Homework from 1/5/18 – 11/5/18 (nearly 2 weeks)

Language

Spelling words: Well done! Nearly everyone got their spellings all correct – let’s keep this up!

• Write out each word in the 2^nd row neatly 3 times
• Write 6 INTERESTING AND CORRECTLY PUNCTUATED sentences.

Reading

Please read the whole book to an adult and make sure that you pay attention to the punctuation to help you read with suitable pauses and expression. Ask the adult to make a comment about how well you read in your jotter.

RD – The Ghost Next Door

DA – Little Monster

JKR group – continue to read your own novels/chapter books at home. Please make sure that you read 2 chapters to an adult so that you can show someone how you are practising a range of reading strategies. Ask the adult to make a comment about how well you read in your jotter.

Number

Complete your number activity (either array patterns or a times table)

Keep practising the 2, 4, 5 and 10 times tables covered so far. Ask someone to challenge you to help become quicker at recalling the answers.

Try out some of these activities:

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/

http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html 

Activelearn activities

Topic    The Giant of Thistle Mountain

As part of our topic, we have decided on a name for our community – Snow Valley and we will be adding our houses and other community buildings to our class frieze.

Our village will be entering a new human-rights based “Best Village competition” soon, so I would like you to design the poster!

It can be drawn or printed out.

Make the poster eye-catching, include the correct information and spell correctly!

The poster should include:

•  a heading – Best village competition
• Date of entry is by 16^th May 2018
• 2 special things that the judges will be looking for e.g. co-operation, respect, participation, responsibility

Think about links to human Rights and what makes a “good” community.

Language

Spelling words: You have a new spelling wall for the last term

·         Write out each word neatly 3 times

·         Write 6 INTERESTING AND CORRECTLY PUNCTUATED sentences.

 Reading

Please read the whole book to an adult and make sure that you pay attention to the punctuation to help you read with suitable pauses and expression. Ask the adult to make a comment about how well you read in your jotter.

RD – Detective Tilak

DA – I Want a Go

 JKR group – you are expected to be reading your own novels/chapter books at home. Please make sure that you read 2 chapters to an adult so that you can show someone how you are practising a range of reading strategies. Ask the adult to make a comment about how well you read in your jotter.

 Number

We have started our block of learning which focuses on multiplication. As a fun starter, try this solve and shade activity to help you revise the times tables you have already practiced. If there is a sum that you are not sure of, then use what you already know to help e.g. 5 x 8 = 40, so if you want to know 6 x 8 then take 40 and add on 1 more lot of 8, so 40 + 8 = 48.

This is the site that we used for identifying equal groups.

https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-4/identify-multiplication-expressions-for-equal-groups

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/multiplication-and-division

Activelearn activities

 French

This week we were learning to say our birthdays in French. Try this site to match the numbers and months to the date that you hear.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryfrench/pf2/date/game.shtml?nav

There are other activities too, so explore the site.

In numeracy we are working with Mrs McMillan on fractions. Today we were sorting out shapes that showed tenths and shapes that did not.  We also designed our own shapes showing tenths – we had to split the shape into ten EQUAL parts.  We will we working out tenths of amounts next.

What a different day we have had today!

First of all we were learning about all the different skills that we can develop by building Lego models with others. We were communicating, working in different roles and building teamwork. Look at some of the models that we made:

Our Star Pupil was awarded her badge in class today because we wanted to celebrate her  success together with the class teachers.

Practising our shuttle runs!

Is my jump longer than on Tuesday?

Our third skill rotation was shot putt where we were throwing from a sitting position. Most of us had some better scores than on Tuesday which shows that our skills and fitness are improving.

This afternoon, we were starting the introductory work to our Global Storyline- The Giant of Thistle Mountain. We thought about what the topic might be about and then were put into our family groups to think about the most important things that communities need to work successfully. There were some disagreements but each group made their diamond of importance which we will compare in our next lesson.

We have been revising the date in French, so please check the date of the blog- if it is written in French it helps you to think about days of the week, months of the year and numbers up to 31!

Today we were thinking about links in our number learning – times tables, fractions and telling the time. How many links can you think of at home? Remind everyone that a fraction is an equal part so if you are having 1/4 of a pizza, make sure that all the quarters are the same size!!

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We were practising the stations of the 5 times table with our group. Can you say it backward? Keep practising so that you are very familiar with the pattern of the numbers.

Homework from 17/4/18 – 23/4/18

Language

Spelling words:

·         Practise writing out the last row of your spelling wall three times.

·         Choose the 6 words from the wall that you find the trickiest to spell and include these words in 6 interesting and correctly punctuated sentences (use questions, exclamations, etc).

 Reading

This week you have been given a new home reader, please read the whole book to an adult and make sure that you pay attention to the punctuation to help you read with suitable pauses and expression.

RD – Toad Crossing

DA – Grandma’s Cat or Clouds

 JKR group – you are expected to be reading your own novels/chapter books at home. Please make sure that you read 2 chapters to an adult so that you can show someone how you are practising and developing a range of reading strategy skills.

 Number

You are making progress using the formal method (chimney sums) to add and subtract with exchange.

Complete your calculations carefully, checking whether to add or subtract and think about one place value at a time.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/addition-and-subtraction

https://www.mathplayground.com/index_addition_subtraction.html

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/9/addition-and-subtraction

 Interdisciplinary

This week your activity is giving you the chance to explore a map and use the information to answer questions. You need to think about turning left and right, so if you need more help with this, remember to use the handy hints ( most children write with their right hand)! Turn the map around so that you can pretend that you are walking along the roads and making the turns yourself!

Have fun – map reading is a great skill to develop!