Monday 9th June

Hi and welcome back. I hope that you have all had a fantastic holiday and enjoyed the sunshine! During the next two weeks the Year 3 children will be continuing their preparation for Holy Communion.


Well done to the Year 3 and 4 children for trying so hard in their tests in the last week. There are just a couple of tests that need 'mopping up' this week as there were a few children who went on holiday during test week. We still have our Numeracy exams to do this week so see below for lots of different sites to use to revise from.


Next week - week starting the 16th of June is very busy for the Year three who will walk up to church on Wednesday for their away day and Friday morning to practise in church for their Holy Communion.


We would like lots of people to walk up too for the two trips up to church. We are also going swimming on Thursday at 9.30am and 10.00am.



LITERACY

Our focus for Literacy this week is POETRY. The children will be looking at a range of poems and learning how poets use humour, rhyming patterns, figurative language, metaphors and onomatopoeia to create effects for the reader to enjoy. They will then use this learning to create poems of their own. If you fancy reading poetry or writing poems of your own check out:


http://www.poetry4kids.com/index.phphttp:


www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/index2.htm



http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/html/fiction/narrative/index.htm


http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/index.htm



NUMERACY

As all already mentioned these are lots of sites you can revise for because we have Numeracy exams this week. Don't forget the tables too!



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

http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/Curriculum/Numeracy.htm#Data%20Handling

http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/Curriculum/Numeracy.htm#Fractions,%20Decimals%20and%20Percentages

http://www.kidsnumbers.com/multiplication_timed.php

MUSIC AND KEYBOARD SKILLS

The Year Three will continue their key board skills and all the children will be doing a lot of music over the next few weeks. We will also be practising the songs for the Holy Communion Mass. To find out more see:

http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/javapiano/javapiano.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/4_11/music/mm/index.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/keystage_2/activities/music1.shtml

SCIENCE

In Science we will continue exploring sound as our practical topic, as well as extending our skills as geologists, looking at rocks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/rocks/ - super site to learn more out about rocks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/changing_sounds.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/science/physical/15_act.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/digger/7_9entry/7_9.shtml - check out the Numeracy and Science bits on here.

Don't forget your P.E. kits, sun hats and suntan lotion - we're hoping the great weather continues and wouldn't want anybody suffering with sunburn. We all need to get practising for Sport's day and we all hope that the weather will hold so we can enjoy this event again this year.

That is all about now for this week. We hope that Miss Robinson will be back this week if she is feeling better.