Homework

For Your Information,

Today the children have brought back their maths books for you to see their work. Please take a moment to look through their books, sign and date it on the label provided.

The children have had spelling words from their science and maths topics, which they wrote in their planners earlier on this week.

Maths - Negative numbers. 

They need to be able to explain-
What an integer is?
What is a positive number?
What is the value of zero?
What is a negative number?
When are negative numbers used in real life?

Science - Solids, Liquids & Gases.

What are solids, liquids & gases?
How does solids, liquids & gases change state? ( Heating & cooling).

Please use the Cambridge documents available on the school website to extend your child's learning and discussions at home.

Literacy

Please continue to read AR books( daily and sign the books.) at home with your children as they are eager to take more than one test a week to improve their vocabulary and extend their access to the curriculum.

Please look in the Literacy section of our blog for any extra activities.

Welcome To A New Term!

 What an exciting end to last term with the primary carnival and the talent show, in which two pupils from our class were finalists. Well done to them!

Why don't you find out what we are going to be getting up to by opening the subject pages.

To add to our interactive games try these out:

Negative numbers

Solids, Liquids & Gases

Interested in Ancient Greece?

Last week saw us given the cup for the Best Class for good behaviour and straight lining up for the school monitors. We were very proud and went out for a class photo to commemorate a Very Special achievement for everyone!

But look what got Benedita's attention............What is she looking at?

Oh dear! right in the middle of the photo shoot they all turn round to have a look at a WORM! Good to know that we knew the right thing to do when we see animals in our locale environment LEAVE THEM ALONE! Well done 3J!

Some fun information we found about Ancient Egyptians.

http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/history/egypt/

We have just done a mental maths quiz these are the questions and answers for your information.

Year 4 Time Block 2

Test 8

I will read every question twice. In this first set you will have 5

seconds to work out the answer and record it on your answer sheet.

1. Write the number 3051. (3051)

2. Add 8, 3 and 7. (18)

3. From 84, take away 7. (77)

4. Write the next odd number after 252. (253)

5. Round 261g to nearest 100 grams. (300g)

6. What is the product of 4 and 8? (32)

7. To play a game, 35 children need to be put in teams of 7. How

many teams will there be? (5)

8. Write the correct symbol/sign greater than or less than in the empty

box. 761 293. (>)

9. On your answer sheet is a scale. What is the number shown by the

arrow?

740 ! 750 (745)

10. Double 41. (82)

For the next set of questions you will have 10 seconds to work out the

answer and record it on your answer sheet.

11. Margaret uses 550 grams of flour from a 1kg packet. How much

flour is left? (450g)

12. Ring the name of the polygon that has 7 straight sides.

Triangle Heptagon Hexagon Pentagon

13. How many edges has a cuboid? (12)

14. A bike journey starts at nine twenty and lasts for 50 minutes. At

what time did the journey finish? (10 past 10)

15. Peter stands on the bathroom scales shown on your sheet.

Roughly what measurement is shown on the scales? (24kg 200g –24kg 400g)

Try out your literacy skills on this website!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english/games

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