Newsletter- week ending 16th January
Dear parents/carers,
In English this week we have been writing our own shape poems about rockets. In order to use the most descriptive language that we could, we spent a few lessons looking at photographs and videos of rockets taking off. As well as describing and discussing what we had seen, we came up with a set of word banks of suitable vocabulary for our poems. The children have written and illustrated some excellent poems, and those will be on display in class shortly. Next week we’ll be looking at story setting and how authors create atmosphere and mood.
In maths we’re going to be looking at classifying and sorting 2d and 3d shapes. This will also include identifying lines of symmetry using a mirror. This also fits in with our science work on light, as next week the children will be investigating how mirrors form images and looking at reflective and shiny surfaces. This week in science the children investigated what you could see with your eyes closed, and worked out how light from a light source travels to your eyes.
The children did a wonderful job in their guitar lesson this week, working enthusiastically and showing a really good sense of rhythm. I’m looking forward to seeing how the children improve with this specialist teaching.
Next week we’re going to start a new, more personalised spelling list for my year 3 children. I’m hoping that this (in conjunction with our regular phonics work) will help to avoid the problem we have with children learning the words short term for the test, but then the spellings don’t actually make it into their work! I’m going to run it for a while and see if I’m happier with spelling. Next week will also be the point when the next homework project will be announced. There will be some changes to the structure, which I hope will make things even better than last time.
Mrs B
Three things to ask your child this week:
1 How can we check whether Mrs Barker has done her taking away correctly?
2 How would you describe a rocket blasting off?
3 What do we need to see? Where does this stuff come from?
MY… animals
I hope that you had a chance to visit the MY… exhibition at Modern Art Oxford over the past few weeks. Our class really enjoyed our visit there and it was wonderful to see our own artwork exhibited. The children felt like real artists, which was wonderful. I popped in there today to have a last look round and I’m pleased to say that our animals were attracting a great deal of attention. One child (who looked about 6 years old) was hugging the cow, followed by the sheep. She said that they were fantastic- I have to agree!
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