Year 3,4 Class News – World Book Day
World Book Day 06.02.25
Yesterday, we enjoyed celebrating World Book Day by:
- reading extracts of our favourite books
- sharing books with each other
- designing a new book cover for our favourite books
- reading and sharing stories and books with Mrs Latham’s class
- joining in the BBC World Book Day assembly
- listening to our class novel ‘The boy at the back of the class’
Well done to everyone who has completed their reading record challenge at home this week! Help at home by continuing to read with your child regularly.
World Book Day in 1A
Wow-what a day! 1A have set themselves the challenge of reading every Julia Donaldson book that we can find and we think that we have found a lot! The class have read one of their favourite JD books and created their own front cover for it. We took our JD book and school reading book to join up with 3/4A and read with them. Such a pleasure to enjoy books together!
1A have joined in a live web chat with the author Laura Baker in which we got to listen to her book ‘The full stop that got away’. In the session we even go to join in an art session to create her main character. We did this with 2C which was great!
Lots of reading, lots of fun and lots of sunshine! A perfect world book day.
I know we’re all the same and we’re all different…is our Living and learning statement this week .
In Living and Learning this week, we’ve been focusing on self-image, especially body image. This has involved identifying our own positive qualities and understanding that media portrayals don’t always reflect reality. The children enjoyed discussing positive body image and finished the session by recognising something positive about their peers.
Help at home: Ask your child what they’ve learned from these discussions.
World Book Day
In 5/6, children have been designing a new edition of their favourite book. We have also read some extracts of our favourite books, thought about what makes a good character and even had a zoom talk with one of our most popular authors: Pamela Butchart.
Reading – Ollie’s magic bunny
We are using Ollie’s Magic Bunny by Nicola Killen as a focus for our reading and writing this half term. It’s helped us use our retrieval skills (answering questions about what happens in the book) and inference skills (thinking about character’s thoughts and feelings).
You can listen to the story here.
(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.)
Y2 Maths – divide
Our focus in Maths at the moment is divide. Divide means to share equally. Equal means the same.
This week we are dividing by 5. We have been looking at lots of number stories and discussing exactly what each number in our equations represent.
‘The 15 represents all of the eggs.”
”The 5 represents the eggs in each nest.”
”The three represents the number of nests.”
We drew part-whole models to show how many fives make up a number. When we are thinking about multiples of 5, we know that the ones column must have either a 0 or a 5 in it.
”54 is not a multiple of 5 because even though it has a 5 in it, it is in the tens column. It needs to be in the ones column to be a multiple of 5.” (BC, 2C)
Help at home: by writing out dividing equations and really discussing what each number represents!
Remember – We always put the ‘big’ number at the start of a divide equations. This is the number we are dividing/ sharing.
Living and learning : strong emotions
We watched this story called Beegu. It is all about an alien who
(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.)
KS1 – A little early World Book Day treat
Today, all three KS1 classes had the amazing opportunity to experience a zoom call with the renowned author Julia Donaldson and the talented illustrator Axel Scheffler.
The session started with Axel Scheffler reading us the story ‘The Smeds and The Smoos’. He then drew Bill and Janet from the story. We had a go at drawing along… but it was very fast!
Julia Donaldson then read us her story ‘Tiddler’. It was really lovely to hear for ourselves how she had imagined the voices would sound in the story. We listened attentively before Axel Scheffler then showed us how to draw Tiddler and Little Johnny Dory.
What a great start to the week!
Help at home: There are so many Julia Donladson stories, perhaps you could share some of them together at home. You can also find animated versions of the stories that we heard today a on BBC iplayer.
The Smeds and The Smoos
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001gncf/the-smeds-and-the-smoos
Tiddler
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026dm6/tiddler
PE – rugby
We have moved on to a different sport this half term – rugby!
In this first lesson, the children were introduced to the idea of passing the rugby ball accurately. They used a point and pass technique and if they wanted to challenge themselves, they could try and put a spin on the ball. They applied this skill in a ‘piggy in the middle’ type game in which the children had to accurately pass the ball and also intercept. The children’s confidence definitely improved during the session and they were also able to develop their team building and communication skills.
Science: circulatory system
For the next few weeks, our science topic is the circulatory system. In this biology topic we’ll look at how the heart pumps blood around the body, what blood is made up of and the effects of exercise on our body.
Here is our science vocabulary:
Help at home: Discuss the science vocabulary. Before and after exercise, see what happens to your heart heart. How could you improve your resting heart rate?