Monday 15th December

Welcome to our blog and the final week of a busy and hardworking term.

Happy Christmas to you all. The children were great at the productions last week and we really thank you for all your time and effort learning the word, learning the songs and of course the costumes.

This week we have our children’s party on Tuesday afternoon.

The children have now been asked what they need to bring in and should have brought a letter home explaining what they need. The children will need their normal dinner arrangements that day too. The children can wear their own clothes.

On Friday we have our Carol concert at 9.00am . Please remember that space will be of a premium with the whole school attending and the parents of five and six.

Here are a few sites for the children to enjoy.

http://www.northpole.com/

http://www.north-pole.co.uk/advent_calendar/index.htm

http://www.santasjournal.com/journal/

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/crafts.html

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/games.htm

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/christianity/nativity/index.htm - a simple online version of the nativity story to share with your child.
http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/nativity.htm - another version with pictures to print out.

On behalf of the staff and myself,

Have a happy and holy Christmas.

Thank you for everything you do for this school community.

Best wishes

The 3 and 4 team.

Monday 8th November

Welcome to our blog. The children have worked extremely hard all week preparing the Christmas play. The acting is really coming along and the songs too. We are sure you will all enjoy watching our performances this week.

Tuesday 9.30am

Wednesday 6.30 pm.

Christmas dinner

On Monday the children will be having their Christmas dinner.

Friday afternoon tea party

On Friday afternoon we are holding a small tea party for the residents of Meadowview. The children will be singing and entertaining the pensioners. I am sure we will make sure they have a lovely time.

Homework

Homework has finished now until the new year as we appreciate how busy December is.  Please remember that we have lots of exercises to do on my maths. These need completing by the 19^th of December. Thanks.

English and Maths

This week we will be reviewing lots of topics because we will be completing assessments too.
All Math’s groups will be revising and also completing an end of term assessment.
Here are some sites for the children to use.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/literacy/

RE Promises

The children will be continuing with the topic VISITORS.

We will be learning about the Christmas story and concentrating on the wisemen and also the shepherds.

 

 

Have a good week everyone.

The three and four team.

Monday 1st December

Welcome to our blog. The children are working really hard to learn their lines and start acting them out too. The dances are now all done and the children are practising and refining them.

Friday non uniform day/ Christmas fair.

On Friday we are having another own clothes day. Again the children have been asked to bring a wrapped present for a lady, man, boy or girl. On Friday after school there will be our annual Christmas fair with lots of stalls and grotto too.

 Homework

Homework has finished now until the new year as we appreciate how busy December is. However, we will be retesting most of the children on the white spellings sent how both half terms.

 ENGLISH

This week we will be learning about suffixes. That is adding another word onto a word at the end.
such as beautiful, cheerful, lastly, timeless childhood etc.
We will be practising our sentence starters and be concentrating on starting with an ing word at the start of a sentence.
Smiling the girl licked her lips as she could smell the chicken in the oven…
Crying noisily the people ran up the street because…..
Shivering violently the dog……

MATHS Mrs Harding/ Mrs Morgan

We will be doing lots of revision work such as number sequences, shape, addition, subtraction, temperature etc.
The children will be tested on their times tables on Thursday and we are concentrating on the eight timetables again.
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

MATHS Mrs Sarsfield

The children will be finishing their work on shape and completing some work on revision.
The children will be reviewing the four rules and also temperature and time.
The children will be completing a timetables test too.
http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

RE Promises

The children will be continuing with the topic VISITORS.
We will be learning all about Isaiah’s role as a prophet, preparing the people for God’s coming.
We will be making a poem about Visitors and also be making some prayers.

Have a good week everyone.

 The three and four team.

Monday 24th November

Welcome to our blog. We are still really working hard to learn all the play songs and have started to go through the lines. The children are doing very well and we are really impressed by how well the children are singing and acting.

Swimming

Swimming has now finished and we would like to thank the parents and grandparents who helped us during the ten weeks we went swimming.

