Delphinus - Reflect and Review

Dear Delphinus Delights! 

Another amazing week in class despite the few changes and different friendly faces to teach us whilst Molly is on her training week! 

In Maths this week we rounded off our fractions topic, looked at ordinal numbers and finished the week off by looking at Milos' money! Finding out that sharing into 2 unequal parts does not mean ‘half’ was a tricky concept. We will tackle this again next week!

Maths homework is week 14 and is due on Monday along with our physical activity sheets if you are partaking in that! We still have some stickers left for some maths homework books, that show what each week’s practice should be. If your child DOES NOT have a Summer Term sticker in the front of their book, please can you hand it in personally to Molly on Monday so we can make sure that is rectified – thank you!

This week in Curious Quest we looked at the book My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes 

By Eve Sutton and Lynley Dodd. The funny illustrations and predictable rhythm kept the class engaged and encouraged lots of participation and discussion.

The vocabulary they looked at this week included the words: CONCEALED, PEERING, JIVING, SOARING, UNDER THE WEATHER, INTELLIGENT, DROWSY!

They had fun pairing the words with actions; this really helps them to remember the vocabulary and gives them a chance to be silly!

We read, watched and talked through a version of the book which you can all access too : https://www.youtube.com/watchv=nKKWuFfYeYQ 

In their quest this week The Faithful Friends came across the The Hovering Helicopter and the children revelled in writing all about A Baddy Cat! Ask them about their potions to make the poorly cat from Brazil better!

Our phonics videos this week are linked below if you want to have a quick recap of the ones we did : 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/ZOhBB5Yv/pN9G0Ejb

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/6XjggfOc/jp3DAtVD

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/pWjeYRui/G5opRrqD

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/hWqOw6rJ/3UDNAyPc

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/n5aBlAb5/cxp9k1oO

In the wider curriculum this week we explored our science topic! 

We looked at environments and minibeasts, pets and how we look after them and even invented our own pets out of junk modelling materials! 

Although we thoroughly enjoyed all of this, it was absolutely heartbreaking to announce to the children that the Zoo lab unfortunately had to cancel at the last minute due to sickness, however we have been able to rearrange to the 26th June!

I know how excited the children were for this (and the teachers) so we are very sorry for the inconvenience but sickness can't be helped. On the bright side, we created our OWN Zoolab with imaginary exotic animals! We also used our small world and construction equipment to build a massive zoo, across the whole classroom! We thought about which animals might want to be housed together, and which ones needed to be apart!

We are practising cricket skills in PE on Fridays and have Netball taught by the Sports Coach on Mondays. Please make sure your child comes in PE kit on those days, especially as the weather is getting warmer and the children are getting sweatier!

Lost Property! We had a huge amount of un-named hoodies and sweatshirts in our box outside the classroom door. These have now gone to the box at the front of school – do have a good rummage if your child is missing something!

HSA Spring Sprint Update

The distances are being counted each week, don’t forget to bring in your child’s form – Pegasus made it to Barrow in Furness and Aquila got to the Isle of Arran! Next week is national Walk to School week and there are a few exciting events happening. Look on the community news section of the Greenhouse app for more details.

Tuesday 19^th May- Fun Run Club- Meet at 3.10- 4pm. Children must have an adult with them.

Thursday 21^st May- Big Group Walk to School. Children must have an adult with them.

Next week:

Next week in Curious Quest we are looking at the book The Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle. Our maths will be going over all the parts we found tricky this term, consolidating fractions and position. We will also be delving into our RE curriculum next week and the focus is Sanatana Dharma. 

Outdoor Learning is with our Lovely Lucy on Thursday next week! Please make sure your child either comes in Outdoor Learning kit, or brings it in with them to change into. 

Dates for the diary : 

16th May - Spring Sprint - Family Walk/Run. Meet 9:45 at Oatlands Park Car Park. See poster on School News tab for details. Parents are responsible for their children.

HSA Quiz Night 16th May please see HSA communications

MUFTI DAY and End of Term 22nd May - school ends at 3:10pm 

NEW - June 3rd – trip to Didcot Railway Centre – please see the message from Wednesday 13th May from all the information you need!

We hope you have all had a lovely week and that the sun shines for us all this weekend ready for the last week of term!