Dear Parents
Thank you for all you and your children's heroic efforts for making it thorough another successful week - I hope this Friday sees you well!
Home/School Support
We currently live in strange times and those quick chats at the beginning and end of the day are not possible at the moment. All of you would have received reports in February about your child's progress and areas to focus upon for next steps in learning. Once new classes start next half term there will be some form of Parent/Teacher Consultation - we will let you know details nearer the time of how we can make this happen. However, in the meantime if you have any concerns or you would like to know how your child has settled back into school please send us an email via our normal email address and we will get back to you.
Homework - Looking At Habitats
In our science work since coming back to school, we have been looking at the life processes of animals, the different diets that they have (carnivores, herbivores and omnivores) and the features of their habitats. We have used this website to help give us an introduction to habitats.
Habitats and the environment - KS1 Science
As a homework task this week, we're asking you to choose one habitat to learn about and watch the video. Any of them will be fine - let your child choose one they are most interested in.
After we watched the video we made notes in the form of a mind map.
If you click on the link at the top of the page entitled "18 Class Clips", you can choose from the video clips that are most appropriate to your chosen habitat to add supplementary notes.
From here you can create a simple report showing what you have learnt about your habitat. This can be as simple as a picture with some labels to a piece of writing with sub-headings and lots of facts. Please send us an email to share anything that your child produces - we love seeing them!
Accelerated Reader
As mentioned last week, we have been placing the children on the Accelerated Reader system this week. This will enable the children to take an Accelerated Reader Quiz (AR Quiz) after they have read a book on MyOn. It is important to note that AR Quizzes test the children's understanding of a text as they do not have access to the text whilst undertaking the quiz. It may be beneficial to the children, therefore, to read the book more than once so that they have very good grasp of the book before taking a quiz.
To take a quiz, hover over the book you have just read, or click on "Info" and then click on "Take AR Quiz."
From here you will be prompted to enter your Accelerated Reader login and password. Don't panic - this is the same as their MyOn login.
Please encourage you child to attempt to read and answer the questions independently as this would mirror how we administer the test at school. Pick a book and give it a try! We will be monitoring MyOn for any potential Star Readers!
Again, any issues please contact us and we will endeavour to sort these as quickly as possible.
Have a wonderful weekend:)
KS1 Team
