Year 3 Spellings 23rd September 2022
Next week, we are focusing on the ee/ea grapheme.
believe
read
complete
appear
money
people
busy
quickly
Living and Learning: I use good manners
This week, our Living and Learning has been about using our manners.
What are manners?
Manners are words and actions that we can do to help us be nice and respectful to others. It is important to be polite and use our manners whenever possible.
We looked at some pictures and talked about what good manners might be happening.
“The boy is saying please can you pass me the salt and pepper,” said Bea.
“The person that dropped their apple might say sorry for bumping into the girl carrying the books,” said Orianne.
“The girl with the chocolate cake might say thankyou for sharing the cake,” said Joshua.
We thought about how we use our manners in school and at home.
“We say thank you the Julie when she serves us our lunch,” said Lily.
“I say thank you to my brother when he shares his toys with me,” said Hattie.
“I say please when I want to join in with my friends game,” said Max.
We also watched and listened to the story How Rude a a story about manners.(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.)
Science: What is a classification key?
We’ve continued our learning of classification keys in our weekly science lesson.
Ask your child about the time we classified our classmates…
23 September 2022
This week’s Talk Time brings together the learning that has happened in our Reading sessions last week. The Acceptable Use Agreements have been used in all classes as the stimulus for the reading lessons, as well as a copy being sent home to be agreed and signed.
Check out the KS1 and KS2 agreements.
After reading and discussing these agreements, do you feel these rules could apply outside of school too (e.g. at home or using the internet on your mobile phone)?
Do you think it’s a good idea to have agreed rules in place when using the internet?
Ancient Greek Art
This morning, the children had the opportunity to rehearse and enhance their sketching skills.
Ancient Greek art was an important part of the lives of the people. Vase painting was important, and the pots would normally feature paintings of people or figures.
The children studied the shapes and patterns and then drew them step by step. By paying particular attention to the belly, foot, handles and neck of the vase, the sketches started to take shape.
Some of the popular paintings on vases were circles, geometric shapes and triangles so the class created their own patterns of varying sizes. The outline of a human figure was added to the drawings and then outlined in varying thicknesses of black pen.
We are sure you’ll be impressed by the final images.
Living and Learning
Today, in Living and Learning with Mrs Bald, we’ve been thinking about good manners and what it means to have them. We already know we use good manners each day because we say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ – this makes us polite. We talked about how we feel happy when people use good manners towards us.
Ways we can use good manners in our classroom: put your hand up if you’d like to say something, share with our learning partners, don’t interrupt and smile.
Ways we can use good manners in other areas of school: hold doors open for people, chew our food with our mouths closed and smile at everyone we see.
How do you use good manners at home?
School Rules
In reception and nursery we have been learning more about our school rules. This week we have focused on ‘we keep hands, feet and objects to ourselves’. We have thought about what this might mean and how it can help us in school. After our discussion we all made a hand print poster to remind us of this school rule.
What a busy week!
This week in reception we have been busy exploring our indoor and outdoor classrooms. We have enjoyed making new friends and even started learning phonics!
British History Experts!
Year 5 and 6 are on a chronological learning journey through Britain!
For the last few weeks, we have learnt all about life in Britain during the New Stone Age (4,000 BC – 2,500 BC) and the Bronze Age (2,500 BC – 800 BC). Here is some of the information we’ve learnt so far!
So, what’s comes after the Bronze Age? Well, this week we’ll be adding to our timelines and learning all about the Iron Age!
Year 4 – 16th September 2022
This week’s spellings all have the same sound but are written in different ways:
eight
famous
straight
strange
weight
tray
great
snake
brain
they
everyday
We call the different ways the same sound is spelled alternative graphemes. Take a look at the table below to help with this:
