Class 4 have had another fantastic week and have been very busy as always. Some of us have been earning our bike ability award, while others having been creating books about Egyptians and learning how to give change in their maths lessons. We also had two visitors in our class this week, with a teacher from Bungay High School come in to discuss his school with us as well as our regular visits from Adnams to see how we are getting along with our 'Vegetables R Us' project. In our topic lessons this week we have been making some Greek Vases. Take a look at the photos from this week.

Friday 23^rd September

English- This week I would like you to complete the sheet in your book on homophones. These are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings. We need to know the appropriate homophone for the sentence we are writing.

Maths- This week we have been adding money and giving change. You have a sheet to complete with money word problems. I have also modelled to you on your sheet the different ways we have worked it out in class.

Your Spellings this week are:

1.     Bargain

2.    Bruise

3.    Communicate

4.    Community

5.    Competition

Make sure you have practiced all the spellings I have sent home as your spelling test is coming soon.

Well done for a fantastic week of work. We have been solving crimes in our Science lessons with Mr and Mrs Bowles, solving a light investigation, as well as collecting lots of house points for our houses, writing fantastic persuasive non-fiction books with Miss Dekker and we also created some fantastic artwork for the school to celebrate Roald Dahl's 100th birthday. At lunch time we had a lego club under the trees in our field; this is what we made.

                                                                      Home Learning

Friday 16^th September

Maths- This week we have been learning the value of numbers with decimals. We have ordered them, rounded them and multiply and divided them. Have a go at either of these brilliant websites to practice more at home. We will be using our active learn accounts again soon, but they need a little bit of administrative work to sort out our new classes at the moment.

Decimals - 10-11 year olds - Topmarks  (ordering decimals)

www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?b=maths/decimals

Decimal Math Games - Math Play (rounding decimals to the nearest tenth, hundredth, thousandth)

www.math-play.com/decimal-math-games.html

English- This week it has been Roald Dahl’s birthday. We celebrated his birthday by talking about characters in his books and created some lovely art work. This week I would like you to write a book review for your favourite Roald Dahl book. Think about writing in paragraphs, using your best handwriting and including as much detail as possible. You could write about what is happening in the story, favourite part, favourite character and who do you think would enjoy the book the most. A book review is similar to your persuasion writing you have been doing this week. You can use the same techniques to persuade people to read your favourite book. (Adjectives, in my opinion, I believe, I am certain you will strongly agree.)

                                                             Friday 16^th September

Your spellings for this week to practice are:

1.     Apparent

2.    Appreciate

3.    Attached

4.    Available

5.    Average

When you are practicing, remember you can make it fun and think of a rhyme, write an acrostic poem with each letter being the start of a line, write in different coloured pens, write in bubble writing or any other fun way you can think of to learn your spellings.

Welcome to a new year. We have had an exciting start with children coming back with a great attitude to their learning. We started our new term with some wacky or extreme reading. We had lots of fun taking these photographs. Our 'Food for Thought Project' got underway with a big harvest of courgettes, cucumbers, tomatoes, apples and plums. Adnams was very pleased with what we had grown for them!

Tuesday 13th September we look forward to Roald Dahl Day. We will be celebrating Rolad Dahl's 100th birthday with various activities based around his books. Class 4 will be doing some artwork based on his books that will be displayed around the school. The theme of the artwork will be based on our British Values along with the wonderful characters in Roald Dahl's books.

Home Learning

Friday 9^th September

Maths- This week we have been recapping over place value and ordering of numbers. For your home learning you have a sheet to complete with some questions for you to practice at home.

English-Our new topic this half term is Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. We have already started to find some facts out about these exciting times in history. This week I would like you to use your own knowledge and to research some more facts to help you create a facts file. You may find you want to complete your fact file on one of the countries or to do both on one page. It would be great if we could put these on display so make sure you have great presentation and your page is full of interesting facts.

Spelling to practice this week from Year 5/6 List

1.     Accommodate

2.    According

3.    Accompany

4.    Achieve

5.    Ancient

Remember double consonant rule (double letter if the vowel before is the sound)

Remember ie before I except after c. (There are some exceptions!)