This week Mrs Kerr and Mrs Wassell would like you to complete your homework on the blog. Complete each task and write about your homework in the comments area below.
Tasks
- Reading – Choose something at home to read. It could be a newspaper, fiction or non-fiction book, poems or anything else you love to read. Write a short summary of what you have read and why you chose to read this.
- Maths – This week we are looking at fractions. Play some games/apps online on fractions to help revise what we already know and write a comment about your favourite game and why? Here is a link for some games: http://www.maths-games.org/fraction-games.html
- IDL – Term 4 topic for P3/4 and P4 is ‘The Olympics’. Can you research 3 interesting facts about the Olympics and include these in your comment below.
Thank you P3/4 and 4. We look forward to reading all about your homework.
Mrs K and Mrs W
Mark’s fact are…….
1- Nobody has won more medals at the winter games than cross-country skier Bjorn Dahlie of Norway who has 12.
2- The first Olympics covered by US TV was the 1960 summer games in Rome, by CBS.
3- A record 202 countries competed in 2004 Olympic summer games in Athens.
Fantastic Mark. I have learned lots of new things about the olympics from you! Well done. Great research.
Mrs W
IDL – OLYMPICS – FACTS
1. Norway has won the most medals (263) at the Winter Games.
2. Up until 1994 the Olympics were held every four years. Since then, the Winter and Summer games have alternated every two years.
3.Three continents – Africa, South America, and Antarctica – have never hosted an Olympics. By Taylor Quinn 😀
Super duper Taylor. You have taught Mrs Wassell some new things about the Olympics. Great research! 🙂
Reading :
The book that I chose to read is called Abigail the Breeze Fairy. It’s about two girls called Rachel and Kirsty who are friends with fairies who live in a secret land . There’s a weather fairy called Abigail who can control breeze and needs a magic feather so her powers won’t fade. When the magic feather is stolen by the evil goblin, will Rachel and Kirsty manage to steal the feather back and save Abigail?
I chose to read this book because the front cover and the blurb looked very interesting and the story looked like it would be filled with lots of exciting surprises and adventures!
This sounds like a wonderful book Isla. I would love to read this. Was it as exciting as it looked?
Mrs W
Ethan’s homework so far;
Maths – I enjoyed the fractions games, was able to complete a few levels before it got tricky.
Olympics – 3 interesting facts;
1. London were the first city to host the modern Olympic games 3 times.
2. The five Olympic rings represents the 5 major regions of the world – Africa, The Americas, Asia, Europe & Oceana, and every national flag in the world includes one of the five colours.
3. The USA has won more medals (2,189) at the summer Olympics than any other country.
Reading to follow
Great research Ethan. You have taught me lots of new things about the Olympics. I am pleased to see you are enjoying the fractions games. I hope these are helping you understand fractions. 🙂
Mrs W
Ethan’s homework;
Maths – I enjoyed the fraction games, was able to complete a few levels before it got trick.
IDL – Olympic facts;
1. London was the first city to host the modern Olympics 3 times, the last one in 2012.
2. The 5 Olympic rings represent the 5 major regions of the world – Africa, The Americas, Asia, Europe & Oceana, and every national flag in the world includes one of the 5 colours which are blue, yellow, black, green & red.
3. The USA has won more medals (2,189) at the summer Olympics than any other country.
Reading to follow ……
The book that I chose to read is called Abigail the Breeze Fairy. It’s about two girls called Rachael and Kirsty who are friends with fairies who live in a secret land. There’s a weather fairy called Abigail who can control breeze and needs a magic feather so her powers won’t fade. When the magic feather is stolen by the evil goblin, will Rachael and Kirsty manage to steal the feather back and save Abigail?
I chose to read this book because the front cover and the blurb looked very interesting and the story looked like it would be filled with lots of exciting surprises and adventures!
My three facts about the Olympics are;
1.The United States has won more medals (2,189) at the Summer Games than any other country.
