Monday 22nd January

Hello and so begins another busy week. Well done to everyone for being so organised for our first swimming session last week. The children had a super time and now that they have been assessed and grouped according to swimming ability we know they will continue to develop their skills.

This week will be slightly different for the children as we will be sitting some assessments tests in Reading, Writing and Numeracy. We are aware that the children have only been with us for a little over a term but we are keeping a close eye on the progress they are making. As a result this weeks blog will concentrate on reviewing their learning from previous weeks.

Literacy

http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/auto/18/49.html - how far can you go?

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/clickon/television.htm - how many words can you make? A very popular game with my class!

http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/games/game_dungeon_escape.html?g=des_ds1 - a different way of looking at your spellings! Check out the other activities on here too.

http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html - lots of ideas for choosing interesting words for your writing.

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/jungle/intro.htm - a choose your own adventure story - can you solve it?

http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/gooey.html - a really strange and unusual website for building up various word skills and knowledge. Weird but definitely memorable!!

Numeracy

It's so hard to fit in all the sites we've used this year so far, especially with each Numeracy group doing topics at different times. Scroll through the activity links below and choose the areas you know you want to get better at.

http://www.northwood.org.uk/times%20table%20trivia%20x%205.swf - times tables

http://www.transum.org/Software/Tablesmaster/Tablesmaster.asp - times tables

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Flash%20Studio/cfsmaths/Digitworks/digitmenu.html - work on +, - and x.

http://www.funbrain.com/cracker/index.html - practise your number patterns.

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/time/index.htm - telling the time a problem? Work through these activities and you'll be an expert!

http://www.teachingmoney.co.uk/wb/ClassPresentsUK.html - how are you at spending money?

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

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm#Measure - lots of activities on measuring

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/wordproblems/index.html - have a look at these if you want to get the hang of test style questions.


We will be continuing with our History and Science topics an so here are just a couple more sites to keep you going! (Don't forget to use the last couple of weeks links too).

http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/habitats/ - explore different habitats

http://www.planetarkive.org/games/designAHabitat.html - can you design the right kind of Habitat?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/lab/wheredo/index.htm - where do they live? Can you crack both levels in this habitat quiz?

http://www.sandiegozoo.com/kids/games/index.html - a fun animal site with lots of games.

http://www.horus.ics.org.eg/en/Default_HTML.aspx - another great site full of info on the Ancient Egyptians.

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec670/egypt/TitleScreen.html - an adventure game to solve based in Ancient Egypt.

http://www.diduknow.info/nilefile/ - explore the super Nile file from the World Museum in Liverpool.

Lots of interactive sites to keep you busy. Hope you enjoy!

Take care and have a happy week!

Year 3/4 team