Welcome back after what has been a beautifully sunny break! Please remember to bring hats, suncream and outdoor PE kits to school for this half term.
We have a very busy last few weeks in school before we finish for the summer, and we will be starting the hard work of preparing for our end of term production this week. When the parts have been allocated, the children will bring home a list of what they should need for their costume. In the meantime, all the children will need 'glittery pom-pom shakers'...a la cheerleader style - all will be revealed!!
Numeracy
The children will be working on a variety of maths investigations this week. To this end, I have included a number of websites which I will be using to help with our numeracy lessons this week.
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/protractor.html
whats my angle using protractor
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/angle.swf
guess the random angle
http://www.hqprimary.co.uk/gorilla/
gorilla game
http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/P/puzzlemaths/tangrams_game.shtml
tangrams – remember to rotate the shapes to fit into the grid.
http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/Flash%20Studio/cfsmaths/Tangram/tangram.swf
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Flash%20Studio/cfsmaths/Toolkit/Toolkit.htm
for use with the interactive whiteboard in class
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Flash%20Studio/cfsmaths/Triangles/triangles.swf
sort the triangles
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Flash%20Studio/cfsmaths/quad/quad.html
sort the polygons into the carroll diagram
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Flash%20Studio/cfsmaths/goal2.swf
Ode to the world cup! Guess the number you need to divide by and see if you can score a goal!
Literacy
We will be writing and analysing examples of narrative this week. Just to get you back in the right frame of mind for writing again (remembering to use VCOP!) here are a few websites to get you started...
http://www.midlandit.co.uk/education/writingtips.htm
You can find some really good story writing tips on this interactive website. You culd even publish your own.
http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/english/activities/literature_comp/lit_comp_home.htm
Online comprehensions
http://www.nwlg.org/pages/resources/owl/OWL5Book1/1/story/index.html
http://www.nwlg.org/pages/resources/owl/OWL6Book1/1/story/index.html
Interactive stories
Science
We will be investigating Changing State, which means looking at the similarities and differences between solids, liquids and gases. Let's hope for more sunshine, so that we can conduct some of our experiments outdoors!
Should you wish to go over some of the activities again at home, here are just some of the websites that will go over the objectives that we will be investigating in class...
http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/Curriculum/Millionaire/scimill1.htm who wants to be a millionaire game for solids, liquids and gases
http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/science/activities/sol_liq_gas/home.asp interactive game for solids, liquids and gases.
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/droplet.html water cycle game - journey of a water droplet
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/ water cycle information
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/riversandcoasts/water_cycle/rivers/pg_02_flash.shtml water cycle animation
http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/Water/index.html online experiment for evaporation, predicting the optimum conditions
Homework will commence again next week. The children will have this week to decide with their co-operative learning teams, who is responsible for bringing in particular resources for their Greek project.
Many thanks for your continued support.
