Dahl (Year 5 & Year 6)
Welcome to Dahl Class
Dahl Class
Class Teacher: Mrs Walker
Topic Learning: Mr Thomas, Mrs Hay, Mrs Howard & Mrs Fitzsimmons
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Hornsey
Class email: dahl@st-johns-warminster.wilts.sch.uk
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Homework
Homework will be given to the children every Friday to be returned the following Wednesday.
Reading at Home
Your child needs to read at home every day. They will need to record their own reading each time. Please sign each read in their Reading Journal and on their special reading bookmark so that they can be in with the chance of this term's reward.
Term 4
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Term 4 Mornings in Dahl Class:
In Dahl Class, we start the day by preparing our learning resources, completing any responses to marking or reading independently.
8:45 - 9:00 Worship
9.00 - 10.00 Writing
We follow the Jane Considine 'The Write Stuff' planning units. This term, we are continuing to write a story based on the book The Nowhere Emporium by Ross Mackenzie and a non-chronological report.
10:00 - 10:20 Reading - Bug Club
Guided Reading. This term, we will be reading a variety of texts. In these sessions, we discuss the text in detail to expand our vocabulary, answer retrieval (‘right there’) questions, followed by inference (thinking about what we have read) questions. These involve being clue detectives to read between the lines for a deeper understanding of what the author is trying to tell us. It is really important that we can give evidence from the text to support our ideas.
10:35 - 11:00 Spelling / Grammar
11:00 - 12:00 Maths
This term, we are developing our understanding of multiplication, division, fractions, decimals and percentages.
Have a look on here for some fun activities to do at home:
Click on Primary Pupils, then click on Topics (top right of screen). This will then take you to a list of topics to select from. When you click on a topic, there is a number of activities to choose from, including the suggested age range the activity is aimed at. Have fun!
Handwriting
All letters must be of the correct size and positioned accurately. Joins must be clear. Remember, people who don’t know your handwriting style, must be able to read it easily.
Term 4 Afternoons in Dahl Class with Mr Thomas, Mrs Hay, Mrs Howard & Mrs Fitzsimmons:
Afternoons in Dahl class is when all of our topic work takes place.
For example, this term we will been learning about Population in Geography, investigating separating mixtures and materials in Science and developing our landscape painting skills in Art. See our Parent Planner for more information.