Well
done to everyone who participated so enthusiastically during Athletics Day – a
big effort and a big day! Thank you also to those Room 4 children and others
who participated in the Family Mass on Sunday during Labour Weekend. You did a
great job.
Clothing
and scooters
I’m
afraid to say that the pile of belongings in the Room 4 corridor is getting a
bit out of control again. If you are missing a jersey, vest, jacket, lunchbox
container, drink bottle, scooter or hoodie, please get your child to check the
pile again and bring home anything that belongs to them. I will round it all up
this week and send home what I can!
Sacramental
Programme
9
am this Sunday, 2nd November, will be the first liturgy session for
those children preparing for First Holy Communion. These will continue each
Sunday until we celebrate this special sacrament on November 23rd.
Homework
It
would be great to get homework routines back in place again. Could all homework
clear files be returned on Thursdays, finished or not. Reading will take the
form of a comprehension task over the next few weeks.
Writing
There
is very definitely a common and continuing theme when it comes to the
childrens’ writing. The children are showing some very good Level 2 National
Standard features in their writing. These include things like consistent use of
past or present tense, sequencing events, using strong and varied vocabulary,
trying language features like onomatopaiea (zoom, crack, whizz!!! etc), and
descriptive writing to reflect their thoughts, ideas, and experiences. They are
also beginning to regularly use exclamation marks, speech marks, and commas
too!
On
the whole I am very impressed with their progress with these aspects. The
common theme however, is the lack of attention to basic editing, especially
capital letters, full stops, and checking spelling. I encourage you to get the
children to read back to you the things they write, so they can see for
themselves how important it is to re-visit their writing to make sure it makes
sense. Even a sentence or a short paragraph will achieve this purpose, as it
gives them ownership of their writing. The reading, writing and spelling
process is all tied in together, and I would like to see the children begin to
take responsibility for re-reading, editing, using a dictionary and reading
their work aloud to share it with an audience.
Snapshot
of a typical piece of writing:
yummy whats for tea pizza babaque chickin I doun’t
now so yummy food
[Translation: Yummy! What’s for tea? Pizza with barbecue
chicken. I don’t know ….. such yummy food!]
The
lack of attention to capital letters, full stops, punctuation and checking
spelling is what would stop this kind of writing going up a level.
Something to think about.
Have
a great week. Regards, Markelle Ward J
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