Spring 2-Monday 20th- Friday24th February

It has been a busy week back with lots of wonderful work from Class 4. I have been hugely proud of the work you are beginning to produce (age appropriate) in class. You have truly been working hard to achieve your best. I was also extremely pleased with the quality of the American board games you have made for your home learning. We have had great fun this week playing them and feeding back to our friends on what we thought of each others games. A big well done to everyone! Below are some photos of our lovely games as well as some pictures of us on a tractor as it visited us in school this week.

Year 5

Home Learning

Friday 24^th February

Maths- This week we have been adding fractions together. This week we have a worksheet to complete for your home learning.

English- This week you have a reading comprehension to do called ‘Eureka.’

Spelling:

1.     Accommodate

2.    Accompany

3.    According

4.    Achieve

5.    Aggressive 

Year 6

Home Learning

Friday 24^th February

Maths- For the next few weeks I will be sending home a 10 minute maths challenge. In the challenge/test there will be a mixture of areas covered in maths and you will see the style of question you will get in May.

English- This week you have a reading comprehension to do called ‘Eureka.’

Spelling:

1.     Accommodate

2.    Accompany

3.    According

4.    Achieve

5.    Aggressive 

   

Next week we look forward to 'Book Week' when the whole school is going to be studying the story of 'Halliubut Jackson.' We will be creating some wonderful art work as well as doing some great writing and maths work in class. We are also looking forward to seeing each other dress up in our favourite costumes for 'World Book Day' on Thursday. We hope we will also see lots of parents in school on Tuesday morning for an English share morning. Another busy week to come!!!

Friday 10th February

I hope everyone has a happy and safe half term. Well done for the last week of term. Below are some photos of our Science Day at Ilketshall. You all made me and Mrs Milne proud of how you represented our school with excellent behavior and politeness.

Home Learning

Reminder- Please bring in your American Board game for Monday 20th February. I look forward to playing them all with you.

Friday 3rd February

This week we have had a week of illness in the school, but Class 4 have worked hard to catch up when they have missed work and carried on when they have not felt 100%. Well done and hopefully next week everyone will be feeling much better. Below are some pictures of our Maths lessons during the week. We had fun building cubes and cuboids with lego and then finding the volume of the shapes we have made. We also enjoyed a great Science lesson with the Bungay High school teacher; we looked at onion and skin cells under the microscope!

Next week we have the Pyramid Science Day to look forward to (Friday 10th Feb)

Home Learning

Friday 3^rd February

English/Topic/Maths- Over the next 2 weeks and half term I would like you to finish your board game; adding in the landmarks you may visit, maths you might include, any places you might visit and completing your instructions. Please bring in your finished board game to play on Monday 20^th February.

I look forward to playing and seeing them all after half term. Good luck.

Spellings

Friday 3^rd February

1.     System

2.    Temperature

3.    Thorough

4.    Twelfth

5.    Variety

Friday 27th January

This week we have been sharing what we have done on our American board games so far. We have also started to make our American land marks. We are now waiting for them to dry so we can make them next week. In Maths we have been working on our problem solving skills. To start with this was something we found quite tricky but as the week progressed, we discovered we can actually do it! In all our lessons this week we have enjoyed using our NEW visualiser bought by Pepyn and Lessey Trust. We have shared our own work as well as sharing some stories which we can so on the interactive white board.

Next week we have the Bungay Athletics Tournament on Monday 30th January and on Wednesday 2nd February, we have a science teacher in from Bungay High to teach us. They will be bringing some special equipment for us to do an experiment with!

Home Learning

Friday 27^th January

English/Topic- Well done for making a terrific start on your board games. This week I would like you to add to your game, the true or false or maybe some multiple choice questions cards. Remember they need to be based on America. Please bring your pack of cards to show me for next week.

Maths- This week we have introduced the Maths dictionary online resource in class. http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/dictionary.html

For your home learning I would like you to find one or two areas of maths you didn’t know and tell us about it ready for next week. I would recommend writing it in your home learning journal to remind you what area of maths you looked at. Extra house points will be given for children who have used that knowledge and shown they have practiced their new skill in their book.

