Saturday 24 November 2018

Week in Review: Nov 19th - 23rd by Rosie & Alisha!

Monday
In Maths we were looking at adding and subtracting.

Tuesday
Today we began looking at our new class book, Tutankhuman. Tutankhuman was an Egyptian boy-king that was buried in a tomb.  Howard Carter has spent 5 years searching for it!

Wednesday
In English we were writing ancient Egyptian facts and had to create their family tree!


Thursday
In Maths, Year 3 were working on 4 & 8 times tables, while Year 4 were tackling the 6, 7 and 9 times tables.  We also had a little mental maths quiz about lots of maths topics.  Some of us found the questions about the calendar a bit tricky.  So we will be looking at this a bit more closely.  
We also began making some Christmas decorations for the corridor ahead of the Christmas Fair next Friday!  We are working in small groups to make Santa's team of reindeer!
WE GOT OUR PEN PALS LETTERS FROM CANADA TODAY!

Friday
This morning we were taught by Miss Wones!  Mrs. Pell and lots of other teachers were away learning cool new ways to teach us Maths!  Miss Wones had to give us our first Headstart Spelling Test!
Mrs. Pell was back after lunch, so in Spanish we did some more Spanish ER Verb work and we began learning a new Spanish song called A Pasear.  Finally, we had News & Sunshine time with Mr. Hall. 

Thursday 22 November 2018

Our Canadian Pen Pal Letters Arrived!

It was a magical moment in Cheetahs class this morning as the children received their Pen Pal letters from their friends in West Kelowna, BC, Canada!  There were smiles and squeals of excitement as they poured over the impeccably written letters and share the art work and photos of their new friend with classmates.  

Our lovely TAs Ms Ryan and Mrs Barker worked very hard to get all of the letters photocopied so that 1) the Cheetahs could take their prized letters home, and 2) we have a copy at school so that the children can answer the many, many questions the Canadians have asked them about their lives and what it's like at our school as well as living in England!

I am very happy to have the Cheetahs include any local post cards, drawings, small tokens (eg. stickers or friendship bracelets) should they wish to send their new friend a little something along with their next letter.  Anytime an idea strikes them, please feel free to have them bring it in and I'll keep it safe.

We will begin writing our replies next week with a view to mailing them as we break up for Christmas!  

I'm quite sure I will hear from my niece when they have received our letters, so I'll keep you... posted! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

-Mrs. Pell


 

Sunday 11 November 2018

Hard-working Homework!

Lucas- Math homework!

Princess- Egyptian Top Trumps!

Rosie- Math homework!

Sam- Crossword extraordinaire!


Well done to these Cheetahs, and the many others that produce such excellent work at home!

Friday 9 November 2018

Week in Review Nov 5th-9th by Boyd & Isaac!

Monday:
-We went to How Hill for our Federation Day!  Our favourite activity was dyke dipping in the pond!  We did so many activities.

Tuesday:
-We did some real Egyptian work on papyrus paper!  We did our rough copies in our books first.

Wednesday:
-We imagine that we were WWI soldiers and wrote letters home to our loved ones.  We did this in honour of Remembrance Day coming up and how this year marks 100 years since the end of WWI!
-In assembly we have been learning a song about why we wear poppies at this time of year.  It is a catchy tune! We hope you enjoyed hearing us sing it at the parent's assembly on Friday!

Thursday: 
-Mrs. Pell's joke of the day was:  "What do you call a number that can't sit still?  A roamin' numeral!"
-In Maths we were very good at estimating calculations by using our rounding skills!
-Our new Headstart Spelling program is really fun!  We had a spelling race today where we raced against ourselves to get personal-best scores!

