Welcome to Westminster Bridge Class.
Class teacher: Mrs Ramakrishnan
Teaching assistant: Miss Dale
WB: 12th June
Our key learning objectives this week will be:
Maths-We will be consolidating our understanding of multiplication and division with a big focus on understanding inverse relationships and problem solving.
Reading- We are reading The Witches by Roald Dahl.
Writing- We will be reading the book Oliver’s Vegetables and writing our own narratives based on the story
Science- Ourselves- how to be healthy and fit.
Topic- Hooray! We’re going on Holiday.
PE- On Mondays: dance with Mrs Amin
On Thursdays: introducing playground games e.g. skipping, rounders
RE-Our RE topic this term is Hinduism.
DON’T FORGET:
This week is a Healthy Living Week- lots of our learning will be based around this.
We will be:
- Taking part in 10 minute miles every day this week and seeing if we can improve the distances we run.
- Making a healthy breakfast
- Learning new playground games using equipment such as bean bags and foam javelins.
- Taking part in a skipathon on Friday (16th) – Don’t forget to get your sponsorships ready. All the proceeds will go towards buying new playground equipment.
Maths objectives that you could help with at home:
- Keep going with your times tables and division facts for 2, 5 and 10x tables J
- Understanding x and ÷ fact families e.g.
2×5=10, 5×2=10, 10÷5=2, 10÷2=5
- Practice number bonds to 100 e.g. 35+__, 72+__, __+11 using your knowledge of number bonds to 10
SPaG objectives that you could help with at home:
- Spelling words with –el, -le, -il and –al endings e.g. camel, table, pencil, oval
- Spelling words ending in –tion e.g. station, mention
- Understanding the rule of dropping the /y/ and adding –ies when pluralising e.g. baby- babies, city- cities
- Using suffixes at the ends of words e.g. happily, engagement, plentiful and talking about the spelling rules
- Adding adverbs to verbs e.g. walked slowly, smiled happily
- Using different sentence types in writing; most importantly questions & exclamations
WB: 22nd May
Our key learning objectives this week will be:
Maths-We will be starting to recap units of measure.
Reading- We will be reading Harper and the Scarlet Umbrella.
Writing- We will be continuing to look at the features of diary writing and planning & writing our own diary entries based on the Plague.
Science- Ourselves- how to be healthy and fit.
Topic- How are you? – with strong links to Science and History.
PE- On Mondays: dance with Mrs Amin
On Thursdays: introducing playground games e.g. skipping, rounders
RE-Our RE topic this term is Hinduism.
DON’T FORGET:
Our last SAT paper is on Monday 22nd May. Please make sure you get a good night’s sleep and have a good, healthy breakfast J
Maths objectives that you could help with at home:
- Reading scales around the home e.g. on a measuring jug, weighing scales, on the oven (for temperature)
- Keep going with your times tables and division facts for 2, 5 and 10x tables J
- Practice number bonds to 100 e.g. 35+__, 72+__, __+11 using your knowledge of number bonds to 10
SPaG objectives that you could help with at home:
- Spelling words with –el, -le, -il and –al endings e.g. camel, table, pencil, oval
- Spelling words ending in –tion e.g. station, mention
- Understanding the rule of dropping the /y/ and adding –ies when pluralising e.g. baby- babies, city- cities
- Using suffixes at the ends of words e.g. happily, engagement, plentiful and talking about the spelling rules
- Adding adverbs to verbs e.g. walked slowly, smiled happily
- Using different sentence types in writing; most importantly questions & exclamations