Monday 10th November

Welcome to this week's blog spot. All the children had a great time at the air raid shelters and their behaviour was excellent. Thank you to everyone who came with us and for every one's support helping to pay for the coaches and entrance fee.

There have been letters about Christmas lunch and a trip to a panto in January this week. Please find them in your child's bag or pop into school.

Homework will commence again this week now that we are all in. Numeracy will be set by their Math's teacher again and Mrs Bethell's group and Miss Robinson's group will write down what task they are on in their diaries on Monday.

Please remember all the people who have died for the freedom of our country in every war. We will have a special assembly tomorrow and will remember them especially on Tuesday.

http://homepages.tesco.net/~derek.berger/holidays/remembrance.html

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Remembrance.html

http://www.warrinerprimaries.com/Topic/poppies.htm

The university groups on a Thursday afternoon have all been swapped last week and there is a wide selection of activities going on.

Activities related to Narnia

Outdoor games

Art and Craft

Drama

Gardening

The old gardening group have now gone into Mrs Hemming's group and will need an outdoor kit for the colder weather.

LITERACY

This week in Literacy we are moving on to look at stories with historical settings. The children will become history detectives learning how to look for clues in a story. They will be investigating time, setting and characters. This will be linked to our continuing topic on world war two.

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.

Sentence level work will allow the children to learn about verbs. They will be looking for synonyms for words such as walk, run, sleep, eat etc. We hope this will impact on the words they choose to use in their own writing. Example:Strolled instead of walked etc.

http://www.funbrain.com/verb/index.html - verbs

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=word link - more work on verbs

http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/squanky2/squanky2.html - a great synonyms game

http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/Fun_and_games/nicewords.htm - don't use nice!

NUMERACY

And don't forget it is still so important that you keep learning your times tables. Check out the links below or from last week for some good games to help you remember them.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html - times tables

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/a_mental/index.htm - keep going on times tables and try giving yourself a maths workout while you are there!

In Mrs Harding's group we are going to start a think and solve book for homework. This week it will be task one. Some of the questions may prove a little more difficult until the children get used to the style of questions.

In Numeracy this week we will be starting to learn about fractions.

We will be starting with simple fractions, fractions equalling one whole, equivalent fractions and recognising mixed numbers/improper fractions.

By the end of the week the children:


COULD be able to change a mixed number into an improper fraction and vice versa.
SHOULD be able to recognise equivalent fractions.
MUST know a fraction is part of a whole and recognise common fractions of shapes such as one quarter etc.


To find out more see:


http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/fractions/#Fractions


http://www.mathsnet.net/fractions/

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/

Mrs Bethell's Group
This week we are continuing to learn to tell the time and solve simple time problems. We will also be adding to the nearest mutliple of 10 and adding a unit onto a 2 digit number.

http://www.ictgames.com/funkymum20.html

http://www.ictgames.com/submarinenopad2.html

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

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

http://www.ictgames.com/100huntplus10.html

http://www.ictgames.com/hickory4.html

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

TOPIC


We are going to be linking rationing and the war effort. We will be looking at lots of examples of war posters and how they were used and what for.

The study posters are to encourage people to grow more food, make do and mend, swap clothes etc. The children will be using their own ideas to create a poster to help with the war effort. Some children will be making up a slogan and adding pictures and diagrams.


Design Technology


We are going to find out more information about air raid shelters and all the different types of shelters that were used. The children are going to be designing their own shelters that they will be able to make with available junk materials.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/87/a2045387.shtml


http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/meltingpot/oxford/330/shel/shel2.html

That is all about now for this week. Have a lovely week,

From the 3 and 4 team.

xxx