Antbullying week

Last week we spent a lot of time learning about antibullying week and the children really enjoyed the work as well as learning what to do in a bullying situation. We hope that the children will use what they have learn in their daily life both in and out of school.

Homework

Homework was sent out and the homework will need to be in this Thursday please. The spellings will be tested on the Friday morning. We have noticed quite a few children not learning the spellings. Thank you for your support in this. My maths exercises and tasks have been set up and these will need completing by the end of the half term.

ENGLISH

This week we will be learning more about playscripts.

http://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/english/writing-playscripts/

We will be reading a story of Babouska and will be turning the story into a playscript.

We will be reviewing how to start a sentence such as using a word ending in ed, a word ending in ing, a time phrase, a place and although….

 

MATHS Mrs Harding/ Mrs Morgan
The children will be working finishing their work on 3d shape.
We will also be starting to learn all about money. Money totals and coins needed for different amounts.

They will be tested on their times tables on Thursday and we are concentrating on the seven timetables again.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

 MATHS Mrs Sarsfield

The children will be working on and learning 2d and 3d shape.
The children will be learning the names and some of the properties of shape.
They will be learning terms such as face, vertex and edge.

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

 RE Promises

The children will be continuing with the topic VISITORS.

The will be thinking about the good and bad things about visitors. They will be learning about Jesus’s ancestry and we will be starting to make a Jesse tree when we make symbols linked to Jesus’s family. Example apple – Adam and Eve.

Have a good week everyone. Have a great break too.

 

The three and four team.

Monday 17th November

Welcome to our blog. We are really working hard to learn all the play songs and have nearly finished the auditions. Early this week the play parts will be sent home. We are all looking forward to working with the children on Barbouska.

Swimming

This is the last week for swimming. Can you please make sure that your child brings a coat to  school. The children need a coat every day now that we are in the month of November.

 

Antbullying week

This week we will be doing lots of work and assemblies on BULLYING as it is antibullying week.

http://www.antibullyingweek.org/

Homework

Homework was sent out and the homework will need to be in this Thursday please. The spellings will be tested on the Friday morning. We have noticed quite a few children not learning the spellings. Thank you for your support in this. My maths exercises and tasks have been set up and these will need completing by the end of the half term.

 ENGLISH

This week we will be learning more about playscripts.

http://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/english/writing-playscripts/

This week we will be centering the play scripts and comprehension around antibullying week.

The children will be composing situations when bullying is taking place.

MATHS Mrs Harding/ Mrs Morgan

The children will be working on 2D and 3D SHAPES.

The children will be learning the names and some of the properties of shape.

They will be learning terms such as face, vertex and edge.

They will be tested on their times tables on Thursday and we are concentrating on the six timetables.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

MATHS Mrs Sarsfield

The children will be working with division with remainders.

The children will also be learning about shape.

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

RE Promises

The children will be continuing with the new topic VISITORS.

The will be thinking about the good and bad things about visitors. They will be learning about Jesus’s ancestry and we will be starting to make a Jesse tree when we make symbols linked to Jesus’s family. Example apple – Adam and Eve.

Have a good week everyone. Have a great break too.

The three and four team.

 

 

 

 

Monday 10th November

Welcome to our blog. Last week we started to practise the Christmas play songs. This week we will be practising more and allocating parts after we do  small auditions for singing and acting.  

Homework

Homework was sent out and the homework will need to be in this Thursday please. The spellings will be tested on the Friday morning. We have noticed quite a few children not learning the spellings. Thank you for your support in this. My maths exercises and tasks have been set up and these will need completing by the end of the half term.

 ENGLISH

This week we will be learning more about playscripts.

http://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/english/writing-playscripts/

We will be starting to write playscripts and centering it around Cinderella and other pantomines.

We will also be learning more about different adjectives and nouns.

The children need to know that an ADJECTIVE is a describing word and a NOUN is the name of an object, place or thing.

We will also be completing a dictation when the children write down what is being said to them.

We test different concepts during this and use it to assess the children’s learning.

