Animals of the Alphabet A vocabulary challenge this week! Try writing down the name of an animal for every letter of the English alphabet. For example A – Antelope, B – Baboon, C – Chimpanzee. Some will be harder than others… X will be tricky! Try and think of some really interesting animals…

Today we received a message from David. He asked us for our help. He needed us to carry out some research for him to help him decide which country to visit next. We’ve been very busy all morning finding out about different places and making notes. Which country did you…

Digit Detective! A bad number has been getting up to no good! Luckily some eye witnesses have been able to give us some clues as to which number has been misbehaving. You have to be a detective and follow these clues to find which number is being described. Try keeping a…

The Weird and Wonderful! Biology is the science concerned with the study of life. Scientific evidence suggests that life on Earth began around 3.5 billion years ago. Back then the forms of life were very simple. One celled organisms. But through natural selection and successive generations adapting to their environment these…

Syllables – The beat of our language! Try clapping in time with the main sounds of your name as you say it…           Mis     –    ter            Has      –     tey                                                                                                                             (clap)      (clap)         (clap)         (clap) These main sounds, usually the parts containing a vowel sound are what we call SYLLABLES….

Code Breaker! A code is a way of writing a message in secret. One way of doing this is by replacing each letter of the alphabet  with a number. To send a secret message all the sender and receiver need is a ‘De-coder’. Decoder: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Work out what the code…

I cannot believe we are already into the 3rd week of school, this term is flying by! Must be all the amazing learning taking place. Attendance this year has been fantastic, the current attendance figure is 98%, so a big thank you for your efforts so far. Good attendance is…

Roald Dahl Day We had a fantastic day today celebrating Roald Dahl Day. We listened to The Enormous Crocodile and then painted the characters. We also did some fantastic writing describing the characters we had met. Who was your favourite character? Why?

World Record Holders The release of the 2014 Guinness book of world records yesterday has inspired me to look into some of the animal worlds record holders. Some of these animals put our human Olympians to shame. This is the Rhinoceros Beetle and it is a weightlifting champion. It can…