Our news reporters this week are Millie and James.

Last week Chloe brought us a story about an albino orang-utan who had been rescued in Indonesia.  Rocco had been looking at why fidget spinners had become so popular.

Homework this week is:

spelling – follow the usual format – look back at last week’s Blog if you need a reminder

maths – 2 worksheets – one revising weight and one revising money

maths – play the money games on the Blog that you found and recommended to Mrs Duffy

The spelling words are as follows:

Green and Yellow – words containing ‘sion’ as /shun/

supervision

erosion

collision

intrusion

indecision

version

revision

persuasion

transfusion

disillusion

Red – possessive apostrophe’

chair’s

Gran’s

man’s

pencil’s

Ben’s

unicorn’s

school’s

dog’s

cake’s

Sarah’s

Our news reporters this week are Chloe and Rocco.

Last week William brought us news that due to the popularity of books such as Harry Potter, there has been an increase in the number of children’s books being bought which is great to hear!!! Saranna also brought us a fascinating story about a young girl in America who had a special prosthetic arm made for her via a 3D printer which has allowed her to play the violin.

Homework this week is:

• one maths worksheet based on division which also includes a game
• play the doubling and halving maths games which you can access from the links on the Blog
• spelling
• one activity from Section B of your Reading Challenge Activities (which should be recorded in your language homework jotter).  You can base the reading challenge on the book you used previously for the Section A activity or a new book.

For spelling just follow the normal procedure below:

write your words three times in your homework jotter – remember a date and heading and underline

traffic light each word

use at least 5 in a paragraph/short story

spell each word aloud to someone at home – don’t move onto the next word until you have mastered the one you are on

This Friday, we are learning how to do CPR so if possible, can you please bring in a teddy bear in order to practise on in class.

This week’s spelling words are as follows:

Green and Yellow

guide

increase

length

opposite

position

potatoes

promise

recent

suppose

various

Red – contractions

isn’t

wasn’t

didn’t

doesn’t

won’t

can’t

couldn’t

shouldn’t

don’t

I’ll

The news reporters this week are Saranna and William.

Homework this week is spelling, a maths worksheet and games on Studyladder and a reading activity.  For the spelling, repeat the new method we have been using:

write your words three times in your homework jotter – remember a date and heading and underline

traffic light each word

use at least 5 in a paragraph/short story

spell each word aloud to someone at home – don’t move onto the next word until you have mastered the one you are on

For maths, we are moving onto division in class which requires a sound knowledge of times tables so you have one multiplication worksheet to complete and several games on Studyladder to support this.

For your reading activity, choose one activity from Section A of the ‘Reading Challenge Activities’ worksheet you have been issued and record it in your homework jotter.  You can base this on your home lending book or a book from home.

Spelling words are as follows:

Green and Yellow

disappear

guard

guardian

height

imagine

imaginary

learn

medicine

medical

natural

Red

painless

harmless

kindness

darkness

closeness

careful

wonderful

painful

cheerful

helpful

Due to Parent’s night and the upcoming Easter holidays, there will be no spelling or maths homework this week.

The only homework is your preparation for parent’s night.  Show your jotters to your parents and your two stars and  a wish comment sheet.  Look through your jotters with your parents and ask them to put a comment on your sheet.  REMEMBER ALL JOTTERS MUST BE RETURNED ON TUESDAY 28TH MARCH!

The news reporters this week are Georgia and Iliya.

Last week Jessica Parker brought us an interesting story about strange events from around the world.  Everyone particularly enjoyed looking at the house completely covered in really thick ice!

Homework this week is a maths worksheet, two games on Studyladder to revise time, spelling and science.  For spelling, please continue to follow the new programme which is as follows:

write your words three times in your homework jotter

traffic light your words in your jotter

use 5 of them in a paragraph or short story, NOT SENTENCES!

spell your words aloud to someone at home once per night

For the science homework, find objects in your home that are transparent (let light completely through), translucent (let some light through) and opaque (block the light completely).  Record them in a table in your homework jotter.

The spelling words this week are as follows:

Green and Yellow – revision of previous weeks

insufficient

disbelieve

immobile

irrelevant

illiterate

business

accident

interest

possession

separate

Red

unusual

usual

treasure

measure

pleasure

television

division

conclusion

revision

explosion

On Wednesday 15th March, we took part in a drama workshop based on our Scottish Wars of Independence topic.  Everyone was extremely enthusiastic about acting out famous events from this Timeline such as the death of King Alexander III, the execution of William Wallace and the triumph by Robert the Bruce over the English at Bannockburn.  At the end of the day we put on a performance to the upper school and the audience were very impressed with the quality of our acting and how much we had learned in the space of one day!!

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