Woodpeckers 04.12.23
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 2:26pm
Hello Woodpeckers, it's now officially Christmas time at school- Ho ho ho!
Our Learning Behaviour for week beginning 04.11 will be 'Improve'.
Our Value this half term is Trust.
Our words this week to listen out for are - "exchange" when we change 10 ones for a ten; 10 tens for a hundred; 10 hundreds for a thousand and "sentence break" where one sentence ends and another starts
Reminders
As we are now in the 2nd half of the Autumn term, please ensure your child has a coat every day as we try and get the children out into the fresh air, weather permitting. Also can each child have a spare pair of socks brought in on PE days please.
Monday: You all have PE Monday, so please come to school in your PE kits. Please bring in a coocking apple and onion if you forgot on Friday.
Tuesday: A supply teacher called Miss Burdon will be teaching instead of Miss Cross. Please come in PE clothes today as well because we have a gynastics session booked with a coach.
Wednesday: PTA wreath night for parents at Copdock Barn. Please contact PTA if you haven't got a place and would like to go. They may have spaces available.
Thursday: PTA dress down day. Please bring in an item for our rainbow hampers. Information about these has been shared in recent newsletters.
Friday: Homework and spellings will be given out.
Homework - This week, most of us have found it tricky to subtract a single digit number which crosses a multiple of 10. For example, 73 - 5; we have to cross 70 to subtract 5 so we end up with 68. We have been using our number facts and partitioning to help us and this needs some more practice. In your HW books partition all numbers from 3 to 9 using a part whole model. Mrs Jordan has done one with you so you understand what to do. Once you have done this, practice subtracting these claculations - 66 - 8, 35-9, 44 - 9, 52 - 5, 41 - 7.
Reading as usual.
You will also 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
Another battle has been set alongside our class one. Bentley Year 3s and 4s are now competing against Woodpeckers! Come on Copdock!
Spellings - in homework books.
Date for your diary - Wed 13th Dec KS2 Christmas concert at the church 6pm. We are politely requesting that children wear smart or glittery clothes (Please do not wear: sports wear, jeans, christmas jumers, trainers). Please feel welcome to wear school uniform/trousers/shoes/shirt. Thank you for helping us to make this a special evening.
Any questions, we're always on the playground at the end of the day- please speak to us.
Mrs Jordan and Miss Cross