Paisley Garden

A Village in India

"Meet me Tree"

Rangoli patterns

Rangoli is a popular art form among Indian women. Rangoli are painted on the ground in front of houses using rice powder-sometimes supplemented by flower petals and other colourful materials. We have made our own Rangoli patterns using symmetry and warm colours.

Aren´t we SMARTIES?

Aren´t we smarties?
By counting and grouping our smarties, we found fractions of each colour.
Would you rather eat 2/5 or 2/10 of 20 smarties?
2/5 of course! That´s 8 smarties. 2/10 is only 4 smarties.

Year 4.1 and "The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"

We uncovered buried bones and tried to identify them based on their size and shape.

PRACTISING TIMES TABLES

Try out this site, which has lots of games to help you learn your tables:

http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/

SKELETON

Use these sites to help you learn all those scientific words:
Write the names of the bones:
http://www.klbschool.org.uk/interactive/science/skeleton.htm

Learn about the skeleton by watching this video:
http://kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?lic=1&article_set=59294&cat_id=20607

Put Annie back together:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/podsmission/bones/annie02.shtml

HELP learning your spellings

Type your weekly spellings into this page and the computer will help you learn them.
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=looksay2

Next week (26th October), we´ll be learning about words with "ai". You can practise spelling some of these words at this page:
http://www.spellanywhere.co.uk/spellings.php?view=2&id=33382

The Worst Witch-a book with moving parts

A Village in India

Paisley Gardens

Monster Similes

The British Lion Comes Home

We have been reading "The Butterfly Lion" by Michael Morpurgo. We wrote newspaper articles reporting the triumphant return of Captain Albert Andrews V.C. and his white lion to England.