Hello Squirrels and a happy Friday to you! This week has been short and sweet but, unfortunately, all the adult Squirrels forgot to take any photos!
The big news is, of course, the classroom change. The building works for the new classroom begin on Monday and it will be happening right outside our classroom, so the decision was made for Squirrels to decamp from The Nest to The Den. We'll be there for the duration of the building works.
In mantle this week we've been busy being Toy Designers. On Tuesday the children wrote brilliant pitches for educational games ideas involving spelling, fractions, addition and subtraction or multiplication and division. The children practised their speaking and listening skills and worked brilliantly in their thinking friends to deliver perfect pitches to the company director of Toys R Us. Shortly after that, we leaned that Smyths Toy Stores were choosing to design toys based on science education. Given our recent learning on forces and magnetism, the team felt they were more than up for that challenge. They have since been busy designing magnet based games involving mazes, racing games and fishing games. Production begins next week...
SPAG:
- Apostrophes for contraction: We've been practising contracting two words together using an apostrophe and knowing which letters need to be dropped. Try spotting contracted words when reading together or practising spelling the following words: can't, don't, won't, I'm, I've, I'd, it's, shouldn't, wouldn't, couldn't, they've, they'd, plus anymore you can think of!
- Apostrophes for possession: First we had to remember that possession means to show when something belongs to someone or something, then we remembered that we use an apostrophe then an S to to show possession. E.g. Tom's birthday, America's flag is red, white and blue, the bike's brakes were squeaky. Again, practise spotting this when reading together or by challenging your child to show possession in sentences.
- Prefixes. Following all of last week's work on suffixes, we turned everything on it's head and looked at prefixes which go on the front of words. We looked specifically at the prefixes 'un' and 'dis' and when applied to the root word, they often turn it's meaning opposite. E.g. like = unlike or dislike; uncomfortable; dishonest; unhappy; disorganised. Can you think of any other root words that make sense with 'un' or 'dis' on the front? Can you write them correctly in a sentence?
- Year 3: This week has been all about equivalent fractions. The children have done a great job recognising that if the denominator increases, the parts will get smaller, therefore, the numerator needs to also increase so that the overall amount stays the same (even though there will be more smaller pieces). For example, 1/3 is equivalent to 3/9 as we had to multiply the denominator by 3 and the numerator by 3. Please continue to practise fractions at home and on Doodle.
- Year 2: This week Year 2 have explored mixed numbers and counting in halves. For example, if I had 3 whole apples and 1 half eaten apple, I'd write that as 3 1/2. Challenge your child to write mixed numbers for items or pictorial representations that show whole objects / shapes and parts (e.g. halves, thirds, quarters). Please also practise counting by rote in halves (half, one, one and a half, two, two and a half, three etc...).
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