Term 6 Week 4 – overview

Reading challenge – we have made a visual display to track our home reading.  Each week when reading records are checked, every child who brings their record (completed with their weekly reading) they will earn a star.  Remember that 10 minutes reading each day makes a huge difference to overall literacy and especially expanding vocabulary!

Spelling and grammar – we are revising ‘gue’ and ‘ch’ spellings, and past, present and present perfect tense.

In English, we are going to begin writing our own versions of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf.  

In Maths, we will continue learning about decimals.  We will be dividing 1 and 2-digit numbers by 10 and moving on to 100ths and fractions and decimals.

In guided reading we will be continuing our new text, Varjak Paw by SF Said.  It is a mysterious tale set around a family of Mesopotamian Blue cats……

In RE our unit of focus is ‘How do Hindu people worship and celebrate?’  We will be learning about the meaning behind, and the celebration of, Diwali.

Mrs Atkinson will be teaching Science on Monday afternoons.  This term’s topic is habitats.

In History, we will be learning about the Anglo-Saxons.  This week we will continue learning about aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture.

PE is on MONDAY MORNING with Mr Luckhurst.  Swimming is on Friday.

Reading records have been sent home with most children choosing a book from the selection in class.  All children have an additional book in their tray for reading sessions in class.  Please could we have reading records in school to be checked on a Wednesday morning.  

Homework will be issued this Wednesday and is due in on the following Monday.

Please contact me if you have any queries using the class email address:chestnut@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk

Have a lovely week!

Best wishes,

Mrs Barter