Welcome back to the start of Autumn 2 term.

Over the holidays the children have been busy writing some wonderful book reviews on recent books they have read. 

Book Review by Louis 

Book Title   Herobrine goes to school Book 1

Author      Herobrine books

                                 

This book is about a Minecraft character called Herobrine, who goes to join a middle school, he looks very different and is made of square shapes. The book is very funny and has fun things that Herobrine does in school, as her likes a girl in his class and builds her a sand pyramid in front of her school locker. This book is easy to read and keeps you interested, it is also more interesting if you play the game Minecraft as he is a character in the game. I would recommend this book for any one that likes easy to read books that are not too long and keep you interested.

This is a picture of Herobrine.

Book Rating *****

RETURN OF THE JEDI

                                                                                                                                  

by marvel comics

The story is about Luke Skywalker trying to save the galaxy from the Sith. The Sith are the evil lot. These are t     he               

Sith lord's : Darth Vader and Darth Sideos. They are evil

because they want their own way.                                  

                                          

      

My favourite rebellion characters are: Luke, Han and Chewbacca. In the beginning seven people get captured by     Jabba. In the end the Death Star gets blown up .

      

This book is fiction but is written in comic style. Anyone who likes Star Wars will enjoy this book. 5/5 star rating

 

By Charlie

The night of the living dummy
By R.L Stine

This is a story about two sisters, Kris and Lindy, who find a dummy in a rubbish tip,
the one who finds it starts using it and doing shows and gets paid for it .
The other does not get paid because she doesn't have a dummy.
So she asked her parents if she could have one but it was too expensive ,
the next day she went downstairs and went in to the kitchen and on the chair 
she saw a dummy. Her father came downstairs and said " I got it from a pawnshop "
But what she didn't know that it was haunted, as was the other dummy.

One of the dummies starts causing trouble They then get rid of it, but then they find the other one is also alive. This book is a horror story. My favourite part is  when the 
dummy tries to get out of the house.

I would rate this book 4/5. Other children of my age would like this book.

By Angus  

                  Mr Gum and the secret hideout.

                          By Andy Stanton

The Story

Mr Gum and Billy William try to make ‘Lamonic Bibber’ (the town) fall into the sea by polluting it.  Polly, Friday O’Leary and Alan Taylor have to stop them BUT they get captured by Captain Brazil and they have to escape from china …

My Review

This is a great book and I strongly recommend it to anyone who has a strong sense of humour. The characters are familiar from other books in the series and it is such a great book, everyone should have one.

    

By Stanley

                          Diary of a Wimpy Kid

                                  By Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a story about a boy called Greg Hefley. The story begins when he’s about to go to high school for the very first time and he finds it hard to fit in but he does have one friend called Rowley Jefferson and they had been friend since kinder garden [preschool].When they went to high school on the first day they basically went everywhere together but in lessons they didn’t sit near each other and then to make it even worse the teacher said these are your permanent seats.

They had many adventure like the cheese touch there was a piece of cheese that went mouldy and if you touch it you would have the cheese touch. One Halloween when Greg and Rowley went trick or treating and when they had finished, a few teenagers tried to take their sweets but then they immediately ran to Greggs grandma’s that wasn’t that far away then they went out the back door and they both went home. The next day at the end of the school they went to the back field but the teenagers were there and they went into the basketball court and then they saw the cheese and they made Rowley eat it.

I think you should read this book because it’s funny and you would enjoy reading it and I’ve explained why.

 By Samuel Burrows.

Thank you for all the book reviews. We have more in the class room as children have also written their's on paper so don't forget to look at those too!

Thursday 3rd November

Class 4 Newsletter

There are a few things that have changed this half term that you need to be aware of:

Our P.E lessons this term will be on a Monday and Wednesday. This is because Mr Knights day has changed to a Monday instead of a Friday. Please make sure your child has a kit in school for these days.

Our Christmas play practice will begin on Friday. We will be starting with the main songs and then will allocate the acting parts a little later on in the term. Don’t worry, we will leave plenty of time for children to learn their parts.

Our exciting Horrible Histories Greek workshop is coming up soon. (Monday 14^th November) The children will have the opportunity in class to make a head dress to wear on the day if they wish.

The children have been given a new reading challenge sheet to record their points they have collected. At the end of the term, we will see who has the most and the winner will receive a small prize. At the start of each half term your child will receive a new challenge sheet and each child’s points will start from zero again.

As I mentioned at parents evening to most of you, Year 6 children will be spending some time with Mrs Bowles and Mrs Milne to focus on key skills in preparation for SATs. This will be a time when they can focus on specific types of questions. 3This is an opportunity to be really prepared for their SATs and also feel reassured with what they already know. Mrs Bowles will endeavour to make it as fun as possible and show the children lots of good ways of practicing their learning at home as well as at school. This time will replace Miss Dekker’s English and Maths lessons and will not be additional time. This means your child will still be receiving P.E, topic, music, science and all other areas of the curriculum like they would normally. We feel this is important as children particularly enjoy these lessons. During this time, Miss Dekker will be then spending time with the Year 5’s focussing on their learning objectives for the year.

Our Time Travellers topic will continue this half term. We will be moving away from the Ancient periods and focusing our lessons on Outer Space. We will also incorporate the theme in our English and Science lessons.

Finally, home learning, spellings and photos are updated weekly on our class blog. Look out for the children’s latest book reviews.

I look forward to an exciting and busy half term.

Miss Dekker

 Home Learning

Friday 4^th November

English- This week we have been learning what a Passive and Active sentence is. Your task this week is to play a game of pairs using the cards and then record in your book what each sentence is. (Passive or Active)

Maths- This week in our lessons we have been focussing on mental strategies and identifying factors and prime numbers. I would like you to play a game of Snakes and Ladders and then record in your book the squares you landed on and list as many different facts that you can tell me about that number. E.g. Prime numbers? Factors? Odd or Even, how many ways can you make the number using +, -, x and ÷.

Spellings for this week to learn

Friday 4^th November

1.     Familiar

2.    Foreign

3.    Forty

4.    Frequently

5.    Government 

                                               Well done for the first week back.