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Year 4 and 5 Willow Class Home Page (redirected from Year 4 and 5 Oke Home Page)

Page history last edited by Awhapham@chulmleigh.devon.sch.uk 4 years, 1 month ago

 

Welcome to the Willow Class blog!

 

 

 

 

 

 

20th January

 

In Willow Class, we are ready for another busy week! Just a quick reminder as the weather gets colder, please ensure that children have their coats and jumpers in school especially as our classroom can get a busy chilly! This week in Literacy, we are continuing our setting descriptions focusing on editing and completing a final draft. In Maths, we are beginning our learning about Fractions and Decimals. In the afternoons, we are continuing our work about the Asian country of Russia. We are beginning our powerpoints about Russia, designing our Russian dolls and researching the Russian revolution in Topic. In the files bar, you can find our Medium Term Plan which outlines the areas of learning we will be covering this half term as well as our most recent timetable.

 

10th January 2020

 

Welcome back everyone! Hopefully everyone has had a wonderful Christmas Holidays and have come back ready for Spring Term!

This term in Literacy we will be looking at the book 'The Firework-Maker's Daughter' by Phillip Pullman - first introducing the book by looking at the characters and making predictions, before moving on to rewrite the opening of the story next week. In Maths, our focus for the first two weeks will be Statistics with a particular focus on line graphs. Our afternoon subjects will focus around the topic of Russia this term including making our own Russian Dolls, researching the history and geography of Russia and beginning to look at Islam in RE. Homework will be set on the 15th January to give children time to settle back into school. A real focus for our class this term will be on reading at home, please ensure that your child is reading as much as possible at home, 20 minutes is the ideal time we are aiming for!

 

 

9th December 2019

 

Just a quick reminder that Christmas Dinner forms need to be in by Thursday 12th December.

 

6th December 2019

 

December is finally upon us! We have lots of exciting things happening this month and there will be emails sent out about Christmas dinner, the Christmas Fayre and the Christmas concert. Please keep an eye out and let me know if you haven't received the information. Children need to be practising the songs for the concert including Holly and the Ivy, We Wish You a Merry Christmas and Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree.

 

19th November 2019

 

Apologies for the lack of updates, as you can imagine the last week or so have been slightly busier than usual! In Literacy, we are now starting our work on Narratives and focusing on what makes an interesting narrative. To do this, we have been looking at examples of stories and thinking about what the authors have included to make them exciting. In Maths, we have begun our work on Multiplication. For Year 4 children, this means the grid method and for Year 5, it means starting long multiplication for the first time! For homework, children have been given the song words to our Christmas Concert songs, please can you make sure they are practising as we have limited singing assemblies left before the actual concert! This week, children have also been set work on Purple Mash related to our guided reading book.

 

 

8th November 2019

 

Another busy week in Willow Class! In Literacy, the children have written their own biographies about a henchperson for Nektar. They have worked hard to include all the features of a biography and to focus on their Literacy targets too. In Maths, we have started on multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. We will be continuing this and then moving on to formal methods of multiplication and division.

 

 

1st November 2019

 

It has been great to welcome the children back to school from half term this week! We have been continuing our Literacy work based on Kid Normal and we are now looking at biographies. In Maths, we are moving on from Addition and Subtraction and beginning to look at Multiplication and Division. In the afternoons, we have been planning our information pages about Chulmleigh and hope to begin writing these next week. Next week, we have an open morning on Monday for all parents. If you want to come and spend some time in Willow Class and watch some of the activities that we would usually do during a Maths lesson. We also have a visitor coming in on Wednesday morning to teach us about Hinduism and complete some activities with the class.

 

This week's lovely learner was Ezra, and Harry won the dojos (again!), well done to you both!

 

14th October 2019

 

I can't believe how quickly this half term has zoomed past! Hard to believe that this is our final week at school before a well earned break. The children have been working hard in Maths as we have started our work on addition and subtraction. We have been using the resources to help us with our column addition and we are hoping to continue into column subtraction this week. In Literacy, the children have written amazing letters to Mr Souperman trying to persuade him to let Murph stay at The School. This week, we will be concentrating on our editing skills and how to evaluate our own work. As usual, there will be no homework set over the half term but we would like to ask all children to keep reading if possible!

 

Although we didn't have a Lovely Learner last week, our dojo winner was Harry! His second dojo win already!

 

4th October 2019

 

Half term is finally in sight! This week's homework is a poetry competition based on the topic of Waste. Children also have some work set on Purple Mash.

 

28th September 2019

 

Another week has flown by, cannot believe we are already 4 weeks into the new term! This week we have been continuing to build on our Maths learning by looking at place value and rounding questions in real contexts. Next week, we will be looking at roman numerals before moving on to addition and subtraction methods. In Literacy, we have been considering arguments for/against Murph being allowed to stay at The School, which we will be using to write letters to persuade Mr Souperman next week. Our homework this week is Literacy (character description) and Maths (times table sheet at your child's current level). Please let me know if you need an extra of either sheet. Next Friday will also be Pyjama and Welly Boot Day for a £1 donation to the Children's Hospice.

 

This week's dojo winners were Harry and Ben and our lovely learner was Harry, well done!

 

20th September 2019

 

Another busy week finished in Willow Class! All the children have settled in extremely well and are working hard with their learning. This week, we have been creating our own villains based on our Literacy book 'Kid Normal' and have been writing character descriptions. In Maths, we have continued our place value working by focusing on rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. Homework this week has been set on Mathletics (logins should be in home school diaries) and a reading comprehension (please let me know if you need a new sheet). Enjoy your weekend!

 

This week's dojo winner was Mae and our lovely learner was Evie, well done!

 

13th September 2019

 

Well we have finished our first full week of this academic year and it is safe to say the children have come back ready to go! This week we have begun looking at setting descriptions in Literacy and designing our own room for 'The Most Depressing Room of the Year Award' for us to write about next week. In Maths, we have been looking at place value and using our previous work on numbers to compare and order them. In the afternoons, we have been learning about the history of Chulmleigh and have begun to look at our local artist Jo Pryor in Art.

 

A small change to our timetable for Willow class, as we are now lucky enough to have Yoga on a Tuesday! Children will still only need their PE kits on Monday and Friday as yoga will be done in their school uniform.

 

This week's dojo winner was Agnes and our lovely learner was Ellie, well done!

 

 

Postcards of Kindness

 

Willow Class have settled in so well this week, we are now sharing our kindness with others! This year, we have decided as a class to take part in the ‘Postcards of Kindness’ scheme. This involves sending postcards all over the country to care homes and care settings in order to combat loneliness. We have sent 22 postcards today to elderly people all around the country telling them all about our pets, what we did over the summer holidays or just writing a nice message to cheer them up. We have even sent some of our postcards as far as Scotland! We hope that we might get some responses to our messages and be able to send more postcards in the future. If you have any spare blank postcards that you would like to donate, Miss Whapham would be delighted! There is also a Facebook group called 'Postcards of Kindness' if you want to find out more!

 

 

September 2019

 

Welcome to our class page! We are looking forward to welcoming the children back to school at the beginning of next week and starting a new academic year. This page will continue to be updated with letters sent home, important events at school and small updates about what our class are getting up to each week. If you have any questions throughout the year, please let me know or email (written in your child's home school diary) and I will do my best to find the answers!

 

Miss Whapham

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