Monday 28th April

Welcome to our blog. The year Four had a fantastic time last week at Kingswood and the children were a credit to you and the school. I am sure the children were very tired and had lots of stories to tell.

Remember that swimming starts again this week on Tuesday. All helpers welcome to attend at 12.40 and 1.40.

Mrs Harding/Mrs Morgan

This week the group are learning more about data handling. We are learning about Venn diagrams, Carroll diagrams and bar charts. The children will be reading and answering questions about the different forms of data handling.

Maths Mrs Sarsfield

This week the children will be learning more about addition and subtraction. The children will be problem solving using addition and subtraction. They will be using the rucsac method.

READ the question

UNDERLINE the important words.

CALCULATE

SOLVE

ANSWER

CHECK

English

This week we will be doing lots of writing and reviewing what we have learnt so far. The children will be working on how to start and finish their stories.

Also the children will be thinking about:

Time phrases

Connectives

Sentence starters

Paragraphs

Interesting vocabulary

RE

New Life

This week we will be learning all about the Pentecost and Jesus’s time with the disciples.

Have a great week everyone.

The three and four team.

Tuesday 22nd April 2014

Welcome to the summer term.

Please remember that we have an Inset day on Tuesday 22^nd April. The Year 4 must be getting really excited about Kingswood. We leave around twelve o clock on Wednesday and hope to be back around 3 o clock but delays and traffic made it a lot later last year. We will communicate with school about an expected time of arrival.

CLOTHING FOR KINGSWOOD

ALL  activities require long sleeves and trousers.

­  Pyjamas/Nightdress, Dressing Gown

­  Toothbrush, Toothpaste, Soap (in box) – NO SPRAYS

­  Towels – 1 large/1 small

­  Hairbrush/Comb

­  Trousers, Tracksuits, Shirts/Blouses, Jumpers – Long Sleeves

       (Quick Drying Clothes - Two complete changes)

­  Underwear and Socks – (Two changes)

­  Pair of Pumps, Slippers, Shoes, Training Shoes - preferably

     with gripping soles for walking and wellies

­  Anorak/Coat with Hood or Hat/Gloves

­  Outfit for Disco

­  Clear Plastic Bag for dirty clothing

­  Clothes for Night-time Campfire – Warm Coat

EVERYTHING MUST HAVE YOUR NAME ON IT AND

ST VINCENT'S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

SNACKS  -  As stated in the letter snacks will be provided by staff  from the money you sent in, so children do not need to bring a snack. 

CHILDREN REQUIRE A PACKED LUNCH ON WEDNESDAY

NO MOBILE PHONES OR EXPENSIVE ELECTRONIC ITEMS

Pocket Money – Maximum of £10.00 may be taken for spending in small shop.

RE

In RE this week the children will be starting a new topic New life – serving. The children will be listening to a story related to new life and will be thinking about a time when they have been sad and miserable and then things change and their feelings change into happiness and excitement

ENGLISH

This week the year three will be doing lots of activities related to improving their writing.

The children will learn what a BOYS sentence is. That is using the connectives

BUT, OR, YET AND SO.

It was a warm day, yet storm clouds gathered over the distant mountains.

The children will also be learning how to write list sentences such as

I was a dark, long, leafy lane.

She had a cold, cruel cackle.

MATHS

In maths the year three will be learning all about symmetry.

To find our more click on:

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=Symmetry

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shapes/coordinates.html

Have a great week everyone wherever you are.

The 3 and 4 team.

Monday 7th April

Welcome to our blog.   Remember that the children have on line my maths homework.

The project homework is due in this week and the teachers are really getting excited about seeing the wonderful homework.

This is a busy week:

Easter garden competition on Wednesday with three prizes for each class.

Easter service on Friday 9.19am. You are welcome to attend but space as always is a premium.

There will be no swimming this week as most schools are off.

Please remember that the Year 4 children are off to Kingswood the first day back after Easter.

RE

We will be continuing our new topic called SELF DISCIPLINE.

We will be learning about the Easter story and the celebration of Easter in the church.

ENGLISH

This week we will be learning all about Tenses and also colons.

The children will be learning about the past , future and present tense.

Today...... = present

Yesterday.....= past

Tomorrow....... = future

http://www.wartgames.com/themes/punctuation.html

http://www.spellingcity.com/verb-tenses.html

MATHS

MRS HARDING/MRS MORGAN

This week we will be learning all about money.

