Newsletter- week ending 10th July

Dear parents/carers,

In English this week we have been looking at puns and wordplay in poetry. The children particularly enjoyed Andrew Fusek Peters’ “Hey Diddle Diddle”. We looked at why this poem was funny and studied the structure so that we could write our own versions with a partner. Then we studied the John Hegley poem “Emergensea”, looking at the way that the poet has made up new rhyming words. The children each then wrote their own animal poem. The poems were hilarious, and the children all did a brilliant job.

In maths this week we have recapped some of our favourite methods for adding and subtracting. The children have mainly been using partitioning (splitting a larger number up into hundreds, tens and units) to make larger numbers easier to deal with. Next week we’ll have a quick recap on multiplication and division methods.

Next week we will be working on an art project about books. We will be making our own artistic books based on our environment. I went on a course about this a few weeks ago and it was brilliant, so I’m hoping that the children will really enjoy it too.

Reports are coming out tonight, and I hope that you’re as pleased as I am with your children’s progress this year. They have all worked very hard and I am extremely proud of all of them. I’m really going to miss them!

I also hope that you enjoyed seeing “Hoodwinked” this week. I was very impressed with how well my class did in their first speaking roles. Thank you to all of you for your help, especially with costumes.

Mrs B

Three things to ask your child this week:
1 What’s your favourite method for taking away?
2 What happened to the octopus?
3 How do you lay a table?