Spells and spelling!

Yet ANOTHER excellent day - well done Year 4!!!!!!!!!!
Today, we undertook some top secret learning all about our brains (I will let the children tell you all about it............... :-) )

We gave out our new Home School Diaries today, I have asked the children to record the books they read in it, as well as any achievements and successes (we love to hear about those!!!!!). There is a space to record spellings, although it may not be big enough for some lists so we decided that you could either record your whole list or just the tricky ones! We are going to get into a routine of placing our diaries open on our topic places each morning so that I can scan round and read any messages from home and I can also write in them as well. We agreed that it would be best to keep our diaries in our book bags so that they are remembered daily - this is also great practise for next year when their diaries need to used in most lessons!

Spellings will begin next week, they will be sent home on Friday to be learnt by the following Friday when they will be tested, they will also be expected to learn timetables on a weekly basis as well.
Home Learning was sent home tonight, the children have a wallet to keep their home learning in so that you will see the marking the following week. This week they have been asked to conjure up a spell for a perfect Year 4. I would ask that they spend approximately half an hour on this task and that you encourage neat handwriting and presentation as well as challenging themselves to use exciting language.

PE kits need to be in next week please and swimming starts on Wednesday where the children can either meet at the pool for 8:45 or meet at school ready to walk up at 8:30. PE will be inside on a Tuesday and outside, weather permitting on a Friday. Because we will be outside on Fridays then the children may have tracksuit bottoms and trainers to wear for those sessions - depending on time, because the lesson is at the end of the day, we may send them home in their PE kits some Fridays.

Please see the next blog for our new, hot off the press, Class Charter...............