As Christmas draws near, we have been thinking of how we can prepare for the arrival of Christ. Advent is also a time to be hopeful, faithful, joyful and peaceful. We have all made our Advent promises, which we will make a special effort to fulfill, whether that is being more forgiving, helping those in need or being more faith filled, for example.
We have also been preparing ourselves in other ways this week….
In Maths, we have been preparing ourselves for percentages by looking in more depth as fractions. We will be delving into percentages next week and making connections between the two.
In English, we are preparing ourselves for our biography independent write. This week we have been working together to model what a really good biography looks like, through our guided writes, and they have been having a go at magpie-ing ideas to create their own paragraphs.
In Science, we have been using classification keys to group animals, using questions that will separate our chosen animals into groups. This is in preparation for next week when we will be exploring and classifying broader groups of animals, including microorganisms.
Over the next couple of weeks, we will also be preparing ourselves for the KS2 Carol Service. The Carol Service will be held at Our Lady’s Church, 18th December @ 2.30pm.
HOME READING!!
It has come to my attention that I have (too) many children that are not reading regularly at home-some have not read in months! I cannot stress how important it is for the children to keep up with regular reading. This lack of reading at home is resulting in some children not taking many quizzes, which makes it hard for me to see their progress and/or areas for development. This is my plea for parents/guardians at home to encourage or remind your child that reading at home is SO important and must be done on a regular basis. Hopefully, we can work together to boost the confidence of the readers in this class, and increase the number of quizzes being taken and the number of reading bookmarks being completed. Thank you for your support in this matter.
AWARD WINNERS:
This week’s Golden Award went to Bethany. Bethany is an absolute superstar who ALWAYS shines her light!
This week’s Writing Award went to Joshua for his language choice. Joshua carefully magpied vocab that he really liked from our guided writes but also added in his own choice of vocabulary, that made his writing even better!
Thank you once again for all of your continued support!
Miss Slater, Miss Evans & Mrs Murray
