Monday 22nd June

Welcome to this week's blog spot.

What a wonderful day we had! The Year Three had a lovely day on Saturday at their Holy Communion and were very well behaved especially when waiting for their photographs to be taken. All the children looked fantastic and did great with their readings. We all hope that you enjoyed the rest of the day with your families.

Please remember that St Joseph's children's Mass starts at 10.30 every Sunday. We must say a big thank you to all the people who walked up to church and all the help from all the people both at school and parents who do jobs too. Thank you to the Year Four parent who came in to set up the hall on Friday afternoon as it looked beautiful.

THERE WILL BE NO SWIMMING THIS WEEK AS SANKEY FORUM HAVE HAD A POWER FAILURE FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS. THEY HAVE CONTACTED SCHOOL TO CANCEL OUR SWIMMING LESSONS.

Homework

Spellings

Numeracy task

Time machine homework

Week Six - You have an adventure.......You are asked to help with an important task. What adventure are you going to have? For example you might be asked to go and rescue a trapped baby dinosaur. Write the story of your adventure. Remember to include a beginning, middle and an end. Don't forget the wow words and the 2A sentences please.

Sport's Day

This coming week we hope to get busy with our preparations for Sport's day on July 1st.

We are going to put the children into three teams and these teams will compete against each other and will be made up of all the age ranges in Key Stage Two. The organisation is going to change dramatically. There will be twelve events in a circle on the field and every child will be able to have a go at all of them. The children will have about five minutes on each event then move onto the next with part of their team. Each of the teams: YELLOW team, RED team and BLUE team can wear a tee shirt of that colour. There will be a letter sent out shortly with more details on.



Red team will comprise of Mrs H’s Y3 / Miss R’s Y4 / Miss W’s Y5 / Mr T’s Y6
Blue Team will comprise of Mrs B’s Y3 / Mrs H’s Y4 / Mr S’s Y5 / Miss W’s Y6
Yellow Team will comprise of Miss R’s Y3 / Mrs B’s Y4 / Mr T’s Y5 / Mr S’s Y6


The children absolutely love Sport's day and we hope that it will go ahead again this year, (weather permitting as usual)!


Please make sure that you child has the correct size pumps and provide them with a white tee shirt and school blue shorts. Also sending in suntan lotion, named water bottles and a hat is a good idea too as, fingers crossed, I am sure we are going to be blessed with some more sunshine!


Best Work

The children will be choosing some special work from their books that will be put into a best work book and brought home at the end of the year so that you can see the standard of work that they are completing at the end of this academic year. The children always love looking through all their books to find suitable pieces and are always amazed at how much they have come on throughout the year.

LITERACY

This week we will continue studying stories that contain a dilemma and raise issues - such as bullying and injustice. Children will write critically about the issue in the story and explain the problem and will also write alternative solutions to the problem. We will also continue to explore other punctuation marks such as dashes and hyphens.

http://dimdima.com/khazana/complete_story/completed_stories.asp?q_sid=70&q_title=Tina's+Dilemma

http://uk.mg41.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.gx=0&.rand=7vs0rd04p2ks4

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/storymaker/storymaker.htm

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/year4/limerick.htm

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/kidpages/sentence.htm

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/english.htm- follow Literacy - Sentence level - Advanced punctuation - dashes/hyphens powerpoint

NUMERACY

In Mrs Harding's group we will be reviewing work.We will be having a look at the four rules again which is a topic that we have to keep reviewing to make us even better at our Maths!
By the end of the week the children:
COULD be able to answer problem questions to do with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
SHOULD be able to decide what method to use to solve problems.
MUST be able to do all four operations with ninety percent accuracy.
To get some extra help please see:

http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/maths/ks1-2/resources/units/documents/word_probs/yr4-5_word_probs.ppt#258,3,Year 4 / 5

http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/maths/ks1-2/resources/units/documents/word_probs/yr5_word_probs.ppt

http://www.channel4learning.net/sites/puzzlemaths/md_machine_game.shtml

http://www.freewebtown.com/weddell/mw/short_multiplication/3x1contents.swf

In Miss Robinson's group this week we are going to be learning about NEGATIVE NUMBERS, and also continuing our progress in understanding fractions by investigating DECIMALS. We must also keep learning our TIMES TABLES. We have realised over the last few weeks how much of the maths we do relies on having our times tables facts at our finger tips.

http://www.ictgames.com/LIFEGUARDS.html - place value. Can you save everybody?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/whatarenumbers/negativenumbers/flash1.shtml - negative numbers

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/negativenumbers/index.html - negative numbers

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/placevaluepirates.htm - place value with decimals.

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/fracto.html - challenge the Decifractator!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/laddergame.html - ordering decimals and negative numbers

Mrs Bethell's Maths
This week we will be reviewing fractions and equivalent fractions as well as consolidationg our addition and subtraction skills. We will be reviewing how to add tens and units in our heads, and in written format in columns.

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/851/Hitthebuttonv7.swf
http://www.ictgames.com/funkymum20.html

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

http://nwlg.org/pages/resources/ma_num/swf/para002c.html

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/fractions/level2.htm
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_105_g_3_t_1.html

D+T

Miss Robinson's class and Mrs Harding's class are getting very busy with their boxed environments which has been linked to our habitats Science topic. The children have chosen a habitat to make. They are going to design it and write and draw a detailed plan of what they are going to do. They need to collect a box ready for the afternoon when we make them this week or next week.

Have a great week everyone.

The three and four team.
xxx