Natalia's letter.

Natalia also wrote a beautiful letter, showing that she had learnt lots of new letter writing skills. Well done Natalia.

Can anyone remember the rules of letter writing?

What a lovely letter

Katie has written a lovely letter to Mrs Hinsley and Miss Speers saying how much she enjoys coming to Holy Souls School.

We enjoyed reading your letter and are delighted that you love school so much. You have a great attitude to your learning.

We really enjoy teaching you.

How good is your spelling?

Log on to this site and have a go at the spelling challenges.
There are lots of different levels and one and multiplayer games.

Why not have a go and see how good you are?


http://www.timesspellingbee.co.uk/


Good luck, happy spelling!

Tudor Almshouse Posters

Mrs Hinsley and Miss Speers would like to say how impressed we were with some of the posters that you made.

Some of you spent a lot of time and put a lot of thought into your work and produced some fantastic posters. They were so good that we have decided to change the classroom display so that we can display the posters.

Well done everybody. I hope you enjoyed the task as much as we enjoyed reading your finished work.

Would you have liked to have lived in an Almshouse?

Weather Watchers.

Well done Ola and Melinda for commenting on the weather blog. I am glad that you remember what makes our weather. I am enjoying our weather topic too.

Can you work out the time?

Mrs Hinsley's group are going to work with time again this week.

Can you work out;

If a bus journey starts at 10 past 8 and lasts for half an hour, what time does the journey end?

If it is 3 o'clock now, what time was it 2 hours ago?

Use this interactive clock to help you.

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/503/clock.swf

What makes our weather?

Take a look at this web site to remind yourself of the seven different things that make our weather.

Can you remember the four different types of precipitation?

Can you remember the three different types of cloud?

Watch the weather forecast on the tv or cut out the forecast from a daily newspaper and bring it in to school.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/whatisweather/

Fraction Prince

The official 'Fraction King' in Mrs Hinsley's maths class is Sean. Well done Sean, you have become very confident and you have become the 'Fraction King'. I am very proud of you.

We will be looking at time next week. Maybe if you keep this up you will be the the 'Time Prince' as well.

FOR THE FRACTION QUEENS AND PRINCES IN YEAR 4

Can you find the answers to these?

2/5 of 25

9/10 of 20

3/4 of 20

Good luck!

Multiplication grids practice

Have a go at this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/multiplication/timestables/game.shtml

Miss Speers's Maths group homework help

My favourite! I love multiplication grids! Here's a reminder on what to do...
Use a multiplication grid to calculate T U x U.
Or T U x T U.
Or even H T U x U.
Or for a real challenge TH H T U x U!
Everyone did brilliantly today in class. Can you do just as well for homework? We'll mark your work in the lesson on Monday. Good luck!

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/powerpoint/grid_tuxu.ppt

Love from
Miss Speers

Take a break - Jungle gym - funny animation

Time for a laugh? Funny dogs!

This week's Gospel - The Transfiguration - a video cartoon

What happened that day? Who went up the mountain with Jesus? Who appeared next to Jesus? Can you retell this story to a grown-up?

Lent - The Temptations of Jesus in the Desert - cartoon

How would Jesus have felt?

Maths algebra picture puzzle

http://mathplayground.com/algebra_puzzle.html

Can you calculate the value of each symbol?

Choose the best adverb!

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/term/matchgeneric2.asp?filename=msmith5adverbshow

Try this game, you may get some ideas of how to answer your name in the register.

FINDING FRACTIONS THAT ARE MORE THAN ONE EQUAL PART

The challenge is to find the answers to these questions

What is 2/3 of 12

REMEMBER

STEP 1 find 1/3 of 12 = 4
STEP 2 Look at the numerator in your question and multiply it by your answer to step 1

Numerator is 2 x 4 (the answer to step 1) = 8
2/3 of 12 = 8

See if you can answer these questions

1. 4/5 of 20

2. 3/10 of 20

3. 6/10 of 50

Can you be the 'fraction king or queen' of Year 4?

French - L'Age de Glace 3 - bande annonce

French - Alvin et les Chipmunks 2 - Bande annonce!

Toy Story 3 - Bande annonce en francais!

Play Simon

What's your highest score?
http://www.neave.com/games/simon/

Story of Goldilocks for our Literacy letter writing.

