Term 3 – Week 4 (WB 26/1/26)

Leicestershire class have had another busy week and continue to embrace learning and challenges with their typical energy and enthusiasm!

In English this week, we have continued to read and understand our text 'The Ice Palace'. This week we have looked at an adventurous part of the story, that sees our hero creating shelters in the snow and swinging across ravines to safety! The children have loved this part of the story and have responded with some mature and descriptive narrative writing. 

In Maths we have moved on to exploring measures of various lengths, beginning with centimetres and metres and moving on to kilometres. We will investigate length, width and then perimeter and how to measure these.

In Science this week the children enjoyed a soil investigation, using our wonderful school grounds to investigate different varieties of soil. We all enjoyed this lesson outdoors, thank you for sending your children with appropriate footwear! 

On Friday afternoon we now enjoy not only our class trumpet lesson, but also a 'linked learning' session in class, where the children explore with our guidance an aspect of their learning that they are enjoying. Last week we looked at different forces used and needed to play with various toys. The children have really enjoyed the chance to question and experiment in their own ways.

Please see below for the updated home learning tasks for this term. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. We hope you enjoy sharing and exploring these learning activities with your child at home.

Finally, please continue to support your child with regular reading at home and by updating their Boom Reader account whenever possible. Your support makes a real difference to their confidence and progress. Please also ensure your child brings their reading book into school every day. Please also follow this link https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864 to access quizzes when your child finishes a book. They will know their login details for this. 

Finally, we are continuing to learn our times tables with some fun songs! Practising for just 15 minutes a week on the recommended website will make a huge difference in building strong multiplication and division skills, which are essential throughout Key Stage 2 and beyond. We have been learning our eight timetables - here is our new song for you to practise at home - 

Eight Times Table Song (Cover of All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor)

3 Times Tables - Have Fun Learning!

4 Times table song (A Whole New World from Disney's Aladdin)

4 Times Table Song (APT be Rosé and Bruno Mars)

Counting By Sixes Song

7 Times Table Song | Skip Counting by 7 Song with Multiplication

Seven Times Table Song (Cups by Anna Kendrick Cover) with Classroom Instruments

The 12 Times Table Song | Skip Counting by 12 for Kids

Spellings

Our next spelling test of the term will be on Wednesday 4th February for Mrs Hughes/Mr Grimes/Mrs Strudwick and Mrs Lamberts groups and Wednesday 11th February for Mrs Smith and Mrs Georgiades' group. The words listed below will not change until after that test.

Mrs Hughes' /Mr Grimes'/ Mrs Strudwick's groups

stop

stopping

shop

shopping

chat

chatting

run

running

begin

beginning

Mrs Smith's group -

Adding the suffix -ion.

action

celebration

education

subtraction

invention

collection

location

injection

invention

Mrs Georgiades' Group

Adding the suffix -ion.

action

celebration

education

subtraction

invention

collection

location

injection

invention

Mrs Lambert's group 

Our sound this week is ow

blow

snow

flow

mow

throw

arrow

bow

own

Thank you for your continued support!

All of the children will have an investigative topic-linked learning task to complete, which is rotated over a three-week cycle. The children will focus on one of their three current foundation subjects each week.  
To support this, the children are split into 3 groups, which you can see below. 
This will be set on a Thursday and due by the following Tuesday. 
In class on a Tuesday or Wednesday, the children will then share the outcomes of their research, and the knowledge they have retrieved, within their own group. 

L3 Usual weekly timetable (please note that there may be changes to this at times).