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T2T and HL activities : Monday 13th January
T2T and HL activities : Friday, 17 January 2020
Write a My News piece about your weekend. Start with an exclamation sentence to engage your audience and then give lots of who, where, when, what details.
Read your bug club book.
On your book choosing day, choose a book together from our book crates and start to fill in your reading record for the week.
In Time to Think, Plan which Home Learning challenge you would like to do together this week.
And, just for this week:
Talk homework: Talk about..
The Planets- what do we know? What would we like to know?
Writing:
Draw the Capital letter shapes and see what pictures you can make from them.
Maths
Use Big Base models or pictures to add two digit numbers together like 23 +54 55 + 34 41 + 34 62 + 33 44 + 24
CREATIVE:
Make a model rocket.
Physical
How long can you do a ‘superman’ for?
Our latest words.
Year 2’s efforts to capture as many new and interesting words as possible is continuing.
The children love being able to encounter a new word and rather than ignore it or be afraid of it, they capture it and bring it in for us all to share. This is having a very positive impact on their approach to reading and their developing vocabulary. As the children loose their fear of unknown words, we are starting to see really innovative and exciting word choices being tried out in their speaking and also in their writing.
We have noticed that we are not getting as many adverbs as we are nouns, verbs and adjectives.
I wonder why that is?
Well done Caleb!
Well done to Caleb in our class for being selected to join the Total14 football squad. You’ve worked really hard. What an achievement!
We love our reading assemblies.
We love our reading assemblies!
For twenty minutes on a Thursday, year 1 and 2 come together to share and explore their reading books together.
Today, the year 2 children were sharing their most recent reading text. The Year 1s were making sure the Year 2s read it to them so they could understand what the text was telling them. The year 2s were checking that the year 1s were using their listening skills by asking them questions about what they had read to them.
Year 3 and 4 Base 1 Home Learning
Please find below this week’s home learning. It is due in on Monday 20 th January 2020. Reading and contact books are due in every day.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to come and see me.
Jack Whitty
Maths Home Learning Mr Lawford’s Group Geometric Reasoning
Maths Home Learning Mr Whitty and Ms Louise’s Group Geometric Reasoning
Our holistic approach to words.
In year 2, we’ve been trying out a slightly different approach to the new words that the children encounter, capture and share when they are reading at 
home.
The reading team for that day will share their words with me before break in the reading club and then I quickly get them up on the board so we can all share them straight after break. We then read them and use our defining skills to work out what they might mean, then we work out what job they are doing in the sentence so we know if they are nouns, adjectives, verbs or adverbs and capture them on our class word sheet.
This seems to be working really well.
Our creative designers!
The KS1 team were lucky enough to be able to host Kate Green, an artist working with Newton Abbot museum, for a day.
Kate is working on display materials for the new Newton Abbot museum and was seeking ideas from local schools. Our local museum is a very special place for us and we value our ongoing relationship so we were delighted to be asked to be involved.
The children were given the design brief of creating banners which could be hung outside the museum to provide information and encourage visitors to come inside. Some of the ideas that they came up with were incredible.
We cannot wait to see some of their influences turning up in the finished banners.
A big THANK YOU to Kate and the museum staff from all those in years 1 and 2 for the fantastic experience they were provided with.
GREEN TOKEN FUNDING – ASDA
We are very pleased to announce that Asda have accepted our request for the development of our Forest School area to be a nominated project in their ‘Green Token competition’ from January – March 2020!
What does that mean? It means you need to spread the word and getting all of your friends, family and others to make sure that they drop their Green Token into the Haytor View box every time that they g o shopping at Asda, Newton Abbot. With the prospect of some great funding coming our way if we can be first or second when the tokens are totalled, we really need your help!
Home Learning – wc: 13th January 2020
Below is this week’s home learning. If you are in Mr Whitty’s class for maths, please see Base 1 for your maths home learning. Reading and contact books are due in every day.
Please feel free to come and see me if you have any questions.
Mrs Cousins
Experiencing evolution in The Science Dome
We all enjoyed our experience in The Science Dome last week. We learnt all about evolution to prepare for this half-term’s Science learning. From the atoms that make up who we are and the DNA that tells our bodies what to grow like, to the Big Bang and dinosaurs, we found out lots more about where we come from. A big thank you to Simon for the fantastic presentation! 