Listen again to the angry bears. Should Goldilocks be punished?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/snapdragon/yesflash/story.htm

Next Science topic. Get a sneaky peek!

Our Science topic for this half term is 'Separating Solids and Liquids'. Have a peek at the videos to stay one step ahead of Miss Speers and Mrs Morris!

4D Solids and Liquids Song from Simple Science on Vimeo.

4D Solids and Liquids Video from Simple Science on Vimeo.

Adding and subtracting money - visit the sweet shop!

What will you buy from Mr Toffee's sweet shop?
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=sweet_shop

How about the White Elephant shop? You might not find a white elephant - it means bric-a-brac, or all sorts of things!
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=white_elephant

The money box. How much will you save? Which money box design is your favourite? I like the piggy!
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=Money_Box2Pound

Can you try subtracting with money?
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/money/

Now you can work with decimal notation to 2 decimal places (tenths and hundredths). Wow!

WELCOME BACK

Happy Half Term!

Make sure you keep reading every day during the holiday, visit our blog to play games and keep your skills sharp. Leave your comments please. We'll be looking out for them.

Remember that Tuesday 16th February is Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day!) so enjoy your pancakes before we all give up an unhealthy treat during Lent. Miss Speers is going to try and give up chocolate. What will you give up?

Wednesday in half-term is Ash Wednesday so try your hardest to go to Mass. When you're there, you will receive the ashes on your forehead - the start of our journey through Lent. We do this to remember Jesus's 40 days in the desert being tempted by the devil.

Remember to follow your Lenten calendar from Tuesday. Will you be able to tell us what the calendar says on the first day back at school?

Be good!

Maths Mansion 8. Find out about percentages!

Fantastic with fractions? A demon with decimals?
If you fancy extending your learning, find out about percentages in the holidays, watch this.

Count on Convict - subtraction

http://www.ictgames.com/countonconvict.html

10 less football shoot-out

http://www.ictgames.com/football2.html

Math Mansion episode 6

Adding and taking away 9 from a 2 digit number.

How many of Mrs Hinsley's maths group can remind me of a quick way to add 9 and take away 9 from a number? I will be interested to see how many of you can comment explaining how to do it and maybe show some examples.

I can feel housepoints in the air for those who comment!!!!!!!

Astro Boy - bande annonce.

Ghost Blaster - Practise your number bonds.

Who will you play against?

http://resources.oswego.org/games/ghostblasters2/gb2nores.html

Mad 4 Maths

Practise your times tables with this great fun web site. Play every day and learn your times tables.

http://www.mad4maths.com/multiplication_table_math_games/

PROBLEM SOLVING ACTIVITY

Mrs Hinsley's group have been doing lots of problem solving. Trying things out and if they don't work out, try again. Look for patterns and number bonds.
Keep your maths brain working over half term.
Try some problem solving with this 'Magic Square' type activity. Work your way through the levels. Don't give up! Keep trying and look for patterns. See how far you can get.
http://resources.oswego.org/games/Powerlines/powerlines1.swf

9 times tables song - thanks Melinda!

Place value rap - thanks for finding this Melinda!

Make a talking Voki character - great fun!

Work on those Literacy story-writing skills by creating your own character.
What colour hair?
What clothes?
What kind of outfit?
What will the character say?

http://www.voki.com/

Mayan Maths Monster - especially for Melinda!

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/mayan-math/index.html

Digit workout

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=digitmenu



Remember to hold the big number in your head, count back in 10s and then count back in units. EASY PEASY!!!!

How to use the vertical column method for taking away

Today Miss Speers's group used this to help with learning to add and subtract in a column method. If you're stuck with your homework, why not have another peek?

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/powerpoint/y5_la_addandsub.swf

Subtraction - Count on Convict

http://www.ictgames.com/countonconvict.html

Stop the Clock - Bang on Time game

http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/clock2/clockwordsres.html

La Princesse et la Grenouille - bande annonce (trailer)

So if you don't understand, that's fine. But can you figure out the story just from watching and listening?

French film trailers, fun and games - try this website!

A fabulous French site, always up to the minute for news and good for inter-cultural development.
Look out for trailers of the latest films at the cinema in French!
Today we watched the 'bande annonce' for 'La Princesse et la Grenouille'!

http://www.momes.net/Cinema/index.html

Thank you Natalia G!