Friday:
-This morning we mixed with Panthers Class (Year 3&6 worked together and Year 4&5 worked together) on some activities for Remembrance day.  We made 3D poppies using recycled plastic bottles & acrylic paint in one session, and we worked together on a 2D poppy collage in the other session. 
-We also listened to a story together called A Poppy is to Remember, by H. Patterson & R. Lightburn. We learned that John McCrae, the poet that wrote In Flanders Fields, happens to have been Canadian, but back then, Canadians served in War for Britain.  His poem was so inspiring at the time that it was published in England, used to promote war effort fund-raising in Canada and in the USA, a woman was so inspired by the poem, that she began the campaign of having injured veterans make poppies for sale to raise money for other injured veterans & their families.  A campaign that has been adopted by many countries and still carries on 100 years later!  

Sunday 4 November 2018

First week down!

Our first week back has flown by!  We hit the ground running this week, but ended it with a tasty, yet spooky cake raffle (made by yours truly) & donated to the class by Alisha's family!  Speaking of Alisha, she is currently in the lead with Reading Miles in our class with a whopping 37 miles!  Keep up the great work!  Remember to record what you've read in your homework diaries.  We tally them up every 2 weeks (roughly) and we look forward to awarding prizes!

We have begun our new Spelling program called Headstart Spellings.  This program is a 4 week system of patterns & rules, practice, activities and games.  The children will then be tested on some of the words on the 4th week.  This learning will take place at school and will no longer be a part of their weekly homework!  This program us now being used throughout the school and all students will be working at a level that challenges their abilities.    If you have any questions, do come and speak with us.

We hope you've all had a wonderful week!

Friday 12 October 2018

Week in Review- Oct 8th-12th by Freddie & Leo G-B

Monday:
We really enjoyed working in partners for PE!  We had fantastic weather for a bit of exercise on our playground.

Tuesday:
We both love Maths!  This week with Mrs. Sales we worked on doubling numbers.  With Mrs. Pell we rounded numbers of any size to the nearest 10, 100 or 1 000!

Wednesday:
Today we learned the hard lesson that if teams don't play fairly, a game can be cancelled.  Luckily, there are so many other fun ways to play together in our huge outdoor learning environment!  (PS. we learned from this and improved our conduct.)

Thursday:
In PE we were learning about playing handball!  This was my favourite lesson today!  I love playing outdoors!

Friday:
Today we carried on with our exciting new writing project...  We have a Pen Pal class in Canada to write back and forth to!  Mrs. Pell's niece is about the same age as us, and she and her teacher came up with this great plan and are equally as excited about writing to us!  

Their school is in British Columbia, on the West Coast of Canada.  That is along the Pacific Ocean.  Mrs. Pell told us that there are lots of mountains there and that the times zones makes them 8 hours behind our time!  So when we leave school at 3:15pm, it is 7:15am in BC and their school day hasn't even begun yet! 

Friday 5 October 2018

Hello October!


Cheetahs Blog: Week in Review
Oct 1st – 5th, 2018 by Lucas & Cody
Monday
Today in Maths we did our Daily 10.  We really enjoy this game!  It challenges us and Mrs. Sales can change the amount of time we have to solve problems to help us with trickier questions that involve more than one step.
Tuesday
In English we worked on our story maps.  First we drew the trail (but only one side because we were following instructions brilliantly!).  We needed to make sure we had enough space to write about each part of the story, then we drew the other side of the trail.  That Mrs. Sales is so clever- it worked!

Thursday
In Maths we used number cards to make our own questions for rounding!  We rounded numbers to 10, 100 or 1 000!  Sometimes, we had to round a 4 digit number to the nearest hundred, and other times to the nearest ten or thousand!  We had to read the questions carefully. 
Mrs. Pell showed us how to find our school website, then our class blog.  We enjoyed looking at the pictures from Forest Schools and seeing our work online!
Friday
We had our first Spanish lesson about grammar today.  We learned the pronouns for:
I (yo), you-singular (tú), he/she (él/ella), we (nosotros), they (vosotros), you-plural (ellos/ellas).  We also learned the pattern for how the pronoun affects the spelling of the verb!  Next week we will apply this rule to some real verbs!
Most importantly, we had a fantastic time at WHEELS EVENING!  What a turn out!

