Month: November 2019

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…Till I Was Sick on the Floor…

This week’s blog is written by Aaron and Benedict.

In English we have been typing our letters to our grandparents asking them about the toys they had when they were young. My grandma (Gaga) wrote a reply and told me about a game called ‘Ludo’.

In maths we have been learning how to multiply a number and divide by 8.

Did you know that 64 divided by 8 = 8 and 8 x 8 = 64. A  way to remember this is: ‘I ate and ate till I was sick on the floor, 8 x 8 = 64.’

In science we have been learning about forces and magnets. We have completed a fair test using magnets and paper clips to test a magnets strength.

In music we have been practising playing the recorder and in singing assemblies, we have been rehearsing for our carol concert.

In history we have learnt how bronze was made.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Benedict, Aaron and the year 3 team.

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We Are Storytellers

This week we’ve been busy in year one preparing to write our own version of the story ‘Beegu’. We have used story maps to help sequence the events and will be writing the story on Thursday, making sure we include lots of descriptive language.

In science we sorted animals into a Venn diagram.

Next week it will be the performance of our Christmas show ‘Jesus’ Christmas Party’. The children have been very busy practising their lines and songs and we hope you enjoy their performance.

Next week it is the turn of the Beegu table for Show and Tell (Oliver, John, Emi, Georgia, Grover and Magnus).

We hope you had a great weekend,

The Year One Team

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Life in Year 3

This week’s blog is written by Ella Burton, Bella Carey and Lily Varma. 

“In English we have been writing letters to our grandparents telling them about toys because we have been reading a book about toys called ‘Major Glad and Major Dizzy. I wrote about my dolls called Mia, Emma and Lily (Ella).

In maths we have been learning about multiplication and division.  3 x 4 = 12 so 12 divided by 4 = 3.

In science we have been learning about magnetic forces. This week we investigated the strength of different magnets.

In music we have been learning about the beat, rhythm and pulse of different songs. We have been learning an African dance which we happily perform for our parents this weekend.

In history we have been learning about the Bronze and Iron Age. We have looked at causes and consequences such as when people began farming they no longer needed to rely on hunting.

The Year 3 sign language club is up and running. Thank you to Miss Dyer for helping us organise this club. We’ve started to learn the letters in the alphabet.”

By Bella, Ella and Lily

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Year Two Blog 15th November 2019

Dear Parents/Carers

It was lovely to see you all for parents evening this week, and I hope it was a helpful experience for everyone. For Spelling shed this week the children are either looking at the /l/ sound spelt –le or the /z/ sound spelt zz or s. I have set maths shed this week. There is a variety of number bond games to practise that all of the children can access.

In maths this week, we finished learning about money. The children learnt how to find the difference in two amounts, how to find the correct change and how to work through two-step problems. In English we finished working towards and wrote our stories that mirrored Journey. The children worked very hard at their writing and we have some wonderful stories. In topic, the children learnt about different landmarks in Australia and how the Isle of Wight and Australia are similar and different. In Art, the children designed postcards with different Isle of Wight landmarks on. In R.E., the children thought about Remembrance day and what was special to them.

This half term we will be learning and rehearsing our Christmas production. The children in Year 2 will be doing the acting parts. Our practises are in full swing, and the children have been brilliant at learning the songs and practising their lines. Please can you continue to practise your child’s line with them at home.

Looking to next week, we will be editing and publishing our stories, looking at the concept of different in greater detail in maths and in Science we are looking at what animals need to survive. In R.E. we are learning about Saints.

The winner of our star of the week this week is Belle, congratulations!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Mr. Stocking and the Year 2 team.

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Dear Diary

This week we have been learning how to write a diary entry. We looked at different diaries and as a class labelled each of the key features. We learnt that diaries have a date at the top of the page, begin with ‘Dear Diary’, are written in the first person past tense, include some descriptive vocabulary and end with ‘Love from’. Next week we will be writing a diary as Beegu where will be describing her adventures on this strange and mysterious planet.

In maths we have been learning about subtraction. We have learnt how to count backwards and draw pictures to calculate how many are ‘left’.

In science we have been learning about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. Next week we will continue this learning by drawing a simple food chain to show predators and prey.

This week we have been revising the following sounds:

o-e (phone, home)

ow (blow, snow)

oa (goat, boat)

ou (shout, out)

er (better, letter)

Attached is the link to the Spelling Shed for the children to be able to revise these sounds:https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

Next week it is the turn of the Dr Xargle table for Show and Tell (Kieran, Ana, Emily, Jamie, Sophia and Shiven).