Changing money into pounds and pence.

Change from different amounts.

http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/money.html

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm

Money problems.

The children will also be working on their timetables too so please spend some time practising them. We will be working on the 12 timetables this week.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html

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

http://www.kidsnumbers.com/times-tables-games.php

MATHS

MRS SARSFIELD

This week the children will be learning about ANGLES AND CO ORDINATES.

To find out more please see:

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shapes/angles.html#Angles

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shapes/coordinates.html

The children will also be working on their timetables.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html

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

http://www.kidsnumbers.com/times-tables-games.php

Have a good week everyone.

Have a great break.

The 3 and 4 team.

Monday 31st March

Welcome to our blog.   Remember that the children have on line my maths homework and also their project homework on water. This homework is due in on the last week of term. Please see details of the homework below on previous blogs.

     

Please remember that swimming is on for the next five weeks on Tuesday afternoon.

RE

We will be continuing our new topic called SELF DISCIPLINE.

We will be thinking about how we can give to others and also how we take from others. We will also be learning God’s way and how Jesus would act and behave.

ENGLISH

This week we will be learning all about narrative writing and ways we can start

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/English/story.htmla story.

We will also be extending this to find different ways of starting a paragraph.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic/building-up-paragraphs

We will also be learning about more suffixes: ible and able

MATHS

MRS HARDING/MRS MORGAN

We will also be finishing learning about DECIMALS.  We will learn about place value and the value of digits. We will be ordering and adding and subtracting decimals.

The children will also be working on their timetables too so please spend some time practising them. We will be working on the 11 timetables this week.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html

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

http://www.kidsnumbers.com/times-tables-games.php

We will also be learning about CO ORDINATES.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shapes/coordinates.html

We will be learning about NEGATIVE NUMBERS too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic/negative-numbers

MATHS

MRS SARSFIELD

This week the children will be learning about DIRECTION, TURNS, ANGLES AND CO ORDINATES.

To find out more please see:

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shapes/angles.html#Angles

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shapes/coordinates.html

The children will also be working on their timetables.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html

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

http://www.kidsnumbers.com/times-tables-games.php

Have a good week everyone.

The 3 and 4 team.

Monday 24th March

Welcome to our blog.   Remember that the children have on line my maths homework and also their project homework on water. Please see details of the homework below on previous blogs.

Please remember that swimming is on for the next six weeks on Tuesday afternoon.

The Year 4 will arrive back at about 3.30pm. Please remember all uniform needs to be named. No jewellery is permitted so earrings MUST be removed during swimming. Thank you for your help on this matter.

RE

We will be continuing our new topic called SELF DISCIPLINE.

We will be thinking about Lent and Ash Wednesday. We will also be thinking about different situations when we need to have self control such as in the playground or when a child refuses to share etc.

ENGLISH

This week we will be learning all about narrative writing and ways we can start

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/English/story.htmla story.

We will also be extending this to find different ways of starting a paragraph.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic/building-up-paragraphs

We will also be learning about more suffixes: ness, meant and hood

MATHS

MRS HARDING/MRS MORGAN

This week we will completing our work on FRACTIONS.

The children will be calculating fractions of numbers and equivalent fractions when fractions have the same value.

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

http://www.maths-games.org/fraction-games.html

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/flash.aspx?f=fractionsv7

We will also be starting to learn about DECIMALS.  We will learn about place value and the value of digits. We will be ordering and adding and subtracting decimals.

The children will also be working on their timetables too so please spend some time practising them. We will be working on the 11 timetables this week.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html

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

MATHS

MRS SARSFIELD

This week the children will be continuing with FRACTIONS

The children will be reviewing fractions of shapes and finding fractions of numbers. The children will be learning about fractions and percentages,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/ks2_activities/maths/fractions.shtml

http://www.maths-games.org/fraction-games.html

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

The children will also be working on their timetables.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html

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

Have a good week everyone
the 3 / 4 team

Monday 17th March

Welcome to our blog.  Happy St Patrick’s day! The children will be learning about St Patrick. Remember that the children have on line my maths homework and also their project homework on water. Please see details of the homework below on previous blogs.

Please remember that swimming is on for the next seven weeks on Tuesday afternoon.

The Year 4 will arrive back at about 3.30pm. Please remember all uniform needs to be named. No jewellery is permitted so earrings MUST be removed during swimming. Thank you for your help on this matter.