And now a few words from Mrs. Pell & Mrs. Sales:
What a fantastic week we have had Cheetahs!  From start to finish you were on the ball this week!  We both saw some fantastic work in your books, cooperation happening in the classroom and it was so lovely to see how proud you are of your work.  Very well done to you all!   

Tuesday 2 October 2018

The last student blog for September!


Apologies to Callum and Ellie-Marie that I'm a little late posting this...  I was not very well over the weekend!  Thank you for jotting down your ideas!

Cheetahs Blog: Week in Review
Sept 25th – 29th, 2018 by Callum & Ellie-Marie
Tuesday
Today Mrs. Pell popped in to tally up our reading miles!  She did this by checking our homework diaries.
Wednesday
We did Forest Schools today.  It was so fun building a den and making art using the things we found outside!
Thursday
We learnt about invertebrates in Science today.  They don’t have backbones!  Jellyfish are just one example of the many kinds we learned about today!
Friday
We had our Harvest Assembly at Catfield Church today.  We did our play called, From Farm to Fork to explain all of the work involved in growing, harvesting, transporting and storing potatoes before we even buy them from the shop.  We did well to work on our lines this week, but we still need a bit of practice speaking loudly to an audience!


Everyone will have a turn to help write one of our weekly blogs!  Each week, a Year 4 is teamed up with a Year 3 to jot down the highlights of their day over the week.  It is then added to our wonderful blog for everyone to see exactly what delights the children in our class!  In hopes of off-setting the age-old classic:  What did you do at school today?  Nothing.  I don't remember.  ;)

Saturday 29 September 2018

Forest Schools and Fabulous Artwork!

This week during Forest Schools with Mrs Ryan and Mrs Barker, the children made some fantastic nature art using clay and whatever they could find in their natural surroundings!












Positively Passionate about P.E!
The children are really enjoying their P.E sessions with Mrs Sales on a Monday as you can see by this fantastic pictures taken by Kaydee!  In our lessons we have been focusing on floor balances and footwork skills.

Here you can see the children looking at the next step on the wall to move their learning forward




Keep it steady Bobby!







We played an excellent version of tag where the children had to move in a certain way: galloping, skipping, zig-zagging, side stepping etc.  If they were tagged, they would have to wait for someone to high 5 them before they could move again.












Jasper is taking his balancing work very seriously!

Alisha and Rosie progressed to the next step and were able to balance on one leg with their eyes shut!

Brilliant work Boyd - balancing on one leg with your eyes shut is no easy task!



Friday 21 September 2018

Impressive Homework!

So many of the Cheetahs have wowed us with their homework this week!  Fantastic job to everyone that has kept up with their weekly Spelling in the yellow book as well as their homework sheet(s) in the red folder!

Have a look at just a handful of the amazing Maths work the children have completed at home!

Sam
Leo B
Cleo
Callum

Carson

Saturday 15 September 2018

The learning begins!


Cheetahs Blog: Week in Review
Sept 10th – 14th, 2018 by Jake & Harry
Monday
We counted all the way to 200 this morning!  It was an excellent first day with Mrs. Sales!  She did lots of fun activities with us!

Tuesday
In Maths we rolled the dice to make 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers.  We liked making our own questions this way!

Wednesday
Today we worked on a little something special for The Lord’s Prayer (but Mrs. Butcher doesn’t know how we’ve made it even better yet!).  At playtime, some of us played Bulldog...  Some crashes were had!  But we had a great time!

Thursday
At snack time, Mrs. Pell started reading us a Spanish copy of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.  It is called: Huevos verdes con jamón.  Some of the details in the story had to be changed to make sure it rhymed using Spanish words!

Friday
Today was our first Spelling Test.  We will keep a record of our success on a table at the back of our books.  That way we can see how we improve over the year!  We are a bit tired after the first whole week back!