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

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We are Poets and We Know It

This week’s year 3 blog is written by Kallum and Sofia.

This week we have been learning all about poetry. We have learnt about using imagery and onomatopoeia to make your poem interesting for the reader. To inspire our poem we are using our class book ‘Major Glad and Major Dizzy’ which is about two soldiers who have a hard life. They belong to two children called Amelia and William but they get lost when they slip between the floorboards.

We have also been learning extended noun phrases such as “Two smart soldiers standing in attention.”

In maths we have been learning about column addition and subtraction. We have also been learning about division and multiplication.

In science we have been learning about magnets and forces. We did an experiment to see which things were magnetic and which things were not magnetic. We have also learnt that magnets can repel or attract.

In music we have been playing different instruments to the same piece of music.  Taking it turns and listening carefully to the pulse and the beat.

In French we have been learning about instructions and our body. “Ecoutez” means “Listen”.

This week has been very good and fun!

By Kallum and Sofia.

 

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Friday 8th November 2019

Dear Parents and Carers,

Once again, it’s been a busy week in Phase One.

Years one and two, have started preparing for their Christmas Show ‘Jesus’ Christmas Party’.

All of the children have taken home a letter describing what clothing is required for their costume, along with a copy of their line(s) to practise at home. If you have any questions  please come and speak to me and I will be happy to help.

Mr Peck has kick started singing assemblies, for years 3,4,5 and 6, in preparation for the ‘Carols by Candlelight’ concert which takes place on Tuesday 17th December at 18.00 at St Matthew’s Church. This is the first time the year three children will have taken part in the concert and I can’t wait to hear them singing to get us all in the festive spirit.

This week Mrs Bibby organised an art project for Remembrance Sunday. All of the children in the school learnt about this important day and why we wear poppies at this time of year. Each class made a poppy wreath that will be laid in our own remembrance assembly on Monday.

I hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford 🙂

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It’s All Going Downhill

Want to know the fastest surface to race a car down? Then ask your child about their experiments in year 3. The classroom was transformed into an engineer’s fortress with lots of fun had. Sadly the PTA wind tunnel is not yet ready for use, but this will do for now.

To follow it up this week we have made weaved lanterns to kick-off our Iron Age work. The children have been ‘playing’ (read learning) with magnets to discover what materials in our school are magnetic. Who knew that not all metals were magnetic! We have also made a poppy wreath, as November is the month of remembering.

Times table rockstars is back up and running.

Go to https://play.ttrockstars.com/login/37568   and enter these details:

School: St Matthew’s CofE Primary School, West Wimbledon

Username and Password will be coming home with your children today – please ask them for it.

Have a great weekend.

The Year 3 Team​

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Welcome to Planet Earth

This week we have been teaching Beegu about our planet Earth. We have learnt lots of facts about Earth. Did you know that Earth is called the Goldilocks planet? This is because it’s not too hot, not too cold, not too dry and not too wet which allows life to grow. We grouped the facts we had learnt and wrote information pages about Earth.

In maths we have continued learning about 2D and 3D shapes. We have used the shapes to create a repeating pattern.

In R.E we have been learning about the Saint of our school ‘St Matthew’. We have thought about the values of different Saints and looked at how they are represented in different art works. We then created our own stained glass windows to represent these values.

 

In phonics we have been revising the following sounds:

ar (car, star)

o-e (phone, home)

Attached is the link to the Spelling Shed for the children to be able to revise these sounds as well as a selection of year one common exception words :https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

 

We have started rehearsing for our Christmas performance of ‘Jesus’ Christmas Party’ This week the children have taken home a letter describing what clothing is required for their costume, along with a copy of their line to practise at home. If you have any questions  please come and speak to a member of the Year One Team.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

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Year Two Blog 8th November 2019

Year Two Blog 8th November

This week’s blog is written by Ben Grogan and Caitie Thompson.

“This week, we have been learning how to count money in maths. We made different amounts and we learnt about pence first, then pounds.

In English we have been reading the books Esio Trot and Journey. Esio Trot is for our guided reading and Journey is for our writing. We have been learning how to write noun phrases such as ‘twisted trees’ and ‘shimmering river’.

In science we have been learning about the different features of animals. We have looked at each of the animal’s features and said what is the same and what is different. My favourite animal is a reptile because it sheds its skin as it gets bigger (Ben). My favourite animal is a chameleon because they change colour (Caitie). We have also put the animals into groups and we learnt that we are mammals.

Today we have art and we are making poppies for Remembrance Day. ”

By Ben and Caitie