Woodpeckers 09.10.23

Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 9:13am

Hello Woodpeckers!

Welcome to a new week of learning.

Our Learning Behaviour for week beginning 09.10 will be  'Don't give up.'

Our Value this half term is Thankfulness.

Our words to listen out for next week are 'population' -the number of people living in a certain place, and 'migration' - the movement of people from one area to another.

Reminders

Monday: You all have PE Monday morning, so please come to school in your PE kits. Also, many of you will be going swimming in the afternoon.  If you have a shoebox, please bring it in for science on Tuesday so we can make light boxes.

Tuesday: World Mental Health Day - come to school in yellow - wear something yellow.  Please bring a shoe box if you have one.

Friday: Homework to be handed in. 

Homework

Log on to Curriculum Visions (the username and password is in your planner) and click on the speaker for pages 4-11  of Light and Shadows. The speaker will read  the text to you.  Remember -you count this as one of your reads.  Write a definition for the following words: beam, filter, opaque, translucent, transparent, reflection. Page 2 will help you. This homework will help you with our new science unit about light.

You will also now find the logins for Times Table Rock Stars and Spelling Shed in your planners. Please do log in to these websites to practise your spellings and times tables.

Reading Giants

Please read at least 5 times and note them in your Planners. Remember, this can be reading your school reading book, reading your own books, reading a magazine/comic, listening to a story read by a grown-up, listening to a story on a device (such as a Tonie box), watching a story online/on TV (eg CBeebies Bedtime story). We are promoting a love of reading, so read what you enjoy - just remember to write it in your Planner and ask your grown-up to sign it each week. Mrs Shand will check the planners each Friday and will give you a sticker on our Reading Giants chart if you have had at least 5 reading sessions! Remember - we are working as a team to collect the most reads so if you don't read at home, your  year team won't have a chance at winning the most reads across the school.

Times Tables

A battle has been set! Log in to Times Table Rock Stars and we now have a weekly tournament between Year 3s and year 4s. This will run each week until the Christmas holidays and the more you play the more points you will win for your year group!

Spellings

From this week, your spellings will be from Spelling Shed, so please log in to this website to find activities and games to help you learn your spellings.

 Any questions, we're always on the playground at the end of the day- please speak to us.

Mrs Jordan and Miss Cross