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Spelling week 1 To teach children a range of strategies to learn tricky words Circle Complete Consider Continue Decide Describe Different Difficult Early Earth Eight Eighth Use the spelling strategies sheet in your blue spelling book to practice learning how to spell these words. In addition, have a go at the spelling games listed below on the blog. Remember: Week 1: Sunday new spellings go home. Homework: Learn your spellings, using the spelling strategies in your blue spelling book to show the evidence of this. Handed in on the Wednesday please. Week 2: Sunday - spelling test on the words in class. Homework given - write sentences using powerful adjectives, openers, joined handwriting and correct punctuation. Handed in on the Wednesday please.
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During parents evenings a few parents expressed an interest in activities to develop mental maths and maths basics in general. Obviously there are lots of excellent resources that help support the curriculum out there, and stores like Magrudys will stock activity books and resources that will help reinforce children's understanding of the new national curriculum, as well as giving opportunities to extend outside of the classroom.
One set of books that have an app that works alongside it well are the Andrew Brodie Basics range of 'Let's do Mental Maths'
The app itself lets children engage in a range of activities and uses repetition on key aspects to reinforce what they are doing. They can also make the questions easier, should they need to.
The app keeps track of how they are doing in their results, and can suggest areas for development. You can find the apps here on this link to the bloomsbury site. Tell us what you think of them! (An android release is due, but not out yet) Click on the YELLOW box to load up the webpage with a pre made list for you, then choose some of the spelling games to play on, a few suggestions are pictured to the right.
(These aren't linked, you need to load the list FIRST then select them from there...) Who is Bloom? Benjamin Samuel Bloom (February 21, 1913 – September 13, 1999) was an American psychologist who made contributions to the classification of educational objectives and to the theory of mastery learning. In Year 4, we use Blooms effective questioning techniques in a variety of lessons to establish our learning objectives and understanding. Please see attached to support you at home.
Over the half term holiday, why not keep yourselves busy by learning your times tables and corresponding division facts with some of the fun games below. Click the images below to load the games. Let us know how you're doing by leaving a comment!
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