Please make sure that PE kits are back in school and kept there. A few children did not have their kits last week still.

On Friday there will be a Lenten Mass celebrated at school at 9.05am. People are welcome to attend but be aware that space is a premium in the hall.

This week we will be having a review and assessment week and the children will be completing tests in writing, reading and Maths.

RE

We will be continuing our new topic called SELF DISCIPLINE.

We will be thinking about Lent and Ash Wednesday. We will also be thinking about different situations when we need to have self control such as in the playground or when a child refuses to share etc.

ENGLISH

This week we will be learning all about adverbial phrase and how we can use adverbs in our writing.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm#adverbs

MATHS

MRS HARDING/MRS MORGAN

This week we will continuing a new topic on FRACTIONS.

We will be calculating what two fractions when added together make one whole.

Such as

2 / 3 + 1 / 3

4 / 5 +1 / 5

The children will be also be calculating fractions of numbers and equivalent fractions when fractions have the same value.

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

http://www.maths-games.org/fraction-games.html

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/flash.aspx?f=fractionsv7

The children will also be working on their timetables too so please spend some time practising them. We will be working on the 9 timetables this week.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html

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

MATHS

MRS SARSFIELD

This week the children will be continuing with FRACTIONS

The children will be reviewing fractions of shapes and finding fractions of numbers. The children will be learning about fractions and percentages,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/ks2_activities/maths/fractions.shtml

http://www.maths-games.org/fraction-games.html

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

The children will also be working on their timetables.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html

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

Monday 10th March

Welcome to our blog.  Homework starts this week. All groups have My Maths and need to complete it. The new topic homework has been sent out last week and can be seen below. The new topic for the homework will have the theme of water.

Please remember that swimming is on for the next eight weeks on Tuesday afternoon.

The Year 4 will arrive back at about 3.30pm. Please remember all uniform needs to be named. No jewellery is permitted so earrings MUST be removed during swimming. Thank you for your help on this matter.

Please make sure that PE kits are back in school and kept there. A few children did not have their kits last week still.

RE

We will be starting a  new topic called SELF DISCIPLINE.

We will be thinking about how different people excel in their life i their jobs and sporting expertise. What makes people successful? We will also be thinking about what skills we have and what we are good at.

ENGLISH

In English this week we will be practising using INVERTED COMMAS. We will be practsisng inserting them in a story and also learning how to insert speech when writing stories. We will be finishing writing a story and inserting speech and description. We will be reviewing the rules of speech too.

New line new, speaker.

Punctuation goes inside the inverted commas.

Inverted commas only goes around the direct speech.

To find out more please go to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/speech-marks/747.html

http://www.brainboxx.co.uk/a3_aspects/pages/punct_speech.htm

MATHS

MRS HARDING/MRS MORGAN

This week we will starting a new topic on FRACTIONS.

The children will be finding fractions of shapes. They will have to recognise  all different types of fractions such as 1 / 3, 3 / 4 2 / 8   etc.

The children will be making fraction s equal 1 whole such as

1 / 5 + 4 / 5

3 / 10 + 7 / 10

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

http://www.maths-games.org/fraction-games.html

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/flash.aspx?f=fractionsv7

The children will also be working on their timetables too so please spend some time practising them. We will be working on the 8 timetables this week.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html

MATHS

MRS SARSFIELD

This week the children will be working on FRACTIONS

The children will be reviewing fractions of shapes and finding fractions of numbers. The children will be learning about fractions and percentages,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/ks2_activities/maths/fractions.shtml

http://www.maths-games.org/fraction-games.html

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

The children will also be working on their timetables.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html

Water Project homework  

Welcome back and I hope the children are getting excited about what their new topic will be about.

This half term’s topic is WATER ON TAP.

The topic is about the water and could include anything to do with water such as rivers, seas, food, drinks, floods, adverse weather conditions, weather forecasts etc.

Examples of work:  A long story with chapters (chapters, pictures linked to the topic of water such as a flood, lost at sea etc.) power points, large posters, models, map work, written reports, weather forecast , songs, videos, news  etc.

Your child will be expected to give a short presentation/reading their story to the rest of the class to show their finished product, during the last week:

7th to 11th April.

Good luck and once again we are really looking forward to the wonderful creations and great ideas. 

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to come in and see one of the three and four team. This homework will be available to view on our blog spot at: http://yearthreeandfourstvincents.blogspot.ie/ 

 Have a good week everyone. The three and four team.