Times Table Rockstars
Times Tables Rock Stars is an app and website that we use in school to quicken the recall of tables facts. It’s something that you can use at home, too – your child has their own username and password. (If you don’t have these, or you have any questions, email your child’s class teacher.) Each game is short so you don’t need lots of time. ‘Garage’ is where you’ll find tables set by us whilst ‘Soundcheck’ includes all facts up to 12 x 12.
We’ve just signed up to Numbots, too. Perhaps more suited to younger children or children who need a bit of extra support with the basics, this is a great app and website for practising addition and subtraction facts. Your child can use it at home too – they login using the same details they use for Times Tables Rock Stars. There are 15 different games, each with a different focus. Topics covered include doubles and number bonds to 10, 20 and 100.
Handwriting – a helpful video
The Year 1s have started learning how to write letters using a lead-in line. We have practised ‘c’ and ‘o’ so far. Next week, we will be practising ‘a’. In year two, children are encouraged to join letters. A copy of the handwriting guide can be found here. Try watching this at home to support your child’s learning. (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
3,4O: History
Today, we spent our afternoon being historians – in fact, we were being archaeologists.
We had to find the pictures of artefacts from the time of Ancient Greece and predict what we thought they were used for.
Then, we found out – it turns out, our predictions were extremely accurate!
Primary school applications
Primary school applications are now open. If your child is due to start school in September 2021, you can find out how to apply On the Leeds City Council website. The deadline for applications is 15 January 2021.
3,4O: Library
We love going to the library every Wednesday to choose a new book and spend a bit of time relaxing and reading. Here’s a few pictures from our session today (we all gave our consent to being photographed and displaying it on the website – ask your child why this is important).
Enjoying reading…
Some more of us enjoying reading…
Searching for a new book…
‘Dipping into’ a picture for a nice change…
Desperately searching for a book about Ancient Greece…
We keep these books in school and ‘dip in’ to them as often as we can.
Ask your child what book they chose and why they chose it.
How do we know so much about the Ancient Greeks?
Today we have asked and answered questions about the Ancient Greeks. We were able to suggest what different artefacts were used for and what this tells us about life in Ancient Greece.
Remembrance Day
Today we shared our knowledge and experiences of Remembrance Day and learnt some new facts too.
The people who died in the war. That’s why we are doing poppy day. Louie
Remembering the soldiers that died in the war. Emelia
After our 2 minute silence, we reflected on what we were thinking about.
I was thinking about the soldiers. Ruby
I was thinking about the war and what could have happened. Toby
To celebrate the day we planted some poppy seeds outside, painted poppies using our fingers, made hand print poppies with real poppy seeds and made tissue paper poppies.
Pyramid Mathematicians
This week, in Topic, we have combined our knowledge of maths with our knowledge of how the pyramids were built in Ancient Egyptian times. The children had to predict how many blocks would be needed to make pyramids of different sizes. We use some cubes to help us. We also had a go at measuring ourselves using palms and cubits – Ancient Egyptian measuring units. This was great fun!
New playground equipment
Playtimes have got even more active with our new playground equipment. The new breaktime resources arrived last weekend and are having a great impact on our play.
There’s cup-stacking …
Skipping ropes ….
Skipping is a great way to practice timing, agility and coordination …
Beanbags…
Target practice and balls …
Throwing bean bags and calculating our scores …
And generally keeping fit.
Just another way of keeping active and staying healthy at Scholes!
English – all about nouns
This week, we have be learning about how different words can have different ‘jobs’. We have talked about nouns this week. We learnt a song to help us.
NOUNS
Every person, place or thing,
Needs a name and so we sing,
Nouns means names.
We went on a noun hunt around our classrooms – there are nouns everywhere!