2.The five Olympic rings represent the five major regions of the world – Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceana, and every national flag in the world includes one of the five colors, which are (from left to right) blue, yellow, black, green, and red.
3.No country in the Southern Hemisphere has ever hosted a Winter Games.
Great facts Louise! You have taught Mrs Wassell something new.
Mrs W
IDL Olympic facts
1. Greece, Australia, France, Great Britain and Switzerland are the only countries to have had representatives at every summer Olympic Games.
2. Tug of war was contested as a team event at every Summer Olympics from 1900 to 1920.
3. After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow were boycotted by 66 nations, including United States and Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇸😃
Aoife tried lots of the fraction games and her joint favourites were “Melvin’s make a match” and “Dolphin Racing” because they fun and quite challenging.
Fantastic work Aoife! You sound as if you have been working hard on your fraction work. I am so pleased to hear that you are enjoying the challenge. A great attitude to learning. Keep up the hard work!
Maths;
My favorite game was design the flag because I could make my own design using fractions.
Maths – Fraction Games
My favourite game is the fraction flags game. I think its very fun to play and it helps me to understand fractions better. By Taylor Quinn 😀
Fantastic Taylor. These games are great to help you understand fractions and are a fun way to learn! Try out lots of other games. 🙂
Mrs W
1. The five Olympic rings represent the five major regions of the world – Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceana.
2. Up until 1994 the Olympics were held every four years. Since then, the Winter and Summer games have alternated every two years.
3. The first Winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix, France in 1924.
I had a fun time playing the Dolphin and the Pizza fraction games.
The Lego Harry Potter book shows all the different Lego you can get. It is very exciting because it shows you all the sets. It also shows you what the Lego pieces can be used for in other sets. Inside the book I got mini figure.
Cole B’s Reading Homework
I chose to read my wrestlemania xxx book because I love WWE. This book is about The Shield vs The New Age Outlaws. In the the shield team there is three men. The first man is called Seth Rollins. The second man is called Dean Ambrose. The third man is 265 lbs and he is called Roman Reigns. This book has some great facts, stories and pictures. I love this book and would recommend it to anyone who likes wrestling.
This sounds fabby Cole. I love that you enjoy reading. It is great to read a variety of different texts and compare them. What is different about this book and your reading book ‘Chicken Chicken’?
Mrs W
The wrestling book is non fiction but chicken chicken is a story book.
Olympics facts
1. The 5 rings of the Olympic flag represent Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas, they are linked together in friendship.
2. The last Olympic gold medals that were made entirely out of gold were awarded in 1912.
3. During the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the procession of athletes is always led by the Greek team, followed by all the other teams in alphabetical order, except for the last team which is always the team of the hosting country.
By Aoife !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great fact Aoife!! You have taught Mrs Wassell new things about the Olympics. Fantastic. Do you know who is hosting this years Olympics?
Mrs W
Yes Mrs W – its Rio (Brazil)
By Aoife!!!!
Jacobs Olympics facts.
1. Hosts Greece won the most medals (47) at the first Olympic summer games in 1896.
2. The five Olympic rings represent the five major regions of the world. Africa, The Americas, Asia,Europe and Oceania
3. Every leap year is an Olympics year.
From Jacob.
Jay’s Facts about the Olympics.
The early Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D., when the games were banned for being a pagan festival (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god Zeus). In 1894, a French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, proposed a revival of the ancient tradition, and thus the modern-day Olympic Summer Games were born.
The five Olympic rings represent the five major regions of the world – Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceana, and every national flag in the world includes one of the five colours, which are (from left to right) blue, yellow, black, green, and red.
The first Olympics covered by U.S. television was the 1960 Summer Games in Rome by CBS.
Charlie Bale – Olympic Facts:-
1. The USA has won more medals (2,189) at the summer games than any other country.
2. The prize for event winners in the ancient Olympics was an olive branch wreath.
3. Due to the 2 World Wars there were no Olympic games in 1916, 1940 or 1944.
Charlie Bale – Maths Fraction games:-
I really enjoyed the fraction flags game and the fraction booster game. I liked that the fraction booster game used a pizza as i love pizza.
