| No | We are continuing our "Ideal home" topic this half term and plan to be focussing on homes of the future. To go with this we are also studying light and shadows and environmental issues.
In English we are currently resaerching info about our favourite authors and will be writing to them over the next couple of weeks. | 30/11/2010 |
| No | You can now find the spellings each week on the year group page of this web site. The maths homework will be posted there too. | |
| No | You have all worked hard to write descriptions that set the scene. Here are some examples of your work: click here Can you spot some of the things that make them good pieces of work? (think about the success criteria that we talked about in class.) Can you think of ways to improve the pieces of work? You can email me your suggestions if you like at: shenn@archbishop-benson.cornwall.sch.uk | |
| No | Congratulations to Charlotte for winning the handwriting competition. She is now the proud owner of a fountain pen.
Josephine has also gained her pen licence this week.
I'm hoping that there will be many more of you joining the 2 girls in being able to use pens soon. Keep practicing. | |
| No | red
milk, milking, milked, help, helping, helped
Yellowand Amber
rock, rocking, rocked, wish, wishing, wished
Green and Blue
fetch, fetching, fetched, miss, missing, missed, long, longing, longed
remember to practice some of your spellings each night, try to do joined writing and try to put the tricky spellings into sentences. | 28/09/2010 |
| No | If you have a good idea, have found a useful web site, want to send me some work you have done at home or just want to ask me a question, then feel free to email me at:
shenn@archbishop-benson.cornwall.sch.uk
I'll try to reply as soon as possible. | |
| No | If you click on the "picture library" you can click on each picture in turn. In the description there is either some information or a question. I'd be really interested to know your answers - email them to me. | |
| No | If you have enjoyed sketching the houses at Chysauster and would like to learn more about how to draw and sketch then this web site might be useful. | |
| No | We all really enjoyed our visit to Chysauster ancient village. The children drew sketches of the houses, measured them and tried to work out what each room would have been used for.
Photos will appear in the picture gallery very soon. | |
| No | We really enjoyed hearing this story in French why not listen to it again here? | |
| No | If you work in my maths group and you enjoyed using the "Tarzia" tiles then why not download the programme for free and make your own Tarzia? If you get stuck on how to use the programme just ask me to show you at playtime. | |
| No | This half term we are working on the topic of "My ideal Home". You will have the opportunity to visit homes from the past, study homes of the present and learn about the lastest energy saving ideas to help you to design an ideal home of the future. The fun starts with a visit to Chysauster ancient village near Penzance. | |
| No | You can download a copy of this week's maths homework here This week we are working on understanding place value and addition and subtraction within 20. There will also be a mental maths test and a 2x, 5x, 10x, tables test on Friday. | 21/09/2010 |
| No | The spellings this week focus on past tense endings. To turn a word into the past tense you need to add "ed". Sometimes you need to do something else too. Have a look at the words in the spelling list and try to work out what happened to the word when "ed" was added.
Red
fan, fanned, hop, hopped
Yellow and amber
beg, begged, stop, stopped
blue and green
hug, hugged, hum, hummed
You need to practice some of your spellings every day. Try to use joined writing, too. | 21/09/2010 |
| No | This week we have been looking at fractions of numbers and measurements. Chech here muffins.pdf for a recipe for Christmas muffins. You will need to scale it down so only use a quarter of each amount. I have also included the recipes for the other fraction food that we did in class this week. Why not get your whole family cooking this week? | 01/12/2009 |
| No | Next week we will be finding out about how rules and laws are made and what happens when they are broken. We are hoping to include a visit to the crown court in Truro. When details are confirmed a permission letter will be sent out. Watch this space for more details. | 24/11/2009 |
| No | We have been working on maths for the past 2 weeks. Please practice telling the time at home and working out time problems.
Don't forget if you work with Mr Wills for maths, you will need to check 3SW web site for the homework. My group's homework is here: time homework.pdf | 17/11/2009 |
| No | This week the spellings are all about adverbs. The children have been working in groups to collect adverbs so each group may have different words to learn things this week. | 17/11/2009 |
| No | Sadly, Tom is leaving our class and our school today. We will all miss him and wish him all the best at his new school. | 29/10/2009 |
| No | This week we are extending our knowledge of the three times table and linking it to division facts. To keep up a good score in the Friday test you might want to practice your divide by three tables a little each day. three times table homework.pdfI'm looking for a good x3, divide by 3 game on the internet. No luck so far. If you find one let me know the address and I'll add it to our links section. | 16/10/2009 |
| No | This week we are focussing on solving problems and Egyptian measures. We are also going to begin to learn about the water cycle and rivers.
Why not do some research at home on one of our focus topics. If you complete some work, bring it in ton school and we'll put it up on display. | 20/10/2009 |
| No | These are this weeks spellings. We are revising more words that end -le. The spelligs are: double, horrible, simple, bible, terrible, example, grumble, sensible, responsible and obstacle
Children can use each word in a sentence to practice their spellings for homework. | 20/10/2009 |
| No | Every week I will get a guest judge to choose a winner of the handwriting award. Their work is displayed in the classroom, they get to go up a group and have a team point. I thought that the rest of you might like to see the winner's work on here too. handwriting winner week one-001.pdf | 10/10/2009 |
| No | Last week we began to look at religious festivals. We are going to continue with this, this week. Why not research a festival and make a poster to tell the class all about who celebrates it, how they celebrate and when they celebrate. We can display your posters on the board at school. | 13/10/2009 |
| No | This week I have put each child into a spelling group with a colour name (red, yellow, or blue) Here are the spellings for each group:
Red: out, went, down
Remember to read the word aloud, count the letters on your fingers as you say the letter names, cover it up and have a go at writing it, check you have the correct number of letters, then check your spelling.
Yellow: This week's focus is on irregular past tense verbs - blow, blew, grow, grew, sing, sang, ring, rang
Blue: learn the yellow group spellings plus - think and thought.
All groups need to practice a few spellings each day and try to use neat, joined handwriting. | 13/10/2009 |
| No | The maths homework this week is all about shapes. Find it here: sorting shape.pdfThere is also homework for RE. Your task is to find out the dates of as many different festivals as you can. We will use this to create a class calendar of festivals. Calendar sheet is here. calendar.pdf | 06/10/2009 |
| No | This week we are looking at prefix words again. We are focussing on the prefixes de, re, pre, and mis. The base words that you need to learn are:
code, frost, place, write, view, pay, fire, count.
You will be tested next week on the base words plus the correct prefix. | 06/10/2009 |
| No | This week's maths homework is all about number bonds and subtraction. Remember to use a number line to work these out, if you need to - also take away the tens first then jump to the nearest multiple of ten then take away the last bit (use your number bonds to help you) If you have misplaced the sheet there is a spare in the documents area.  maths%20ho%20ework.pdf | 29/09/2009 |
| No | This week's spellings are words with prefixes. Your child needs to learn the base word and will then be tested on the base word with the prefix. Here are the base words:
happy, form, please, build, agree, fix, cycle, usual, obey, lucky
It is a good idea to practice a few each day to help your child fix the spelling into their long term memory. | 29/09/2009 |
| No | The spellings this week all have the same pattern - they all end in "le". If you need to check the spellings or need a copy of the homework sheet, check the "documents" section. | 22/09/2009 |
| No | Just to let you know that we will be concentrating on science for the next 2 weeks. Our focus will be on light and shadows.
I hope that you enjoy it. | 28/09/2009 |