 

MATHS Mrs Harding/ Mrs Morgan

The children will be working on subtraction and finding the difference.

We will be learning how to subtract with and without borrowing a ten.

We will be finding the difference of numbers too.

We will be solving word problems.

 
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/subtraction.htm

They will be tested on their times tables on Thursday and we are concentrating on the nine and ten timetables.

 http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

 

MATHS Mrs Sarsfield
The children will be continuing with time and working with timetables.
The children will be working division and division problems.

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

 

RE Promises

The children will be completing an assessment on PROMISES. The children will be starting a new topic on VISITORS.
 
Topic
Bronze Age
The children will be learning how the Bronze Age. They will also be learning all about life and characteristics of the Bronze Age. The children will be looking at houses in the Bronze age.

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/br/Bronze_Age

Science

Light and Shadows

We will be starting a new topic on Light and Shadows. The children will be learning all about sources of light.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/light_shadows.shtml

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/lightshadows.html

 

Have a good week everyone. Have a great break too.

 

The three and four team.

Monday 3rd November

Welcome back to a busy half term and to our blog. This week we will start to practise a few of the songs for our Christmas play in December. We will also be asking the year four children about play parts.

Homework

We will send out spellings and homework at the end of this week. The homework will need to be in the following Thursday please. The spellings will be tested on the Friday morning. We have noticed quite a few children not learning the spellings. 

The spellings we sent home in the last week were age related spellings and must be learnt off by heart. Thank you for your support in this.

 ENGLISH

This week we will be learning about playscripts.

http://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/english/writing-playscripts/

We will be also learning about adding ing to words.

Doubling a letter and dropping the e.

We will also be completing a dictation when the children write down what is being said to them.

We test different concepts during this and use it to assess the children’s leaning.

For example – using two, too and to.

We will also be classifying different types of adjectives too. Adjectives linked to a fairy story or an adventure story.

MATHS Mrs Harding/ Mrs Morgan

The children will be working on addition and subtraction.

We will be practising column addition up to thousands, hundreds and tens and units.

We will be learning how to subtract with and without borrowing a ten.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/subtraction.htm

They will be tested on their times tables on Thursday and we are concentrating on the eight and nine timetables.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

MATHS Mrs Sarsfield

The children will be working on time both analogue and digital. The children will start to learn about the twenty four hour clock too.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

RE Promises

The children will be learning all about BAPTISM. The children will be learning all about the signs and symbols and will be watching a video about a baptism.

Topic

Bronze Age

The children will be learning how the Stone Age evolved into the Bronze Age. They will also be learning all about life and characteristics of the Bronze Age.

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/br/Bronze_Age

Science

Light and Shadows

We will be starting a new topic on Light and Shadows. The children will be learning all about sources of light.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/light_shadows.shtml

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/lightshadows.html

Have a good week everyone. 

The three and four team.

Monday 20th October

Welcome to our blog. The children enjoyed the trip to the copper mines and were very well behaved on both of the days.

Homework was sent out last week again and we appreciate it if it is brought back on Thursday so it can be marked. There are a few children who are bringing it back late. Thank you for your support on this.

ENGLISH

This week we will be learning lots of writing skills such as:

List sentences – writing a sentence with lists of things and commas in them such as cabbages, carrots and onions.

2 A sentences – putting two adjectives before each noun such as huge, red wagon.

Uplevelling and improving a story. Adding adverbs, time phrases and adjectives.

We will also be completing a dictation when the children write down what is being said to them.

 

MATHS Mrs Harding/ Mrs Morgan

The children will be working on addition and subtraction.

We will be practising column addition up to thousands, hundreds and tens and units.
We will be learning how to subtract with and without borrowing a ten.
They will be tested on their times tables on Thursday and we are concentrating on the eight and nine timetables.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

MATHS Mrs Sarsfield

The children will be working on division and multiplication.

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

RE Promises

The children will be reflecting on promises that they have tried to keep and promises that they have not kept. The children will also be thinking about places and situations when you give promises.

