Friday 10th February

Home Learning

You do not have any home learning to complete over half term. Having said this, any chance you get to read, do some times tables or spelling practice is great practice for when you get back. Have a great week, I look forward to hearing all about it.

What we have done this week

The first four pictures in this week's blog show Wednesday's and Thursday's Maths lessons. On Wednesday we had a ‘times tables snap tournament'. Each pair had a pack of cards which had various times tables printed upon them, various digits printed on them and various written numbers printed on them. Other than the cards it was a normal game of snap where if the subsequent card equalled the same answer as the one before it was a ‘snap’. The time playing against the same partner was marked by a timer and when the time was up pairs would switch around. We did the same thing on Thursday but this time it was a ‘fractions snap tournament’ where each pair's cards had various ways of representing different fractions (pictures, words and numerator and denominator) printed on them.

The last picture shows our Science lesson from Thursday afternoon. In this lesson we completed a forces and magnets quiz. First we had to grab a piece of scrap paper each and cut it into 18 pieces. Then we had to write our names on each and every piece. We had some boxes at the front labelled ‘A, B, C, D and E’. During the quiz we had to select our answer to each question by putting our names in one of the boxes at the front. After the correct answer had been revealed all of the names in that box were tipped into the lucky dip bag whilst all of the other boxes were tipped into the bin (of doom). Come the end of all eighteen questions Mr Balls picked a name out of the lucky dip bag and that person won ten house points! The more times we answered a question correctly, the more times our names went in the bag, the more chance we had of being selected and the more chance we had of winning the house points.