POINTS

Children have been put into various groups within class one of which is a flower group where they can earn points towards a prize at the end of the term. Besides working well as a team, they can gain points for their flower group collecting infomation about their fruit and their country reading groups (a bonus point for each).

The information that they collect may consist of research from either books, magazines or using the internet. Text should not be copied directly but put into language that other children can understand. They may use pictures, either that they have drawn themselves or have cut out. I have asked that they supply at least three facts of information about their topic. Their work can be presented as a poster or on A4 paper and should reflect that they have taken care and are proud of their work.

This is something that parents and children can enjoy doing together.

Who knows, you may learn something new too.

RUSTY

An important member of our class is Rusty (our bear), who Ms Dreger brought back from Niagra Falls in Canada. Rusty likes to get hugs from children and often makes them feel better if they happen to be feeling a bit sad or lonely.

Rusty also likes to go on holidays with the children as he thinks looking out of the classroom window can get a bit lonely with no one else around. This means that he has been to some amazing places including: Australia with Cameron; Spain with Anna; with James he travelled to Sweden and he also went to Florida with Ezria for American Thanksgivin and on a donkey ride in Paris with Viva. When he was in Portugal with Alana, he sent us a postcard (he is a clever bear). Rusty has also enjoyed travels in Great Britain,including trips to Wales and Devon.

We think he is a great bear to have in the class!

SPELLING SENTENCES

When writing their weekly spelling sentences children should ALWAYS

➢ underline the spelling words in the sentence and

➢ leave a blank line between sentences.

➢ make sure your sentences START with a capital letter and END with a full stop (. ? or !)

➢ use simple connectives like and, but and because

They should also work TOWARDS using the following to make their sentences more interesting.

➢ write sentences in joined up writing

➢   LETTERS should be
-    the right way round (common reversals include a, b, d, j)
-    the same size
-    the tall letters should be tall (b,d,f,h,k,l,t)
-    the letters that go below the line should go below (f, g, j, p, q)

➢ Use CONNECTIVES other than and, but and because, to join phrases
examples: then, when, also, after, instead, so, until, or, next

➢ Use DESCRIBING WORDS (adjectives) to make your sentences more interesting (i.e. colour, size, feelings, numbers)

Children should aim to spell the words on the High Frequency List correctly.

A printable version of this can be found on the right side of this page in the INFO section and would be good to have available as a reference when children are writing their sentences.