Well done for working on our blog lots this week. Your comments are great!
Miss Speers & Mrs Hinsley

Literacy skills

Can you spot the different word types?
Can you make sentences using the right connective?
Can you punctuate the sentences correctly?
Can you sound out words to spell them correctly?

Have fun!


http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar

Plan a story - what type of story will YOU write?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/writing

Fractions song - Fresh Baked Pie Reggae song. Enjoy!

Maths - Stop the Clock

Miss Speers's group played this in Maths today. Can you stop the clock at the correct time?

http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec4.html

Keep practising telling the time to the nearest minute.

Play this space game to practise rounding numbers

http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/rounding-games.html

Remember when you are rounding to the nearest 10 your answer will always end with a 0.
If there is a 5 or more in the units column round up to the next ten, if the number in the units column is less than 5 round down to the ten before. Good luck!!!!

Mrs Hinsley's maths group from Friday's lesson.

Matching fractions and decimals

Miss Speers's group - from today's lesson:

Can you match the fractions with the equivalent decimal fractions?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/comparing/comparingall3/game.shtml

Telling the time including 1/2 hours

http://www.mad4maths.com/telling_time/telling_time_Part2/

French - Roller and the gang - numbers to 20

Practise French with Roller and the gang. Count to 20 and even higher!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryfrench/index_flash.shtml

Can you say any maths calculations using these words:

plus (+)

et (+)

moins (-)?

Au revoir!

Maths Mansion - Episode 5 - Fraction Aid

Miss Speers's Maths group please watch!

Our Maths targets this term are all about fractions. A fraction is an equal part of a whole. Watch and learn! Can you escape from Maths Mansion?

Maths Mansion - Episode 3 - The Deciworms!

Can you help the deci-mole to work with decimals? Can you spot tenths and hundredths to escape from Maths Mansion?



Do you think he's a sad man? I don't!

Maths Mansion - Episode 2

Multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000. Can you do this with decimal fractions?

Rock along to the 7 times tables

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/bgfn/index.htm

Mrs Hinsley's maths group - why not try this web site to practise partitioning numbers and place value?

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/blakesley/blakesley.htm

We are finding out about the lives of rich and poor people in Tudor times. Have a look at this web site to find out some more.

French - What's your name?

What's your name? With Roller and Dodu.

Can you ask someone their name and then tell them your name?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryfrench/name/cartoon_flash.shtml

Fancy a sing song?

Look at the Sing Up website for some of the cool songs we have been singing in school. The website is www.singup.org

Chocoholics song: http://www.singup.org/songbank/songs/view/song/75/chocoholics/

My dog: http://www.singup.org/songbank/songs/view/song/131/my-dog/

Boom Chicka Boom: http://www.singup.org/songbank/songs/view/song/65/boom-chicka-boom/

What other songs can you find that we could learn together in school?

How to use an apostrophe for contraction (shortened words)

In Literacy tomorrow (Friday 22nd Jan) we shall be learning how to use an apostrophe to show shortened words (contractions). Look at this video to see examples like can't, won't, didn't and isn't:

Maths Mansion - Episode 1 - includes Great Big Hen!

A sneak preview just for year 4. We shall be watching this in class next week.
Can you answer the challenges and escape from Maths Mansion?
Can you multiply by 10 with Great Big Hen?

Times Tables - how are you doing?

Here is a great site to work on those times tables: www.learnyourtables.co.uk

Mrs Morris's group - Make sure you are quick with the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
Mrs Hinsley's group - Make sure you inlcude the 4 and 6 times tables.
Miss Speers's group - Make sure you work on the 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables.

Ask a grown-up to test you, write them down without looking or try saying them backwards.

Good luck!

Watch this amazing choir make a rain storm with just their hands. Amazing!

Tell the time video - find out about clocks.

Fractions video

Our Maths targets this term are all about fractions. How much do you know?

Science - Stay Cool with thermal Insulators!

If this window is too small please follow this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/materials/keeping_warm/play.shtml

Literacy - Deduction

Literacy Non-Fiction

Multiplication

Mental Maths - What is the rule?

Fractions

Science topic for this half term: Keeping Warm

The Science behind the song:

4C Keeping Warm Video from Simple Science on Vimeo.

Science topic for this half term: Keeping Warm

4C Keeping Warm Song from Simple Science on Vimeo.

BOYS connectives in sentences