Monday 30th April

Hello and welcome back to all our Year 4's. What a fantastic time we all had at Kingswood last week - I hope you've all caught up on your sleep ready for this week! The children had a wonderful time, participating fully in all the exciting activities and behaviour was exemplary!!! A big thank you to Mrs Bethell, Mr McGreal and Mrs Clancy for giving up their time to come with us all. We will be arranging a date and time for the children to do a presentation for their parents to give you a small taster of what they did. Details will follow shortly.

Well done to the Year 3's for being so sensible while the Year 4's were away - I've heard that you all worked hard and had a good time without us!

Anyway onto this weeks news now.

International School Award - Our school has been awarded an International Schools Award by the British Council and the Department for Education and Skills. This has been awarded to us because of all the work we have been doing in languages and across the curriculum. They were really pleased with how we have linked with our partner school in Malaga and are looking forward to when we can work with all the teachers and pupils.

There is a Holy Communion Meeting this week on Tuesday at 6 o' clock in the hall at school.
It is an important meeting that will answer many of your questions about the day and the actual sacrament itself.

Please ensure that your child has their complete indoor and outdoor P.E. kit in school - we will be taking advantage of the weather to do P.E. outside as much as possible.

LITERACY

In Literacy this week we will be finishing our work on explanation texts and moving onto explore diary writing. Check out the sites below to brush up your skills. We are currently reviewing and extending our knowledge of punctuation too.

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/writingfun/writingfun.html - a guide to many of the different genres of writing we have covered. Make sure you check out the explanation and diary (recount) writing sections.

http://www.athena.bham.org.uk/diary.htm - what does a diary need? A useful list of features.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/diary/index.htm - check out the Steps to see an example of a diary and how to write your own.

Do you understand speech marks? Can you help tell the story of Odysseus and the Cyclops?
http://www.mystery-productions.info/hyper/Hypermedia_2001/Edd_Hartley/Artefact/index.htm

http://www.mape.org.uk/startower/menu.html - a great site with a mixture of activities to try. Have a go at WORD DROP and STAR PUNC.

http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/lowerjuniorspelling.htm - swot up your spelling patterns and rules.

NUMERACY

Keep on with your tables and your mental maths. Use the sites below to keep improving your skills:

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/a_mental/index.htm

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/mentalmachine2.html

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/buttons.html

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/testtest.html - multiplication

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/dividermachine.html - division

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/additiontest.html - addition

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/subtractiontest.html - subtraction

In Miss Robinson's group we will be moving on from length to other measurements, including weight and capacity. We will be learning what each is measured in and will work on reading scales too. As well as this we will be using our mental starter to review what we have learnt so far. Have a go at all the links below:

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm#Measure - games to practise your measuring skills

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm#Weight - games to learn about weight

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm#ReadingScales - can you read the scales accurately?

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/liquidvolume/liquidvolume.html - capacity

http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/games/game15.htm - capacity

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/ - review your learning so far this year with the games in each of the sections. Can you remember how to use data? How much do you remember about number work? What about shapes, angles or measures?

In Numeracy this week Mrs Harding's group will be concentrating on decimals and how to add/subtract and multiply them. We will also be learning/revising how to multiply and divide decimals by 10, 100 and 1000. We will also be making sure we can find fractions of numbers.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/multiplying-decimals.html


http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=198&engine=


http://www.mcwdn.org/Decimals/AddDecimals.html


http://www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/switch.html


http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/powerpoint/fractions_lesson5.ppt

HISTORY

In History on the topic of the Romans we will be starting to look at the invasion and the Roman army and its soldiers. To find out more please look on:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/romans/army.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/romans/

http://www.kidinfo.com/World_History/AncientRome.html

http://www.links4kids.co.uk/romans.htm

http://www.salariya.com/web_books/gladiator/index.html - you wouldn't want to be a gladiator!

http://www.show.me.uk/topicpage/Romans.html

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Romans.html - lots of basic facts to read.

SPANISH

We have been learning about Spanish numbers. An excellent resource for this can be found at:

http://www.jvlnet.com/~liliana/Spanish_Numbers.html


http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/mfl/powerpoint/spanish_numbers_1-20.ppt


We may also be learning the Spanish names for colours.

http://www.quia.com/mc/280547.html


http://www.klbschool.org.uk/interactive/spanish/color.htm

This is a good site that offers lots of words to learn.

http://members.aol.com/alvareze/spanish/frame.html

That should be plenty to keep you going.

Take care and have a good week.

The Year 3/4 team

xxx