Here we have another excellent Viking longboat model. Remember that all models are due in on Tuesday 26th September.

In PE we were practising how to bounce pass to a partner correctly. Then we used the correct method of shooting at the netball goal. Lots of children scored goals and made improvements each time they had a shot at goal.

Have a great long weekend and we will see you on Tuesday.

Here we are practising our football skills with our coach. There was better control of the ball today with fewer balls being kicked out of arm’s length. Goals were being scored when we looked where we were aiming and thought about the power required.

These are photos of some of the Viking longship models which have already been brought into school. As you can see, they are amazing!!

I am looking forward to seeing the whole fleet of Viking ships!

Homework from 19/9/17 until 26/9/17

Language

Spelling words:

This week practise the words in the third row of your spelling wall.

Use 1 of the activities in your spelling activities leaflet to practise spelling your words.

This week I will be checking the 6 focus words on Thursday.

Try out these games to help you practise you reading and spelling strategies.

http://www.ictgames.com/lcwc.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/home_noflash.shtml#

Reading

Remember that we use our reading skills everywhere, not just in school and a school provided reading book. You should be reading different types of texts at home e.g. game instructions, leaflets, letters (school newsletter) and print in the environment -posters, signs, food labels, etc. Take a picture or draw an example of text that you have read (a front cover or illustration) including the title.

Number

We are learning about how numbers are made up of thousands,  hundreds, tens and units and how numbers are partitioned. This fun game will help you think about the importance of the place when putting a digit into a number. You can put the numbers onto the arrows in any order e.g. tens first and it will go to the arrow which represents the correct value. http://www.ictgames.com/arrowcards.html.

This game shows the numbers partitioned using hundreds, tens and units (ones) materials.

http://mathszone.co.uk/count-and-understand/place-value-partitioning/base-10-blocks-to-show-numbers-nlvm/

Everyone has their own sheet for place value number partitions to complete.

Interdisciplinary Learning

Remember that your Viking longboat model is due in on 26.9.17.  See last week’s homework blog for details, if you have not already started your model!

Just a quick reminder today-

All homework is given out on a Tuesday and should be handed in on a Monday.

If you did not hand it in today the Head teacher has allowed you to hand it in tomorrow for this week only.  In future, if homework is not handed in then pupils will have to complete it at playtimes.

Also remember that p4 are in the lucky position of getting football coaching as a PE slot on Wednesdays for the the next 3 weeks so they should bring gym kits on those days.

The  Today we had our first Big Writing lesson! We were all very excited to find out what we were going to do, especially as there were seat swaps too!

First of all we learnt what VCOP stands for. Why not ask me, to see whether I remember? We have been finding lots of great and interesting vocabulary this week, so we moved onto connectives. We worked in pairs to put two short sentences together using connectives. We soon realised that the connective has to make sense, and you can re-order the short sentences and use different connectives. We all agreed that using ‘and ‘ all the time is a bit boring!

Next, we compared two pieces of texts and highlighted the VCOP that made the 2nd text more interesting.

Finally, we were able to use all of our learning to continue a story ourselves. We could use our targets to check that we were using the correct punctuation, WOW words, interesting sentence openers and cool connectives. Our teacher can’t wait to read our work!

This afternoon we had great fun at our first football coaching session! We learned how to control the ball using soft touches with our feet, then we could shoot at goal making sure we thought about the power and direction of the shot.

This morning we looked around the school for numbers in the environment. Then we ordered the numbers we had found from smallest to largest- the numbers on the bins had 6 place value columns!

We were using different activities  to help us identify, read use and order numbers of different place values.

Homework from 12/9/17 until 18/9/17

Language

Spelling words:

Please use the spelling words at the beginning of your homework jotter.

This week practise the words in the second row of your spelling wall.

Say, listen to, read and write out the words. If the word does not look correct when you have written it, remember the picture of what it looks like when you read it!

Use 1 of the activities in your spelling activities leaflet to practise spelling your words.

This week I will be checking the first 12 words on your spelling wall.

Try out this site to test your logical skills. Play the Alien Hangman game. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html

Reading

At the moment reading is being carried out in school, so no books are being sent home this week. However, we expect that you will be reading your own books/comics etc. to a grown up to practise your reading strategies. Remember the library is a brilliant place to pick up new and exciting fiction and non-fiction texts!

Number

We are now thinking about how the numbers are made up of hundreds, tens and units. This fun game will help you think about the importance of the place when putting a digit into a number.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/maths/games/place_the_penguin/big_sound/full.shtml

Everyone has their own sheet for place value number ordering to complete.

Interdisciplinary Learning -this is a 2 week technology activity (due in 26/9/17)

We have been learning about Viking longships and how the Vikings were able to sail on long voyages in them. For this activity you can build a model of a Viking longship!

Try some of these websites to help get you started:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zgmxpv4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/vikings/vikings_at_sea/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory/vikings.shtml

Have fun using junk materials and designing your shields, sail and figurehead.

It’s Maths Week Scotland this week. Schools and classes all over Scotland are having extra fun with maths. We started our week with 2D and 3D shape activities!

We used number generators to show digits in the correct values.

In HWB we were thinking of the risks involved if we wear inappropriate clothes and shoes in the gym hall. Big bows and jewellery can also be a problem on P.E. days!

This photo shows us using different strategies to help us balance. Why not have a competition at home?

In language we started to think about interesting vocabulary. We thought about alliteration and using words which start with the same letter to make our sentences sound  super, scintillating and supremely satisfying!

Have a great weekend and just a reminder that it is the Viking Festival in Largs tomorrow.

Today we started to use our activelearn accounts for maths. Everyone was able to log on, so please try to access from home so that we can use the resource for homework activities.

In number we were trying to find our our partner’s mystery number. Have a go at home using the great place value questions we were thinking about. Try to solve as many numbers as you can, but only go to 3 digits for now!