Key dates:   Grafham Meeting after school on Thursday 19th in Mrs Farmer's classroom.  Children are welcome to come to the meeting so they can familiarise themselves with the process.  Children in Boss are also welcomed.

Spellings: 

autobiography, automatic, autograph, autocorrect, semifinal, semicircle, semiautomatic, semiskilled, scene (view), seen  (verb to look)

Maths: 45 mins for Doodle Maths or Tables throughout the week.

This week...

Ruby enjoyed PE where we played on the gym bars and the gym equipment.

In English, Alfie is finding the CLPE English reading book very exciting and we are writing a newspaper report on the major event that happened in the playground - ask us about what happened!

Tom found the pointillism artwork intriguing where we created an image of an eye using an ear bud.

Spellings: 

instrument,  inspired, inspect ,impressed ,internet, interval, interactive, interrupt, heel (foot- noun), heal (to cure -verb)

Maths - Doodle Maths and Tables - 15 mins per day 

We have started our new and exciting English class reader - The Boy at the back of the Classroom.  Today, we have drawn up the main characters and learnt about the dangers of rumours.

In Maths, we are getting comfortable with long multiplication - ask us how to answer 56 x 3.

This half term we are learning about sound and how vibrations are created and travel to our ears.

Have a lovely long restful weekend.

Homework 

Maths - Doodle maths and tables - assignments and practice 

Reading - Read regularly so you can do your AR quiz

Spellings - shun - tion - position, direction, imagination, relation, pollution, reflection, solution, potion, attention, introduction

Homework 

Reading - read daily and make sure you do your AR quiz at school

Spelling - "zur" spelt "sure" treasure, closure, measure, pleasure, Asian, "zhun" spelt "sion" division, television, occasion, confusion, revision 

Maths  - doodle maths and doodle tables 3 times a week. Doodle maths assignments have been set

Spellings:  excellent, greatest, occasionally, unlabelled, opening, happily, certainly, though, opposite, Doris's

Maths - Doodle Maths and Times Tables - 10 minutes daily

Reading - one more week to meet AR targets.

We have had an imaginative week drafting our version of fantasy story.  Already, we have challenged ourselves to use imaginative vocabulary and English features.  Next week, we will be editing our drafts and then publishing these stories in a class book.

In Maths, we have been practising how to generate a calculation from a word problem.  We have looked in detail which operations to use and how to find the quickest method to answer a question.

During today's Festival of Light, we created our own krathong, a 'floating basket', that is used in Buddhism to celebrate and thank the river gods. Our homemade krathong was made by the whole class and includes own wishes for the world.  We also made lanterns that are floated up to the sky during this festival.

Spellings

Class - excellent, traveller, regretted, opened, beginning, tin opener, listened, propellers, labelled, gardener  

Group - than, that, them, then, there, think, thing, their