Olympic facts!!!
1. The youngst ever Olympic competitor is gymnast Dimitrios Loundras who was only ten years old.
2. London was the first city to host the Paralympics.
3. The first Olympics which got started in Ancient Greece only allowed men to take part.
From Beth😜
Olympic Facts by Evie Swann
1) This years Olympics will be the first ever held in South America
2) The first Olympic Games (Olympic Games of the antiquity) were held in 776 in Olympia (Greek) and the first Olympic Games of the modern era in 1896 in Athens (Greek)
3) 306 competitions in 42 different sports will be held in 17 days
Olympic Facts😊
1. The last real gold medals were awarded in 1912
2. The first opening ceremony was held in London in 1908
3. The Olympic Flag looks like 5 circles connected. It represents the 5 continents.
Hannah Marshall
Reading by Evie
I chose to read an article in my WWF Magazine about Bison.
I picked this magazine because I like animals.
I learnt bison used to live in Romania on the mountains, but 200 years ago they disappeared. Thanks to the Rewilding project 14 bison were brought to the area again. After getting used to their surroundings they were released into the wild in June 2015. Bison are very important in Romania, they are part of the country’s history. Bison are herbivores, meaning they don’t eat meat.
Paige Anderson P4
Olympic Facts:-
1) The Gold Medals haven’t been made from Gold since 1912. They are Gold plated.
2) Women were not allowed to compete in the Olympic Games until 1900.
3) For the 1900 Olympic Games, held in Paris, winners were given paintings instead of medals.
Reading:-
I have chosen a nonsense poem, because it is very funny and it doesn’t make any sense at all.
I’m sure you’ll agree. 🙂
One fine day, in the middle of the night.
Two dead men got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other.
Drew their swords and shot each other.
A Deaf policeman heard a noise,
and came to kill the two dead boys.
if you don’t believe it’s true,
ask the blind man….. He saw it too.
Written by an unknown poet from the 13th Century.
Maths:- My favourite game was the pizza game. Fractions were hard to start with but then me and mum sat down and she explained it a bit easier. Now I love fractions they are much easier to understand.
Thank you Mrs Wassell for interesting homework x
Reading Homework
I love reading 🌈 Rainbow Magic Books. I have just read Lulu The Lifeguard Fairy. It is about 2 girls called Rachel and Kirsty. They both like to help fairies when Jack Frost steals their magical objects. I have read 18 books in the series, they’re amazing!! 😁
Hannah Marshall
Fraction Games by Evie Swann
I played Fraction Monkeys, Dolphin Racing and Fraction Booster. My favourite game was Dolphin Racing, it was fast and fun and I won lots!
Fraction Games by Evie Swann
I played Fraction Monkeys, Dolphin Racing and Fraction Booster. My favourite game was Dolphin Racing, it was fast and fun and I won lots!
I enjoyed my homework this week my favourite was the fractions I thought it was tricky at first but I keep going over it until I got it right and I keep practising it
my three facts about the Olympics are
1.The Olympics started 1896 in Greece
2.The last Olympics was in London
3.The person who won the most medals is called Michael Phelps his sport was Swimming
Thomas Ewins says:
I have been reading a book called “The Flea”. It is about Leo Messi and his amazing football career. It has inspired me to practise football more. I would recommend the book to everyone who likes football.
I have also been reading football cards for information about different players in Europe. The cards have facts about players’ skills. This has helped me with my maths skills too because I have been adding all of the techniques that players have. I would recommend these to everyone who likes football in Europe.
Thomas Ewins says:
I have been playing a game called “Fresh Baked Fractions”. It is helping me understand fractions. I would recommend this game. It is fun.
Rebecca Dick
I liked playing the fractions flag game because I think I’m confident to do fractions.
My Olympic Facts
1) Greece,Australia,France,Great Britain and Switzerland are the only countries to have been represented at each summer Olympic games.
