ready to put these on when we come into school on Thursday.
Homework will be sent home tonight and children have been briefed about it in class as well. Over the next 5 weeks, the focus of the weekly homework will be research project about a volcano from the Ring of Fire. There will be an information sheet in the books which will give some guidance on possible ideas for how to present the project and questions that could be researched. These projects are due in on Monday 28th March but we would like children to really put their best efforts into these so please bring them into school no earlier than Wednesday 22nd March.
We will still be sending weekly spellings and either a short maths challenge or English challenge (the English will be beneficial to the research project) and expect these to be back in on Wednesday each week.
Any questions, please get in touch via the class email address,
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Simms