Blue

This is the Blue class web page. Our teacher is Miss Phelps. Our web page shows what we are learning, class news and some useful links.

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 In Class we we are learning...

Literacy - Myths (Stories from another culture) Weeks 1, 2 and 3 term 6

Phase 1 - Children will be introduced to Myths, they will discover where and when Myths were written and learn a little about Ancient Greece and the Gods so that they have a contextual understanding of Myths.  Children will then learn about the features of a Myth, settings and begin to learn a Myth through oral storytelling.

Phase 2 - Children will look at how settings affect the events of a Myth and focus on the challenges that the main characters face.  They will story map a familiar Myth themselves and act out some of the events. They will also look at language used and work on extending their sentences by using connectives, taking their writing from simple sentences to compound sentences.

Phase 3 - Children will write their own Myth based on one that they have read in class.  They will attempt to extend their sentences and structure their writing.

Here are some websites with sentence and word games that children can play at home: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/ - Lots of great activities based on building sentences, connectives, punctuation and more. 

http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html - Spellings games

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm - Loads of activities divided into Grammar games (for practicing using a range of words in writing) and Punctuation games (for using a range of punctuation in the correct places).

 http://languagearts.k12flash.com/index.html - A selection of games for practically every area of Literacy!

 We also have a range of word mats that we use in class, click on the red words to open the mats.  You can use these at home to help develop your childs language.  You could give them an opener, an adjective and/or a connective to put into their own sentence, talk about the meaning of unknown words or challenge them to change their sentences using more interesting words. 

Reading and spellings

We would really appreciate it if all children could practise reading and spelling the high frequency words (which can be found HERE).

We have put together some questions which can be used when talking about books with your child at home.  These will help to develop their understanding of the text.  We have grouped these into Questions for developing readers, Questions for reading and Questions for more able readers.

click here to see the spellings page. -

If you would like more books to read at home, you can access many different fiction and non-fiction texts by following this link :http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/Library/Index/?AgeGroup=4. Please also remember that we do have books which children can take one of at a time, these are found in our class and are levelled by colour.

Numeracy -

Weeks 3, 4 and 5 - Revisiting calculation

Children will be revisiting the methods of calculation previously taught.  We will go over the best methods for all four opporations and apply these methods to problem solving using the RUCSAC method (Read, Underline, Choose, Solve, Answer, Check.)

We have put together some documents to explain how calculation is taught from Reception to Year 4.  These may help you to work on calculations at home with your child.  Click the links for the related documents.

Addition          Subtraction             Multiplication               Division

We would ask that you please practise number bonds to 10 and 20 at home with your child.  You can find a sheet explaining what number bonds are HERE as well as a number bond rhyme which may help in learning the pairs HERE. 

Here are some useful websites for practicing known facts at home:

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/maths/fun-activities/ - Lots of fun activities set for different age groups.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/numbers/chi.shtml - Good for addition and subtraction.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/ - Good for recognising numbers, ordering, and printables.

http://www.mathplayground.com/ - Good timed flashcards for addition/subtraction.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/ -Lots of activities for different areas of maths.

http://www.skillstrainer.co.uk/ - You need to register for this site but it is free. There are good addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

http://www.channel4learning.com/sites/puzzlemaths/games_menu.shtml - Good number problems playing around with addition/subtraction.

http://uk.ixl.com/math/years - Good for a huge variety of skills and focused for different year groups.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/flash/stage7.shtml (Keyboard Typing)

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