Monday 13th November

Hello again. Well done to all the children last week for working so hard. It was also lovely to hear that lots of them had been trying out the various links form last weeks blogspot too! Keep it up - it will all help to develop your learning.

This week we have some important visitors in our school from Ofsted. They are here on Wednesday and Thursday. I'm sure they will have a lovely time and will really enjoy meeting the children and seeing them learn.

The time for the Christmas production fast approaches and we have all made a really good start to learning the songs. Some time this week the Year 4's will receive their parts to begin learning them. Rehearsals start in earnest next week - and don't forget we tend to get a bit excited with it all so don't be surprised if your child comes home with more bits to learn as the weeks progress! Year 3's will be our singers, dancers and extras adn then next year will have the chance to be the main stars!!

As the winter weather seems to have settled in for definite now can I just ask again that all children bring their outdoor P.E. kits with them. Well done to all those who already have brought it to school but we do need everybody to have one so we can take the class outside for a P.E. session. Thank you.

Literacy

We have been really looking forward to this weeks Literacy focus. Those of you with brothers adn sisters in Year 5 or 6 will already know about the inspirational INSET that some of the teachers had from Alan Peat on strategies for improving writing. This week, every day will have a different set of skills and knowledge to help you to write more detailed and interesting sentences.

Can you recognise sentences? Try:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/sentencebasics/whatisasentence/flash3.shtml
We will be working intensively on using adjectives (describing words). Look at these websites to brush up your knowledge:

Can you improve sentences?

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/english/monmouthshire/choose_adj_monmouthshire.html - can you choose adjectives that fit the text?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/interestsentences/adjectives/ - Lots of different and fun activities based around reports and adverts! If you try the football report you can even try to change some black hat adjectives (negative) to yellow hat adjectives (positive).

http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/assets/Flash%20Studio/cfslit/Trad/scenemenu2.html - try putting all your new skills into practice by choosing a story and creating a comic style scene.

We will be exploring words that show the passage of time - how many can you think of or find in your reading books?

Can you show what you have learnt?

http://www.mape.org.uk/startower/menu.html - check out the scribblers link. There are lots of other things on this site to do too!

http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/ - write some story ideas of your own.

For our word level work this week we are learning how to join two words together to make a new word.

http://www.quia.com/mc/87086.html - match the compound words

http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/assets/Flash%20Studio/cfslit/compound%20words/compound%20words.html - more finding the compound word.

Numeracy

The Numeracy groups will be continuing with their own focus this week. Again look for the links below that match your topic. Or you could try some of the other games and see what the other groups are getting up to!

http://www.mathszone.co.uk/ - as usual a great place to start!

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/fracto.html - meet the decifractor! A fractions and decimals activity.

http://www.learningplanet.com/sam/ff/index.asp - equivalent fractions practice

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/fractions/index.htm -fraction games... and lots of them!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/den/snap/index.htm - money snap.


http://www.coolmath4kids.com/ - general maths games

http://www.transum.org/Software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/index.htm - a maths starter for every day of the week!

And don't forget it is still so important that you keep learning your times tables. Check out the links below or from last week for some good games to help you remember them.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html - times tables
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/a_mental/index.htm - keep going on times tables and try giving yourself a maths workout while you are there!

Science

In Science this week we are assessing what you remember about the body topic we have done. It would be a good idea to flick through the previous weeks blogs and revise what we have done.

We will be starting a new topic on Keeping Warm so have a look at the BBC Science Clips link below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/8_9/keeping_warm.shtml - our new topic in Science.

As well as all that we are going to be reviewing the parts of a plant. We may also be looking at how to help plants grow well in the coming weeks so I have included a couple of links so you can get ahead with your learning.

http://www.mystery-productions.info/hyper/Hypermedia_2003/Walia/final_hyper/final_artefact/star_graden/index.html - a great interactive adventure about plants. Can you help?

I hope that you continue to find all of this useful. As you can see we have a very busy time ahead of us.

For links for Art and Music check out last weeks blog - just keep scrolling down.

And finally just for fun check out:

https://jam.bbc.co.uk/Auth/Welcome.aspx?TBReturnUrl=%2fDefault.aspx - another good site from the bbc but you do have to sign up but it is full of great activities. Remember to ask an adult first.

http://www.funbrain.com/