In the second episode of The Giant of Thistle Mountain, everyone was spreading rumours and gossiping about the giant moving into one of the caves at the top of the mountain. After sharing our “news” about the giant, we thought about evidence to prove the claims – did we have any? We also realised that we were being very negative about the giant and this led to a discussion about Rights and the problems of discrimination. What does the giant want and will he ruin the chances of Snow Valley winning the best Rights Respecting Village competition? Stay tuned for the further episodes of our topic.

Just to remind everyone to practise the show songs! We will be practising tomorrow, so would like you to sing the verses as well as you sing the chorus and hopefully without the words!

Show Costumes.

Please could everyone bring in a bright self -coloured, fitted ( not loose) T-shirt e.g. red or blue or yellow  NOT white.

Shorts or cycle shorts in a plain colour

Gym shoes or tennis shoes

Please bring in your clothes in a plastic, named bag as soon as possible. Thanks

As part of our Health Week activities we have been learning about physical, emotional and mental health and the importance of holistic wellbeing. The Cosmic Kids web site is great for yoga moves and is set in a variety of different locations with associated stories. The children made lily pads using origami – the Japanese art of paper folding which is also very useful as a calming activity. We were also learning about the power of positive thinking.

Have a safe and enjoyable weekend and we will see you on Tuesday!

We’ve had a great start to Health Week yesterday and today. Here are some photos of what we’ve been up to…

Homework from 22/5/18 – 1/6/18

Language

Spelling words: Keep going – remember your DOJOS!!

·         Write out each word in the 4th and 5^th rows neatly 3 times

·         Write 6 silly sentences using all 12 of your spelling words   and remember to punctuate correctly.

 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 – Hot Pepper Queen and the Mango Babies

DW – At Night or Home Time

 JKR group – continue to read your own novels/non-fiction texts at home. Please ask an adult to make a comment about how well you read, in your jotter.

 Number

This week we have been looking at the links between multiplication and division and once we are familiar with the stations of the times tables, it helps us to make the division connections (fact families).

Think how many times can I get the times table number into the big number?

 30 ÷ 5 – it is the 5 times table so count up in 5s until you reach 30 – 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 – 6 times    so 30 ÷ 5 = 6

Complete your number activity sheet – basic division questions

Keep practising all the times tables covered so far by your group.

Ask someone to challenge you to help become quicker at recalling the answers.

Try out some of these activities:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families

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

https://www.mathplayground.com/ASB_Pony_Pull_Division.htmlhttps://www.mathplayground.com/ASB_DemolitionDivision.htmlActivelearn activities – new activities have been added.

 Health Week

We have just had our own Woodlands Sports Day which included 12 different activities including a snack station. I would like you to design your own circuit of activities but it does not have to be in school!

It could be in the woods, with log step-ups, or at the seaside or in the playpark, or an imaginary setting.

Have fun thinking about 6 healthy activities and a healthy snack stop.

Draw out a map of your setting and make sure that your activities are well labelled.

Again, you can word process if you want to and make your map colourful with activity labels.

Here is a flavour of our Sports Day today. It was full of activities and fun, so everyone should sleep well tonight! Have a great weekend.

We were practising our times tables using the number of legs on different creatures. Today we were making links to our times tables by creating fact triangles and from that finding links to division. When we had found out how many enclosures each type of animal needed, we could start to create our own Division Zoo. Look out for the finished zoos next week!

We are looking forward to Sports Day tomorrow and it should be lots of fun. Make sure that you are wearing suitable sports clothes and footwear, bring a hat to protect your head from the sun and make sure that sun factor has been applied before school so that everyone can be as protected as possible, if the sun is strong.

Looking forward to a brilliant day, tomorrow!

We had a very special visit from the Wild About Scotland education bus today. We had a great time finding out about animals which are native to Scotland.  We also identified six different factors that are affecting them and putting them in danger. I wonder how many people can remember all six!

Homework from 15/5/18 – 21/5/18

Language

Spelling words: Still doing well, everyone!

·         Write out each word in the 3rd row neatly 3 times.

·         Write 6 QUESTIONS using your spelling words and remember to punctuate correctly.

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 – Mountain Rescue

DW – When I was sick/Greedy Nelly

 JKR group – continue to read your own novels/non-fiction texts at home. Please ask an adult to make a comment about how well you read in your jotter.

 Number

Complete your number activity sheet – either fact families or times tables.

Keep practising the 2, 3, 4, 5 , ( triangles 8 ) 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

https://www.helpingwithmath.com/resources/games/3oa7-2x5x10xTables-v1/3oa7-2x5x10xTables-v1.html

https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-4

Activelearn activities

Discrete Learning – Art

This week, research the artist Picasso and write a factfile which includes the following:

·         Picasso’s full name

·         When he was born

·         Where he was born

·         Some of his famous paintings

·         Extra interesting information

https://kidskonnect.com/people/pablo-picasso/

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/artists/pablo_picasso.php

www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/pablo-picasso

This morning we were developing our skills of visualisation. We listened to two different poems and thought about the words that the poet used to help us create an image in our minds. We also recognised that the poems had a different feel to them – one was exciting and happy but the other was quieter and calmer.

This afternoon we were introduced to ABC Music by Gillian. She showed us how we could adapt songs so that we could include our own moves.

We played percussion instruments and followed the directions  of our conductors.