The Great BGS Time Off

We have done some work on telling the time in Maths this term, but it is a really tricky skill and the more you practice, the better you get.


So, Miss Durkin and I have created some fun  tasks to help the children practise at home. These tasks are not compulsory, and do not need to be brought in to school. However, completing even a few would be helpful.


The children have been given paper copies of this task.

Handwriting

This term we have been practising our first join and also thinking about the size of our letters.


We have used this paper to help us. As you can see, most letters fit in between the blue lines, tall letters (ascenders) reach up to the top red line and low letters (descenders) reach down to the bottom red line.

The first join is a diagonal join from the bottom of a letter to the top of a letter without an ascender.


Here are some examples.

ed is a slightly funny one, as d does have an ascender (tall bit), but we join to the curve of the d, so it still comes in the category of first join.










The children are very keen to practise these joins so please feel free to support with this at home.


Please note that we do not teach children to join b, g, j, p, q, x, y and z

Reflections on our first half term

iPads

We have been enjoying getting to grips with our new ipads over the last week or so.

Here are some of the apps we have been using. 

Funny Bones

Mrs Penny enjoyed teaching the class science today while Mrs Rookes is away on camp with Year 5. We talked about the jobs our skeleton does, labelling the bones we already knew and then adding on some extras after looking at the skeleton as a group.

                                        

Jolly Hockey sticks!

Congratulations to all of the girls, who took part in their first hockey matches on Monday. Fantastic effort all round, including from our spectators! Boys, I'll catch you on camera soon!

Last week

In English we talked about different ways to describe a setting. We practiced using prepositions to link our ideas together using Lego and puppets!

And, in Maths, we have been doubling larger numbers and practicing our tables in lots of different ways.