Monday 29th June

Welcome to this week's blog spot. The weeks are flying by and the children are still working hard.


SPORT'S DAY

Please remember that we have our Sport's day on Wednesday and we have been having a practice too last week. We are organising it differently this year and your child should have given you a letter with details of the new arrangements.

The children have been put 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 lots of seats available for adults to sit 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 6

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 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!


This will be the final week for the homework as things are getting really busy.

The children should have spellings, numeracy task. reading and also the time machine homework. It is the last activity on the time machine homework sheet.


HOMEWORK – WEEK SEVEN

Write the story of the last few days ....how do you feel...do you feel excited or sad? What souvenirs are you going to take back? Why do you have to leave the place? What happens when you get back into the time machine? Do you get home safely? Do you go onto have another adventure at a different place?


ZOO TRIP

The children should have come home last week about the trip to Chester zoo on July 9th.
The cost of the trip will be £15 which includes entrance to the zoo and also the cost of the coach. We will be only leaving the zoo at 3pm on this day so please be aware of this. We expect to get back to school at 3.45pm approximately.

LITERACY

In Literacy this week we will be reviewing how to uplevel and improve our sentences, especially using the different punctuation we have been investigating over the last couple of weeks. We will also be looking back at our Big Writes adn thinking of some targets that the children would like to set themselves as they begin to think of moving up into their next Year.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm#grammar

NUMERACY

Mrs Harding's group will continue with the four rules and be reviewing fractions of quantities and cancelling down fractions and equivalent fractions.

We are reviewing lots of level four concepts as well as concepts that the children struggled with in the recent exams.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/fractions/index.htm

http://www.freewebs.com/weddell/Equiv%20Fractions%20Contents.html

http://www.freewebtown.com/weddell/mw/decimals/fraction%20of%20amount.swf

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/fractions/index.htm

With last week being so busy Miss Robinson's group did not get onto working with DECIMALS. So that will be this week's focus. Please use the links below to have a go:

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=Money_Box20Pound - making the link with money.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=white_elephant - go shopping

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=MMATCH - working out change - you decide the challenge!

http://nwlg.org/pages/resources/ma_num/swf/make1.html - can you find the decimals that add to make 1?

Mrs Bethell's Numeracy
This week we are focusing on addition and subtraction and aiming to complete sums mentally at a fast pace using the methods we have learnt - looking for pairs of numbers that make 10, doubles etc. We will also be reviewing column addition and subtraction and completing word problems.

http://weddell.sqweebs.com/mental/make%201000.swf

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/850/calcbalancev3.swf

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/851/Hitthebuttonv7.swf

http://www.hellam.net/maths2000/thinkno2.html

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games.html

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

That is all about now.

Have a good week with the gorgeous weather in store for us all.

The Year 3/4 Team

xxx