2) As of 2012, the USA has won more Gold medals than any other nation at the Summer games.
3) Due to the two World Wars there were no Olympic Games in 1916, 1940 or 1944.
My Reading Summary
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Dog Days by Jeff Kinney.
Greg is the main character in the story. He wants to spend the summer inside playing video games but his mum wants him to spend some time playing outside. Mum makes this club for boys in the neighbourhood called reading is fun, it turns out not to be a good club. His dads bought him a dog and they called it Sweetie. When they watch TV Sweetie always barks. The main part of the story is about Greg trying to make enough money to pay off Mr Jeffersons tab at the country club before he gets caught having used it.
Cole Barker’s Olympic facts :
1. The USA has won more medals at the Summer Olympic Games than any other country.
2. The 5 Olympics rings represent the five major regions of the world – Africa, The Americas, Asia, Europe Oceana.
3. In Judo, men cannot compete against women. Men and Women are then divided into 7 different weight categories.
Reading:
The book I chose to do is called:paws and whiskers because I love animals and I love reading big and long pages book.So I hope you enjoy my little blurb.🤗🤗👍👍
Leonie doesn’t want to start at her new school.Making friends is so hard-until she discovers the Pet Girls Club.Leonie is desperate to join!But the trouble is,she doesn’t have a pet.Its up to Leonie to use her a imagination…
Reading:
The book I chose to do is called:paws and whiskers because I love animals and I love reading big and long pages book.So I hope you enjoy my little blurb.🤗🤗👍👍
Leonie doesn’t want to start at her new school.Making friends is so hard-until she discovers the Pet Girls Club.Leonie is desperate to join!But the trouble is,she doesn’t have a pet.Its up to Leonie to use her a imagination…
From Bea
Toni’s reading:
I chose George’s marvellous medicine because George is cheeky like me and it’s funny as well and the blurb looks very interesting and the words Roald Dahl used in it sounds really weird and the picture look realistic.And each time I read it I keep thinking that George will do something cheeky.His Grandma is really mean!
Bea’s Olympic facts:
1. Host Greece won the most medals (47) at the first Olympic Summer Games in 1896.
2. A record 202 countries participated in the 2004 Oylmpic Summer Games in Athens.
3. Nobody has won more medals at the Winter Games than cross-country skier Bjorn Dahlie on Norway ,who has 12
Toni’s Olympic facts
1. The first winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix, France in 1924.
2. The first Olympics covered by U.S. Television was the 1960 summer games in Rome by CBS.
3. Speed skater bonnie Blair has won 6 medals at the Olympic Winter Games.Thats more than any Americans athletes .
Charlie Bale – Reading
I have been reading Match of the Day Magazine. I learned all about how English football was rebranded in 1992 and is now the most powerful and exciting league in the world.
I also read about the top 10 greatest footballers of all time. I especially enjoyed reading about Johan Cruyff who first introduced to the world his now famous Cruyff Turn in the 1974 World Cup. Johan Cruyff sadly passed away just recently.
Toni and Bea’s Maths:
We think it was fantastic and a bit hard but it was alright and we had ton of fun play the fraction games and we learned are fractions together and a very special thanks to Mrs Wassell for the FUN!!!Homework
From Toni and Bea
1. The 5 Olympic rings represent the 5 major regions of the world.
2. No country in the Southern Hemisphere has ever hosted a winter games.
3. A record of 202 countries participated in the 2004 Olympic Summer Games in Athens.
I read Georges Marvellous Medicine for homework and it is about a boy called George and his torture grandma. He came up with a plan to torture his grandma too. He made a medicine to have effects that she would hate. It worked and this is the effects that she went through. First she started float for about 20 seconds and went back down. Next she had fire in her belly and it lasted about 30 seconds. Last of all she started growing through the ceiling and that lasted about 60 seconds.
For maths I played a fraction game on my phone and now I can play it every day to get better at fractions!
Reading!!!
