Monday 5th November

Welcome to our second week of the Blog spot. We would really appreciate any help in promoting the Blog spot to other children and parents in Year Three and Four. Please tell a friend so that they remember to use it every week. Thank you.


The children brought home a letter about firework safety on Friday so please make sure they read it and stick to the rules for a happy and safe Guy Fawkes night.

Learn all about the Gunpowder Plot. Can you stop Guy Fawkes blowing up the House of Parliament?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/launch_gms_gunpowder_plot.shtml

Homework starts again this week. The children should bring home:

Spellings
Homework book to write sentences in.
Numeracy homework sheet/booklet.

Please hand in on a Thursday as normal. Thank you.

The children whatever their reading capabilities should be reading every day so that their reading age goes up in January when we assess them.


LITERACY


This week in Literacy we are to continue exploring SETTINGS. The emphasis is on the importance of detailed descriptions that would help a reader see a picture in their minds. The children will be thinking as a reader and as a writer during the week. Please take the time to look back through the story links from last week.


http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/storybook/# - a great site with stories and activities.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/activities/planning.shtml - how to plan a story.




http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/writingfun/writingfun.html - how to plan a story and lots of helpful examples.


To help us with our descriptive writing we will be focussing on adjectives this week for our sentence level work, and learning how to write complex sentences using commas as well as full stops. Don't be surprised if your children come out with some silly sentences - it's all part of their learning how to use language and have fun with it. The links below will help:



http://www.learnatglobal.com/assets/applets/grammar.swf - fantastic site - adjectives explained!!!



http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/english/caerphilly/adjectives/ - all about adjectives.



http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/literacy/wordclasses/adjectives.asp - become an adjective detective...


http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/games/silly_sentence.html - make some silly sentences at home too.



http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/english/bridgend/verbs_nouns_adjectives.swf - can you sort your verbs from your adjectives and nouns?



http://www.kwarp.com/animations/grammarninja.html - can you become the ultimate Grammar Ninja? This is tricky stuff so only try it when you are sure you know the difference between verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/activities/adjectives_adverbs.shtml - review your learning.


NUMERACY


Knowing your times tables as soon as possible is crucial. Your tables facts come into so many different bits of Maths - we found out that you need to know your 5 times table to work out TIME!!! Get learning....
The Ghost Game was such a success with my Maths Group this week that it's here again. Beware - it's tricky!!!

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Ghostblasters1/gbcd.html - can you hit the right ghosts? Remember a multiple is just the times table you want to practice.

Miss Robinson's Group are continuing to investigate time this week moving onto the connection between reading analogue and digital time. Please check out the links from last week to continue your learning. Also check out the MEASURING section on:

http://www.mathszone.co.uk/

You will also find it useful to check out Mrs Bethell's links this week as she is working on times table facts.

In Mrs Harding’s group this week we will be continuing with subtraction and learning about different units of measure.
Homework will be slightly different this week as we are starting to use Think and solve books task one. You may find there are a few questions that the children might not be able to do at first so please leave them empty in their books and we will go over any problems on Fridays when we mark it.

http://www.funbrain.com/measure/index.html

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

/measures/index.htm

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/powerpoint/MeasuringLength_



cm_m.ppt

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



measuring_nearesthalfcm_mm.ppt

By the end of the week the children:

Could be able to measure accurately using mm and cm.

Should be able to draw lines to the nearest cm and mm.

Must be able to identify a relevant unit for measuring something.

This week Mrs Bethell's group will continue making sure we can work out our pairs to 100 quickly in our heads by remembering the rule :
MAKE THE TENS MAKE 90 AND THE UNITS MAKE 10 .
We will be playing pairs to 100 games and bingo. Remember to use the website for pairs to 100

www.amblesideprimary.com/amblweb/mentalmaths/numberbond.html

We will also be learning our times tables - reviewing the 2's 5's and 10's and learning the 3's and 4's. We will be using the terms multiples and factors.
Multiples are the numbers made when you say the times tables eg 3,6,9,12,15 , 18 are all multiples of 3
Factors are the numbers that can be multiplied together to form a larger number
eg 3 and 10, 5 and 6, 2 and 15, are all factors of 30

2, 3,4, times tables etc

www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/2xhtml
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch/uk/maths/timestable/3xhtml
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/4xhtml

fishy2's -2x table
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/fish2'shtml

2's and 5's connect the dots
www.tvokids.com/framesets/play.html?game=51&

using all tables
www.dostiey.com/addsub/mystery/M.htm

www.osmego.org/oscd-web/games/sumsense/summulti.htm

www.mathsisfun.com/timetables.html

SCIENCE

All classes in Three and Four will be learning about evaporation this week. They will be doing different experiments to understand what it is and to help them remember and understand the concept. These include using a hair dryer and thinking about puddles and washing on a line.

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/science/powerpoint/SMC_Evaporation.ppt

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hyd/evap.rxml

By the end of the week the children:

COULD know what evaporation and condensation means.
SHOULD know the different examples of when evaporation occurs in the environment.
MUST be able to tell you what evaporation is.

SPANISH

Some of the classes are learning the colours and learning to sing a song about them. To practise more see below.

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

Have a safe and happy week.

Take care.

The Year 3/4 Team

xxx