Spelling for 27.01.17

1.     Soldier

2.    Stomach

3.    Sufficient

4.    Suggest

5.    Symbol

Monday 16th January- Friday 20th January

This week we have worked so hard on improving our learning. We have had some brilliant writing. Miss Dekker was very impressed with the Big Writes this week based on the poem we studied 'Through the Woods' by Rudyard Kipling. We have also had some super maths lessons and some children have really shown off their mathematical ability or they have made a break through in their learning that they initially found very challenging. Well done to all.

 I look forward to next week when we will be making landmark sculptures for the different areas we are studying in America as well as continuing our great music jazz compositions and continuing to build on our Basketball skills in P.E. I also look forward to seeing the first part of your board game home learning when you bring them in to show me on Thursday next week. 

The photos below show us in our special maths lesson this week when a teacher from Bungay High came and taught us a 'high school' lesson on negative numbers. We were brilliant at using our thinking and reasoning skills.

Home Learning

Friday 20^th January

English/Topic- This week you have your board to start your game. I would like to see for next week, you have drawn out your board, made your American People pieces and you have started to write your instructions. The instructions will take several weeks as you need to have completed the whole game to write them all. If you do it in small chunks it will be easier. For example, who starts off your game (youngest player, highest roll on the dice?)

Maths- This week we did some work on negative numbers with a maths teacher from Bungay High. I would like you to continue practicing the work we did by completing the worksheet I have given you.

Spelling

Friday 20^th January

1.     Sacrifice

2.    Secretary

3.    Shoulder

4.    Signature

5.    Sincere

Welcome back Class 4 and Happy New Year to you all. We have began our new topic 'The Americas.' The children have collaged a 3D Captain America and he is now an honorary member of Class 4. 

To begin our topic, we looked at a world map and had a competition to see which group could find the places listed on the map first. This gave us an opportunity to revise our map skills and remind us of where we would find key continents, oceans, countries, cities and rivers in our world. We then narrowed down our search and focused on the Americas. During this term, we will be split into groups and each group will research a different part of the Americas and then report back to the rest of the class our findings. I look forward to seeing the presentations, 3D models and sampling some of your traditional food which you will make.

This week Class 4 have been very busy with the media. Some of us were interviewed for BBC radio Suffolk to tell them all about our 'Food for Thought' project. They did a great job, sounding very professional and making us very proud. If you haven't heard it yet, it is on Tuesday 10th January Mark Murphy's breakfast show, 55 minutes in. 

Friday, we were also being interviewed and photos of us were taken by the East Anglican Daily Times as we were part of 'Blyth Woods' project to grow a new forest. We planted many oak trees with the help of the Blyth Woods team and our families.

Home Learning

Friday 13^th January

This week for your home learning I would like you to complete a plan/design of what your America board game will look like and what you will include. Next week we will begin making our board game. Miss Dekker will provide you with an A3 piece of card to start the board off. Each week she will send home with you an instruction for the next piece of your board game. At the end of term we will bring our games into school and play them.

Maths- Can you find the time differences compared to us for the following countries/states:

·         Mexico

·         Canada

·         Alaska

·         New York

·         San Francisco

·         Washington

·         Brazil

·         Jamaica

Friday 13^th January                             

1)    Recommend

2)   Relevant

3)   Restaurant

4)   Rhyme

5)   Rhythm

Home Learning

Friday 25^th November

Topic/English- Thank you for all the wonderful Space work that keeps coming in. It would be lovely to see even more.

Maths- Year 5 have been converting fractions to decimals and then decimals to percentages this week. We have been getting really confident with this. Well done! This week you have a sheet to complete to help you continue to practice.

Home Learning

Friday 25^th November

Topic/English- Thank you for all the wonderful Space work that keeps coming in. It would be lovely to see even more.

Year 6 remember your SPAG books I gave you, I would like to see at the end of term how much you have already completed. It is really important to do a little bit every week. It will really help you!

Maths- Year 6 have been ordering fractions with different denominators this week as well as working on other methods to solve fraction questions. Well done for all your hard work. For your home learning I would like you to continue practicing the ordering on the worksheet I have given you.

Spellings

Friday 25^th November

1.     Lightning

2.    Marvellous

3.    Mischievous

4.    Muscle

5.    Necessary

Home Learning! Look how wonderful it is.