Tuesday 5th May

Welcome to this week's blog spot. Thank you to every one who attended the Holy Communion meeting last Wednesday night. There are still sheets available for those who could not make it.


Congratulations to Mrs Joanne Morgan and Anthony Morgan on the birth of their son. James David born last Thursday at 10.50am weighing 8lb 14 ozs. Well done and congratulations. We are all looking forward to meeting him.


ROSARY

Any body wanting to attend the rosary in the hall you are very welcome. This starts every day at 8.30am.

HOMEWORK

The only homework that we will be sending out this week is WEEK TWO of the project homework. We have managed to look at some of the children's inventions but will continue on Tuesday. The children came up with brilliant ideas for their time machines.


WEEK TWO -Where are you going to?

Choose a place to go in your time machine. I might go back to the time of the dinosaurs.....Miss Robinson might go back to World War two.....Mrs Bethell might like Ancient Egypt.....India......

Write about what happens when you get into your time machine.

What is the journey like?

How do you feel travelling through time?

Does it make your head spin?

Does your tummy feel strange?


PLEASE KEEP READING AT HOME AS WE TEST READING LEVELS THIS MONTH.

PAN ART PROJECT

Literacy this week is linked to the PAN ART PROJECT we are involved in. The children will be working on all things magical, writing their own spells and potions and designing their own magical creatures for a very special BOOK OF MAGIC. Alongside this the children will also be looking at the story of Robin Hood and creating some artwork to go with this. Explore the links below to find out more about these:

Magical Stories

http://www.magickeys.com/books/gargoyle/index.html

http://www.magickeys.com/books/lk/index.html

Magical Creatures

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0211580/profiles.htm - everything you need to know about all things magical!

http://www.kidsdomain.com/kids/wizard/creatures.html

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13378353/Drawing-Magical-Creatures - you can learn how to draw magical creatures if you download the document from this site!

Robin Hood

http://www.bbc.co.uk/robinhood/ - try the GAMES section

http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/RobinhoodstoryY5.htm - sit back, relax and listen to the story of Robin Hood.

http://boldoutlaw.com/robbeg/

To keep enjoying your art skills you really should also check out:

http://www.show.me.uk/topicpage/teachers/tArt-and-Design.html - it even shows you how to improve your figures and faces, as well as giving you the chance to draw your own imaginary worlds.

NUMERACY

We are all still very busy working our way through our Tables Awards so here are some more games to keep you going:

http://www.coolmath-games.com/Timernator/Timernator-multiplication.html

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

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/testtest.html - even more - you'll all be experts if you work your way through this lot!

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/division.htm - now you've got your times tables sorted can you work out the divisions

During this short week in Mrs Harding's group we will be learning about problem word questions and inverse operations in questions. We are still learning any topics that we have been getting wrong in the exams and also topics that we have not covered yet in the curriculum.
To find out more please see:


http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/wordproblems/


http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/activities/problemsolving.shtml

In Miss Robinson's group we are going to be busy looking at WEIGHT and CAPACITY this week as well as continuing to work hard on developing our mental maths skills. Can I remind you to use the REVISION MATS and the test papers that have gone home to work on your Targets too. The first link below is to MATHSZONE and this week the children found how useful it is for covering and practising lots of different topics.

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

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/weigh/index.htm - weight

http://www.ictgames.com/weight.html - reading scales

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

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

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/measures/index.htm - try the Reading Mass and Reading Volume and Capacity sections to review your skills.

Mrs Bethell's Numeracy
This week we will be working on Addition and Subtraction word problems, Missing number problems and a short review of telling the time. We will also be working on learning the 4x table - which is this week's homework.

http://www.ictgames.com/spitfireufo.html
http://www.ictgames.com/football2.html
http://www.ictgames.com/targettakeaway.html
http://www.ictgames.com/change_eXchanger_v2.html
http://www.mathplayground.com/MathHoops_Z1.html
http://www.thinkingblocks.com/TB_AS/tb_as1.html
http://schooltimegames.com/Mathematics/MP_Seesaw.html
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/wordproblems/y3math.html
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/wordproblems/y3mathb.html
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/wordproblems/y4matha.html

That is all about now for this week.

Have a good week.

Best wishes
The 3 and 4 team.