Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items

English

We are learning about the Aladdin story and writing our wishes, favourite parts of the story and discussing the beginning, middle and end.

Maths

We are practising number bonds to 20 and related subtraction facts.

Phonics

Mrs Thomson's group are reviewing split diagraphs and practising multi-syllabic words. Miss Adamson's group are learning ew, aw and wh.

Art

Jigsaw

This week our lesson is called 'Celebrating Difference, Celebrating Me'

Pantomime

English

We are reading the Babushka story. We will be learning that names of people and places begin with capital letters. We will continue to use conjunctions in sentences.

Maths

We are learning about addition and subtraction within 20. Specifically, we will focus on the job of the equal sign and how the numbers on either side must balance.

Phonics

Mrs Thomson's group will learn au (he caught a fish) and some more split diagraphs - o-e (phone home), u-e (huge brute) and e-e. Miss Adamson's group will learn oy (toy for a boy), ou (shout it out), ir (whirl and twirl) and au (he caught a fish).

RE

We are learning how Christians feel and behave because they believe in God, specifically, we will be learning about the Christmas story.

Productions

On Monday afternoon we will watch the dress rehersal for the Y2/3 production. I will send home scripts this week for the YR/1 produciton - The Bee Musical. I have asked the children what kind of parts they would like and have done my best to accomodate. Let me know if there are any problems! 

Wedding Day

Maths

We are continuing our work on fractions - finding a quarter of a shape and quantity.

English

We are reading Up and Down, by Oliver Jeffers. In the afternoons, for reading comprehension, we are reading The Emperor's Egg.

Phonics

Mrs Thomson's group are working on split diagraphs, a-e (make a cake) and i-e (nice smile). Miss Adamson's group are learning ay (may I play), ow (blow the snow), ea (a cup of tea) and ie (a colourful tie).

Jigsaw

We are learning how to help if we think someone is being bullied.

PE

We are using jumps, rolls and travelling movements to create our own sequences.

Celebration Assembly

On Monday, we are going to church for celebration assembly at 2pm. Some children will give a brief overview of what we have been learning this term. 

Trees

We will be learning about different kinds of trees - deciduous and evergreen.

English

We are reading Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. We are going to walk to the library on Monday morning and learn about some stories from cold places. 

Maths

We are learning about fractions. Specifically, a fraction is one equal part of a whole. We will also learn about halves and quarters of shapes and quantities.

Phonics

Mrs Thomson's group is learning ew (chew the stew), oe (ten toes) and au (he caught a fish). Miss Adamson's group is learning air (that's not fair), er (better letter), or (shut the door) and ure (sure it's pure).

Geography

We are learning about continents and finding cold places on a map of the world. We will be linking this to the Lost and Found story.

Jigsaw

PE

We are still learning new ways of travelling and rolling. We are continuing to work on creating our own sequences. 

English

We are reading about the North and South Pole. We will write information booklets to show what we have learned.

Maths

We are learning about pictorial representations of numbers to twenty and tens and ones.

Phonics

Mrs Thomson's group is learning ie (a colourful tie), ou (shout it out), ur (nurse with a purse) and aw (yawn at dawn). Miss Adamson's group is learning oa (goat in a boat), ar (start the car), ur (nurse with a purse) and or (shut the door).

Handwriting 

We are learning to join ai, but, ch and ck.

Jigsaw 

We are learning about what makes us different.

Parliament week

PE

We are travelling, rolling, jumping and creating tuck shapes.If your child hasn't got their PE kit in school yet, please bring it in before Thursday.

English

Maths

We are learning about efficient ways to count numbers beyond ten and to check that other people's counting is accurate.

Phonics

We are reviewing a few sounds and beginning work in our new groups. Mrs Thomson's group will be reviewing ue (blue glue), ie (a colourful tie) and ou (shout it out). They will be practising 'children', 'little' and 'it's'. Miss Adamson's group will be reviewing ai (snail in the rain), oa (goat in a boat) and ow (brown cow). They will be pracitising 'will', 'now' and 'back'.

Handwriting

We will begin to learn some joins this week.

Science

We will be learning about the weather in preparation for our class trip.

Jigsaw

We will begin our new unit: Celebrating Difference. We are finding out what makes us similar to others in our class.

PE

Reading

Books will be changed on Wednesday, as normal. Children will mostly have new guided reading teachers.

Homework

Maths

Phonics

We will carry on with our daily phonics lessons. Miss Adamson's group will be learning ie (a colourful tie), ue (blue glue), aw (yawn at dawn) and ew (chew the stew). Mrs Thomson's group will be learning oi (spoil the boy), ear (hear with your ear) and air (that's not fair). All the children will also do a short phonics check with Miss Adamson.

Reading

We will have guided reading as usual on Wednesday. In addition, children will do a short reading assessment with Miss Adamson or Mrs Thomson.

Writing

We are doing some special pieces of writing as part of a whole school theme called 'Journey Back in Time'. We will be reading the story of Old Bear and retelling it in our writing.

History

In keeping with Journey Back in Time and Old Bear, we will be learning about toys from the past. We will compare them with toys in the present and create our own timeline.

Homework

This week there will be no homework in the children's purple books. Instead, children will receive their Holiday Passports. During every school holiday (Y1-Y6), children fill in their holiday passport with details of what they have done over the break. We love reading what you have done and it makes for lovely memories to look back on when your child gets to Year 6. Holiday Passports are kept inside the red book bag.

English

We are writing instructions for how to make a superhero hand puppet (now that we are the experts!). We will also learn about plurals.

Maths

We are using a number line to help us add and subtract. We will decide which is the most efficient way to add to numbers and what happens to the number line when we subtract. We will introduce the concept of diffference through 'how many more?' and 'how many less?'.

Phonics

Mrs Thomson's group are working on: or (shut the door), ur (nurse with a purse), ow (brown cow). Miss Adamson's group are reviewing er (better letter) and learning ir (whirl and twirl) and wh as in what, where when etc and ph as in alphabet. 

Handwriting

I hope that we will finish our work on curly caterpillar letters this week (letters that begin with the magic c).

P.E.

We are playing the Honey Pot game. We will use underarm throws and running skills for this game.

RE/Maths

In the afternoons this week we are learning about Diwali because Hindus celebrate Diwali on Thursday 19th October 2017. We are going to see what 2D shapes we can identify in Rangoli patterns and design our own. We will also learn about Diwali gifts and 3D shapes. We'll guess what the gift could be depending on the 3D shape of the parcel!

Wednesday afternoon