I read some Scottish poems. My favourite one was Mince and Tatties. This poem is about someone who likes their mince and tatties mixed together.
I dinna like hail tatties
Pit on my plate o mince
For when I tak my denner
I eat them baith at yince.
Sae mash and mix the tatties
Wi mince into the mashin,
And sic a tasty denner
Will aye be voted ‘Smashin!’
from Beth!!!
Maths!!!
For maths I played the pizza game I managed level 1,2 and 3 but found level 4 quite tricky I really enjoyed playing these games.
from Beth!!!
I loved what you wrote Beth.By VANESSA
Reading
Summary of Stick man
I like the book called Stick man because I think the story about it is really interesting. It is about a stick man that got lost and Santa found him and took him back to his family.
Mathematics
I liked the pizza game. I like it because it was such a good game.,
IDl
Interesting facts about Olympics
1. A flame was lit for each Olympics, and it burned throughout the games.
2. The ancient Olympic games date 2016 years after the death of Christ.
3. Women weren’t allowed to compete in the games or watch.
Reading
Summary of Stick man
I like the book called Stick man because I think the story about it is really interesting. It is about a stick man that got lost and Santa found him and took him back to his family.
Mathematics
I liked the pizza game. I like it because it was such a good game.,
IDl
Interesting facts about Olympics
1. A flame was lit for each Olympics, and it burned throughout the games.
2. The ancient Olympic games date back to 776 BC.
3. Women weren’t allowed to compete in the games or watch.
Cole’s Maths homework:
I played fraction games on the laptop. My favourite game was Dolphin Racing. I found it tricky at first but now I’m better at playing the game.
Reading homework for Aoife Moran
I read the first chapter in “Charlotte’s Web”. The main character in the book is a girl called Fern. She has a brother called Avery and she lives on a farm with her mum and dad. Some pigs were born on the farm and Fern’s dad wanted to kill the smallest pig. He called it a “runt” and said it would cause trouble. Fern thought it was unfair and persuaded her dad not to kill it. She took it and named it Wilbur. I chose this book as it was a present I got for my birthday.
By Aoife !!!!!!!!
I read a Beast Quest book called Ferno the Fire Dragon. It was the best book ever! The story is about a Dragon called Ferno who destroyed the Kingdom because he was under control of an evil wizard. Tom and Elanna go on a quest to free him. The book was really exciting.
The host Greece won the most medals, which was 47 at the first Olympics summer games in 1896. Norway has won the most medals – 263 at the winter games and the first Olympic winter games were held in Chamonix france in 1924.
I am reading diary of a wimpy kid there has been a guy called silas scratch that everybody is scared of.my favorite game was dolphin racing
Harry Lynas P.4
I have been reading Harry Potter and the philosophers Stone with my mum .I like this book because it’s very exciting and hogwarts sounds like a great school to be at.im also going to see where the film was made when I go to London for my birthday.
Olympic facts
The first Olympics was in 1896
The United States has one 2189 medals
The Olympics was first shown on TV in 1960 and was held in Rome.
I like the dolphin game the best
Facts about the Olympic games
1.The summer Olympic games were first held in the modern era in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
2.Great Britain is the only country to have won at least 1 gold medal at every summer Olympics.
3.Due to the 2 world wars there was no Olympic games in 1916, 1940 or 1944.
1.The first known olympic game was recorded in around 776 BC.
2.In the first olympic game there were only six sports in it.
3.Only free men could take part in the olympic games the prize was a crown of olive leaves that was a sign of hope and peace.
I have just finished my maths homework. I played the pizza fraction game which was really fun and challenging . I also played the English fractions game which was easy but it got more challenging as I went through the levels. My favourite was the pizza game because it was fun and it helped me improve on learning my fractions.😉😎
I read a book called the BFG. It’s about an orphan called Sophie who is snatched by a giant in the middle of the night and is taken to his land. She is scared he will eat her but she soon finds out he is friendly. He needs her to stop the other giants from eating all the ‘Human Beans’. I really enjoyed reading this book.