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Week 2, ending 26 April
Posted: Apr 26, 2024 by: Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Corey
Special Mention: Callum
A special well done to these children!
We have all really enjoyed listening to ‘funk’ music at the start of our day – Play that Funky Music, by Wild Cherry definitely got the best reaction!
As you know, we start our week in Oak Tree Class with a ukulele lesson. This half term we are being composers, which is turning out to be quite a challenge but a really fun unit. Mr Jennings has encouraged the children to find 4 chords that they can play and put some simple lyrics and a melody to it. It is early days so far, but the children’s enthusiasm has been through the roof!
In Maths, we have finished our unit on decimals and percentages and have also furthered our arithmetic skills, looking especially at a method for short division. I am hoping that your child is keeping you up to date with their recent arithmetic scores – each time we take a new test, we aim to improve our score by at least 1 more! All tests (at present) are out of 32 and it is pleasing how many children are reaching the late-twenties or early-thirties in their scores.
In English, we have begun a brand new theme of leaflets. To give the children a different ‘audience’, they are writing persuasive leaflets about our fantastic school for prospective parent to RPPS. It is likely to take a couple more weeks, but we hope to share some fabulous writing with your (*and our Reception Team too!) at the end of it.
Cricket continues in PE, our Science unit is learning about Space and in PSHE, we have been looking at Stereotyping.
I hope you have a lovely weekend – homework this weekend is Spellings and a sheet on converting fractions to percentages.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos