Friday 24th March

Home Learning

English: This week for your English I would like you to create a root word diagram like the one pictured in your home learning book. The root word that you base your diagram on is your choice and then you have to think about what prefixes and suffixes you can add to your root word in order to create your diagram. The root word diagram with the most words coming off of it will be the winner. The winning diagram designer will win 5 house points and all entries must be handed in on Monday if they want to win.
 

Maths: For Maths this week I would like you to come up with as many of your own questions on converting measurements as you can think of. Try to make them challenging while still making them ones you would be able to answer yourself. I have stuck some example questions in your home learning book.

Spellings: You also have another 5 spellings this week.

What we have done this week

This week in our science lesson we built some simple circuits. We split into groups of 3 or 4 and first designed a circuit each, drawing it scientifically with the correct symbols. We were then given 3 wires, a battery, a bulb and a motor. As groups we then made each other’s designs one at a time. Once we had done this, we returned our bulbs, one of our wires and our motors and were given a buzzer. We then used our knowledge, that completing the circuit would sound the buzzer and breaking it would turn the buzzer off, to sound the buzzer when we wanted to in order to answer quiz questions on electricity.

Friday 17th March

Home Learning

English: This week for your English I would like you to visit this http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en21watc-game-paris-word web address and have a go at the ‘pairs word game’. We have been learning about homophones this week in class and so we know that these are words which sound the same but are often spelt differently and have different meanings (e.g. wood and would). Try and match as many pairs of homophones as you can while playing this game and list all of the ones that you do find in your home learning book.
 

Maths: For Maths this week I would like you to fill in the gaps on my ‘minutes to seconds and seconds to minutes conversion help sheet’. I have stuck the sheet in your home learning book but I have removed the multiples of 60 and your job is to add them back in.

Spellings: You also have another 5 spellings this week.

What we have done this week

This week's blog's pictures are of this Friday's English lesson, when we played 'homophone bingo'. Firstly, what we had to do was select 6 cards from the box at the front to make up our collection of sentences with homophones missing from them. As well as a sentence, each card had a picture on it as a clue to what the homophone could be. At the front of the class, Mr Balls had the missing homophones shuffled up in a pack and would select one at a time to write on the board and read aloud. When he did this our job was then to see if the homophone he spelt matched with the way any of our missing homophones should be spelt. If the homophone did match then we filled in the gap on our card. The first person to correctly match six homophones with their six cards was the winner and had to call out 'Bingo!'

Friday 10th March

Home Learning

English: This week for your English I would like you to up level my list of 5 ‘weak verbs’. I have stuck the list in your home learning books and next to each verb (e.g. walk) I would like you to write a more ‘powerful verb’ (e.g. stomp) that could replace it. Then using your self-created list of ‘powerful verbs’ I would like you to write five sentences, each one about something doing something.

Maths: For Maths this week I have stuck an equivalent fractions colouring sheet in your home learning books. At the side of the picture there is a key which explains how each fraction matches with a colour and, on top of this, all of this fraction’s equivalents also match with the same colour. I have put a fraction wall and some blank diagrams on your sheet as well to help you work out the equivalent fractions.

Spellings: You also have another 5 spellings this week.

What we have done this week

This week we've been linking our American topic to our English work. In our American topic this term we are focusing on eight American animals (4 from South America and 4 from North America). Our knowledge of these animals is growing week by week and we are using that knowledge as a basis for improving our writing. In the four pictures above some of us are reading our adverb poems where we chose an appropriate adverb to describe the action of certain things, some of those things being our American animals. Other English tasks this week have included using fronted adverbials to create some clues about which of our eight American animals we were describing on the front cover of our flap books (books where the front cover lifts up and reveals what a picture of what the information on the front was talking about). 

Friday 3rd March

Home Learning

English: This week for your English I would like you to write a character description of ‘Halibut Jackson’. I want your description to include four headings: ‘Personality (what is he like as a person?)’, ‘Physical Appearance (what does he look like?)’, ‘My favourite thing about Halibut Jackson is … because…’ and ‘My least favourite thing about Halibut Jackson is … because…’  Have a go at writing your descriptions under these headings in as much detail as you can.

Maths: For Maths this week I would like everyone to complete the times tables grids that I have stuck in your home learning books. If you really want to impress me with this then time yourself completing the grids and write your time (in minutes and seconds) in your home learning book so I can see how well you did.

Spellings: You also have another 5 spellings this week.

What we have done this week

The first three pictures in this week's blog show a little bit of what was happening during our parent share morning on Tuesday. In the activity pictured you can see some of us completing a book review on a simple book. Other activities that were available on Tuesday morning were a contractions matching activity involving some silly words, a sentence uplevelling activity involving our 'Sentence Doctor books' and a speaking and listening activity where we had to guess what was being said in the silly animal pictures. I really enjoyed the morning and would like to thank everyone who attended for coming.

The next six pictures were also taken on Tuesday. At Wenhaston Primary, to celebrate Shrove Tuesday we had some whole school pancake races. Everybody joined the house they belong to and lined up behind their house mates ready to grab the tennis racket shaped frying pan and run as fast as they could to their teams cone and back without dropping the pancake.

Thursday was 'World Book Day' and all week we have been building up to the event by linking a number of our lessons to our chosen school book 'Halibut Jackson'. The story is about a little boy who designs clothes that blend into the background so that when he wears them people won't notice him. However people do eventually notice him and the first thing they notice is how talented he is and they ask him to make clothes for them as well. It has been a really nice book and message to explore all week and on Thursday everyone got the chance to dress in the clothes of their favourite story characters.