3/4C Class News
In Living and Learning, we have talked about the importance of being resilient in learning and that sometimes learning is tricky. We have reflected on the times when we have been resilient and have been successful.
We have discussed climate change in related to COP26 by building on and responding to the views of others.
In Art, we have closely observed pattern and shape in fruit, completing some careful drawings.
A great start to a new half term!
Reading Records
Before half term, the last week’s activity was Draw It!
Thank you to all the adults who wrote some fantastic comments in their child’s reading records. Remember – useful comments might include what went well, what they need help with or how many pages they read at home.
This week’s reading activity is ‘Step into their shoes’. This activity is about knowing a character’s thoughts and feelings.
Possible activities:
- Draw a character and it’s thought bubbles – what would they say?
- Write a short diary entry for one of the characters.
- Tell or show the reader all about the character
Living and Learning – Mental Health
We have started talking about mental health this week. If you break your arm or catch a cold, everyone can see you’re poorly. It’s obvious. Mental health problems are much harder to spot because they start inside our heads. They affect how we think, feel, our behaviour and how we cope with things. They can affect anyone at any time.
Mindfulness (we like some of the Go Noodle ones) gives your brain a moment of pause to assess any situation without responding irrationally and full of emotions. Mindfulness means paying attention in the present moment.
Ask your child what their top tips are to keep a healthy mind.
Christmas cards
We have completed our designs, sent them off and now received our sample cards. If you would like to order anything, send the money into school with the order form or using the Gateway app by FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER. Thank you!
Reading in Year 3,4
Last week’s activity was Question Master! Well done to everybody who brought in their reading records with the Question Master activity completed. There were a range a questions asked – some to the author, and some to the illustrator – but all were well thought-out.
Marianne asked: “How do you create such amazing stories?” and “Where do you get you ideas from?”
Thank you to all the adults who wrote some fantastic comments in their child’s reading records. Remember – useful comments might include what went well, what they need help with or how many pages they read at home.
This week’s reading task is Fact File! The children need to choose a character or person (fiction or non-fiction) from the book and create a fact file all about them.
- What’s their full name?
- How old are they?
- What do they look like?
- What is special about them?
Reading Records!
Wow! We’ve got some fabulous front covers done for our reading records – well done! Keep them coming in.
The children have an activity to complete each week. Inside the front cover, there’s a list of fun activities linked to reading. Check with your class teacher what the activity is.
3,4 C Class News
This week, we have enjoyed keeping active during WUSU and on the adventure playground.
Today, we have studied OS maps and located Scholes, Roundhay Park and Leeds. We looked carefully at the OS map symbols to help us understand and read the maps.
Another fabulous week of learning! Well done, 3,4C!
Bike to School week and Let’s ride
Bike to School week and Let’s ride
Biking and scooting are one of the ways we encourage children to actively travel to and from school and next week we’ll be taking part in Bike to School Week (with Sustrans and the Bikeability Trust). We are pleased to be part of this UK-wide event, encouraging families to cycle, or scoot, to school. It’s a great opportunity to celebrate active school journeys and the positive impact it has on children’s health and wellbeing – as well as the environment.
Scooter storage facilities are available at the top of the playground near the gazebo.
Also, taking place this weekend is the free Let’s Ride session held locally at the Brownlee Centre.
This free family community event is ideal for the whole family to enjoy cycling in a safe and friendly space. At the Leeds Brownlee Centre, Bodington Playing Fields, you can ride at your own pace as many times as you like with volunteers on hand to chat all things cycling.
Sign up for the event here.
New Reading Records
This week, we’re excited for all the ways your child can engage with reading at home in these new Reading Records.
The new Reading Records offer the following benefits:
- it is a place for children to record the books/texts they’ve read and rate them out of five stars
- there are a range of activities your child will accomplish throughout the year based on what they’ve read (each week, details of this task will be on your homework letters)
- it gives children a chance to enhance their love of reading during our weekly Book Club sessions in school
- it gives children ownership and responsibility of their reading
- there are loads of exciting challenges to complete to become a Reading Challenge Champion
- it can be a place for parents to share with teachers the wonderful reading their child has been doing at home.
This week, the activity your child should complete based on their reading is…
Complete the front cover.
We’re very much looking forward to the children bringing them in next week for Book Club and signed by an adult.
3/4 C Class News
What a fabulous week of learning!
Today, we have enjoyed using Kahoot to answer retrieval questions all about Edinburgh!
This week, we have been answering the question ‘Where in the world am I?’. We know that England has been split into different counties. Scholes and Leeds are in the county of West Yorkshire.
Finally, we have considered the 8Rs for learning. We have tried to decide which one was the most important – this was a difficult task because they are all important. What do you think?