Monday 28th April

Wow! How fast the month of April is going!! Hopefully it won't be too long before the weather starts to get better. We will start to take the children out for PE so make sure that they have pumps or trainers in their kits. It may be an idea to put named sun tan lotion in their bags so that the children can put it on if the weather starts to really get sunny in the coming weeks. I live in hope that that this will be the case!!!

Thank you to all the parents who attended the Holy Communion Meeting last week and of course every one who came to the presentation Mass the other Sunday. It was really amazing to see how many of the children who are going to make their communion this June.

The Year Three children started keyboard skills this week with Dawsons. We have about seventeen keyboards in school and we had two groups of twenty children learning to play different scales and rhythms. The Year three had a lovely time and their behaviour was excellent. The lessons are going to go on for a further nine weeks and at the end there has even been a mention that there could be a little assembly to show you their skills that the children has acquired in the previous weeks.
The following site is for a piano key board. Please copy it into your task bar if the link does not take you to a piano on Primary resources.

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/music/piano.html

Please remember that we go swimming on a Thursday. We need some parents to accompany us on a Thursday morning at 9.30 and 10.00am. Any help would be great even if it is not every week. There were ten children out of ninety who did not have their kits this week. Please remember to send us a little note to excuse them from swimming. Thank you.

Homework will be a little different from time to time from now on and it centres around talking instead of writing. We intend to do this homework every few weeks. It has been proved that talking can actually improve a child's writing skills!! This week's homework will be about famous people and we would like you to simply talk with your child about this subject. Please could you make a note in their diary or homework book or they will get a sad face because we have no proof of their homework Thank you. The children will get their spellings and Numeracy as normal but don't expect them to complete their sentences /stories while we are doing this other talk homework. If any confusion evolves please do not hesitate to drop in and see one of the team.



LITERACY
We will be carrying on with myths and be starting to do lots of new things. We are going to be starting a BIG WRITE this week and the children will receive an intensive lesson on a writing topic then have a break then do 35 minutes of silent writing. We will be doing this most weeks and hopefully it will really improve the children's writing.

By the end of the week the children:

COULD be able to tell you the characteristics of a myth.

COULD be able to use homophones in different contexts in a sentence.

SHOULD be able to retell a myth.

MUST know that there are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and mean different things.


http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/quizes/spell1.htm


http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/quizes/spell2.htm


http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/quizes/confusewords1.htm

http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/theatre.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/myths_mymyth.htm


NUMERACY

Mrs Bethell's and Mr Slavin's groups will be doing rounding 3 digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100, and solving real life problems including money problems.

By the end of the week the children:

MUST be able to round a 3 digit number to the nearest 100.
SHOULD be able to round a 3 digit number to the nearest 10 and 1000.

COULD answer a variety of rounding problems in different layouts.

MUST be able to record money correctly using £ and p.
SHOULD be able to solve simple word problems including money.
COULD work out change from £1 £2 and £5.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=MMATCH

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=Quiz-Times-Tables

http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/welcome.html

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/maths/files/roundingws2.pdf

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/powerpoint/Rounding_Numbers.ppt
Please remember to copy this site to directly into your task bar unless it may not take you to the right place.

Mrs Harding's group will be concentrating of reflective symmetry and rotational symmetry.By the end of the week the children:

COULD rotate and reflect shapes.
SHOULD be to say the order of symmetry for a selection of shapes.
MUST be able to recognise a line of symmetry. MUST know decimal, fraction and percentage equivalences off by heart.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=MatchingPairs3Dshape

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=vpinboard4#Scene_1

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/maths/greg_morgan_symmetry/index.htm

http://www.numeracysoftware.com/line%20symmetry.pps

SCIENCE

In Science this week we will be starting to look at pollution and global warming. This is part of our wider topic of the world. We have already looked at habitats and animals as well as different habitats around the world.

By the end of the week the children:

COULD know what global warming means.
SHOULD be able to list some of the things that we do to help stop global warming.
MUST know what causes global warming.
http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html

http://tiki.oneworld.net/

http://globalwarmingkids.net/


That's all about all for now. Have a great week from the 3 and 4 team.