Topic

 The children will also be learning about animals in the Stone Age. We will be thinking about the end of the Stone Age and the start of the Iron Age.

 

http://wizzley.com/the-stone-age-for-kids/

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory/ancient-britain.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE6OeRZB_Wc

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/clips/p00hzpqg

http://www.historyrocket.com/age-of-history/stone-age/Stone-Age-For-Kids.html

Science

 

The children will be leaning about how soil is formed.

 

http://www.soil-net.com/primary/ks2/topic3/topic3_factsheet.pdf

 

Have a good week everyone. Have a great break too.

 

The three and four team.

Monday 13th October

Welcome to our blog. Mrs Harding’s class did really well at the assembly last week. Well done children.

The children are really excited about their trip to Llandudno.
Monday – Year 3
Wednesday –Year 4

http://www.greatormemines.info/

Please remember that the children will need for the trip:

Warm coat

Gloves
Back pack.
No more than six pounds for the shop.
Walking shoes or trainers.

We will arrive back at 3.30pm traffic permitting.

Homework was sent out last week again and we appreciate it if it is brought back on Thursday so it can be marked.

ENGLISH
This week we will be learning more about adverbs and homophones. We will also be writing an account of our trip to the mines.
We will also be completing a dictation when the children write down what is being said to them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en21watc-game-paris-word

MATHS Mrs Harding/ Mrs Morgan

The children will be working on addition and subtraction. They will also be learning time facts.
They will be tested on their times tables on Thursday and we are concentrating on the eight timetables.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/

 
http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic/division

MATHS Mrs Sarsfield

The children will be working on division and multiplication.

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

RE Promises

The children will be thinking about promises we make, breaking promises and also groups and clubs when we make promises.

Topic

The children will be learning about quarrying and mining. They will be creating an information sheet on mining using the knowledge form their trip.

Have a good week everyone

 

The three and four team.

Monday 6th October

Welcome to our blog. 

 Homework was given out last Friday and your child should have brought home:

A list of spellings for the whole half term

A list in their diary of spellings.

A homework book.

A maths sheet task three.

 

Please remember that the children have five activities on my Maths to be completed before the end of term.

Swimming is on every Tuesday. We have six weeks left.

On Tuesday morning at 9.00 am there will be an Assembly on HOMES. This assembly will be lead by 3 / 4 H.

Maths

Mrs Morgan/ Mrs Harding

This week we will be continuing to  learning about all different types of addition.

We will be adding using a number line.

http://www.ictgames.com/button%20only.html

We will be progressing onto finding the difference and rounding to the nearest 100 and 1000.

Please remember that we will be learning out timetables too.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/interactive.htm

 

Maths Mrs Sarsfield

 

This week the children will be reviewing more addition, subtraction and timetables too.

 

English

We will be learning about   SPELLING EL, IL, LE and AL words. We will also be writing a dictation.

This is when the children have to write down what we are saying.

We will also be learning more about INSTRUCTIONS.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/instructions/read/1/

The children will also be practising their handwriting.

They will be practising:

·         Joining up.

·         Starting with a  flick on the line.

·         Writing on the line.

·         Using a consistent size of handwriting.

RE

PROMISES

This week we will be starting our new topic called Promises. We will be thinking about what the topic might be about, considering our promises and clubs and groups where we might make promises.

 

Topic

THE STONE AGE

We will be continuing with our new topic THE STONE AGE. The children will be learning about HOMES AND PEOPLE.  They will be looking at villages. We will also be drawing and designing a picture of Stone Henge.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory/ancient-britain.shtml

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE6OeRZB_Wc

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/clips/p00hzpqg

 

http://www.historyrocket.com/age-of-history/stone-age/Stone-Age-For-Kids.html

 

SCIENCE

We will be continuing with our topic ROCKS AND SOILS. The children will be learning about how rocks are formed. They will be learning about the different types of rocks.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/rocks_soils.shtml

Have a good week everyone, 

The 3 and 4 team.