Monday 19th November

Welcome to this week's blog spot! This week we will be getting very busy with the lower Juniors Christmas play. You should receive a letter about what your child has to wear. It is a tradition that most speaking parts go to the Year Four children and the Year Three do a lot of the dancing and non speaking parts. If your child does have quite a few lines to learn the class teacher may decide that their usual homework may be too much for them. Therefore, some children will not have to do their homework while they are learning lines for our play. The children always enjoy learning the songs and preparing for their performance and we look forward to seeing the final result in December.

Thank you to every one who started the traffic light signs after their numeracy homework. All children had two stickers put in their books and wrote a little note for extra guidance. If you are still confused please drop in and see one of the teachers.


RED - I found this hard.
YELLOW - I understand how to do this.
GREEN - I thought this was easy.

Other symbols that are used when the teachers mark are:

T which stands for TARGET.
This may give your child something to learn or a little guidance that will help them next time in their work.


Sp means there is a spelling error and the correct spelling is usually written next to it.

R stands for underline the date and title.

As the weather gets much colder can we please ask you to send your child with a coat. It is really important for them to get fresh air and have some exercise. Last week there were a few children without coats and it was minus 2!! Thanking you!

Don't forget the photographer is in on Tuesday morning.

On Friday this week Father Richard is coming in to talk to the children regarding our last topic in RE - signs and symbols, he will talk about what signs and symbols are important to us in the Catholic Faith and in the celebration of the Mass.

Literacy

In Literacy this week when get the chance we will be concentrating on learning how to join sentences together using different types of connectives, as always we are always trying to get the children to use adjectives in their writing too. By the end of the week the children will be given the start of a story and asked to write the end of it.

By the end of the week the children:

Must be able to use a connective to join two parts of a sentence.

Should be able to use adjectives and connectives to write sentences to form a story.

Could be able to write the end of a story using adjectives, adverbs, some speech and connectives.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/onlinestory.htm

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/text.htm#2

http://www.sln.org.uk/english/KS3,%204,%205%20pages/KS3,%204,%205%20Docs/Writing%20mats/Connectives%20mat%202.doc

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/activities/lang_structure.shtml

Anti bullying week

This week we will be doing all sorts of activities linked to anti bullying week. This is a national event and the whole school will be doing work around this topic. Please don't be surprised if your child comes home and talks about some of the issues and conversations they have had. We will be doing lots of circle time and listening to different stories about children. The children will also have it reinforced about what to do if they are being bullied. To learn more about the topic click below.


http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/downloads/pdf/aba07bictop10.pdf


http://www.need2know.co.uk/beatbullying/


Tables tests


Most Year Groups in the Juniors have started to do a tables challenge. They have to try to complete a 100 timetables in a set amount of time. The younger the child the more time they have.
100 correct will get a gold certificate.

90 - 99 silver.

80 - 89 bronze.


Mrs Harding's Maths group tried the test for the first time and quite a few children got certificates including one gold! Look out for the names in the newsletter. Once the children get a gold award they are tested again but the time allowed goes down. It is great fun and the children are really keen to beat themselves next week by doing even better.

Keep using the links from previous weeks to practise your tables. Which one is your favourite?

Numeracy

This week Mrs Harding's maths group with continue working on area and perimeter. It is important that they know the difference between them both.

Area is calculating the space inside a shape and perimeter is the outside of a shape. also we will be moving onto a topic about data handling. We will be looking at all sorts of tables, frequency charts and pictograms.


By the end of the week - when possible with play practices!!
The children:


COULD be able to calculate the area and perimeter of a shape.

COULD be able to read and represent data in charts and tables.
SHOULD be able to interpret different types of charts and tables.

MUST know what a frequency table and tally chart is.

The Year Four children need to know all their tables up to 10 x 10 for their tables challenge. See previous blog spots for more sites to practise.

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/mathsF1.htm#pictograms

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

http://www.interactive-resources.co.uk/MP3/PrimArea/JuniorArea.html

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/smart/perimeter_and_area.ppt

Miss Robinson's group will be continuing their work on DATA HANDLING. The children worked very well last week and are all confident in the differences between a Tally Chart and a Frequency Table. We will be reviewing and working on Venn Diagrams at the start of the week - moving on to Bar Charts and Pictogram by the end of the week.

The children
MUST know how to collect and use data from a Venn Diagram or Bar Chart.
SHOULD be able to answer a range of questions using data, graphs and charts.
COULD be able to interpret the information on a Pictogram accurately.

Check out the links below:
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=triangles - Venn Diagrams

http://www.lgfl.net/dbmaterial/web/learning%20objects/ls/Year%203%20Numeracy%20Handling%20Data%20QCA%201331/exercise01/ - Venn Diagrams

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/datapick.html - charts and graphs

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

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/grapher.html - have a go at creating your own graph to show information.

In Mrs Bethell's group we will be focusing on right angles, locating right angles in the classroom, using right angles as a property of a 2d shape, and sorting right angles from smaller angles ( acute) and bigger angles ( obtuse).

We will also be continuing to learn our 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x and 4x tables and learning the opposite divisions.
2, 3,4, times tables etc

www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/2xhtml
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch/uk/maths/timestable/3xhtml
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/4xhtml

fishy2's -2x table
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/fish2'shtml

2's and 5's connect the dots
www.tvokids.com/framesets/play.html?game=51&

using all tables
www.dostiey.com/addsub/mystery/M.htm

www.osmego.org/oscd-web/games/sumsense/summulti.htm

www.mathsisfun.com/timetables.html

Practice divisions on these websites

http://oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/mathmagician/maths1.html
http://oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/mathsdiv.html

That's all for now.

Have a safe and happy week!

The Year 3/4 Team
xxx