Term
1 Week 7
Monday 12th March
Dear Parents,
Blog – Thanks to all of you who have been
checking out our class blog. At the time of writing this newsletter we have had
over 700 views. One day last week we had over 50 views for just that one day! This
week three other classes in school will be looking at our blog and learning how
to make appropriate comments on other peoples work. We will be looking at three
other class blogs over the following few weeks to learn about commenting
ourselves. It’s exciting to see our audience grow for our work.
Discovery Learning – Sadly last week was our
last Discovery Learning session for this term. Children have loved the
experience, the choice of activities and the chance to work with their peers.
We will return to Discovery Learning next term.
Homework – This week I am introducing a new element into the
weekly homework. Projects! We will run projects weekly until Discovery Learning
returns. This week the letter is ‘A’. Children can take any subject starting
with the letter ‘A’ and find out some facts about it. It could be a place,
country, animal, instrument or a person even! We love to learn new facts on any
subject. Children can then present their new learning in any format they
choose. They can create a poster to go on the classroom wall. They can talk
about their subject, maybe they can bring it in? They could also use the
computer for the project. They can create in word, power point, publisher,
maybe even find a youtube video, create a wordle or a voki – the sky’s the
limit! If the project is electronic either email it to me, bring it in on a
memory stick or put it straight onto the Room 4 Homework Wiki. The link to the
wiki is on the blog and the password and username are exactly the same as the
one for Mathletics. I am very exciting and looking forward to Friday when everyone
will get to present their projects to the class.
Grant Hastings – We will welcome Grant
back on Friday when he will be in school taking classes for softball skills.
Library – Our library day is a Monday
Mathletics – Passwords are in homework
books and homework will be set each week.
Chocolate Fundraising
– Chocolates
will continue to be issued to children this week. Please let me know if you
don’t want any more chocolates to sell. The children are very keen to keep
bringing home more and more! If you have chocolates at home that you no longer
wish to sell please send them back in to school with any money for chocolates
already sold. There were 30 chocolates in each box.
Spelling City – As well as the
essential work lists I have now also put on number words. Children should know
how to spell numbers for their number knowledge ladder. Spelling City can be
accessed through the class blog or by going to http://www.spellingcity.com/
Once there choose the tab
‘Find a List’ and type ‘Mrs Duligall’ onto the search box with ‘Teacher Name’
as the criteria. Click on my name in the search result below and you will get to
the spelling lists.
Kind Regards,
Karen Duligall
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